More Digital Signage Solutions Companies Coming Up With Tech For Pandemic Measures April 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes More digital signage companies are betting technology investments in the next few months will be built around pandemic measures, and marketing products that see are solutions to mostly new problems. The Connecticut-based solutions provider Reality Interactive – more known for interactive in retail – has started touting a thermal scanner/screen product aimed at providing access …
Montreal’s Vif Communication Building Own Digital Signage Screen And Sanitizer Combo April 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes In the last few weeks, I have noticed several companies in a variety of countries – from Israel to here in Canada – reading the marketplace and starting to market screens that are paired with a hand sanitizer dispenser. I don’t know if it is one or several manufacturers, but the design seems to have …
Tech Firm Okta Adds Big, “Bold” LED Wall To SF Bay HQ Lobby April 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a very nice, very big direct view LED wall at the downtown San Francisco headquarters of the secure cloud company Okta, Inc. The building is located on the south end of the city’s financial district, halfway between the bay and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and is across the street …
Art Of Context’s Tom Dunn Making PPE Face Shields With Family April 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes Tom Dunn, the Senior Solutions Architect at Boston-based, wayfinding-centric Art Of Context, has been using his “down time” over the last month to produce more than 300 face shields for medical providers. Dunn started making metal nose bridge clips for someone else who was making cloth face masks. He then decided to use his 3D …
UK’s NowSignage Releases New Tools For Retail’s New COVID-19 Norms April 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes It’s only logical when reality drops a bucket of lemons on your business, you make lemonade. I’m starting to see numerous digital signage solutions and software companies coming up with products, features and functionality tied to the new norms of public activity. We’ve seen dispensers, line management and thermal sensors to read temperatures. UK-based NowSignage has …
Keeping Hospitals Organized With The Help Of Digital Signage Technology April 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Baran Türko?lu, Admuuv Hospitals are complicated structures consisting of multi-area departments. It is important to keep areas such as examination rooms, doctors’ floors, operating theaters and 24/7 emergency rooms all organized, and digital signage is a key to that effort. It is essential to observe efficiency in all areas from the corridors of …
UK DOOH Startup In Shambles After Founders Scrap With Investors, Admit Cloning IP April 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes It is as difficult to keep up with digital out of home buying platforms as it is tracking digital signage CMS software companies, so I don’t feel all that bad about knowing absolutely nothing about the UK startup Bidooh. The online publisher BusinessCloud has a piece up about the company, at one point a high …
AVIXA’s Latest Impact Says Pro AV Industry Pessimism Has Bottomed Out April 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes AVIXA’s latest weekly Impact Survey on the pro AV industry in the midst of the pandemic and recession suggests the levels of pessimism have bottomed out. The top takeaways from the past week: Overall, survey respondents feel the same this week as they did the week before. New, limited data indicates some companies have seen …
Touchscreen Challenges In Pandemic Times Webinar Now Available On-Demand, Via YouTube April 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes If you missed the great AVIXA webinar the other day on the touchy issue of using and maintaining interactive, touch-driven solutions in the midst of a pandemic, you can revisit that session online, on-demand. The hour-long session, which includes a state-of-the-industry presentation by Florian Rotberg of invidis, has a great back and forth on issues …
Visionect Touts E-Paper Version Of Access Control Displays April 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a different spin on the idea of access control screens outside of businesses – a podium, wall or even window-mounted e-paper display that runs off batteries. This is from Visionect, the Slovenian company that does e-paper displays and software for everything from meeting room signs to live bus stop notice and schedule signs. …
