Green Zone Kiosk

Summary

This kiosk is located on the first floor of Dennis near the green zone. It's intended to display anything related to energy that HIP/Green Science creates.

Product

As of 2013 there's just the Acer monitor.

Acer T272HL bmidz

Purchased in the Fall of 2013.

Implementation

Physical

• mounted upside down
• wires enclosed
  • very little slack available

PC

• tucked away in the ceiling directly above the monitor
• PC runs a script upon startup to invert touch/video and start Firefox
  • script is located on the desktop of the Kiosk user
• Firefox uses the R-kiosk extension
  • run in safe mode to get out of R-kiosk

Specifications

• 27-inch Touch Screen
• 1920x1080 resolution
• DVI / HDMI / VGA ports
• built-in speakers
• USB-in cable carries touch data
• USB-out hub with three ports on monitor's left side
• 65 watt power consumption
• VA/TFT panel with 5ms GTG and a 60hz refresh rate

Links

• Newegg
• Acer
• Amazon

On Display

• 2013, energy consumption of buildings [[1]]