Cemetery Down Under Using Digital Wayfinding Totems To Enable Seamless, Lowered-Stress Visits June 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes A cemetery in Western Australia has deployed three outdoor-rated digital display totems to help visitors find their way around the grounds and locate the burial sites of loved ones. Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth commissioned Kingman Signs last year to develop a solution intended to provide a seamless and stress-free navigation experience. A first-of-its-kind project for …
Update A Digital Sign, By Texting It June 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes Orlando-based software and services provider Xpodigital has developed an interesting, and patented, capability for quickly revising announcements and calls to action on networked screens around a venue, using text messaging. The company, which has been around forever and mainly focused on the business events sector, has developed what it calls Text-to-Screen technology. To change out …
KY Start-up Transmission Builds Out Industrial Workplace Communications Solution Via Pair Of Acquisitions May 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes A start-up called Transmission has announced a pair of acquisitions that are foundational components of an on-premise communications solution aimed at industrial workplaces. Transmission has acquired LobbyFox, a visitor management software company and Industrial Communications, the digital signage software division of Eyeconic.TV. The deal terms and amounts were not disclosed. The acquisition includes the entire …
Telecine Launches Digital Signage Ready – A Branded Subscription Content Service May 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes Montreal solutions provider Telecine Multimedia has launched Digital Signage Ready, or DSR – what it calls an à la carte content subscription service for end-user screen networks. It is a branded content library that, similar to established subscription content offers on the market, rounds out programming on screens and, done well, keeps audiences looking a …
Mvix Launches AI Toolset That Filters Content Scheduled For Screens May 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes There has been a lot of discussion in recent months about how artificial intelligence tools could be used to rapidly, and at little cost, generate visual content for screens, but now a digital signage CMS provider is marketing an AI toolset that filters and moderates visuals before they get to screens. The DC-area software firm …
Intersection Launches New AI-based Localization, Personal Tools For Its Media Network May 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes The OOH media firm Intersection has announced new AI-driven tools – what it calls “integration opportunities” – that allow for localization and personalization on its networks of digital ad and messaging screens. The NYC company says its new Generative AI Integrations are designed to enhance ad effectiveness, “delivering a more nuanced and engaging consumer interaction.” …
Carousel Digital Signage Offers Free Social And Emotional Learning Content For U.S. K-12 Schools May 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Minneapolis-based software firm Carousel Digital Signage has launched a new content program that’s free to US school districts and is designed to foster safe spaces, by boosting social and emotional learning in K-12 environments. The PR doesn’t spell it right out, but the initiative and need has a lot to do with campus safety, …
Children’s Drawings Used To Generate Massive Public Digital Portrait Of Charles III May 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes There’s been a lot of buzz in the display industry lately about the potential for AI-based generative art, but here’s a very large visual generated from 1,000s of people instead of a super-computing cluster. A charitable initiative called BBC Children In Need partnered with artist Sam Barnett and the operators of Outernet London to develop …
Atmosphere TV Jumps Pond; DOOH-Supported Streaming Service Now In UK May 4, 2023 by Dave Haynes The streaming on-premise content service Atmosphere has jumped to Europe, adding some 1,000 venues that are using free Apple TV boxes to run curated, ad-supported content channels on in-house TV screens. The Austin, Texas company also has its eyes on Australia and New Zealand as future expansion countries. The company now has 30 people in …
Uniguest Goes Back To Future: Enabling Digital Signage On Hotel Business Center Screens May 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes The hospitality-centric digital signage solutions firm Uniguest has done a little back to the future thing, adding a digital signage mode to business center workstations in hotels – the original service offer of the Nashville-based company. Uniguest got its start in hotels like Hiltons by delivering and managing the business centers – the rooms or …
