Intuiface Mashes Up Interactive Signage Software With Retail Gadget Maker November 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes French interactive software and solutions firm Intuiface has worked out an interesting integration with a Dutch technology company, Nexmosphere, that makes sensors and actuators used for things like one-to-one retail merchandising and marketing. Nexmosphere gadgets range buttons, RFID readers, gender identification cameras, and proximity sensors to LED light strips and audio players. Intuiface’s elevator pitch …
BrightSign’s Jeff Hastings On How His Little Purple Boxes Have Become Their Own Hardware Category September 4, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’ve done a podcast interview with Jeff Hastings in the past, but there’s a lot going on with BrightSign and it was time for a catch-up with the CEO. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data …
Consumer Devices Are Increasingly Going Commercial, The Latest: Signagelive Adds Fire TV Stick Support July 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes When HDMI media player sticks like Amazon’s Fire TV first came on the market a few years ago, some smaller companies and enterprising digital signage nerds started playing around with it, wondering if it could serve as a very low-cost media player. It was reasonable to look at those efforts and results, and conclude that …
Why The Newest Raspberry Pi Made My Jaw Hit The Table June 25, 2019 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve You may have read about the Raspberry Pi 4 in the news. It’s big news for the whole world, from children’s code clubs, to office desktop use, to industrial applications such as digital signage. At Silver Curve, we adore the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the Pi micro computer. I only got …
Touch Taiwan Expects 40,000 For Show Focused On Emerging Display Tech Like Micro & MiniLED June 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes This seems to be the Year of the Trade Show around Sixteen:Nine. So far, I’ve done six, and number seven will be Touch Taiwan, in late August in Taipei. It is the biggest event of the year for Taiwan’s display industry, and should pull some 40,000 attendees Aug. 28-30 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. …
New 4th Gen Raspberry Pi Has 4X RAM And Does Dual 4K June 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes The UK-based Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the 4th generation of its micro PC board – a Raspberry Pi 4 that for a $35 barebones price has 4X the RAM of earlier versions, as well as a faster CPU and graphics, faster Ethernet, dual-band Wi-Fi, twice the amount of HDMI outputs, and two USB 3 ports. The $35 …
AOPEN Announces New Sets Of Windows-based Digital Signage Players April 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes Taiwan tech company AOPEN has announced a set of new media players aimed primarily at digital signage applications, including a couple that serve what would seem to be the diminishing demand for Windows. There are still lots of companies using Windows, but everything I hear suggests the industry is widely adopting Linux and Android devices …
Brian McClimans On How Peerless-AV Is A Lot More Than Just Digital Signage Mounts April 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes The companies who do the infrastructure that gets screens in place and make video walls look amazing are a huge part of the digital signage ecosystem, but don’t get all that much attention. One of the biggest – if not THE biggest – is Chicago-based Peerless-AV, which has been a major part of digital signage …
The Next Big Thing: Remote Device Management For Digital Signage April 9, 2019 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John C. Wang, IAdea Digital signage is evolving into a mission-critical IT backbone for smart infrastructures. In the old days, the main purpose of a public display was to “reduce perceived wait time” and make a few advertising dollars. Today’s digital signage networks are responsible for enabling smart cities, making workplace efficient, and …
Jeremiah Archambault’s ENS Coming Out Of Startup Mode After A Decade Of Testing And Tweaks April 3, 2019 by Dave Haynes Every year or so, Jeremiah Archambault rings me up, usually out of the blue, from his office in Victoria, BC, on the very west coast of Canada. He runs a decade-old company called ENS that has, for that time, been steadily developing a digital signage CMS software and management platform, that’s now called SAM. With …
