E-paper compliance poster system and method
An e-paper poster system and method are disclosed relating to displaying an always compliant poster, such as a labor law poster, at a given location without end user effort. An e-paper display is provided and connected to a network in communication with an information source. At the termination of a sleep cycle, a wake cycle is entered by connecting the e-paper display to the information source to determine if updated poster content to maintain legal compliance is available. If there is no available updated poster content, the sleep cycle is re-entered. If there is available update poster content, an update cycle is entered by sending the updated poster content from the information source to be displayed on the e-paper display to maintain compliance without any required end user effort and then the sleep cycle is re-entered.
1 . A method to display always compliant labor law poster content for a given location without end user effort, the method comprising the steps of:
providing a low power consumption e-paper display for displaying labor law poster images, a battery in communication with the display, a memory in communication with the display for storing labor law poster images, a controller in communication with the display and the memory, a modem for enabling communication between the controller and a central server, a content management database in communication with the central server, a driver in communication with the memory to transfer labor law poster images from the memory to the display;
connecting the controller to a network;
connecting the controller to the central server via the network;
assigning a federal or state designation based upon the given location;
based upon the designation, sending a compliant initial labor law poster image from the content management database to the memory via the modem;
transferring the compliant initial labor law poster image to the e-paper display using the driver;
displaying the compliant initial labor law poster image on the e-paper display without any required end user effort;
entering a sleep cycle for a set time period using the controller;
at the termination of the set period of time of the sleep cycle, entering a wake cycle by connecting the controller to the central server via the modem to determine if an updated labor law poster image to maintain legal compliance is available for the designation;
if there is no available updated labor law poster image available, re-entering the sleep cycle using the controller; and
if there is an available updated labor law poster image, entering an update cycle by transferring the updated labor law poster image from the content management database to the memory via the modem, transferring the update labor law poster image to the e-paper display using the driver, displaying the compliant updated labor law poster image on the e-paper display to maintain compliance without any required end user effort and re-entering the sleep cycle using the controller.
2 . A method to display always compliant poster content for a given location without end user effort, the method comprising the steps of:
providing an e-paper display system and a content management database;
connecting the e-paper display system to a network in communication with an information source;
assigning the e-paper display system a federal or state designation based upon the given location;
based upon the designation, sending compliant initial poster content from the information source to the e-paper display system;
displaying the compliant initial poster content on the e-paper display system without any required end user effort;
entering a sleep cycle for a set time period;
at the termination of the sleep cycle, entering a wake cycle by connecting the e-paper display system to the information source to determine if updated poster content to maintain legal compliance is available for the designation;
if there is no available updated poster content, re-entering the sleep cycle; and
if there is available updated poster content, entering an update cycle by sending the updated poster content from the information source to be displayed on the e-paper display system to maintain compliance without any required end user effort and then re-entering the sleep cycle.
3 . The method of claim 2 wherein the wake cycle is less than five minutes.
4 . The method of claim 2 wherein the e-paper display system includes a battery as the only power source.
5 . The method of claim 2 wherein the e-paper display system includes between one and six panels.
6 . The method of claim 2 and further including the step of providing end user customized content to the e-paper display system.
7 . The method of claim 2 and further including the step of retroactively proving end user compliance.
8 . An e-paper compliance poster system requiring no end user effort to maintain compliant poster content, the system comprising:
an e-paper display for displaying poster content for a given location, the display having a sleep cycle of a set time period;
a power source in communication with the display;
a memory in communication with the display for storing poster content;
a controller in communication with the display and the memory;
an information source for determining whether updated poster content is available;
a modem to enable communication between the controller and the information source; and
a driver in communication with the memory to transfer poster content to the display;
wherein after the set period of time of the sleep cycle, if the information source has determined there is updated poster content available for the given location, compliant updated poster content is communicated via the modem to the memory and then to the driver for display on the e-paper display without requiring any end user effort; and
wherein after the set period of time of the sleep cycle, if the information source has determined there is no updated poster content available for the given location, the sleep cycle is restarted.