Allure Launching AutoFocus Content Automation Tech Aimed At Cinema Services March 24, 2017 by Dave Haynes The cinema-focused digital signage solutions company Allure is announcing content automation technology at CinemaCon in Las Vegas next week that makes heavy use of data sources and rules to determine what’s on digital menus and posters. Called Allure AutoFocus, the software engine uses relational algorithms that drive the CMS “with the what, when, where, why and how …
DSE 2017 Booth Previews: Novisign March 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS NoviSign DSE Booth Number – S-2 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? NoviSign is providing the best value for money Digital Signage Software, combining powerful CMS, rich functionality, wide range of hardware and OS platform support and attractive pricing both for …
Demo: ScreenCloud Controls Digital Signage Display Using Google Assistant March 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very different video demo that shows some possibilities of how digital signage might work with smart devices like the Google Home personal assistant, Google’s answer to Alexa. The demo from UK-based ScreenCloud shows how content could be accessed via voice command. It’s kinda neat, I thought, but was a little stumped by real-world …
Video: Screenly, Evrything Mash Up NFC, Smartphones, Digital Signage For Retail March 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting little digital signage/NFC technical demo that UK-based CMS provider Screenly put together for its presence with Ubuntu and Evrything at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It shows how a store that already has display infrastructure in place, and already uses NFC on its clothing tags, could make a merchandising screen …
What If Every Digital Sign Could Be a Payment Terminal? February 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes It’s a very long way from here to there, but IBM and Visa are touting technology and a vision that could turn pretty much any connected device – like digital signs – into secure payment terminals. As IBM explains it: The collaboration brings together IBM’s Watson IoT platform and cognitive capabilities, with Visa’s global payments …
CIVIQ’s Smart Cities Effort Gets New Toe-hold In San Antonio February 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes The organization pushing screen-based smart cities initiatives in the US, CIVIQ Smartscapes, has announced a new pilot program to bring state-of-the-art urban technology to the urban center of Bexar County, TX, aka San Antonio. As part of the program, CIVIQ WayPoints will be installed throughout the County complex in downtown San Antonio, providing residents with …
Dell’s New IoT-Centric Rugged PC Line Includes Model Focused On Digital Signage February 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes I don’t really think of Dell as an industrial computing supplier, but the Texas-based PC maker has a new series of IoT-centric devices that is aimed, among many things, at tough digital signage use-cases. The Dell Edge Gateway 3000 Series includes, says a company press release, three unique models targeted specifically for use cases and embedded solutions …
ISE 2017: Intel Announces Smart Display Module As Answer To Embedded Smart Signage Panels February 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes Tech giant Intel has announced a plug-in module spec and reference design – called the Intel Smart Display Module or Intel SDM – that is intended, at least in part, as an answer and alternative for all those display manufacturers shipping all in one displays using ARM-based system on chip processors. The implications for the digital …
Rail Ad Campaign Uses Real-Time Data To Target Traffic-Jammed UK Motorists January 31, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via Campaign Live Here’s a good, relatively simple example of using live data to trigger relevant digital content on digital displays – in this case, cheeky messages to motorists stuck in traffic. Virgin Trains worked with agencies and several OOH media companies on a cross-platform campaign in Leeds and Newcastle, in the U.K., that took …
Pivoting, Interactive Digital Street Signs Now For Sale In Europe January 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes I saw this thing in Amsterdam at ISE 2016, and the French company couldn’t give me much in the way of detail on how much or where it would be available – other than North American NOT being a planned marketplace. A year on, France’s Charvet Digital Media appears to have refined its digital street …
