Big Screen Video designs and installs large-scale digital displays and LED technology for hospitality, retail, sport, education, transit and gaming venues, with offices in four states and projects across Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Codium built the platform that watches every one of those screens: what it's showing, how bright it is, how much power it's drawing and whether it has a fault, with a portal for the media owners who advertise on them.
A large-format LED screen is an expensive asset running in public, often unattended. Big Screen Video needed to know, across thousands of screens and dozens of media owners, which ones were online, what each was displaying, whether brightness matched ambient light, how much power each drew and when faults started and ended. The platform captures all of it from the screens themselves and puts it on one dashboard, with the history to back up service calls and reporting.
Total screens, active faults, media owners and users at a glance, with the live fault list showing current and ambient brightness for every affected screen.
A live wall of camera images from the screens themselves, each timestamped, so the team can see what's actually on the glass without leaving the office.
Current and ambient brightness logged over time, with hourly power consumption in amps and kilowatt hours per screen.
Every fault and offline period recorded with start, end, duration and the percentage of the screen affected.
Media owners log in to their own portal to see their screens, status and reports, with two-factor authentication and tag-based access.
Screen status reports on green time by date range, media owner and tag, plus API, FTP and data transfer integrations configured from settings.
Each screen reports a camera image on a schedule. The camera wall tiles them with their timestamps so operators can scan the whole fleet in seconds, spot a blank or stuck screen, and click through to its history.
Every screen logs its brightness against ambient light and its power draw. Hourly and custom-range views make it easy to see a screen running too bright for the conditions, or drawing more power than it should.
When a screen faults or drops offline the platform records it, and when it recovers it closes the record. The result is a clean history of start time, end time, duration and the percentage of the screen affected, filterable by date and severity.
The platform ingests telemetry and camera images from the screens, stores the history per screen and serves two front ends from one API: the Big Screen Video admin and a media owner portal with its own dashboard, screens, camera wall and reports. Settings cover API, FTP and data transfer integrations, screen and media owner tags, report configuration and email templates.
Built in Vue.js as a single page application, for a fast experience without page reloads and the flexibility to evolve as the system grows.
The backend is built in Laravel and MySQL with an API-first interface, so the web and mobile apps share the same endpoints.
Automated testing and deployment let us test new builds and update production quickly, so we can release as often as required.
Amazon's Elastic Container Service runs each service in its own container within a cluster that scales up and down as needed.
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