A method for transmitting disaster information through a digital signage

－Transmission under consideration of characteristic of location and receiver－

Abstract

Digital signage is installed at various places and plays the role of key advertisement medium regardless of the location in everyday life. Since digital signage is a kind of push-type medium like television or radio, it is expected that the digital signage can be useful source of disaster information at the place where one is staying if we can utilize it to transmit this information. We propose a efficient method for transmitting disaster information through local-government-managed digital signage of which it can easily control the sending contents. We also report the result of an experiment which was carried out for evaluating the effectiveness of the proposed method.