IEEE1888 Interactive Display as a Service (IDaaS): Example in Building Energy Management System

In this paper, a new architecture of Interactive Display as a Service or IDaaS has been introduced and implemented as the application component in the open framework of IEEE1888 standard. The purpose is to integrate the interactive visualisation with natural human gesture controls and the back-end cloud enabled by the IEEE1888 data storage component and IEEE1888 FETCH/WRITE methods. The IDaaS architecture utilises Processing language as the interactive visualisation software platform and Microsoft Kinect as the gesture sensor. Measures of IDaaS effectiveness have been defined, namely, the number of hand swipes made by control users, the canvas numbers selected by control users, and the accumulated number of users waking up the IDaaS display. As an example proof of concept, IDaaS system has been deployed for the building energy management system scenario. Five canvases have been developed for the IDaaS display, namely, EE health pad, energy game, EE information and alarm & alert as well as a photo collection display implemented as a screen saver. Reported results herein highlight possible usage of IDaaS effectiveness measures to compare installation locations and displaying canvases quantitatively. And hence IDaaS is expectedly useful for interactive public data dissemination hot spots to raise people awareness on common issues of societal concern or for information advertising purposes.