Self Service Kiosks Up Order Values By 18.5% During Burger Chain’s Pilot; Triggers Rollout June 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes Samsung just got a nice little story to share around about the impact its little all-in-one kiosks can have on sales at for a fast casual food chain – touting pilot results that suggest the units boosted average order sizes by 18.5%. Those results undoubtedly influenced a decision by Florida-based BurgerFi – which focuses on …
Smart City Technology Firm SmartLINK Rebrands As RoveIQ June 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes A Cincinnati-area company focused on smart city applications has changed its brand in a move designed to more closely align with its solutions. The net result is smartLINK is now known as RoveIQ – a nod to the idea that people need guidance when they are out wondering in physical spaces like city centers. “The …
LG Buys Way Into EV Charging Station Solutions, With Eyes On Custom, Screen-Included Stations June 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes LG Electronics has acquired a South Korean electric vehicle (EV) charger solutions provider called AppleMango, with its eye on developing charging stations that in some or many cases will get paired with outdoor-rated information displays that instruct usage but also open up monetization opportunities. The acquisition is a joint venture with a pair of companies …
Company Adds Screens To Anti-Theft Totems Common At Retail Gateways June 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes A Vancouver, BC-area company is marketing a display totem product for retail that, interesting, doubles up as a loss prevention tool. Just about any consumer will be familiar with vertical totems that shoppers need to walk though as they exit a store, with embedded electronics in the devices doing what’s called Electronic Article Surveillance loss …
Samsung Canada Adds Moneris Payments Terminals To All-In-One Kiosks June 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes Partners are important at the best of times, and they’re particularly important for a technology company trying to wedge its way into established business systems and processes like payments – so a deal Samsung’s Canadian wing has worked out with a payments company should help market the electronics giant’s new-ish retail kiosk. Samsung’s all-in-one kiosk, …
Sharp/NEC Repackage AI Audience Measurement Platform As NaviSense June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the announcements a bit lost by me in the InfoComm PR blizzard last week was Sharp/NEC revisiting and re-packaging its AI/computer vision IP as NaviSense. The product is positioned as “a cost-effective computer vision solution for gathering anonymous customer attributes using off-the-shelf or existing camera sources and processing them through a variety of …
Bluefin Adds Windows 10 All-In-One Screens Via New Seneca Partnership June 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes The all-in-one display company Bluefin has added Windows 10 IoT to its options for its smaller-format, retail-centric range of merchandising and marketing displays, through a new partnership with the custom PC firm Seneca. The units range in size from 13-32 inches, use an Intel Celeron processor and have touchscreen overlays. Bluefin got into digital signage …
Optisigns Adds Support For Apple TVs As Digital Signage Players June 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Houston, TX CMS software firm OptiSigns is the latest digital signage services provider to add Apple TVs to the list of hardware player options. The SaaS company’s play-out software was already compatible with Windows, Android, Linux, Raspberry Pi, BrightSign, Roku, and “LG Commercial” – which I assume means webOS smart displays. OptiSigns also supports …
BrightSign Previewing Beefy New 8K-Capable Players At InfoComm May 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes I’m going to interrupt this post with an important note – basically saying: See what BrightSign did here? The company is announcing a new product a week out from a big trade show, instead of announcing it during or immediately before the show, when people are too busy traveling, preparing or doing other things related …
Mellitron Broadens Outdoor Display Focus To Include EV Charging Stations May 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Canadian electronics enclosure manufacturer Mellitron has joined a growing list of outdoor display companies expanding beyond DOOH street furniture and QSR drive-thrus into electric vehicle charging stations. The Guelph, Ontario company (Guelph is outer-outer-outer Toronto) now has fully customizable Level 2 EV charging stations aimed at restaurant, retail, smart cities and other possible use-cases. …
