Key receiver functionality will include:
Receiving broadcast alerts from DAB+ ensembles that are part of the EWS network
Automatically waking up a receiver when an emergency alert is detected
Playing audio alerts on receivers with optional text and images
Reliability is the key feature of EWS and the Frontier team is developing a receiver solution that will always receive emergency alerts from enabled DAB+ ensembles.
An important aspect of the design is to balance being able to receive emergency alerts whilst in standby mode and thus powering on the device and playing the alert, while managing power optimisation of the device so that it is not unnecessarily power-hungry.
Frontier Kino 4’s integrated, single chip architecture, is an efficient solution allowing power to be optimised while a receiver can rapidly power-on, check for alerts and then return to standby mode. The chip is delivered with Frontier's mature DAB stack, with proprietary technologies like BestTuneTM, ActiveScanTM, and NoiseSkipTM built-in, enabling best-in-class radio reception.
Frontier will add EWS support to Kino 4 with a new software SDK version. For existing Kino 4 based products, brands should be able to rapidly re-launch them with EWS by upgrading to the new software SDK.
