Feb
Segmented Touch Screen Digital Signage-How It Works
These scaled down versions of touch screen kiosks are rather cost effective and have a much faster return on investment compared to kiosk deployment. Manufacturers have worked together to provide a solution that has lots of functionality without breaking the bank.
The manufacturers have taken touch screen technology, scaled it down and yes there is a loss of some functions when compared to it’s brother the interactive kiosk.
The key element of the unit is the touch screen membrane, these resistive touch membranes can be split from 2 to 9 equal segments and the LCD screen comes in 26, 32, 36 and 42 inch sizes. Now when the nodes detect human touch they then call the firmware to display the relevant content that is related to that segment, this then provides much more detailed information for the potential consumer.
With content preloaded onto a memory card (CF card), this is then placed in the media player and played, when you wish to update the content, all you do is use a USB flash drive to upload it to the memory card already installed, via the onboard USB port.
When first viewed, people looked at digital posters as though they were digital photo frames, however they are far from it, as most digital posters have commercial grade screens and can run for 45,000 hours, some have the facility to start up and shut down at pre determined times, ideal for when you wish the signs to be off when the store, office or reception area is closed. This “sleep” mode, the unit to lengthen its life span by being used only when needed.
Childs play.
Now one thing every deployment manager wants to know is, ”how easy is it to install and upload new content?” well the simple answer is this. If you can take a memory card from a digital camera and put the images on your computer you are qualified to put content onto the memory card.
Once you have the content on your computer in the relevant folders, such as demonstration videos, actual product images (JPEG) and audio, you can then drag and drop the content onto the memory card. Then when the card is inserted into the player, and segment 1 is pressed, the firmware pulls the content form that folder and plays it as in the order you requested it until everything has been displayed and you are returned back to the root menu.
This makes the segmented touch screen digital signage solution one of the most cost effective ways for businesses to cut their teeth on digital signage.
LCD Enclosure Global as well as manufacturing outdoor LED enclosures they also offer interactive touch screen kiosks and segmented touch screens, at a cost effective price.