Kiosks for a Health Exhibit

The 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

Technical Details

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