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I worked for a company (back in 2009/10) that was putting LED advertising boards on the sides of (IIRC) NYC buses with an embedded PC to control them and report
by zimpenfish 5y ago
I worked for a company (back in 2009/10) that was putting LED advertising boards on the sides of (IIRC) NYC buses with an embedded PC to control them and report back to base. They were plagued - CF cards falling out from vibration, dirt and dust, electrical noise, etc. Needless to say, it was not a success.
- mandis 5y agoThey were too early would be my guess. In my opinion, embedded in today's time is easy and robust. Your thoughts?
- MisterTea 5y ago> They were too early would be my guess. There were rugged PC's available back then for automotive use (think cop cars and the like). To me it sounds like they did not spec the hardware properly or installed it improperly.
- zimpenfish 5y agoYeah, there were two schools of thought - proper rugged industrial PCs or "whatever we can find cheap on $boxshifter.com". The latter cohort won (although not really because they were a constant nightmare of problems...)
- zimpenfish 5y agoDefinitely too early in some respects - the LED boards were huge and clunky, advertisers weren't really interested despite the advantages (for a London bus, apparently, it took ~2 days out of service to replace vinyl adverts which is why you frequently see them with 6m+ outdated adverts), some questionable decisions were made re: software, etc.