Beacons and Bright Screens Trialled in Berlin

Deutsche Bahn has launched a pilot project at the Berlin Südkreuz railway station, trialling high-brightness touch screens and beacon technology. Six dual-sided totems, each with 3,000 cd/m² of brightness and 1920 x 1080 resolution, are in use. The beacons use Bluetooth to communicate with passengers within 100m, who have downloaded a special app. The beacons will inform travelers about traffic and spaces for children and disabled users on the trains.

tomer. Accurate positions of Toddler compartments or the provided spaces for wheelchair passengers traveling also communicates via the app. Thus, the combination of interactive digital signage, beacons and web app has a very strong nutzwertige component for rail passengers. At the same time we now evaluated with the participants how the new service will be accepted.