Recently, we worked with C3Cube Multimedia to build a kiosk network for Coca-Cola India celebrating its sponsorship of the Delhi DareDevils, which is a team that competed in the Indian Premier League (IPL). It provided an array of interesting interactive, multimedia and social features, and was installed at 27 locations across Delhi/NCR. Designing a multimedia kiosk network was an extremely challenging and interesting job for our social network developers, and the challenge was compounded by the aggressive delivery timelines required by the project.

Here are some key features built for the kiosk network:

-> Interactive multimedia games with real-time response

-> Social networking features

-> Integration with an on-kiosk camera

-> Integration with bluetooth for upload and download of files at kiosks

Add to the above the need to monitor the kiosks and do software updates and maintenance remotely on machines at scattered geographic locations, and we had a very big task at hand.

These, in very short, were the constraints we worked under:

-> We had to reuse a lot of components built for the web browser, for use in a web-site. This meant the kiosk application had to be a ‘website’

-> Deliver real-time or very quick response in the application ‘website’

-> Integrate the kiosk application ‘website’ (running in the browser) with hardware components like bluetooth and video camera on the kiosk

-> Develop social features on the application which could only run off a remote server.

The solution was designed and developed in just 50 days, and managed to wow most of the 10000 users who used the kiosk.