Museum Kiosks for Health Exhibit

Challenge

The museum had health exhibition wing with many interactive kiosks. However, they were very old and constantly breaking. Also, since the old systems were DOS-based, they simply did not have the look today's museum visitor expects.

The museum needed to give the software a facelift and replace aging hardware with new parts to increase reliability.

Solution

We were responsible for upgrading several of the kiosks:

• Height/Weight - featuring ultrasonic height measurement
• Grip Strength - uses load cells to measure grip strength
• Stepper - measures the pulse resting and after activity
• Blood Pressure - uses an electronic cuff to measure blood pressure

Height / Weight

Grip Strength

Stepper

Blood Pressure

Technical Details

A USB DAQ device was used to interface to the transducers. The software was created with Microsoft™ Visual C# .NET and LabVIEW™.