USSI, AdMobilize Partner To Deploy AI-based Audience Analytics Systems January 14, 2021 by Super User The computer vision firm AdMobilize has done a partnership with USSI Global that will see the AV/IT systems integrator positioned to deploy audience analytics systems for digital signage networks and other use cases. The two teams, says PR, have worked together to optimize the implementation of AI in digital signage projects for Retail, C-Store and more brick and mortar locations. This …
DSE’s Apex Awards Being Announced Today Via Digital Signage Federation January 13, 2021 by Super User With Digital Signage Expo now just a memory, one aspect that was lost was the annual Apex awards that were handed out for great projects and creative. Prior to the show being killed off by COVID-19, the show organizers and Digital Signage Federation were working on the 2020 version of the awards, based on submissions. …
London’s Cheese Grater Gets 2mm DV-LED Upgrade For Lobby January 13, 2021 by Super User This is the updated reception lobby of The Leadenhall Building in the financial district of London – known by the nickname of The Cheese Grater, because of its tall wedge shape. The lobby originally had a 24-screen videowall, but the operators switched that out for direct view LED, putting in 32 sq. meters of 2mm …
Spectrio Acquires Another Digital Signage CMS Firm, PEI-based ScreenScape January 12, 2021 by Super User The good folks over at ScreenScape, in lovely Charlottetown, PEI, have sent out word that the digital signage CMS company has been acquired by Tampa-based Spectrio, a PE-backed retail solutions provider that has been on an M&A binge in recent years. From a note to clients/customers/media: As of January 5, 2021, ScreenScape has been acquired …
UltraSense Shows Interactive Sensors That Can Hide In Merchandising Fixture Material January 12, 2021 by Super User It is taking forever, but at some point we will all go back to a new version of normal retailing and other routine, day-to-day activities. That will also mean a return of interesting in simple but effective things like interactive merchandising. A Silicon Valley startup, UltraSense Systems, is a CES 2021 virtual exhibitor this week, …
What If Smart Displays Didn’t Even Need Power Cords? January 12, 2021 by Super User One of the big pitches with smart digital signage displays is the ability to streamline an install by having just a single cable, for power, to connect. So what if even the power cable was removed? That’s the premise of a Russian company that is showing off the capabilities of its wireless power technology this …
Leyard Turns On Vast “MicroLED” Video Wall In Chinese EnergyCo Control Room January 12, 2021 by Super User The giant Chinese LED display manufacturer Leyard has started manufacturing, shipping and installing large format what it calls microLED displays – lighting up a vast wall in a Chinese utility company’s control room. The wall-filling display was activated on Dec. 31, 2020 for CHN ENERGY. That company is based in Beijing, but it is huge, …
TCL Unveils Next-Gen Super-Thin, High-Contrast Displays Using MiniLED For CES January 11, 2021 by Super User The Chinese electronics firm TCL is very much a consumer-driven company, but what happens with TVs often finds its way to commercial display design. It is CES this week and the firm announced a range of new products, including new miniLED-based TVs that show where that technology best fits on the commercial side of displays. …
Samsung Debuts 110-Inch MicroLED TV, With 4Vue, For CES 2021 January 11, 2021 by Super User CES 2021 is on, but it is virtual, so there’s no jammed trade show in Las Vegas and we will all likely see far fewer broadcast news stories about the buzzworthy, crazy or purpose-deficient gadgets being launched annually at this circus. The show is indeed on, though, and the big tech companies are still using …
NBA’s Cavs Add 750+ Screens To Updated Home Venue January 7, 2021 by Super User The Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, where the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers plays its games in normal times, recently did a digital facelift that added more than 750 displays around the sports and entertainment venue – from the concession areas to behind the scenes in the locker rooms. The 25-year-old venue contracted local area AV integrator Crescent Digital …
