Digital Signage and Interactive Kiosks
AggreGate is an end-to-end solution for managing the electronic signage and self-service kiosk networks. The system helps control multiple remote displays, including LCD panels, video cubes, plasma displays, projectors, and full matrix LED boards.
The platform is a vendor-agnostic product that does not require any proprietary hardware. The content delivery and self-service kiosk management/monitoring operations are performed via the IP network using standard protocols.
Direct Digital Signage Device and Kiosk Management
AggreGate platform brings a lot of features unique for the industry:
| Integrated UI editor for designing interactive screens, maps and interfaces that can be used on the Windows and Linux-backed displays and kiosks |
| Batch remote configuration and real-time status monitoring for multiple signage devices |
| Complex schedules for the playback and other device operations (e.g. turning the displays off during night hours) |
| Acquisition and distribution of the real-time data from multiple sources, including subscription-based news, weather, financial data, and instant messages |
| Custom data retrieval and processing scripts for importing data from the websites, RSS feeds and other sources |
| Grouping displays and associating the user-defined asset tracking information with them for managing the large device networks |
| Integrated multi-tenant security model, assigning different access permissions for the operators, administrators and system engineers |
| Automatic email/SMS/popup alerting upon communication problems and device-generated warnings (e.g., high lamp hours) |
| Logging all failures and operator actions for the future analysis |
| Open-source SDK, Java/.NET/C++ APIs and Web Services for controlling the PC-based and web-based signage clients, managing the content and playlists, etc. |
| Central server and database for storing the text notifications, voice messages, and other types of content |
AggreGate ensures the full umbrella integration with other intelligent building systems, including BMS, physical security, fire safety, people counting, network management, etc.
Third-Party Signage/Kiosk Software Integration
Being an umbrella monitoring and management solution for an enterprise, AggreGate integrates with any existing digital signage and interactive kiosk management software. In this middleware role it:
| Collects, stores and processes the signage/kiosk network statistics |
| Visualizes the signage/kiosk network KPIs on the unified situation center dashboards |
| Serves as a foundation for the use case modeling, A/B analysis and other cross-system analytics |
| Automatically activates the rendering or playback of custom messages/videos on the electronic signage devices upon company-wide events |
| Enables the emergency messaging upon local alarms or alerts received from the national agencies |
| Provides the centralized reporting that complies with the corporate standards |
