What IoT Can Bring To Digital Signage In Retail October 3, 2017 by Rob Cote GUEST POST: VIKTOR PETERSSON, SCREENLY & DOMINIQUE GUINARD, EVRYTHNG Many years ago, the recipe for a successful digital signage deployment was to put up a few screens in the store, and load them with an image slideshow (or video slide if you were on the forefront). Those days are long gone. Today, It takes a …
Separating AI and ML From The Marketing BS Trickling Into DS October 2, 2017 by Super User It’s no surprise that digital signage solutions companies are starting to weave artificial intelligence into marketing descriptions of what they do and offer. But there is a giant distinction between companies that are developing and delivering AI capabilities, and those that are just using AI-based tools. There’s also a big distinction between content management and …
NEC Europe Partners With Screenly, Canonical On Raspberry Pi-Powered Digital Signage Displays September 15, 2017 by Super User The European wing of NEC – NEC Display Solutions Europe – has done a partnership that sees certain NEC pro-grade digital signage displays ship with embedded Raspberry Pi modules, running Ubuntu Core Linux and pre-loaded with the Screenly’s CMS player software. The solution uses NEC’s P and V Series 40–55 inch large format displays and modular …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Peter Fahlman, Telemetry September 13, 2017 by Super User A lot of companies run by creatives and software developers have found their way into the digital signage business on the backs of projects they delivered, but I wouldn’t really see that happening with a company that’s all about online payments. That’s exactly, though, the back story on Telemetry, a Vancouver, BC start-up that grew …
Real-Time Data On UK Billboards Reminds Traffic-Jammed Motorists They Should’ve Taken Train September 11, 2017 by Super User Virgin Trains launched a dead-simple digital OOH campaign in the UK this week that very effectively uses real-time data to tell motorists crawling along choked motorways that’d they’d likely have been far wiser to take a train. The campaign for the railway, conceived by Virgin Train’s agency Anomaly and pulled off by the digital shop …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Zach Klima, WaitTime August 30, 2017 by Super User If your digital signage screens are there to make something faster, better or easier for the people who are looking at them, you are doing good things. That’s the idea behind a Detroit start-up called WaitTime – a digital signage and smartphone app solution that uses cameras and artificial intelligence software to give people at …
TransitScreen Adds Bolt-On Nearby Service To Connect People To Closest Lattes August 22, 2017 by Super User Washington, DC-based TransitScreen has built up a business tapping into and visualizing real-time mass transport and ride share data to pass along organized, easily digested information to people in buildings and public spaces. They’ve now added a new bolt-on feature that makes sense – information and directions to nearby services. Here’s the pitch: Your building …
Raspberry Pi-Based Info-Beamer Sets Up Video Walls In Seconds With QR Code-Like GPS Tags August 18, 2017 by Super User I’m nowhere near smart enough to properly explain this, but suffice to say a start-up that works with Raspberry Pis for a digital signage solution has come up with a way for users to rapidly set up video walls using a smartphone app and little visual tags that provide GPS coordinates. The AprilTag detection software computes …
Do Some Smart Cities Operators Need To Get Smarter Operators? August 15, 2017 by Super User As Amscreen’s Simon Sugar points out in the tweet below, it’s not like the people behind the smart cities digital OOH interactive screens in the UK didn’t get clues from a sister installation in New York. The InLinkUK interactive stations that are replacing some phone booths around London can easily, it seems, be hijacked to …
IoT And Digital Signage Come Together To Improve Logistics August 11, 2017 by Rich Ventura Guest Post: Rich Ventura, NEC Display Solutions Bain and Company predicts that by 2020, annual revenues for IoT vendors selling hardware, software and complete solutions will exceed $470 B. This massive tech expansion will push deeply into the logistics field, where IoT-enabled devices — utilizing communication protocols such as Bluetooth, RFID, Zigby, and Zwave, to …
