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WorldDAB member spotlight - Inntot Technologies
Q&A with Rajith Nair, Chief Executive Officer, Inntot Technologies Pvt Ltd.
by Rebecca Keene, Stakeholder Relations Manager, WorldDAB
What markets does your company support and what solutions do you provide?
Inntot provides SDR based Digital Radio Broadcast Receiver solutions for Automotive Infotainment, Consumer Devices and Smartphones. Inntot has SDR based solutions for multiple Digital Radio Systems such as DAB/DAB+, DRM, HD radio and CDR. Inntot’s patented SDR solutions are highly cost-effective, and portable across multiple operating systems (such as Linux, Android, Nucleus). Inntot SDR receiver solutions have highly competitive RF and timing performance. These solutions are optimised for ARM with low memory footprint and low CPU usage.
Inntot SDR solutions consist of ASRC, Demodulator, Channel Decoder, Middleware, Audio decoders such as MPEG-2 Audio and Data Service decoders – Journaline, Slideshow, SPI, TPEG.
Can you tell us about your most recent projects?
Inntot’s SDR based DAB solutions are underway for deployment in 2 million cars across the regions of Europe, GCC, Aus-NZ, South Africa for four car manufacturers.
Recently, STMicroelectronics recognized Inntot as its official partner for SDR based Digital Radio receiver solutions. The collaboration combines STMicroelectronics' high-performance automotive radio tuners with Inntot's highly competitive and optimised SDR software IPs, offering global Automotive Tier-1 suppliers and automakers a complete, cost-effective digital radio receiver solution. The combined solution enables automakers and Tier-1 suppliers to support multiple digital radio standards, including Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB/DAB+), Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM), and China Digital Radio (CDR), within automotive infotainment systems without the need for dedicated hardware decoders.
What do your customers value most from your solutions?
With DAB reception in cars being a necessity and not an option in regions such as Europe, GCC, Aus-NZ, customers will benefit the following if they use Inntot DAB SDR.
• Highly cost-effective
• Patented algorithms that provide outstanding RF, Timing performance
• Low Footprint and Low CPU usage
• Experience of Digital Radio Receiver solution development with several major Automotive Tier-1s
What advice would you give someone considering deploying DAB?
DAB deployment is in a high growth phase and the requirement of cost-effective, high-quality receivers for automotive and other segments is a need of the hour. Inntot with its high performing cost-effective DAB+ SDR solution will play a pivotal role for supporting manufacturers in this requirement.
For more information contact: https://www.inntot.com/contact/
DAB product information: https://www.inntot.com/dab-dab-software-receiver-stack/
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