Sofia Digital SignageVirtanen & Nummelin

Introduction

Sofia Digital Oy1998 Finnish digital-TV operators started a research project to bring interactive digital TV to Finland

Founded 2000 in Tampere as spin-off from the research project

Served operators, broadcasters and device manufacturer customers in over 35 countries

Provides TV broadcasting system software solutions for mobile, cable, terrestrial and satellite networks based on in-house developed software products

2012 First Digital Signage system delivery to Citymarket retail stores in Finland

Introduction

- Cloud-based platform

- Ready-made content templates

- Players for Android, Microsoft Windows and HTML browsers

System

Hardware: Geniatech Enjoy TV Nano Android Tv BoxSystem: 1 GB DDR3, ARM Cortex A9 800 Mhz 3D engine, Android 4.0 OS, 2 to 32 GBInput & output: 2 external USB 2.0, 1 SD card slot, HDMI 1.4a output, CVBS, SPDIF

System

- Playlist manager

- Spot editor

Creating template

Create two folders- EdgeWorkFiles (Edge Animate project files)- htmlFiles (Edge Animate publish-files)

New Edge Animate file

Creating template

Set stage sizeUse rectangle tool to make the background

Creating template

Create all elements using a rectangle tool- Size- Position

Rectangle makes DIVDifferent types (prefixes)

- img_ (images)- text_ (text)- ui_ (uneditable content)

Creating template

Creating template- When all elements are done.

- Choose all DIVs and group these under upper DIV.

- Rename that “wrapper”- Animations

Creating template- Save project and publish- Quit Edge Animate

Editing the template- Open published HTML-file in

text editor- Create and open default.css- Create images folder and

move used images there

Editing the template

HTMLLink images

Link CSS

Editing the template

CSS Guide for 1080p template

Own styles

Check the changes in browser.

When the template is ready---> ZIP

Publishing

DEMO

https://ds.sofiadigital.fi:8443/playlist_manager/login/auth

Conclusions

- Small & Simple- Importing video- Technical problems- Edge Animate version 2.0.1- Uploaded template is not responsive for big

changes

Resources

http://www.sofiadigital.fi/