Mellitron Broadens Outdoor Display Focus To Include EV Charging Stations May 21, 2022 by Super User The Canadian electronics enclosure manufacturer Mellitron has joined a growing list of outdoor display companies expanding beyond DOOH street furniture and QSR drive-thrus into electric vehicle charging stations. The Guelph, Ontario company (Guelph is outer-outer-outer Toronto) now has fully customizable Level 2 EV charging stations aimed at restaurant, retail, smart cities and other possible use-cases. …
Palmer Digital Group Partners With IoTecha On Smart EV Charging Kiosks May 20, 2022 by Super User NJ-based custom display manufacturer Palmer Digital Group was already doing EV charging kiosks but now has a formal partnership with a start-up – IoTecha – that’s focused on providing the key hardware and software components for smart charging infrastructure. The EV vehicle market is growing rapidly, reasons PDG in PR, “and the current infrastructure is …
New Version Of Hardened LED Displays Touted As Improving Visuals By Only Coating The LED Lights May 20, 2022 by Super User It has been a few years now since the first LED modules with hardened coatings came on the market – with the category taking on the general term Glue On Board (or GOB). Numerous manufacturers now have versions of roughly the same thing – modules coated and encapsulated in an epoxy coating that protects the …
Builders Using Projection Mapping To Show & Market Floor Plans For Residential & Commercial May 18, 2022 by Super User Digital signage and interactive screen technology have been used for years to help market both commercial and residential real estate properties at facilities like presentation centers. Being able to view photo slideshows and videos is helpful, as are things like 3D/360 degree movies, in getting a sense of the look, feel and scale of a …
Christie Digital Acquires Assets Of Brass Roots Technologies May 17, 2022 by Super User Christie Digital Systems has acquired the assets of the Texas technology firm Brass Roots Technologies, picking up its IP and talent in the areas of advanced optics and electronics for high-performance display and imaging systems. Employees now work for Christie, but operations will remain in Allen, TX, working under the Christie name. “The purchase of …
AV Carts Get An Interesting Rethink In Peggy May 17, 2022 by Super User The core concept of AV carts that could roll a screen around a venue to where it is needed is anything but new. They were around in my schooldays, so shortly after man discovered fire. They’ve evolved through the years, and Samsung upended things a few years ago when it came out with The Flip, …
Pandemic Was, Weirdly, Best Of Times For Display Industry, While Recovery Is Worst Of Times: DSCC May 17, 2022 by Super User The digital display industry finds itself in this weird circumstance, says supply chain analyst Ross Young, in which the 2020-2021 pandemic period was actually pretty good, and now, as the recovery ramps up and inflation is rising, prices are down and the outlook is shaky. Display Supply Chain Consulting’s Young made that observation in a …
InfoComm Forecasting 20,000 Attendees, 525 Exhibitors For Almost-Back-To-Normal Vegas Show In June May 16, 2022 by Super User In the wake of last week’s Integrated Systems Europe, the folks at the trade association AVIXA (which co-owns ISE) are now putting the focus on InfoComm, the sister pro AV trade show in Las Vegas. Instead of ISE and InfoComm being a few months apart, they are a few weeks this year – the tight …
SID Says Display Week Saw Attendance Back At Pre-Pandemic Levels May 16, 2022 by Super User Photo credit: SimBeyond Hardcore pro display people would have been a bit torn last week, having to focus physically or online to what was happening and on show at a pair of industry trade shows and conferences nine time zones apart. While Integrated Systems Europe was on in Barcelona, Spain, the Society for Information Display’s …
PPDS Adds SaaS Remote Device Management Solution, Dubbed Wave, To Philips Pro Display Line-up May 14, 2022 by Super User PPDS, the sales front end of Philips’ pro display products and solutions, has launched a new cloud platform that builds advanced remote device management capabilities into screens that have embedded smarts. Called Wave, the “highly secure, intuitive and scalable remote device management platform” was developed by Philips/PPDS to help reduce the costs of installation and …
