Rio has already started pulling down curtains as the 2016 Olympics come to an end and as athletes pack, saying goodbye to the beautiful city of Brazil. Viewers around the world are also starting to get back to their regular routines or jump in with another hype on TV.
While everyone is about to go on 'break mode', the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is just starting to get busy setting up data for the next city host. According to TechCrunch.com, The IOC has already been doing data collection so that it can be shared to educate the cities that will host the next Olympics.
Historically, TechCrunch.com states that the previous data from Sydney 2000 Olympics has been of great use in developing an interactive video platform to the plethora of management initiatives. This is possible with the help of Swiss-based startup Teleport which launched months ago.
What did Teleport do?
They developed and successfully launched RAVE or Random Access Video Encoding, an algorithm using Metero framework built in Javascript.
Christopher Payne, Head of the Games Knowledge Management program for the Olymipic Games, states that they are always heeding ways for their content to be contextualized and as a result, making it more intuitive. He also added that the Teleport platform provides an excellent way to do this as it prepares and positions content with a matching and obvious visual reference that helps surpass language barriers.
The platform and its historical data should pave way and make it become very useful when sharing learnings with upcoming host cities like Beijing, PyeongChang, and Tokyo.
A bit of history
This collaboration started out with proof of concept using data from the Youth Olympic Games that happened in Norway last February.
The IOC was satisfied with the result and heeded the aid of Teleport to implement the same thing. The Committee has agreed that the data will not be open to the general public, instead, it will be used internally as a tool for knowledge and education.
Payne states that they are using it for B2B projects with organizers in the future and added that they hop that Teleport will recolonize their information management services, showing the huge amount of encounters going on the Games.
Then what happened in Rio with this project?
The IOC created 3 Teleport environments that focused on different types of venues. The observers then were assisted in terms of planning where to go next and when to go there to watch their games.
