Spokane’s New Rapid Transit Line Relays Real-Time GPS Location/Stops To Riders September 5, 2023 by Super User The kind of live positioning visuals motorists routinely use for getting around are being applied to transit rider information screens in Spokane, WA, using technology from Nebraska-based Nanonation. The Spokane Transit Authority has launched a real-time on-bus display system on its rapid transit fleet that relays accurate location information to paying riders. Unlike most transit …
Mvix Launches Dynamic Menu Board Update Solution, Tied to Dozen-Plus POS Platforms September 1, 2023 by Super User The DC-area digital signage solutions provider Mvix has launched a Menu Maker module for its software that automates menu board updating by integrating with data from more than a dozen restaurant and retail point of sale systems. Says Mvix in PR: Realizing the needs of clients who need live updates of their menus throughout the …
Screenly Launches Headless-Serverless Edge Apps Solution Tuned To 3rd-Party Software Developer Needs August 31, 2023 by Super User London-based CMS software firm Screenly has launched a variation on its platform called Edge Apps, expanding on the idea of headless CMS solutions that use the bones of a platform but leave the presentation and transactional layer to the customer’s software team. CEO Viktor Petersson walked me through what he was planning when when we …
CMS Software Firm Rise Vision Adds Managed Media Player Hardware Subscription To Offer August 29, 2023 by Super User The CMS software firm Rise Vision has gone into the hardware business, introducing a bundled subscription offer aimed mainly at the education sector that includes a fully managed media player. “Rise Vision manages the media player software, provides technical support, sends out advanced replacements if an issue can’t be fixed over the phone, and upgrades …
Digital Signage Companies Aren’t The Only Ones Chasing Health Care Communications Business August 22, 2023 by Super User Here’s another example of a company that works outside the digital signage business finding its way into the industry to address evolving customer needs – a firm that started out putting TVs in hospital rooms now doing what it calls interactive patient care. The Long Island, NY firm pCare has a platform that includes screens …
LG Has Its Smart Display “Smarts” In A Standalone Box That Can Now Drive Other Manufacturers’ Smart Screens August 21, 2023 by Super User LG has taken the interesting step of marketing a standalone media play-out device that runs the same webOS operating system as its lines of System on Chip embedded smart displays. The LG WP402 media player would work like an LG smart display, but allows the solutions provider and end-user to plug this in to an …
Sony Keeps Growing Out Digital Signage CMS Software Partner Ecosystem, Adding 22Miles August 18, 2023 by Super User It’s been interesting to watch the differing directions the big pro display manufacturers are taking when it comes to their smart display products and digital signage CMS software. On the one hand, the biggest one – Samsung – has pretty much abandoned traditional software partnerships, and developed its own VXT CMS it is encouraging software …
London Movie Multiplex Uses Curved LED Ribbon For Huge Dynamic Menu Display August 18, 2023 by Super User The scale of multi-screen cinema lobbies and limited concession options make it possible to play with the shape, dimensions and creative for menu displays – like at this moviehouse at the big Bluewater shopping centre on the eastern outskirts of metro London. The Showcase Bluewater cinema now has a 12-metre wide LED ribbon display installed …
Swiss Railways Using Adobe’s Screens CMS To Drive Passenger Information Displays At Stations August 16, 2023 by Super User The Swiss rail system is known everywhere for its punctuality and attention to details, so let’s assume railway operator SBB was anything but slap-dash in the sourcing and selection process for software to run its passenger communications screens. The railway company went with Adobe Screens, the digital signage sub-product of Adobe Experience Manager to drive …
By Adding Back Of House Digital Signage For Workers, “Everything Improved” – QSR Operator August 14, 2023 by Super User Chicago-based UPshow has a good little sponsored content piece on the QSR magazine site that gets into the impacts of back-of-house staff messaging in a food services environment – noting how better communication led to boosts in performance metrics. The CEO of a multi-brand franchise operator realized on store site visits that critical messaging – …
