Self-Guided Touchscreen Product Demos for Radar and IFF Systems at Intersoft Electronics
Radar and IFF systems are hard to explain in a looping playlist. Belgian technology company Intersoft Electronics now uses interactive touchscreen digital signage: three custom Castit apps that let each visitor pick a product and open its brochure on screen.
Intersoft Electronics, a Belgian developer of radar, IFF, and CNS systems, has a product portfolio that doesn't fit into a looping playlist. Castit's in-house development team built three interactive touchscreen digital signage apps that run on top of regular Castit screens. Each visitor now goes straight to the product they care about, at their own pace, with the full brochure one touch away and nobody staffing the screen.
About the Client
Intersoft Electronics is a Belgian technology company that develops radar, IFF (Identification Friend or Foe), and CNS (Communication, Navigation, Surveillance) systems for civil aviation and defense. Its sister company Advionics, part of the Intersoft Electronics Group, builds military-grade electronics in-house.
Its audiences are air navigation service providers (ANSPs), OEMs, and government and defense organizations.
The Challenges
Radar and IFF systems are hard to sell from a distance. Most digital signage plays a loop of slides, videos, and announcements, which is right for a menu board or a reception screen. Some products don't fit in a loop. Explaining a modular airport surveillance radar, Mode 5 IFF validation, and airborne radar target simulation in 20-second slides means the visitor who cares about one of them waits through the others, and the visitor who cares about none walks on. A playlist decides the order for everyone. Intersoft needed the opposite: the visitor picks the product, the screen explains it, and the full brochure is one touch away.
Three things stood in the way:
- Every product has a place. Drone detection, airfield surveillance, naval IFF, and test equipment each solve a problem in a specific setting. Understanding where a product fits is half of understanding what it does.
- Every visitor has a different question. An ANSP is interested in surveillance and radar upgrades. An OEM wants test equipment. A government visitor wants the defense story. One fixed order serves none of them well.
- The depth lives in documents. The real detail sits in brochures, whitepapers, and product videos, not in a headline on a slide.
The Castit Solution
A Castit screen normally plays a playlist. For Intersoft, the Castit development team built three custom apps. Each runs full-screen on top of a Castit screen and turns it into something a visitor explores by touch.
Intersoft Interactive Map
The Intersoft Interactive Map is an animated video landscape with glowing hotspots. Each hotspot is one Intersoft solution, placed where it belongs in the scene. Two tabs switch between two scenes:
- Counter-UAV and airspace defense: drone detection, radar upgrades (NGSP®), modular airport surveillance radar (ASR-M®), CNS and airfield services, test equipment (RASS®, SkyRF®), counter-battery radar, and Advionics' secure manufacturing.
- Combat Management System testing: the SkyRF® Generator for airborne radar target simulation, Mode 5 IFF validation with RES®, naval IFF with the L-IESA® non-rotating IFF array, and Advionics manufacturing.
Touching a hotspot opens a branded panel with a short description and buttons for more detail. Each button opens two things side by side: the matching page of Intersoft's own website, shown inside the panel, and the matching brochures and whitepapers. All PDFs can be paged through right on the screen.
After 30 seconds without a touch, the screen asks "Are you still there?" and counts down from five. If no one answers, it closes everything and returns to the start scene. While a web page is open, it waits two minutes instead, so it never interrupts someone who is reading.
Intersoft Limelight Map
The Intersoft Limelight Map is a larger, cinematic version of the same idea. Its nine full-HD scene videos are organized the way Intersoft's visitors think:
- By audience: civil aviation overview, ANSPs, OEMs, and government.
- By business line: radar, test equipment, services, and manufacturing.
- Defense: a dedicated scene with defense hotspots.
Visitors move between scenes through touch zones built into the artwork itself, so navigation is part of the picture rather than a menu. Hotspots open a product video or image full-screen: ASR-M® radar; L-IESA® IFF, including a rescue scenario; NGSP® features such as wind-farm mitigation, interference suppression, and ground-clutter cancellation; RES®; the SkyRF® Generator; airfield ground lighting; Intersoft Services; and Advionics manufacturing.
Tapping the Intersoft logo opens the live website in a pop-up. It closes on its own after one minute, so the screen never stays parked on a web page
Intersoft Interactive Grid
The Intersoft Interactive Grid is the simplest of the three, and the one Intersoft runs entirely on its own. It is a grid of logo tiles, and touching a tile opens a pop-up with that item's title and formatted text.
In the Castit CMS, Intersoft's team adds, removes, and reorders tiles, uploads logos, writes the texts, and sets the grid size (up to 10 × 10) and the background, pop-up, and text colors, all without help from Castit. The grid uses the same "Are you still there?" reset as the Interactive Map.
| App | Experience | Content inside | Who changes the content |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Interactive Map | Two animated scenes with hotspots | Descriptions, Intersoft web pages, brochures and whitepapers | Castit development team |
| Limelight Map | Nine cinematic full-HD scenes by audience and business line | Product videos and images, live website pop-up | Castit development team |
| Interactive Grid | Grid of logo tiles with pop-ups | Titles and formatted text | Intersoft, in the Castit CMS |
Managed in the Castit CMS
The apps are added and assigned to a screen from the normal Castit CMS, the same way a playlist is assigned. Editors can preview them there before they go live. There is no second system to learn and no separate device management.
The three apps are deliberately not equally flexible. The two maps are custom-designed experiences: their scenes, hotspots, and texts are built into the app by Castit's developers, so changing them is a development job. The grid is a self-service tool that Intersoft edits whenever it likes.
| If your situation looks like this | The better fit |
| --- | --- |
| A stable product portfolio that needs a memorable, visual flagship experience | A custom interactive app, built with the Castit development team |
| A list of products, services, or departments your team updates often | A self-service touch format, such as the grid, managed in the CMS |
| Announcements, menus, or news that simply need to be seen | A standard Castit playlist, no custom work needed |
A cinematic product explorer suits a portfolio that changes a few times a year and a stand that has to make an impression. Content that changes every week belongs in something the client's own team can edit.
The Results and Impact
The screen Intersoft uses for signage is now a self-guided product explorer. Each visitor goes straight to what interests them, at their own pace, and nobody has to staff it.
Custom Touchscreen Apps
Brochures and Whitepapers on Screen
Automatic Reset to the Start
One CMS, No Second System
- Built from content Intersoft already had. The apps reuse existing website pages, brochures, whitepapers, videos, and renders. Nothing had to be rewritten for the screen. When a brochure is the best explanation of a product, the visitor reads the brochure on the touchscreen.
- Ready for the next visitor. On the Interactive Map and the Interactive Grid, the automatic reset means every visitor starts on a clean start screen. On a busy stand or in a reception area, that is the difference between an inviting screen and one stuck on a half-read PDF.
- Managed like any other Castit screen. Editors work in one CMS and preview an app before it goes live. Intersoft updates the Interactive Grid itself, without Castit's help.
The apps are designed so sales staff can spend their time on the conversations that follow, instead of repeating the same introduction.
When Your Products Don't Fit in a Loop
The same principle applies to any business with products that need explaining: let visitors choose what they want to see, put the depth one touch away, and keep the screen ready for whoever comes next.
Talk to the Castit team about interactive touchscreen apps, or create a free Castit account: 21 days of the complete product on up to ten players, then a free plan that keeps running. Get in touch or book a demo to talk through your project.