What is Digital Interactive Signage?
Digital Signage is a new communication medium for reaching people wherever they are,
shopping, travelling, school..etc. it is a kind of digital screen that displays the content in 3D graphic, slides, graphic, videos, live feeds, database content, pictures.
What content should we develop?
- Drive Sales
- Education
- Entertainment
Minimum hardware requirements for digital signage devices: Can be TV box, dongle, tablet, desktop or laptop.
Window version: Window 7 or higher
Processor: Better have a Core i5 or stronger
Memory: 4GB RAM or more if possible
Storage: 16GB or more
Big Screen Research Case and Ideas
The research screen is 80 inch x 3 160 inch.
I am assume the screen would look like this:
As the sample we got, the big screen of digital signage interact with human behavior which mean people can interact with the screen. We researched about digital interactive signage which could be implemented with the UWP technology and also can be implement with IoT and AI technology. It’s also implemented by using Unreal Engine 4 and Kinect sensor to detect motion tracking, and also voice recognition technology together. The digital interactive signage can also implement with Unity which is a powerful game engine tool.
Researching
- UWP Technology: I have read document from the official website and vary sites as well, UWP is simply powerful, it's responsive application. As of now I am trying to research how it works with digital signage, I have some sample ideas (and also simple ideas
), first one is virtual house experience which user can interact with the screen and place the 3d object of the future house they imagine or they want. they can architect their own houses even they are normal users (I don't have any reference for this idea because I just thought of this idea). The second one is findmyway app which mostly place in supermarket, so users can know where they are, they see the map and they can interact with screen to find which place they want to go. I've seen this in AEON Supermarket in Cambodia. Since I am new to that platform I am not sure whether UWP can apply to those or not, but I am pretty sure the first one related to 3d object we can either go with unity. - Unity: interacting with 3d object and animation. It uses c# as a script language and with the help of virtual studio as IDE. There are some projects in the internet which built for digital signage using unity or Unreal Engine like Virtual dressing room.