Axiomtek’s New Palm-Sized PC With AI Chip Seems Well-Suited For Audience Measurement Jobs March 22, 2022 by Super User The Taiwan PC maker Axiomtek has several ruggedized products aimed at markets and use-cases that include digital signage, but a new one caught my eye because of its potential use for computer vision/audience measurement solutions used by retail and DOOH networks. The company has launched a “palm-sized” PC done in partnership with the artificial intelligence …
Pssst: Want To Buy Some Two-Sided DOOH Displays? Like New. Just £500 A Pop. March 16, 2022 by Super User DOOH media companies in the UK and maybe across the waters in Ireland and mainland Europe might be interested in what amounts to a fire sale of a bunch of big, robust and unneeded double-sided digital street furniture displays. They were manufactured as bomb-proofed trash bins for London financial district sidewalks, doubling up as ad …
Elevator Manufacturing Giant Schindler Launches Own Screen Network In Its Installed Buildings March 15, 2022 by Super User Via German content partner Invidis … The big elevator equipment manufacturers have seen media start-ups equip their commercial and residential cabs with screens for more than 20 years, but have largely stayed out of the direct media business. Now there’s word that one of the largest global manufacturers, Switzerland’s Schindler, has created the Schindler Media …
Electronic Shelf Labels Being Used In Big Retail To Drive Donations For Ukraine Relief Efforts March 14, 2022 by Super User There is lots of evidence of the digital OOH media community stepping up to support what’s going in Ukraine through free media on digital billboards and things like sidewalk ad totems. But now there’s a way to offer support and trigger donations in mass merchandise and grocery retail, using electronic shelf labels (ESLs). The firm …
UK Custom Display Firm Literally An Anomaly For Market Focus March 11, 2022 by Super User One of my takeaways from the last pro AV trade show I was at – a couple of years ago now – was how there were one hell of a lot of companies selling indoor and outdoor display totems, all seemingly chasing the limited markets of DOOH advertising and campus and mall directories. A UK …
Need To Hide Electronics For A Digital Signage Screen? Stick Them In A Drawer. March 11, 2022 by Super User Product innovation tends to be subtle and incremental in categories like flat panel and LED mounting hardware, and it’s hard (trust me here) to write something interesting about new variations on articulating arms and micro-adjustment thingies. But I came across what seems like an interesting approach to the challenge of tucking media players and other …
Dead-Simple Triggered Floor Projections Drive Workplace Safety March 8, 2022 by Super User This is an interesting take on the idea on the idea of using sensors to trigger content to displays, based on things like motion or other activity. Just about every use-case in digital signage for this sort of thing has been for managing line-ups or product marketing in retail, but here’s a simplified solution meant …
Immersive Floor-To-Ceiling LCDs Greet Lift Users At Edinburgh Shopping Mall March 1, 2022 by Super User My introduction to digital signage was almost 23 years ago (23 years???!!!) when I walked into an office tower elevator in downtown Toronto that had been kitted out with a small LCD screen up in one corner, and having seen how people all stared at that screen, I was convinced there was something there and …
Screenly Expands Digital Signage Hardware Options Beyond Raspberry Pis March 1, 2022 by Super User The CMS software firm Screenly has built up its business, partnerships and platform through the years around the use of ultra low-cost Raspberry Pi mini PCs. But to meet some end-user demands for more processing power, the company has now added support for an Intel-based media player. From day one at Screenly, says the company …
Clever Solution Streamlines Airport Checkpoints With Screens, AI And Automated Barriers February 28, 2022 by Super User I am big fan of digital signage applications that may seem boring on the surface, but are spot-on in how they make something faster, better or easier. Here’s a great example of that mantra in action – airport queues for passenger screenings and/or passport and visa checks. A pair of companies – Qmetrix from Austria …
