Smart Cities Pilot - Ledwalls - Kortrijk

The city wants to discover the possibilities of narrowcasting. We are exploring the possibilities of this channel as a result of the procurement of the 5 led-walls. The intention is to have a visually stunning medium that replaces paper posters and other ways of announcing cultural events.

country: 
Belgium
organisation: 
Kortrijk

The city wants to discover the possibilities of narrowcasting. We are exploring the possibilities of this channel as a result of the procurement of the 5 led-walls. The intention is to have a visually stunning medium that replaces paper posters and other ways of announcing cultural events.

Local cultural actors have a tremendous need for support to announce their activities. Big efforts, time and money are spent for making, distributing and removing all kind of posters and bills.

In a second stage we will investigate on how to make ledwalls and by extension all narrowcasting screens interactive.

Pilot information: 

Objectives:

  • 5 ledwalls by mid 2010 in the villages around the City
  • A system to provide content in a as much as possible automated way
  • Users that able to work with the medium
  • Visitors that are willing to inform themselves in a new way

Approach:

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Deliverables:

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Background to the pilot: 

The city wants to discover the possibilities of the so-called narrowcasting. We are exploring the possibilities of this channel and the propensity of people to switch to this channel is currently investigated in a neighbourhood survey as a result of the procurement of the 5 led-walls.
The intention is to have a visually stunning medium that replaces paper posters and other ways of announcing cultural events.
In a second stage we will investigate on how to make ledwalls and by extension all narrowcasting screens interactive.

Business case: 

Local cultural actors have a tremendous need for support to announce their activities. Big efforts, time and money are spent for making, distributing and removing all kind of posters and bills.
Customer benefits:

  • Public accessibility of the information / Programmation

Performance benefits:

  • Announcing of all kind of events goes semi or full automatic

Employee benefits:

  • Staff spend less time in distributing and removing of all kind of posters and bills.

Financial benefits:

  • Cutting staff hours now spend on distributing.
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