Real-time content snapshot acquisition in billboard/signage networks

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This project is a joint research/development effort between the PI's research team and Lenz Entertainment Inc., aiming to investigate a novel real-time content snapshot acquisition mechanism in digital billboard/signage networks. To be specific, the proposed real-time content snapshot acquisition mechanism enables the billboard/signage viewers to instantaneously obtain the content snapshots being displayed on the billboard/signage by issuing a gesture on their smartphones. To achieve this, an add-on device to each billboard/signage, called Media Processor Content Access Box (MP-CAB), is introduced, which incorporates with the Content Management Server (CMS) of the billboard/signage owner for achieving the proposed content snapshot acquisition mechanism. Based on a simple yet efficient multicast schedule protocol, we will prototype the system by going through extensive Verilog and Android/Linux programming tasks, followed by trial runs on our partner's networks.