British Signage Language Displays Added To Digital Signage Mix At Scotland’s Busiest Rail Stations April 15, 2024 by Super User Mass transport environments have long used digital signage technology to relay important travel information to people rushing to catch planes, trains and buses, but the focus has mainly been on re-packaging real time data like gate and platform assignments as visual text presentations on screens. Now a UK rail system has started installing customer information …
Glass Media Now Marketing KrowdSense Retail Analytics Tech Designed To Optimize In-Store Visual Merchandising April 12, 2024 by Super User Glass Media is now formally marketing a new retail analytics platform the Dallas company was previewing late last year at Digital Signage Experience. At last I think so … founder Daniel Black showed me a few things, and that was four months ago. KrowdSense is positioned as a wireless occupancy scanner that can measure shopper …
Australia’s Vivi Formally Adds Digital Signage To Its Schools-Focused Screen Mirroring Solution April 10, 2024 by Super User The education-focused Australian screen mirroring hardware and software platform Vivi has picked up on the idea of using its technology for more than just teaching and sharing, adding digital signage as a capability. The wireless screen mirroring solution, purpose-built for the education market, has been expanded to also work as a communication tool that can …
Zoom Rooms Workplace Displays Double Up As Digital Signs Via New Spectrio Integration April 5, 2024 by Super User Workplaces can now get more out of their meeting room video collaboration investments by turning displays into digital signage screens when they’re not actively being used for Zoom calls, using a new app-like integration developed by digital signage software and experiential solutions firm Spectrio. The newly-launched Zoom Rooms software integration – called Enplug for Zoom …
Acquire Digital Partnership Adds Real-Time Customer Ratings To Airport Wayfinding And Directory Displays April 5, 2024 by Super User Wayfinding and directory displays at big footprint airports have long been there to help travelers find their way to gates and to services like shops and restaurants, but a new technology partnership has added a new information means to boost both experience and non-airline revenues: real-time customer ratings. UK-based CMS software firm Acquire Digital has …
UK Startup Touting Cargo E-Bikes Supported By DOOH Ad Screens April 4, 2024 by Super User It is almost, now, a given that anything with a large surface area that’s out in the public is going to get a screen slapped on it to (hopefully) generate some advertising revenue, to supplement whatever the core business might be. We’ve seen ad screens on the sides of buses, cargo trucks, boats and barges, …
Mimo’s Flashcast Device Aimed At Simplifying Mass Notifications Across Complicated Screen Networks March 28, 2024 by Super User The small form-factor display manufacturer Mimo Monitors has started marketing the beta release of a little box that’s designed to do rapid alerts across digital signage and other, similar kinds of large footprint networks. Called Mimo Flashcast, the little sub-$140 box puts a visual alert overlay on screens – based on auto-triggered messaging pushed by …
BT, Global Expanding High Street Ad Totem Network In UK By As Many As 2,000 Sites March 27, 2024 by Super User UK telecoms giant BT Group and its business partner Global are evidently finding success with a conversion of payphones on public sidewalks to what it calls Street Hubs – display totems that have multiple functions but exist mostly to run DOOH advertising. The companies have announced that up to 2,000 more conventional BT payphones and …
Boring Is Beautiful: Schiphol Airport Relays Arriving Baggage Status For Passengers Waiting At Carousels March 19, 2024 by Super User I was chatting the other day with an industry veteran who shares my possibly strange affection for what I call boring digital signage – data and sensors-driven information that is pretty much the polar opposite of on-screen eye candy. It’s just content that informs and guides. Here’s a really good example of that … screens …
Userful Launches Data Dashboards Solution Aimed At Health Care Environments March 11, 2024 by Super User Health care is a big, largely untapped vertical market for digital signage technology. While things like screens in waiting rooms and common areas are nice, and donor recognition video walls are effective thank yous, the real action is likely in providing solutions that enable situational awareness around active patient care areas. Though health records may …