In 2008 CeBIT edition, movipoint presents:

MPK is movilpoint OS for kiosks and digital signage networks:

Data management has a lot of features for design and generate content of applications that runs on MPK:

Network managament of mpk networks with movilpoint monitoring tool and cmd-remote:

Integration of movilpoint suite with third party applications.

The are a video with a virtual MPK booted from VMWare virtual machine that loads an interactive demo. 640x480px demo video

Applied Data Systems (ADS) is sampling a pair of single-board computers (SBCs) aimed at embedded video-over-IP (VIP) applications. The NetCast Streamer can digitize and stream A/V signals at DVD quality, while the NetCast Player can decode streams for NTSC or PAL playback. Both boards run Linux, supported by Windows applications for digital signage and security.

The streamer (about 175$) has an interesting block digram with all you need.

The player (about 200$):

Original post from Linux-powered SBCs target video-over-IP apps.

In Amsterdam Schiphol Airport there are new generation of kiosks. It can download multimedia contents like video, mp3 songs, audiobooks, etc. to your portable multimedia devices like iPod, portable multimedia players (PMP) or to portable storage devices like flash cards or portable disks.

The product is called Fuel for Travel and is developed by Talpa Digital. The content providers that collaborate with this project are Red Bull, MTV/Nickelodeon, Radio 538, Talpa Media, Audiocitytours, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Rubinstein and Commodore.

Original post from New Download Kiosks at the Airport.

SubWorks is a chain of restaurants of fast food in the United States. Of their 154 restaurants 12 of them has incorporated kiosk with touch screen that it allows the clients to directly make the orders to the kitchen.

In a market where the businesses have a very slow ROI in this case we must speak of a clear example in which the ROI has been of the 149 percent. Therefore this example is added to the list of future applications for the world of kiosk.

In order to extend the details of this news: SubWorks achieves fast ROI with self-service ordering

EPIC is presenting a SBC thought specially for the sector of the Kiosk. One is model ECM-3624. Totally equipped yet the necessary thing to directly integrate it in a PIM or Kiosk. It honors specially the controller of the totally compatible touch screen with linux. To part also it has decoders MPEG2 and MPEG4 by hardware. This causes that their Pentium M to 1GHz is more than sufficient to run any multimedia application in this main board.

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Small summary of the specifications of main board :

• Onboard VIA Eden ESP10K 1 GHz CPU


• VIA CN400 VT8625 Chipset Supports MPEG-4 Acceleration and MPEG-2 Decoder


• One SODIMM up to 1 GB DDR SDRAM


• 2-CH LVDS, Dual View


• Optional Built-in Touch Screen I/F


• 5.1 CH Audio, TV-out


• Dual Realtek RTL8101L 10/100Mbps LAN


• 1 PCI-104, Type I/II CF


• 2 SATA, 1 COM, 4 USB 2.0


• Single +12 V Power Input

According to the sectorial report made by VDC (Venture Development Corporation) of Boston, Massachusetts (EE.UU.) - Internet Kioskos is between the 10 more important European companies of the sector. Between the most important companies in America they are: Kiosk Information Systems, IBM, NCR.

In movilpoint we have the pleasure to participate along with in some projects Internet Kioskos. For this reason it is proud to us to congratulate to this company that as much makes an effort to give a good service to its clients.

The results presented by the EETimes magazine on the survey of which operating system uses the designers of embedded systems we can find an article of answer in the well-known Internet site linuxdevices.com.

Interestingly, embedded market analyst Venture Development Corp. in January, 2006 reported that its surveys of highly qualified embedded developers found that Linux remains the most popular embedded OS, with between 13 and 15 percent of embedded developers using it as a target OS.

OSes used by 32-/64-bit embedded developers
(Source: VDC, May 2005.)

After this crossing of opinions and contradictory results in different sources maybe the best conclusion is to think that Linux is the operating system more used in architectures embedded of 32bits or 64bits. Also we must remember that the use of simpler architectures (< 32bits) with Linux systems does not have a very long trajectory in this field. This takes us to the conclusions that the article of the EETimes magazine pointed; limited or relatively new few drivers available, few expert designers with these systems, etc.

EE Times has published the results of a survey based on 1,217 respondents at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley (3 April). Only 17 percent of embedded systems designers are currently using embedded Linux, and 66 percent say they are either not interested in using it or do not expect to be using it anytime soon.

Seventy one percent of those considering using embedded Linux indicated that low cost was among the reasons for considering it, up two percent from 2005. Sixty one percent indicated that adaptability/extendibility was among the reasons for considering Linux, up from 58 percent in 2005.

Kiosk Europe magazine published in 2Q last year that the euorpean kiosk market is growing at 35% a year. This is an important notice for this selfservice technologies.

The ROI offered by serivces of atcual kiosks is slow, but it is not stopping the perspectives of this market. Everyday the kiosk has products with more advanced technologies inside, because the services has the focus in markets like internet and mobile phones market.

Alvento es uno de los actuales proveedores de contenidos premium que estan usando los clientes de movilpoint. Así pues, esta conocida multinacional de los contenidos para móviles, con presencia en los cinco continentes, no ha querido dejar pasar la ocasión para enseñar en este congreso de telefonía móvil otras formas de vender contenido premium al margen de los operadores.

El kiosko que alvento presentó en el 3GSM era capaz de descargar: fondos de pantalla, melodias, animaciones, juegos, etc. a terminales móviles cobrando a través de su monedero. Con la capacidad de devolver el dinero al cliente si la transmisión no se podía completar con éxito. El avanzado sistema de detección de terminales permite al kiosko movilpoint detectar el terminal del cliente antes de hacer la descarga asegurandose así que el contenido se manda al terminal que realmente lo esta requiriendo.

En la pasada edición del CeBIT 2005 movilpoint ha estado presente en el estand de Materna, donde ha mostrado por primera vez al mundo la primera versión de sus productos. Concretamente lo ha hecho con un kiosko preparado especialmente para servir información turística de la ciudad de Barcelona.

El kiosko no sólo dispone de la información propia de un PIM (punto de información multimedia) sinó que también es capaz de descargar al teléfono móvil del usuario la información que este consulta por pantalla, todo ello sin usar la red de los operadores de telefonía móvil. Este hecho es el punto diferencial de la tecnología del kiosko movilpoint aprovecha las nuevas capacidades de comunicación de los teléfonos móviles: bluetooth, infra-rojos y USB.