Retail Business Intelligence Engine Tracks Shopper Trends By Smartphone IDs February 12, 2013 by Super User The ability to understand what consumers are doing in retail environments has been the domain these past few years of video-driven analytics that use overhead cameras to generate heat-maps of where shoppers go and where they don’t. Companies like Intel, via its video analytics technology, can also generate data on things like gender, dwell time …
Guzzle Energy Drink, Make It To Lightning Round February 11, 2013 by Super User So Day 2 of 2, at 4 PM, is not my idea of the feature speaking slot at a trade show, but hopefully a pile of people will grab a coffee or one of those crazily-overpriced cans of caffeine and make their way to the DSE session my Preset Group partner Pat Hellberg is running …
Finally, A Hand-Cranked Digital Sign February 11, 2013 by Super User The only time I’ve written about kiosk-maker Zivelo was to slap them around on some really goofy PR, so I am happy to this time instead reference something a little out there, but nonetheless pretty interesting. The Marion, Indiana-based company (small town, 3 hrs south of Chicago) has launched what it calls the X-Eco kiosk, …
DSE’s New Products Area Will Set Ops Guys Hearts Aflutter February 11, 2013 by Super User Digital Signage Expo has a New Product Pavilion set aside on the trade show’s exhibit floor that features dozens of new products it touts as being shown for the first time. A lot of them are gadgets and gizmos that will set the hearts of ops guys fluttering, but not look like much of anything to mere …
Stratacache Putting Big Focus On Asian Opportunities February 11, 2013 by Super User There are two companies in this space right now finding their way into the final consideration stage of many or most of the big digital signage jobs: Four Winds (who I wrote about the other day after its Forbes Top 50 listing) and Stratacache. They are wildly different companies in terms of corporate culture, software …
A 201-inch LED Display That Hides In The Ground February 8, 2013 by Super User This is just flat ridiculous in so many ways, but the technical design is pretty interesting in terms of what an events center or other large public facility could, at least theoretically, do with it. Put together by a German company, C-Seed, with a design by Porsche Design Studio, it’s a 201-inch waterproof LED board that …
Mixer Name Badges Ready For Printer Next Week February 8, 2013 by Super User We did name badges for the first time at last year’s Preset Group DSE Mixer, and the general response was good. With more than 300 mingling in a crowd, there’s a lot of people to meet and names to remember. I’m pathetic with names, so these little social tools help. Like last year, there’s a …
Four Winds Gets Top 50 Ranking Among Forbes’ Most Promising US Firms February 8, 2013 by Super User Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has been ranked #41 in Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of America’s Most Promising Companies, which is a list of 100 privately-held, high-flying companies. David Levin, President and CEO of FWi, was also pegged by the business publication as one of America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35. The company, which does digital signage …
When Digital Signage Really Would Be TV … February 6, 2013 by Super User I have seen press releases and stories here and there about how the broadcast spectrum came available when analog TV went digital had opened up white space to use for micro broadcasts in distinct settings, like digital signage programming in big box retail and large corporate facilities. The dual-headed argument has been that WiFi is …
LG Plugs In 11-Foot Tall 4K Display Beast At McCarran February 6, 2013 by Super User Well this happened faster than I would have predicted. A lot of the buzz from the display panel companies, coming out of last month’s CES trade show in Las Vegas, surrounded 4K displays. I wrote at the time that it would not take long before these ultra-ultra-ultra high resolution displays found their way into digital …
