Two innovations for which Chattanooga is well known, the Tennessee Aquarium and EPB’s high-speed Internet, have joined together to give the city another first.
Chattanooga on Tuesday became the world’s first city to use live ultra-high definition video for tourism as it began to transmit from the aquarium’s alligator exhibit.
A 98-inch Planar UltraRes 4K display screen was unveiled at the lobby of Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport where live video will be shown from the aquarium for about 12 hours a day. Other high-def video of Chattanooga locations will be shown the rest of the time.
Patti Van Bruggen of Nokia Corp. said use of the technology for tourism is “new and unique,” adding that the company has teamed with EPB’s gigabit network for the display.
“We look for exciting projects and new business models,” she said of the Finnish technology company.