FBI 'Wall Honor': digital and interactive technology to remember those who died in the act of service

More than seventy interactive kiosks, with screens 55 inches and called 'Wall Honor', are distributed by the 56 offices that the FBI has in the main cities of the United States to commemorate the 'fallen heroes' or agents killed in the line of duty, in which information is provided, Images and videos of each of them, according to the project carried out by the integrator Trinity Video Communications.

The project to digitize what was originally a static table showing a small image of each of the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice of the United States has lasted three years. (FBI) Deaths in the line of duty, and that has now been transformed into interactive kiosks with multimedia content of the biography of each of them.

The so-called 'Wall Honor' is based on the digitization project integrated by Trinity Video Communications, Composed of more than seventy interactive kiosks that incorporate a touch screen of 55 inches that are located in the 56 offices that the FBI has distributed in the main cities of the United States, as well as at its headquarters in the District of Columbia.

The interactive kiosks of the 'Wall Honor' offer basic information, imagery, Videos, Messages of condolence, Etc. about each FBI agent killed in the line of duty who, as John Jennings assures, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Operations, Trinity Video Communications, "They have become, as the name suggests, in a means to pay tribute to these professionals and know their actions at the service of security and justice, to provide a much richer story about these people, all of whom are heroes.".

Joint project

The conceptual design of the 'Wall Honor' began about five years ago, at the request of FBI officials to replace the cadre that presided over the offices since the decade of the 80 with the black and white photos of the fallen agents when they were doing their job and known as 'Martyr Wall' (Wall of the Martyrs). The proposal was to "create an appropriate and closer space to pay homage and remember the deceased with the help of new visual and interactive technologies", points out Barry Sawayer, CEO of Trinity Video Communications.

The proposal was accepted and it took about a year to collect the images of each of the agents., as well as videos and more biographical information, to which were added around six months of programming and management. "Both the FBI and Trinity are proud of the end result," said Sawayer., after a very laborious process of managing images and multimedia files with the collaboration of the relatives of the victims and in close collaboration with the FBI to meet all the objectives, including the aesthetics of the kiosk, as well as the interface for the large format touch screen and the incorporation of the condolence signatures of the relatives, friends etc. next to the space dedicated to each deceased agent. It's been a project you feel really good about. Now people have a complete view of what each of these people were and what they did for us.".

The FBI produced the content it wanted to incorporate into each interactive system and Trinity was responsible for managing it with the touch screen software and designing the custom kiosks for this project., for which a system has also been created for visitors with some type of physical disability, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Unfortunately, 'Wall Honor' is updated every time a member of the FBI dies in the line of duty, and recently special agents Chris Lorek and Stephen Shaw are part of it., who were part of the FBI hostage rescue team who died during a training accident off the coast of Virginia.

'Wall Honor' currently also serves "as a model of tribute that can be applied to other environments in which great professionals are at the service of the population., As military, State Police, firemen, Etc. And it's something that's already being contemplated.", point out from Trinity Video Communications.

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