Gatwick Becomes Poster Child For Digital Signage Failover Planning August 20, 2018 by Super User A damaged connectivity cable has taken the flight information display boards offline at London Gatwick Airport today, forcing airport staff to – honest – get out the dry erase markers and scribble information on whiteboards. As an industry friend noted, having sent me news of this: “They seem to have forgotten all about the enterprise …
16:9 Podcasts: How Dataclay Brings Automation To High-Volume Digital Signage Content Production June 6, 2018 by Super User Anyone who works with creative teams knows there is no such thing as a content fairy. Video spots don’t magically appear in inboxes overnight. Somebody had to design and render that video, and that work, frankly, takes a while. So it’s a little freaky to talk to a company that can do 1,000s of good-looking, …
New Version Of Intuiface Works In Interactive Web Triggers From IFTTT Recipes, Zapier Apps April 13, 2018 by Super User The French interactive software firm Intuilab has released a new version Intuiface that now allows content to be triggered based on really common Internet of Things web triggers, like IFTTT recipes. The company says while it has for several years supported data integration with third-party platforms, IntuiFace Version 6.2 adds Web Triggers that work with …
Get Smart With Automated Digital Signage Applications January 26, 2018 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix We all want to be smart. The word smart means showing quick intelligence, but can also mean socially elegant and sophisticated. In project management, objectives are sometimes referred to as S.M.A.R.T., which is an acronym for specific (a targeted area for improvement), measurable (a quantifiable indicator of progress), achievable (specific short- and medium-term objectives), relevant (in line with corporate …
This Wild Data Visualization Shows Traffic Flow For Entire U.S., Hour By Hour January 11, 2018 by Super User This is kind of wild – a visualization of traffic flow across the U.S. – hour by hour. Sacramento-based mobility analytics solution provider Citilabs has used billions of data points to measure and then develop a graphic visualization of hour-by-hour origin-destination movements, all streets directional road volumes and traveler demographics based on derived home locations. The …
New Data Platform Tracks, Logs Total Population Movement Of U.S. November 13, 2017 by Super User Sacramento-based Citilabs has launched what it calls a first-of-its-kind population movement analytics solution that provides an hour-by-hour picture of how Americans move around their country. The company’s Streetlytics platform uses billions of data points to measure and report origin-destination movements, directional road volumes, and traveler demographics. The toolset is aimed at industries like digital OOH …
Car Grilles Scanned In Real-Time For Targeted Digital OOH Film Promo October 10, 2017 by Super User The video is almost as silly and overdone as a Michael Bay movie, but if you can put up with all the extraneous stuff you will see how Lamar used vehicle recognition technology to promote the latest Transformers movie this summer. To promote the release of Transformers: The Last Knight, ahead of its nationwide release in …
IntuiLab’s New API Explorer Allows Mere Mortals To Tap Into Web Data And Services August 4, 2017 by Super User The technical side of IntuiLab’s new API Explorer is way over my head, but the general concept being floated by the French interactive software firm is pretty interesting – a way for software partners and end-user creative people to use web content and services without needing any programming chops. The API Explorer is part of …
Projects: Sunset Countdown Focal Point Of UK Grocer’s Summer Digital OOH Campaign July 19, 2017 by Super User This is a simple but effective use of data to drive home an emotion in a Digital OOH ad campaign- a countdown clock for UK sunsets. The campaign, for the grocer Sainsbury’s, uses live sunset data for local areas associated with major commuter rail stations that have large ad screens. The idea is to tell …
Projects: Big Data Visualizations Tie Pro Golf Tournament To Charity Effort May 12, 2017 by Super User The data visualization company Framestore Labs is running a real-time data viz set for investment banker Morgan Stanley this week, built around the big Players Championship golf tournament it is sponsoring (on now, through Sunday). Morgan Stanley has an Eagles for Impact Challenge going that will see it donate $5,000 for every eagle made at the event, …
