Digital Display Alerting With Event-Perimeter Message Targeting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing emergency communication systems, such as broadcast networks and SMS, often deliver information to the wrong audiences, causing confusion and inefficiency, and can saturate networks during high-population events, while digital signage networks are underutilized for targeted emergency messaging.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a network of sensors to detect events, determine an event perimeter, and selectively distribute emergency communications through digital signage and mobile devices, leveraging metadata for targeted messaging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If broadcast networks and SMS are used to distribute emergency communications, then information can be delivered to large populations, but the network becomes saturated and communication effectiveness decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the population into targeted groups based on location and event perimeter, distributing communications only to affected areas through digital signage networks rather than broadcasting to entire populations, thus avoiding network saturation while maintaining effective coverage
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by delivering customized emergency messages to specific geographic locations and audiences based on event type and perimeter, rather than uniform broadcasting, ensuring relevant information reaches the right people without overwhelming network infrastructure
2Quantity of substance
If traditional broadcast emergency alerts are sent to all populations, then information reaches everyone, but it causes confusion by reaching people who do not need the information
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments communications by event type, location, and affected perimeter, delivering specific messages only to relevant audiences through digital signage in targeted areas, eliminating unnecessary alerts to unaffected populations and preventing confusion
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes communication parameters by using metadata to dynamically adjust message content, distribution scope, and target audience based on event characteristics, ensuring precise delivery to those who need information while excluding unaffected populations
3Measurement precision
If digital signage networks are used for targeted emergency messaging, then communication precision is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves universality by using existing digital signage infrastructure for both commercial advertising and emergency communications, adding emergency functionality to a multi-purpose network without requiring entirely new specialized systems
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses an intermediary emergency management platform that sits between event detection sources and digital signage displays, handling the complexity of event perimeter calculation, message customization, and network coordination, thereby simplifying the overall system architecture
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are disclosed for event management, allowing authorized users or authorities to distribute and display communications on digital displays. In one aspect, an event management communications system receives event data sent from a detection system comprised of a network of sensors. The event management communications system processes the event data to determine an event perimeter, and then selects one or more digital displays based upon the event data or the determined event perimeter. Next, the event management communications system authors one or more contextual communications corresponding to the one or more digital displays and sends said one or more authored communications to said one or more digital displays, thereby allowing the one or more digital displays to display the corresponding one or more communications to a relevant, identified audience.