Campus Digital Signage Project - the Proposal

Abstracts

The design is to take advantage of Web technology for the Digital Signage implementation.
Through the Web2.0 techniques, the proposed solution will reduce the long term TCO (Total
Cost of Ownership) by utilizing the current campus resources and eliminating the needs of
additional server equipment or software. It is also designed to integrate with the existing campus
web infrastructure and maintenance workflow in mind.

Goals

• Display on the TV Screen (HD) through a networked computer with a Web Browser.
• Dynamic content rotation with zero user interaction
• Utilize the campus infrastructure
• Minimum system level configuration for designers with some web development
  background
  

Content display

• Posters (in Images or HTML), USU/ASI
• Scheduling Systems:
  - EMS
  - R25
  

The Design

Content:

• The FRONTPAGE provides the overall looking of the whole TV screen. There are two
  templates required: a Sectional Content display and a 'Catch-Your-Eye' display
• Sectional Content screen contains Header, Footer, and 3 content areas (iframes): USU/ASI
  information (major), EMS, and R25. Header area can contain Logo and other branding
  information. The Footer area contains scrolling text and a clock display.
• Catch-Your-Eye: a single poster image display for special events. ** No dynamic content **
  

The Content Sub-Screens:

• USU content: Drop-n-Play. The goal is to maintain the current USU web/art work flow of
  USU. A image/rotate program will be developed on the server to rotate images or web
  pages stored on the web server within a designed folder.
• Designers just need to upload or remove the artifacts to update the content without
  needing to modify any code.
• ASI content: RSS rotation. A program to be developed to fetch RSS feeds from their
  current web 'blog' site. All the content is maintained and managed on their blog space.
• EMS: need more info on the web display; there may be some HTML reformatting required
  to fit the TV display.
• R25: need more info on the web display; there may be some XML reformatting required to
  fit the TV display.
• Header/Footer
  

Delivery:

• A central website as the content repository managed through ftp/sftp access for uploading
  content (compliant with Contribute or Dreamweaver) and supports dynamic content
  delivery through web based server-side scripting.
• Content displayed through LCD TV displays via networked Mac Mini with Client Browsers
  supposing QuickTime streaming, JavaScript/AJax, and DHTML (i.e. Firefox 3+ or IE 7)