GSA is working with Pyramid Alliance, LLC on a $2.4 million project to install digital touch screens in up to 50 of its federal buildings.
GSA wrote on its blog teasingly of how much easier life would be if a digital display greeted you as you walked into your place of work by displaying your agenda, then being able to monitor your building’s real time energy usage from an electronic kiosk relative to other buildings, or being able to view traffic congestion as you walk out of the building on the way home, giving you a chance to pick an alternate route.
While it’s hard to imagine much enthusiasm for even more electronic screens, the announcement does signal the ongoing integration of the web into the physical workspace, and not just the so-called Internet of things. In this case, the screens will deliver content designed to promote “general communication and meaningful behavior change to tenants in an effort to reduce energy consumption,” according to GSA.
So if you happen to look up from your smartphone when you get to work and one of these kiosks it’s GSA testing out a new messaging system.
