Skype Station

The Estonian company Advertising Technology LLC began with summer of 2012 of sale of a new view of the information booth of "Skype Station" allowing to make free telephone and videos are ringing in Skype networks and also to call on stationary and mobile numbers on the profitable Skype rates.

Initially the booth razrabyvatsya as additional service for the airports, stations, hospitals and the international educational institutions, but as practice scope of the device showed much more widely: it is demanded everywhere where there is a need for the organization TV or video of communication by an easy and convenient way. Users will be always glad to have an opportunity to make free calls or to avoid a payment for roaming.

Skype Station passed long test at the international airport of the city of Tallinn which results showed steadily high interest of users in new, for the airport to service.

Working on design of the device engineers and designers of Advertising Technology recognized that in the modern world not beautiful things do not draw attention and respectively do not enjoy popularity at users. Therefore the design of the booth was executed in futuristic style, and the cabin is equipped a number of the interactive elements defining presence of the person and assisting it turning interaction with the device into entertainment.

The unusual appearance of the device was appreciated not only by users, but also interior designers and exhibition halls. For example, the Estonian public foundation of development of an entrepreneurship purchased a number of devices and with success uses them on the international actions for demonstration of the innovation spirit of the Estonian economy. Also the device successfully works in quality marketingovo the tool in the Tallinn 'concert hall Nokia' where draws attention of judges of classical art. Which with pleasure use innovation to share in pechatleniy from a concert.

From the technical point of view the booth represents the universal, open platform parameters of which can be flexibly changed according to requirements of the customer. The basis of a program part is formed by the Linux operating system based on the Kubuntu distribution kit and own Skype the client created on the basis of Skype Kit and prednazdnachenny especially for touch-devices with the big diagonal of the screen. The hardware is constructed on architecture of Intel Atom, includes 23' the touch-monitor, the HD video camera and the directed microphones with noise reduction function.

As for calls on stationary and mobile numbers it was necessary to have funds for Skype the account when developing Skype Station special attention is paid to security issues and convenience of using. Therefore a special interactive floor which will recognize presence of the user was developed for the booth and automatically leaves skype if the user leaves a cabin that guarantees safety of use of a system in the public place.