Uniguest Brings On CIO With Deep Travel Tech Experience To Drive Product And M&A Strategies March 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes If a digital signage solutions company decides to go hard at a well-defined vertical market, it really helps to have people on board who know that industry and the technologies that underpin it. So I’m impressed by a new executive hire announced by Nashville-based solutions provider Uniguest, which has long made the hotel sector a …
Dead-Simple Triggered Floor Projections Drive Workplace Safety March 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting take on the idea on the idea of using sensors to trigger content to displays, based on things like motion or other activity. Just about every use-case in digital signage for this sort of thing has been for managing line-ups or product marketing in retail, but here’s a simplified solution meant …
High Five: Pro AV’s Merson Group Organizing, Funding Critical Supplies Trucks For Ukraine March 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Well done to the Glasgow-based traditional and digital signage firm Merson Group, which is using its resources and business ties to help out Ukrainians from a distance. Taking pains to stress this is not a “look at us/virtue-signalling” thing, the company has a post up on Linkedin talking about what it has been doing since …
Revitalized Toronto Union Station Adds More LED, LCD Video Walls March 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The main commuter rail and bus hub in Toronto – Union Station – has been undergoing renovations for the past 10 years, and as new common areas have been spruced up, they’ve opened with more and more digital components, including LED video walls for ad spots and messaging. The latest area released at the station …
Verizon Discontinues The Digital Signage Service You Maybe Didn’t Know Existed March 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Large telecoms companies have a history, all over the place, of entering the digital signage market with big plans and then, after it doesn’t work out, slipping quietly out the side door. The latest variation on this tale involves US telecoms giant Verizon, which has let its ecosystem and customers know it has shut down …
More Evidence Google Is Coming Back To Digital Signage: It’s A DSE Sponsor Now March 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes Google raised a lot of eyebrows about seven years ago when it booked and kitted out a big footprint booth at the old Digital Signage Expo, but that was about a big a splash or impact the tech Godzilla made on the industry in the months and years that followed. Now the company appears to …
New Lisbon Hotel Makes Projection-Mapped Garden-Patio Its Main Draw March 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes Permanent projection mapping jobs are growing common for a bunch of technical and cost reasons, to a point that the technology and creative can now be used for efforts like the ambient entertainment at a hotel. This is the enclosed garden-patio area of the Lumen Hotel in Lisbon, which now runs a daily “Light of …
14 LED Columns, Lighting, Wind-Driven Walls, Sync To Deliver Arrival Experience At Palm Springs-Area Resort March 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes It’s logical to think about the experience at a venue starting when visitors walk through the front doors, but it can actually start in the moments when people come on the property. That’s the thinking behind what’s termed the arrival experience at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa outside of Palm Springs, CA, which now …
Vancouver’s Ynvisible Says Its New E-Paper Displays Cut Energy Usage In Half March 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes Energy consumption and form factor are two of the key attributes of e-paper displays, so it’s notable when a company announces it has developed a version of it’s product that cuts power usage in half and has what it says are the thinnest, lightest displays on the market. Vancouver, BC-based manufacturer Ynvisible Interactive says its …
LED Mainstreamed: New Tribal Community Center In Wisconsin Has 13 Big LED Displays March 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes A deployment of screens at a community center in upstate Wisconsin won’t set any pulses racing for what was done or what’s on the screens, but it is interesting in terms of the scale of the job and the owners. The Forest County Potawatomi Native American band Indian opened an ambitious community center in late …
