Multimedia Environment for Mobiles (MEMO) - Interactive Multimedia Services to Portable and Mobile Terminals

The objective of the MEMO project is to design, integrate and operate applications which utilise interactive mobile Multimedia services by integrating two subsystems: a high-speed broadcasting system, and a low speed bi-directional communications system. This is realised by combining the existing GSM mobile telecommunications network and the Digital Audio Broadcasting system. After a first successful trial with this platform for mobile Multimedia services [1], the project is now in a stage to consolidate the user requirements and to define and develop its second generation equipment, based on experience gained using first generation equipment. The principal objective of the second generation MEMO demonstrator is to integrate the technical components in order to provide the full functionality required by the services and to improve the performance of the overall system. Especially, the 2nd generation terminal design will provide a higher degree of portability and mobility by connecting a laptop PC through a wireless LAN to a DAB/GSM transceiver box which can be placed remotely. The paper will report on the basic principles of MEMO, the assumptions and findings of the requirements studies, and the state of implementation of the second generation equipment, as well as on trial design and example services.