JCDecaux Working With French Telecoms To Add Smart Cities Small Cells To Shelters, Kiosks January 28, 2019 by Super User Traditional digital out of home street furniture units – like transit shelters and free-standing digital kiosks – are increasingly becoming hubs for smart cities, and the biggest outdoor media company on the planet is making is adapting with a new initiative in its home country, France. JCDecaux has announced that it is providing support for …
Santiago’s Subway Rolls With Smart Stations, Data-Driven Screens January 24, 2019 by Super User This is an information-rich digital sign on Chile’s Santiago Metro. It runs ad messaging and educational messages, but what I like is the amount of detail in the train status messaging. The city’s transit system is using DENEVA, the transit-focused digital signage system developed by Spain’s ICON Multimedia. The project, says the company, includes 18 “smart stations.” DENEVA platform enables …
Mvix Puts 150 Business Data Sources And Widgets In New Portal January 23, 2019 by Super User DC-area CMS software firm Mvix has announced a data integrations portal with more than 150 business data sources and integrations – enabling end-users to automate the presentation of content from sources as diverse as HubSpot and court dockets. The portal, says Mvix in a press release, includes data sources like Salesforce, Google Analytics, HubSpot, MySQL, Quickbooks, …
Cranky General Public 1 – Smart Screen 0 January 16, 2019 by Super User I’ve always assumed that smart city information stations located away from a city’s major plazas and thoroughfares would get the living shit beat out of them by tipsy or angry members of the general public. Putting $30,000 (or whatever) units on a sidewalk in Jackson Heights or the Bronx just … seemed … risky. So …
How McDonald’s Has Made In-Store Interactivity The Norm January 2, 2019 by Brandon Harp Guest Post: Emily Ingram, Prendi Consumer expectations are advancing rapidly, and businesses will benefit if they keep up with it. Here’s a look into how McDonald’s have tackled this, to meet our growing expectations. I walked into McDonald’s the other day with a colleague, who went immediately up to the touchscreen kiosk to complete her order. Now …
More Smart Parking Systems Should Mean More Smart Digital Signs December 29, 2018 by Super User Digital signage systems for parking lots is not the sort of thing that’s going to set the hearts of industry people racing, but there’s reason to pat attention to this use-case because of the way these very utilitarian venues are going smart. A recent piece in SmartCitiesWorld news suggests smart parking solutions are on a big …
Why Kaan Gunay’s Digital OOH Media Startup Is Going On Rideshare Cartops December 12, 2018 by Super User There’s nothing new about media on taxi tops, but a San Francisco start-up called Firefly is trying to go about it with a different approach. Firefly describes itself as the first mobility-based SmartScreens platform – an advertising media firm that gets it footprint and scale from the rideshare industry. Firefly is working primarily with the …
Visix Releases Beta Of New Alerts And Warnings Platform For Digital Signage Networks December 5, 2018 by Super User Atlanta-based Visix has for many years been a big advocate of integrating alert messaging into its signage management platform – at least in part because higher education is a major vertical market for the company. Now the software company has released a beta version of its new AxisTV Alert – an alert management application that …
Kaijus Asteljoki On Making Workplace Digital Signage Interesting, And Automated December 5, 2018 by Super User Workplace communications is one of the most active verticals in digital signage, and a big reason for that is the ability of screen technology to get important information to staff – without hoping they open and read mass emails or see posters on breakroom cork boards. The Finnish startup Valota saw the rise in business-based …
Ryan Croft of TransitScreen On Making Content That Moves People November 28, 2018 by Super User This is inadvertently turning into transit digital signage month on this podcast, having spoken lately with CHK America about epaper transit signs and just last week with Roadify, which aggregates data from transit systems. This week I’m talking to Ryan Croft, one of the co-founders of TransitScreen, which has made a mark in North America …
