Project Detail

Description

Requirements

This digital system allows the display of advertising or information from the internet of a PC that connected to a display screen. This will be done by allowing one central "server" to include contents and the "client" will display what the "server" feeds.

We will need a software to drive the content and a remote "server" that will dictate what contents to show. **A hardware (LCD/Plasma/PC) with Linux OS running a browser --> browser calls a designated server --> server relays information (ads) --> the hardware displays contents**


The system is divided into separate logical parts

The Player
·Usually a PC located in a remote location and connected to a plasma or projection screen
·Some network connection (ISDN, Modem or Ethernet) to/from the management server is needed
·Able to play most video formats, HTML pages and Flash 6

The Control Server
·Centrally holds all the media to be used by the players
·Holds a database of play lists to control which ads get played on which players
·Retrieves and processes data feeds for news, announcements, etc
·Holds a mirror of each player’s content, ready to be synchronised with the remote player machines
·Transmits content to player machines via TCP/IP

The Network
·Using IP (Internetworking Protocol) for flexibility and compatibility
·Using a router with ISDN, Modem and Ethernet connections to each player machine
·Automatically routing data to players and hiding complexities of each connection from the server
·Running a name service on the router
·Providing internet access for the collection of feeds and office web browsing
·Each client's network uses a unique and very long encryption key

The Management Console
·A Java application able to run on any platform with a Java virtual machine and an IP connection to the database on the server
·Allows the loading of content into the system
·Allows editing of the database
·Edit data about each player machine
·Edit records for each advert and resources they require
·Edit and assemble play lists of adverts
·Create a queue of updates to be sent to the players

Features to run the system

¨“Content Scheduler” software to create, schedule, distribute and monitor playlist
¨All contents upload and display with only a few clicks to manage from the web interface with 2-3 different levels of users’ rights.
¨Create 3 different level of users’ rights ie. Admin, operation, technical etc.
¨Content runs from 15-30 seconds of intervals
¨The remote server will update the contents and instruct the display to either randomly or sequentially rotate the content.
¨Can be all kind of video codec, sound, swf,ppt,scolling text, RSS and internet
¨Upload images or graphics to a specific folder and write a HTML, one page code, that would start to rotate accordingly
¨Need to split page on the display screen or it might require html/css to achieve this result
¨Display must show accurate clock, scroll bar for text message input either on top or bottom of the display.
¨Live news + events can be easily updated when it is necessary
¨Networked all display screen to one location-based server
¨Information display from various sites can be updated via wired / wireless network

I have some real world examples that I would show the right person for this job and I am also open to receiving ideas on how this is laid out and works. Please only apply if you are serious about making this happen. This will definitely be a long term relationship as the software will need to be enhanced as time goes on.