US-based Creative Realities Laying Groundwork To Expand Reach Into EMEA Region May 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the numerous panels I am moderating next week in Munich at the invidis Digital Signage Summit includes Creative Realities CEO Rick Mills. It is a session intended to look at the state of the North American market, and help European companies understand the opportunity and challenge of cracking the busy but crowded U.S. …
Workspace Booking Platform Humly Expands Solutions To Company Parking Spaces May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The pandemic-triggered shift in how workspaces are designed and operated evolved the use-case for screen-based solutions around offices – adding shared desk availability to displays that pre-pandemic were more about meeting room assignments and availability. Now a Swedish company operating in that “workplace experience” space has added a new twist – visualizations that show the …
Data-Driven Generative Art Used For Canadian Bank’s Video Wall At Busy Transit Hub Branch May 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use of an LED video wall at the front of a very public bank branch – the TD Canada Trust branch at Toronto’s Union Station, a hub for passenger rail, commuter rail and commuter buses, as well as a main subway stop. The branch has a big 12 foot by 6 …
Why, Despite VXT, I Am Grateful To Samsung May 13, 2024 by Jason Cremins Guest Post: Jason Cremins, Signagelive Samsung is now a formal competitor to digital signage software providers. It has released its VXT platform and communicated clearly with the market that it is going alone to win direct business. However, this was not always the case. In 2013, Marc Benson (our CTO) and I were approached by Samsung UK to attend a briefing at their Chertsey, UK. …
Video: LED Ribbon Display At Jacksonville’s Airport Cleverly Manages TSA Screening Area May 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes I wrote back in February about the 100 feet of Nanolumens LED ribbon on a bulkhead wall over the entries to TSA security screening at Jacksonville, Florida’s airport, and how it was set up to do things like locating different screening lines and also run background content specific to that day. Heres another video, from …
REACH Boosts Ad Capabilities Via Integrations With Major Programmatic DOOH Platforms May 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital signage and DOOH were, for many years, intermingled terms, but they kinda went off on their own tracks about 10-12 years ago. Now they’re starting to intermingle again, likely because of the big spike in interest and activity involving the in-store screens aspect of retail media networks. I’m seeing lots of stuff lately suggesting …
This Company Has A Meeting Room Sign Solution, That Doesn’t Need The Signs May 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes Atlanta CMS software firm Visix was an early adopter of meeting room sign technology, using tablets and then adding e-paper displays. Now the education and workplace-focused company has a no-hardware option that does pretty much everything an organization might need to book meeting and work spaces, but built around QR codes and web apps. The …
School Pairs Digital Signage Platform With Emergency Alerts App To Speed Lockdowns When There’s Risk Of Active Shooter On Campus May 6, 2024 by Dave Haynes It’s unfortunate that speed is a mission-critical need, but that is indeed the case with schools in the United States these days because of too-frequent incidents of active shooters on the campuses of K-12 schools and colleges. There is a critical 30-second window from identifying an active shooter on the grounds to when the incident …
IGEL, LG Announce “Digital Signage Revolution” … But The Solution Doesn’t Appear To Apply To Digital Signage. Huh??? May 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The headline: IGEL and LG Spearhead a Dynamic Digital Signage Revolution with New LG CreateBoard Display Solutions, Powered by IGEL OS This announcement got my attention because it involves LG, one of the larger tech companies in this sector, and the suggestion that some new product partnership is going to spearhead a Dynamic Digital Signage …
Is Experience Management System A Better Descriptor For Digital Signage CMS? May 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes For as long as I have been knocking out Sixteen:Nine posts, people have been debating what to call this industry – as not that many people are entirely happy with digital signage, but the alternative handles haven’t resonated either. How about Experience Management System? I could argue the pros and cons of that one for …
