Battery-Powered Sandwich Board Wheels Outside Shops To Attract, Control Foot Traffic April 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes Predictably, writing about an emerging and suddenly hyper-relevant piece of tech has smoked out vendors who have a version on offer, and looking for customers. I wrote Wednesday about digital sandwich/sidewalk boards that are in demand to be used as access control devices for open businesses that need to restrict access based on social distancing/venue …
LA’s Enplug Completes Detailed SOC 2 Data Security Audit April 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is over-the-top nerdy, but I am posting this not because of the news, but because of the explanations from the software vendor as to why you should care. LA-based CMS software Enplug has announced it has completed its SOC 2 Type 2 audit, “an intensive six-month audit by Coalfire, an independent cybersecurity firm, to …
Are Lowly Digital Sandwich Boards The Next Big Thing In Digital Signage? April 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes Florian Rotberg from Munich’s invidis consultancy did a state of the industry brief on a webinar I was part of Tuesday, and he mentioned how digital signage that enables simple access control has become a red-hot customer ask in Europe. Simple digital sandwich boards, also called digital A-frames, are being placed outside stores, public offices, …
Reminder: 4 PM ET Webinar On Using Touch When A Contagion Is Loose April 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes Quick reminder that I will be co-hosting a webinar later today that discusses how interactive displays get used when a contagion may be left on the screen. 16:9 is working with the AV trade association AVIXA, and Munich-based consulting/publishing firm invidis on a virtual roundtable next week focused on the touchy issue (sorry for the pun, but … …
Beijing Subway Line Adds Transparent Digital Windows On Passenger Cars April 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a video from Beijing’s subway system, in a passenger car that has digital signage running in a window. It is on line 6, and my guess is the display is a transparent OLED. There’s no side lighting to make it LCD and the pitch is, by the looks of it, far too tight …
AVIXA’s Latest Impact Survey Confirms Business For Many Has Dried Up, Mass Layoffs April 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes The latest COVID-19 Impact Survey, based on feedback last week from more than 325 Pro AV people globally, confirms what we all pretty much know – the pandemic continues to hammer businesses all over. The summarized highlights: Survey respondents are having a hard time envisioning how the pandemic will play out for their businesses, with …
Acquire Digital’s Design Head Using His 3D Printer To Knock Out Surgical Mask Straps April 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Head of Design at Acquire Digital in Leicester, UK (my EPL team, go Foxes!) is a self-confessed 3D printing geek and has been using his spare time at home to make adjustable mask straps for frontline National Health Service staff. The little printed straps have hooks that allow doctors, nurses and other workers …
Digital Signage Solution Tweaked To Enforce Social Distancing At Retail April 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes When I load up with my sanitizer and wipes, and grab my mask, to go out on a grocery or hardware run, I almost invariably end up in a line-up outside the store – with social distancing markers on the sidewalk and a cashier turned bouncer controlling access at the door. One person leaves, and …
Diversified Partners With Aurora On VitalSign COVID-19 Screening Display Kit April 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes The big NJ-based AV integrator Diversified tends to sell expertise and services, and re-sell gear, but in the face of a public and private landscape changed by COVID-19, has started marketing a branded physical product tuned to health safety. Diversified has debuted – FocalPoint – VitalSign – an Android tablet with Diversified support that has …
Four Winds’ Engineer Making PPE Face Shields With His 3D Printer April 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is Kyle Rupprecht, an Endpoint Automation Engineer at Denver’s Four Winds Interactive, who fired up his 3D printer to create face shields for local healthcare workers. Rupprecht did the printing and assembly of the kits, the work made possible by many donations from other FWI employees. I don’t know what an Endpoint Automation Engineer …
