Information Kiosks

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Information Kiosks

• The Next Generation

Gordy Pace Director of Applications Media
Development Mike Dreesman Senior
Videographer Jamey Maxwell Senior Programmer
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The University of Montana

• Located in Missoula, MT
• Public unit of the Montana University System
• 13,558 students

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ITO Applications Media

• Grant and contract funded development group
• University, government and non-profit clients
• Custom web applications, video, interactive
  CD/DVD development

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The kiosk project

• Lewis Clark Trail Intelligent Transportation
  System Kiosk

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Project background

• Bicentennial of Lewis Clark expedition
  2003-2006
• 2,000 miles of Lewis Clark trail in Montana
• Tourism is Montanas second largest industry

• Additional 4-8 million visitors expected

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Goals of project

• Improve efficiency and convenience for travelers
• Enhance safety
• Promote tourism
• Develop new ITS technologies

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Funding and partners
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Project modifications

• Five-year project reduced to one year
• Project leadership changes

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The kiosks

• Travel and tourism information
• Road reports, weather, live mountain pass images
• Lewis Clark history and points of interest
• HD video and wireless

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Lewis Clark content

• VIAs producers of Discovering Lewis Clark
  website
• www.lewis-clark.org
• Barbara Fifer author of several Lewis Clark
  books

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Kiosk locations
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Use statistics at two sites
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High Definition on a Low Budget

• Mike Dreesman

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HDTV What is it?

• Part of the new DTV standard adopted by the
  Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC).
• Scheduled to replace current analog TV system by
  2006 (2009?)
• Substantially higher resolution than SDTV.
• 16x9 Aspect Ratio
• 5.1 Surround Sound

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Acquisition

• Sony HDW-700a camera
• Tyler Mount for aerial footage

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Post Production
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Delivery
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HD Encoding Solutions

• Windows Media 9 Encoder
• Canopus Procoder
• Sorenson Squeeze
• Apple QuickTime H.264

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The Next Big Thing HDV

• Extremely low cost HD solution
• Records to DV tape
• Transfer via firewire
• MPEG2 compression
• Wide-spread industry support

Sony HDR-FX1
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Technical Development

• Jamey Maxwell

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Technical Development

• Technologies
• Active Server Pages (ASP)
• C (.NET)
• XML
• CSV
• Access DB

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Project Metrics

• 72 of development done between May 1st July
  27th 2004
• 4 Developers
• Most developers _at_ .5 FTE

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Kiosk System Specs

• Dell Dimension 4600
• Processor P4 2.2 GHz
• Ram 256MB
• Video GeForce2 GTS 128MB
• OS Windows XP Pro
• IIS 5.0
• SiteKiosk v5.5
• Monitor Elo 17 LCD Touch Screen

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SiteKiosk v5.5

• Secure (replaces OS shell)
• Powerful scripting support
• Site statistics
• Fully customizable/skin-able
• Run external applications

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Lewis Clark SiteKiosk Skin

• Custom navigation
• Custom buttons/links
• Customize start page
• Carousel (screensaver)

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Kiosk Statistics (SiteReport)

• Navigations
• Usage-Time
• Crashes
• Errors
• By Hour, Day, Month
• Most Requested Pages

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Kiosk Status

• Stats updated nightly
• View last reporting date
• View kiosk Statistics
• crashes,
• navigations,
• active time.
• View FTP Connection Log (Separate application)

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Update Kiosk Information
FTP

• Kiosk
• Custom Sync Application
• FTP Connection
• Updates every 15 min.
• XML
• CSV
• Access DB

• Server
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Parse Applications
• City Conditions (C -.NET)
• City Forecasts (C -.NET)
• RWIS Cameras (C -.NET)
• Zone Forecasts (C -.NET)
• Road Report (C -.NET)

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Kiosk Mantis (HD) Connection

• Connected via RS-232 (serial com port)
• HDCom
• Custom com application
• 4 hours of development time.

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Wireless Application

• ASP.NET mobile web application
• Using mobile web controls
• Running on separate computer
• Accessible from any 802.11b device
• Videos
• windows media encoder 9
• Save text files for later

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Thank You