Southern Railway installs CAYIN digital signage to improve public information displays
March 11, 2009
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Southern Railway, a major Indian Government Organization, has installed a digital signage system at the Egmore Railway Station in Chennai. To provide passengers with clearer and quicker updated information, Southern Railway started out a large scale deployment of a digital public information display system, which was adopted to add on to the traditional broadcasting system. The Video-over-IP specialist A & T Network Systems Pvt. Ltd., a premier systems integrator of similar projects in India, chose CAYIN Technology as its overseas partner.
One primary CAYIN CMS-Performance Server and a spare server have been set and connected to the Railway database server equipped with an administration panel which is used to edit platform numbers and arrival timing based on actual status. To extend the information from the central railway database server to any stations on the railway network catering to Chennai Division, six CAYIN SMP-WEB signage media players, supporting full-screen HTML/Flash/JPG and real-time video playback, and 42-inch LG plasma televisions have been located at concourses, passenger waiting halls, reservation campuses and platforms.With CAYIN digital signage media players, content can be shown according to different occasions and situations. For instance, in the concourse, train arrival and departure information including scheduled time, expected time, delays and platform numbers are shown on the main screens along with commercials and warning messages in moving tickers. Live TV news, dramas and movie trailers can also be broadcast.
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