Making Smart Displays Interactive Gets Easier Via Nexmosphere-SignageOS Tie-Up November 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes Sensors that trigger content and respond to external actions in other ways have been around digital signage for years, and like most things, it’s grown easier with time to pull these sorts of things together for uses in spaces like retail and exhibits. The Dutch start-up Nexmosphere specializes in producing sensors and controls used for …
First Arriving Integrates First Responder Management System With Its Digital Dashboards October 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes Data integration and visualizing the right, real-time information are big parts of smart digital signage systems, so I am a fan of the hyper-vertical approach of a Richmond, VA company called First Arriving, which does digital dashboards for first responder services. The company integrates with the different systems fire, EMS and police use to manage …
6,000 Thermal Sensor Kiosks Running In, Psssst, Home Depots October 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes A smirking Hat Tip to Middletown, CT-based Reality Interactive for issuing a second press release about the same thing, and showing how tech companies are constrained by their clients in what they can say about big projects. The company put out PR recently indicating its contactless body temperature check screen-thingie was seeing marketplace adoption. First …
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Takes Shopping Mall Operator To Task Over Video Analytics, And It’s Just Stupid October 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes A bit of a shitstorm has spun up here in Canada over “news” Thursday that a major shopping center chain had been using computer vision in its malls to get a handle on shopper demographics, somehow threatening privacy in the process. A report from Canada’s privacy commissioner says Cadillac Fairview – which owns and runs …
E-Paper Real-Time Transit Signs Dot Bus Routes in Portuguese City October 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is one of numerous solar-powered, off-grid e-paper transit information displays in the Portuguese city of Coimbra. The fourth-largest urban centre in Portugal, the City of Coimbra is connected by an extensive bus (and trolleybus) network, with more than 2,000 kilometres of routes and 1,350 bus stops. The city started installing fully autonomous, solar-powered displays …
STRATACACHE Closes Massive QSR Drive-Thru Deal With RBI October 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes Dayton, Ohio-based digital signage solutions company STRATACACHE has bagged and closed a massive deal that sees it providing software, hardware and services to three of the larger QSR chains in North America, The deal involves more than 40,000 screens at Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes locations in Canada and the U.S. The focus is …
Screen-based COVID Counter-Measures Keep On Coming October 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes Back in late Q1 and early Q2, when the gravity of the pandemic really grew evident, there was an initial flood of companies rapidly developing and marketing a series of screen-based counter-measures aimed at retailers, restaurant operators and businesses. I wondered how much take-up there might be of all of these devices, and if the …
Dutch CMS NDS Merges With Longtime French Partner To Chase Smart Digital Buildings Business October 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Dutch digital signage CMS software firm NDS (Net Display Systems B.V.) has merged with a longtime partner, France’s LCS, to go after the smart building market. The French partner of NDS for more than 20 years, LCS has been developing and marketing a software platform for Smart Digital Building management, called Crystal, since 2017. …
Raspberry Pi Launches Newest Compute Module, Based On Pi 4; Costs Start At $25 October 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a new, more powerful version of the computing module that, among many things, can be popped into the back of a commercial display to make it smart. NEC Display has embraced the Pi modules as an alternative to the system on chip (SoC) displays favored by the majority of …
Shuttle Marketing Stretch LCD With Built-In SoC And Computer Vision October 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Taiwanese PC maker Shuttle has started marketing what I THINK is the first digital signage display product for the company – one of those stretch LCDs with a smart System on Chip processor inside. The company is best known for its series of little cube PCs for desktops, but also has a wide range …
