New Digital Signage Power Hour Set For May 19th; Focus On Access Controls For New Consumer Norms May 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes The lineup is now set for the second Digital Signage Power Hour webinar, slated for May 19th. Following up on a well-received, fun event that explored the arguments around touchscreens in the age of COVID-19, this one will also be timely – discussing the seeming explosion in display products designed to manage access into retail. …
Palmer Digital Group Develops Larger, Custom Temperature-Reading Display Stations May 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Numerous vendors have in recent weeks been sending me news of their company’s addition of COVID-19 access control products, and almost all of them have looked like subtle variations on a standard design – a tablet-sized display/camera combo from China that sits on a pole, attaches to a wall or sits on a counter. The …
Beabloo Launches Interaction Care Solution Designed To Address New Retail Norms April 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes Numerous companies have been announcing new products – like access control and thermal sensing displays – to help run businesses in the midst of COVID-19, but Barcelona-based retail tech firm Beabloo has gone several steps further by launching a full solution designed to address a variety of needs for what may be a new norm …
Germany’s xplace Markets Smart Entrance Kit For Retail April 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the things discussed at length in the latest 16:9 Podcast, released overnight, is the use of displays, sensors and software to control foot traffic into stores and other businesses. The heads of the German consultancy invidis relate how these digital A-Frame displays are being used as a measure to limit access and meet …
More Digital Signage Solutions Companies Coming Up With Tech For Pandemic Measures April 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes More digital signage companies are betting technology investments in the next few months will be built around pandemic measures, and marketing products that see are solutions to mostly new problems. The Connecticut-based solutions provider Reality Interactive – more known for interactive in retail – has started touting a thermal scanner/screen product aimed at providing access …
Montreal’s Vif Communication Building Own Digital Signage Screen And Sanitizer Combo April 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes In the last few weeks, I have noticed several companies in a variety of countries – from Israel to here in Canada – reading the marketplace and starting to market screens that are paired with a hand sanitizer dispenser. I don’t know if it is one or several manufacturers, but the design seems to have …
Touchscreen Challenges In Pandemic Times Webinar Now Available On-Demand, Via YouTube April 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes If you missed the great AVIXA webinar the other day on the touchy issue of using and maintaining interactive, touch-driven solutions in the midst of a pandemic, you can revisit that session online, on-demand. The hour-long session, which includes a state-of-the-industry presentation by Florian Rotberg of invidis, has a great back and forth on issues …
Visionect Touts E-Paper Version Of Access Control Displays April 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a different spin on the idea of access control screens outside of businesses – a podium, wall or even window-mounted e-paper display that runs off batteries. This is from Visionect, the Slovenian company that does e-paper displays and software for everything from meeting room signs to live bus stop notice and schedule signs. …
Battery-Powered Sandwich Board Wheels Outside Shops To Attract, Control Foot Traffic April 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes Predictably, writing about an emerging and suddenly hyper-relevant piece of tech has smoked out vendors who have a version on offer, and looking for customers. I wrote Wednesday about digital sandwich/sidewalk boards that are in demand to be used as access control devices for open businesses that need to restrict access based on social distancing/venue …
Are Lowly Digital Sandwich Boards The Next Big Thing In Digital Signage? April 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes Florian Rotberg from Munich’s invidis consultancy did a state of the industry brief on a webinar I was part of Tuesday, and he mentioned how digital signage that enables simple access control has become a red-hot customer ask in Europe. Simple digital sandwich boards, also called digital A-frames, are being placed outside stores, public offices, …
