Indian OOH Media Firm Pairs Billboards With Solar Panel Arrays February 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes An Indian OOH media company has announced an interesting new wrinkle to getting approvals for large-format advertising displays – pairing them with solar power generation arrays. Zest Outdoor has put the money together to put new static – not digital, at least not yet – large format signs in Mumbai that generate revenue through brand …
DSF Launches Industry Advisory Council February 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation (DSF) has announced a DSF Advisory Council made up of companies in the industry ecosystem that provided the necessary funds to keep the association going as the pandemic settled in and other funding resources all but dried up. The member companies, says the DSF, will advise on topics such as education …
That Giant Vegas Sphere, With 160,000 Sq, Ft. Of LED, On Track To Open Next Year February 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes There are many, many examples of big projects – especially in places like Las Vegas – that get announced but either never happen, or take a very long time to go from PR to built and opened. But that giant orb just off the strip touted to have the largest LED screen on Earth is …
Hughes Wins BurgerFi Deal Bundling Digital Signage With Network Infrastructure, Managed Services February 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s a good example of how a service provider can win digital signage deals by also bringing a lot of other capabilities to the dance – Hughes Network Systems enabling the guest experience in the BurgerFi restaurant chain by providing all the networking technology, signage software and managed services. The fast casual chain and a …
Touchscreens, Other Surfaces Present Little Or No COVID-19 Transmission Risk: Research February 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes It’s been roughly two years since COVID-19 became a daily discussion and the industry started wondering what all this would mean to business and the use of interactive technologies that encouraged touch actions. In the early days of the novel-coronavirus pandemic, it was widely thought that the pathogen was spread by touching surfaces, prompting no …
Custom LCD Maker Bluefin Starts Marketing Open OS All-In-One Panels February 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Atlanta-area custom LCD manufacturer Bluefin International has been around the industry for several years marketing a variety of retail-centric screens that have BrightSign media play-out hardware built-in, but now the company has added a series with a dual CPU set-up that can run Android 10 or different flavors of Linux like Debian. Bluefin’s new …
Google Revisiting Digital Signage With “Flex” Chrome OS That Runs On PCs And Macs February 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes Google has kinda sorta a little got back into the digital signage and interactive display business – having announced an evolution of the Chrome operating system that can now run on new and existing Windows and Mac devices. Previously, using Chrome OS was limited to dedicated hardware like the Chromeboxes, all-in-one screens and even sticks …
With 78 Days Until ISE (We Hope), Time To Look At How Access Will Work February 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes I spent a couple of free hours this weekend shovelling my office – neat freak is not a description that ever gets attached to me – doing things like shredding no end of print-outs for airline and hotel/VRBO bookings that got shelved as this pandemic wore on. Now I find myself once again doing planes …
E Ink Gets Anti-Light Pollution Certification; Don’t Expect LED DisplayCos To Follow Suit February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes With most outdoor LED display manufacturers making brightness a key selling attribute, there’s not much chance of any of them joining E Ink in being certified by an organization that is all about combatting light pollution. Taiwan-based E Ink – by most if not all measures the market leader in e-paper tech – has announced …
Houston’s New Smart City Display Network Generates Revenue By Selling Viewer Data February 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Kiosk industry follower and consultant Craig Keefner has an interesting post up on one of his sites about how a smart city media company makes money from digital display smart totems it puts in for free in large cities. The post in Design Smart City looks into a deployment of 25 kiosks by IKE Smart …
