Digital Signage for Schools

Options

• Paid Vendor Systems• $$$$

• PowerPoint• Open Source Systems• Rise Vision• Digital Signage.com• Xibo

• Others????

Hardware

Flat Screen TV - $500 ishWake Up and Shutdown are nice options

TV Mount - $100Media Player - Anything that will run Win 7

should be fine.I currently use a ChromeBox!

I used a 5 year old HPRecommend Quad Core for HD Video

Digital signage vs. Kiosk

• Digital Signage - No User Interactiono Entrance Displays, Athletics, Menu Boards...

• Kiosk - Accepts user interactiono Can do both, show content until someone walks

upo Maps, Directories, Video Library....

Delivery Methods

IPo Need a Media Player and Ethernet at each

locationo Each sign can be different

Coaxo Centrally locate Media Player and use a digital

channel modulator to send signal ~ $1000o All sign show same image

Powerpoint• Pros• Simple to use with little or no training• Can add limited dynamic content• Live Web Content http://skp.mvps.org/liveweb.htm

• Cons• Looks like Powerpoint!• Cumbersome to manage• edit doc, reboot or remote media player to

update• I could not find a way to integrate live web using

open office/Gdocs

Free vs. Paid

• How do they do it???• One Word - Quantity!!!• Actually they hope to sell add on Design Services,

Premium Features and Hardware

• What if they go Belly Up?• Monitors and Wiring can be reused, find a

different provider and move on.• For this reason I would stay away from Proprietary

hardware!

• Open Source – Built on Google App Engine• Very little end user training – Drive content

with Google Docs• Cloud based control – No Server Needed• Setup feels like Publisher – Box Based• Display devices• Windows 7• Unbuntu 12.10

• Open Source – Built on an Apache Project• Feels like Video Editing – Timeline based• Windows, Mac, iPad and Android Clients• They also sell boxes from $100 to $600• All Content managed in Editor – End user

training will be required.

• Open Source – Company Backed• Feels Like Video editing – Timeline based• Windows Client/Server Based• Donations based• Can do iframes etc so it should work with

Google Docs, but no direct integration

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My Random Thoughts!

We chose Rise Display for the following reasons:

o FREE! DUH...o We can recycle existing hardware for media playerso Simple to maintain content using GDocs for sourceo Lots of Gadgets and ability to write my owno Cloud based - Tired of patching servers!o Paid support is available if needed

Resources

http://www.risevision.com/http://www.digitalsignage.com/http://xibo.org.uk/

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