An architecture-centric approach for supporting remote maintenance of lightweight digital signage infrastructures

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Professeur(e)s impliqués

• Ghizlane El Boussaidi (École de technologie supérieure)

Résumé

The company Admetric has developed a lightweight digital signage infrastructure to support its customers inbroadcasting their product information and advertisements in public areas. This infrastructure promotesusability and technical autonomy through a « plug and display » proprietary tablet which ensures its operationwithout human intervention. However, the growing interest in these lightweight infrastructures raises manychallenges regarding their maintenance and scalability. Indeed, the « plug and display » tablets are located inpublic places where the access is limited and they can be spread over several locations. This makes the localmaintenance of software applications running on these tablets hard and costly. This is a major issue that mayinhibit the sustainability and scalability of these lightweight infrastructures as both the number of tablets andapplications are expected to grow in the future.In this research project, we propose an architecture-centric approach to build an architectural model thatsupports remote maintenance in the context of lightweight digital signage infrastructures. This approach willapply and adapt proven architectural styles to enforce the quality requirements of these infrastructures andavoid their architectural erosion. Practically, the outcome of the project will be: 1) the set of qualityrequirements that lightweight digital signage infrastructures must satisfy; 2) an architectural model that satisfiesthese requirements and makes use of proven architectural styles and patterns; and 3) a concrete implementationof the resulting architectural model within Admetric software.