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Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum installs digital signage to boost donations, honor war heroes

December 6, 2007

HONOLULU,Hawaii— In order to accelerate and automate fund raising efforts for the newPearl Harbor Memorial Museum & Visitor Center, the Arizona Memorial Museum Association, and its Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund, recently installed several digital signs at the museum's entrance. The new displays consist of an interactive donor display, an interactive memorial display, digital signage displays and a donation kiosk to allow self-service donations via credit and debit cards. A third display delivers marketing and museum information, as well as special greetings and messages to museum visitors.

"It was nice to be able to put up special messages for Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and of course, December 7th," said Laurie Moore, director of development at the Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund (PHMF). "We were able to schedule the messages ahead of time and they automatically started and stopped exactly when we wanted them to."

The digital signage software allows for scheduled content of various media types including Flash, Web pages, PowerPoint, video and customized tickers, among other features. The interactive donor display consists of a 40-inch NEC LCD display combined with a 15-inch NEC touchscreen. They are powered by a custom application developed by PDS that runs on a PC in a nearby data closet. The Donor Kiosk includes a 40-inch NEC LCD screen above a touchscreen kiosk that includes a credit card swipe and receipt printer. The screens are mounted neatly to the concrete structure using Peerless mounts.