UK’s NowSignage Releases New Tools For Retail’s New COVID-19 Norms April 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes It’s only logical when reality drops a bucket of lemons on your business, you make lemonade. I’m starting to see numerous digital signage solutions and software companies coming up with products, features and functionality tied to the new norms of public activity. We’ve seen dispensers, line management and thermal sensors to read temperatures. UK-based NowSignage has …
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 …
Diversified Partners With Aurora On VitalSign COVID-19 Screening Display Kit April 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes The big NJ-based AV integrator Diversified tends to sell expertise and services, and re-sell gear, but in the face of a public and private landscape changed by COVID-19, has started marketing a branded physical product tuned to health safety. Diversified has debuted – FocalPoint – VitalSign – an Android tablet with Diversified support that has …
COVID-19 Will Change How Many Offices Work; Here’s How Digital Display Tech Plugs In April 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the very few positives of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wholesale shift, albeit temporarily, from formal offices to work from home arrangements. While many people will eventually return to their offices and see their co-workers once again, and all the cars on their commute, it is very likely a lot of people …
Airtame Offers Free Subscription, Extensions And Content Design For COVID-hit Customers April 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Danish firm Airtame – which has a software and hardware solution for screen sharing and digital signage – has tweaked its subscriptions to help business and schools through the pandemic. The company’s core product is a software-driven dongle – that looks like a Chromecast – that enables screen sharing but also functions as a …
Singapore Gov’t Authority Using Sensors To Visualize, Load-Balance Malls To Help Social Distancing April 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Singapore government has started published a really interesting real-time data visualization that provides citizens with the status of crowd levels at shopping malls. The government’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) collaborated with mall operators on what has been dubbed Space Out – which visualizes the current crowd levels of malls, as well as patterns for …
VuWall Makes Video Wall Control Software Free For COVID-19 Responders March 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes Montreal-based video wall control software firm VuWall has offered up its VuWall2 solution as a free download to community, government and other organizations that need to create big visual dashboards to stay on top of pandemic response measures. As the current situation caused by COVID-19 remains fluid, managing the overflow of information has become a …
NYC Running Out Of Patience With LinkNYC, Citing Lack Of Payments, Stalled Rollout March 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes Via Politico New York … New York City’s IT and telecoms department is reported to be growing frustrated with the consortium that won a deal to install “smart city” kiosks around the five boroughs, saying the rollout has stalled and the promised ad revenue share hasn’t materialized. Politico reports that just 1,800 of the planned …
McDonald’s Confirms Sales Lifts From AI-Driven Suggestive Selling In Drive-Thru Lanes March 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes There is, unsurprisingly, precious little detail, but McDonald’s is starting to generally talk up and validate its $300M acquisition a year ago of the Israeli AI startup Dynamic Yield, which is enabling the QSR giant to optimize suggestive selling in its drive-thru lanes and elsewhere. On its Q4 2019 earnings call, President and CEO Chris …
