How JFK Is Using Real-Time Data Screens At TSA Screening August 24, 2015 by Super User Via TechCrunch Here’s another great example of the possibilities for using real-time data to drive screen content and make something faster, better or easier. In this case, the faster, better and easier has to do with TSA screening at airports. This tech won’t really achieve any of those three, but it will at least make …
Real-Time Data As Content: TransitScreen Adds Live And Predictive Traffic August 19, 2015 by Super User Ask anybody, in pretty much any big city, about the state of their traffic, and they’ll have a one word answer: “Horrible.” Still, it’s very handy to know just HOW horrible traffic is on the routes in and out of urban centers and chokepoints, and the guys at Washington, DC-based TransitScreen have done a partnership to add …
New IoT Density Sensor Opens Up More Possibilities For Real-Time Messaging August 3, 2015 by Super User Via Engadget If you follow tech writing, you won’t scroll too far on any site before you run into an Internet of Things piece. It’s a massive subject, but here’s an IoT gadget you can quickly get your head around, as it might apply to digital signage and digital OOH. A teeny sensor from a …
Combining Raspberry Pi & Windows 10 IoT To Make A (Very) Basic Digital Sign July 31, 2015 by Super User Microsoft’s developer site has a post and details up about how people determined to spend as little as possible on signage software and hardware could put a project together with a $45 Raspberry Pi single board computer and the new Windows 10 IoT Core operating system software. The developer details are over my head, but the …
What Eddystone, Google’s Take On Beacons, Means For Digital Signage And Digital OOH July 16, 2015 by Super User I am traveling, so little to no time to read or write – or dig into new tech that has just emerged. So when people started emailing me saying, “Hey, did you see the Eddystone thing?” all I could respond was “Yeah, kinda sorta.” Fortunately, Bryan Mongeau, the Vice President of Technology at BroadSign has evidently …
DSrupted: Why You Should Attend – Reason #1 July 13, 2015 by Super User DSrupted is a conference I am running – all day Sept. 16th in downtown Toronto – focused on the disruptive technology that is or will be changing the way digital signage gets done. Here’s the first of a week-long series of reasons why – whether you are in or around Toronto, or further afield – you …
DSrupted: Mike Pell On Data Visualization And The Age Of Smart Signage July 10, 2015 by Super User I’ve written quite a bit lately about how data and particularly data visualization can and will play a large role in some future signage projects, and Mike Pell of Microsoft is coming to DSrupted in September to reinforce that, from the point of view of an expert. Pell speaks regularly about data visualization and has …
Meet Veronica, Revel’s Digital Mannequin July 8, 2015 by Super User Ted Rosenbaum from Fargo, ND-based RevelDigital called the other day to tell me about Veronica, a digital mannequin the CMS and solutions company is using to showcase its capabilities. It has touch, beacons, pattern detection, NFC and on and on, all pretty much running off a slinky silver fashion mannequin. The goggles have LEDs in them and …
Liveposter’s Martin Porter Rounds Out Terrific DSrupted Line-up June 30, 2015 by Super User I’m very pleased to say the line-up is now fully set for DSrupted, which is set for Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’ve got a great line-up and a big highlight, I suspect, will be a talk by Martin Porter, Senior VP and Group Director for Posterscope, one of the biggest digital OOH agencies out there. …
Videos: BlueBite’s Sizzle Reel On IoT Marketing June 29, 2015 by Super User BlueBite works on the edges of the digital signage and digital OOH spaces enabling interactivity from displays and static posters to mobile devices. This is a sizzle reel the NYC-based interactive company has just put out that nicely shows some of the real world, pragmatic possibilities for stuff like NFC tags. I like it because …
