The College of Art and Design, working together with MAGIC Spell Studios is using XIBO as our digital signage solution.
This web-based solution is very flexible and powerful with a wealth of modules and design options.
In the College of Art and Design, we hope to slowly revamp and repurpose our existing digital signage systems to this new system.
After lots of testing and trial and error, we have come up with some general rules and best practices when generating specifications for display installations.
Before purchasing any hardware please contact the CADTech Service Desk to talk about your project!
Hardware
Digital Signage is composed of two parts. The display or television and the Computer that drives the display.
Computers
We have settled on Intel NUC's as our preferred devices behind Displays. The Intel NUC has great driver support and supports all of the management software and hardware needed for solid remote management.
The entire line of Intel NUC's is available on Intel's site
CADTech has developed an image for these class of machines that will automatically provision and start displaying content from our system.
Resolution | Use Case | Screen Elements | Recommended Specs | Estimated Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1080 | Still images, or h264 movies. | Only a few moving elements on the screen at any one time, transitions may drop frames. | Celeron CPU, 4GB RAM | ~$300 |
1080 | More rich content and module user | Can handle more intensive tasks. Transitions will run smoothly and can handle video and still images at the same time easily. | i5 CPU, 4+ GB RAM i5/8GB/256GB → Recommended | ~$600 |
4K | Lots of rich content, movies and modules. Large displays or large display walls. | This level of display will have no problem displaying anything that you can throw at it. | i7 or i9 CPU, 8+GB RAM, 4K support display port graphics. i7/16GB/512GB → Recommended | ~$900+ |
Displays
While we don't have any prefered vendors or display technologies yet we are slowly building our knowledge. Please let us work with you to make sure you are matching up displays, computer and use cases appropriately.