Staff engagement touchscreens
Merseyrail had a lot of staff missing out on access to their intranet because they were not in the same place long enough to log onto their desktop machines. The solution was a set of 90+ touchscreens dotted around station break rooms and driver rest stops, that had all the best from the intranet and was a gateway to more in-depth info.
The screens show lots of 'quick bite' snippets of dynamic information; the current weather direct from the MET office, line running status, latest news etc. But also have meatier servings like an LDAP powered employee lookup, 'post-it' note message system for staff comms, latest Merseyrail news stories, job vacancies, commonly needed forms along with the usual high-frequency external links of Google, Network Rail, BBC news etc.
The frontend UI is built using HTML, CSS & javaScript with a PHP & mySQL backend. Fun-fact: I took a photo for each of the possible weather conditions for the weather 'tile', but it was hard to test properly as it only ever rains in Liverpool ;)
The screens show lots of 'quick bite' snippets of dynamic information; the current weather direct from the MET office, line running status, latest news etc. But also have meatier servings like an LDAP powered employee lookup, 'post-it' note message system for staff comms, latest Merseyrail news stories, job vacancies, commonly needed forms along with the usual high-frequency external links of Google, Network Rail, BBC news etc.
The frontend UI is built using HTML, CSS & javaScript with a PHP & mySQL backend. Fun-fact: I took a photo for each of the possible weather conditions for the weather 'tile', but it was hard to test properly as it only ever rains in Liverpool ;)