2019-09-17
A unique LED display created in cooperation with Danske Bank
The idea to make a non-standard interactive LED display came to employees of Danske Bank IT Group, and they trusted specialists and students from LinkMenų Fabrikas at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) with the project’s’ implementation. The new display was designed and made only in three months. This is a proof that university-business cooperation is not merely empty words.
“An idea to make a smart display as an open platform for software developers wasn’t accidental. Every day at work we are creative and think outside-the-box. My colleagues and I came up with an idea how such display should look like, what functionalities it should have, and how we expect to use it in the future,” says Gražvydas Šedys, Markets IT team project manager at Danske Bank.
It is expected that at first this display will serve as a test platform for creative solutions. Now, you can play an interactive game on it – the display communicates with a player via virtual experience and helps the player to guess intuitively the storyline of the game. Later, AI technologies will be used and the display will have many more applications. Meanwhile, everyone can propose or test their ideas, create games or videos on the display.
According to Ričardas Leščinskas, the head of the Laboratory of Mechanics at VGTU, who also was in charge of the production of the display, everything in this project had to be made from scratch as this project is unique. The team had to generate a number of ideas how to implement the project, had to find the right technological and engineering solutions, and carry out a lot of experiments and tests. “The main advantage of our services is that we are very flexible and creative at solving non-standard tasks. We have everything – highly skilled professionals, services and technologies – under one roof, that is why we can work on projects that are complex and one of the kind; thus, were able to offer to our colleagues from the bank not only engineering, but also creative solutions for the project,” says the representative of VGTU’s LinkMenų Fabrikas.
Rapid prototyping technologies, such as 3D printers, laser cutting machines and CNC machines were used to make the display. Diagonal of the display is almost 4 meters, and length of edges – 2.77 m.
“An idea to make a smart display as an open platform for software developers wasn’t accidental. Every day at work we are creative and think outside-the-box. My colleagues and I came up with an idea how such display should look like, what functionalities it should have, and how we expect to use it in the future,” says Gražvydas Šedys, Markets IT team project manager at Danske Bank.
It is expected that at first this display will serve as a test platform for creative solutions. Now, you can play an interactive game on it – the display communicates with a player via virtual experience and helps the player to guess intuitively the storyline of the game. Later, AI technologies will be used and the display will have many more applications. Meanwhile, everyone can propose or test their ideas, create games or videos on the display.
According to Ričardas Leščinskas, the head of the Laboratory of Mechanics at VGTU, who also was in charge of the production of the display, everything in this project had to be made from scratch as this project is unique. The team had to generate a number of ideas how to implement the project, had to find the right technological and engineering solutions, and carry out a lot of experiments and tests. “The main advantage of our services is that we are very flexible and creative at solving non-standard tasks. We have everything – highly skilled professionals, services and technologies – under one roof, that is why we can work on projects that are complex and one of the kind; thus, were able to offer to our colleagues from the bank not only engineering, but also creative solutions for the project,” says the representative of VGTU’s LinkMenų Fabrikas.
Rapid prototyping technologies, such as 3D printers, laser cutting machines and CNC machines were used to make the display. Diagonal of the display is almost 4 meters, and length of edges – 2.77 m.