Flexible and Low-cost Digital Signage

or… Perfection is a journey rather than a destination

Ed Sanchez, Head of Information Technology

Rob Nunez, Emerging Technologies Librarian

Marquette University

Initial Request*:

• Welcome Screen • Building Directory

* … via symon.com SDA 75 but no plans for touch

Items on Hand …

• 42” Plasma screen • Peerless mobile rack

Challenges …

No secured CPU No remote update of content on screen No Content Management System

Solutions …

Next Unit of Computing (NUC) device running Windows OS

WiFi = mobility HTML 5 www.digitalsignage.com

Results

Inspiration Creation

Results continued…

Inspiration Creation

HTML 5 caching

Chrome + Kiosk Mode + Refresh

Auto Refresh Plus

MS SharePoint as a CMS

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/

3rd party solutions

SCALA

Digital Signage Wordpress Theme (on GitHub)

Digitalsignage.com (http://git.digitalsignage.com)

Tightrope

Haivision (CoolSign)

Axis TV

Thank you!Questions?