IoT Meets Digital Signage: July 12th Webinar June 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes It was pretty rare for me to patch in to a webinar, let alone run or be part of one – but all of a sudden I’m doing a bunch. The next one is the second in what is a series of online discussions I’m doing with Canonical, the guys behind Ubuntu Linux. I did …
Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Webinar Replay June 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you missed Canonical’s webinar yesterday on using Raspberry Pis and Ubuntu Linux for digital signage, you can hit this link and get a replay of the one-hour session. I blabber on for a bit at the start as I host the thing, but the attraction is Viktor Petersson, who runs Screenly, a signage CMS built around the low-cost micro …
Webinar: Digital Signage Meets IoT, Using Raspberry Pi May 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes Posts on doing digital signage projects using low-cost Raspberry Pi single-board PCs continue to generate crazy amounts of traffic on this site, so I continue to take an interest. A CMS solution called Screenly generates a lot of interest on 16:9 and on Raspberry Pi forums, as did recent news that Screenly was switching its operating …
IoT And Digital Signage: The Invisible Elephant In The Room – Part 3 (Conclusion) May 18, 2016 by Sue MacCutcheon Guest Post: Tim Strähle, Adversign Media This is the final part of a three-part series about retail detail signage and the Internet of Things. It’s based on excerpts from a broader white paper by the digital signage CMS firm Adversign Media, which markets Viewneo. It is available here. Digital signage: smarter through IFTTT IFTTT follows a simple concept that …
Screenly’s Raspberry Pi-Powered Platform Shifting To New IoT Version Of Ubuntu Linux May 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes Ubuntu has long been one of, if not the, go-to variants of the Linux operating system for digital signage media players, but that’s been on “real” x86 computers. Now there’s work underway to pair the new Internet of Things-focused version of the open-source software with Raspberry Pi micro-PCs, and run a digital signage platform off it. …
IoT And Digital Signage: The Invisible Elephant In The Room – Part 2 May 17, 2016 by Sue MacCutcheon Guest Post: Tim Strähle, Adversign Media This is part 2 of a three-part series about retail detail signage and the Internet of Things. It’s based on excerpts from a broader white paper by the digital signage CMS firm Adversign Media, which markets Viewneo. It is available here. What happens when IoT meets digital signage? The current state of …
IoT And Digital Signage: The Invisible Elephant In The Room – Part 1 May 16, 2016 by Sue MacCutcheon Guest Post: Tim Strähle, Adversign Media This is part 1 of a three-part series about retail detail signage and the Internet of Things. It’s based on excerpts from a broader white paper by the digital signage CMS firm Adversign Media, which markets Viewneo. It is available here. We’re now in a world in which technology, consumption habits and the …
Seneca Sets Starting Price For Its Rugged PC Sticks At $275 May 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes Seneca has now launched and fixed a $275 USD starting price on its industrialized take on the notion of PCs on sticks. The Seneca HDS media stick is ruggedized, fanless and will do a single output of 1080p HD at 60 frames per second. What sets it apart from less expensive PC sticks by Intel and …
Acer Adding Digital Signage To Its Bring Your Own Cloud Offer May 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes Taiwan’s Acer – which is into a bunch of things, from smartphones to small PCs – is touting its Build Your Own Cloud services platform as the hub for a digital signage solution offer. It pushed out a lengthy press release this week that I can’t really make much sense of, except that “BYOC plays …
Beacon Deployments In Retail Grew 20% In Last Quarter; 1M More Expected In US Stores In 2017 April 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’ve had some interesting conversations with senior people lately about the shiny object nature of emerging technology, and how the latest one – beacons – hasn’t really gone anywhere. I wasn’t sure that was true, but suggested it was going to take time – and getting away from a dependancy on specific phone apps – to …
