I primarily use a proprietary program that I
developed which utilizes the PowerPoint viewer program. I run the
PowerPoint viewer on a server as a system service that can be started and
stopped. The program basically goes like this: Create your PowerPoint file
and save it to the server, Stop the PowerPoint viewer service and copy the
PowerPoint file to the server, Restart the PowerPoint service with the new
PowerPoint file. I automated this with batch files which allows remote
administration and operation. The beauty of this system is that I use free
software - PowerPoint viewer and a program that turns the PowerPoint
viewer program into a system service. PowerPoint under Office Pro is
used to author the files, which is something that everyone in our office already
has. You can run this setup on very minimal hardware. I use a VGA
over CAT5 box to extend to monitors throughout the
building. This requires some
programming experience in the backend for the PowerPoint viewer customization,
but very little expertise for the end user. The entire project for the
first digital sign was about $2,000 which included a 15" monitor, server,
cabling, converters and mounting hardware. Each additional digital sign is
about $1,000 for each monitor, cable, converter, splitter, etc. This is
assuming that you want to display the same content on each sign. If you do
not, you would need an additional server for each different concurrent digital
sign. PowerPoint viewer is amazingly bug free. I recently rebooted
the digital sign server after being in operation for about 200 days without any
maintenance/reboots.
We have used
Scala in conjunction with a NASA project and have been very happy.
I also recommend Firesign, a project of Anode
Technologies out of Nashville. Very robust, fairly inexpensive, and easy
to use.
Regards,
-
Matthew Stevens, Technology Officer
Adventure Science
Center
800 Fort Negley Blvd
Nashville TN 37203
Direct:
615-401-5064
Main: 615-862-5160
Fax: 615-862-5178
http://www.adventuresci.com
--------Original Message-----
From: Goral, Becky [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Digital SignageDoes anyone have any experience with any digital signage software. We are thinking about implementing digital signage here w/plasma TVs. Flexibility in the software is key so we can display different information on each TV including general museum information, upcoming exhibitions, video of current and upcoming exhibitions, etc. We would like to have the hardware and software in-house.Thanks much,BeckyMilwaukee Art Museum---
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