Design and implementation of digital signage system based on Raspberry Pi 2 for e-tourism in Indonesia

Abstract

Tourism is a potential sector for national income. But in Indonesia, people still have less concern about the importance of tourism. This situation may be caused by the static and uninteresting method to promote Indonesian tourism. A suitable solution is implementing digital signage for e-tourism to increase people attraction to Indonesian tourism. Earlier research has been done to implement digital signage system using Xibo for Digital Signage with client-server system and board Raspberry Pi 1 Model B as the client terminal. But, the implementation is still lack of performance and needs further development. In this research, we designed a digital signage system particularly for supporting e-tourism in Indonesia and implemented its client terminal on Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. Moreover, we integrated the digital signage system with SMS feature to provide reliable real-time delivery of information. The result shows that the digital signage system for supporting e-tourism has been successfully designed and implemented. The result also shows the quality improvement of digital signage system compared to the previous system.