Signagelive Launches Free Broadcast Player Companies Can Use To Reach Work From Home Staffers April 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes UK-based Signagelive has announced a free – for now – service that enables companies to broadcast messages to opted-in staff members who are working from home during the pandemic. The Signagelive Broadcast Player allows for full-screen playlists or multi-zone layouts to be created and published to a weblink. The weblink can then be shared with …
Digital Signage CMS Yodeck Offers Cloud Service Free To Healthcare Sector For 2020 April 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Raspberry Pi-focused digital signage CMS Yodeck is offering up its cloud-based management platform free of charge to hospitals, pharmacies and other health-oriented organizations on the “front lines” of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company – which has an address in San Francisco but I am reasonably sure is heavily based in Athens, Greece – says …
Mimo Debuts Its First Outdoor-Ready Touch Display April 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes There are many options out there for large daylight-ready displays in totems and kiosks, but I’ve not seen much outside of the stuff sold on Alibaba that comes in much smaller sizes and would be supported on the east side of the Pacific Ocean. Libertyville, Illinois-based Mimo Monitors, known for small form-factor all-in-one displays, has …
Singapore Gov’t Authority Using Sensors To Visualize, Load-Balance Malls To Help Social Distancing April 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Singapore government has started published a really interesting real-time data visualization that provides citizens with the status of crowd levels at shopping malls. The government’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) collaborated with mall operators on what has been dubbed Space Out – which visualizes the current crowd levels of malls, as well as patterns for …
Scenarios And Actions For Industry Operators Coming Out Of COVID-19 April 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes Munich-based digital signage consultancy invidis shared some presentation material it developed recently that looks at the business impacts of the pandemic, breaking it down to six scenarios. The charts look at different scenarios, recommended actions and verticals they apply to. The idea is that different things will likely happen for different types of companies and …
Sports Venues, Casinos Using Shutdowns To Do Display Upgrades April 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes The sports and entertainment venues publication VenuesNow has an interesting piece up about how some stadiums, arenas and casinos are using shutdowns brought on by the pandemic to upgrade their visual display systems. The piece focused on Daktronics, which is among the biggest suppliers of direct view LED displays for those kids of spaces. “We’re …
Legrand AV Converts Indiana Production Line To Make 1,000 Masks Daily April 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Legrand AV’s manufacturing facility in Warsau, Indiana, in normal times, makes projection screens used in schools and event venues for video presentations. It’s one of two places in the company that has the capability to do sewing. A production line has been converted to make face masks for several local health systems who are dealing …
AVIXA Pro AV Impact Survey Suggests Pandemic, As Expected, Clobbering Industry April 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes It will surprise no one that the pro AV industry is taking a big hit because of the near shutdown of business in the midst of the panic, and the trade association AVIXA has been taking the pulse of the ecosystem to understand what’s happening and prevailing sentiments. AVIXA started doing an impact survey with …
Mark Lawson Of Cineplex Passes Away April 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes Wanted to let my Canadian digital signage and digital OOH friends know that we lost a good one yesterday, to cancer. Mark Lawson was a longtime business development guy, with the OOH media company Pattison and then with Cineplex. I’ve known him for probably 15 years, and we had some legendary, next-day fuzzy outings while …
Two Touchless Solutions For Times When Interactive Is A Little Scary April 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes There have been many times when I have had demos done for me of vendor solutions that involved people using their smartphones to do something more easily done on a general-use touchscreen. I’d politely say what they’d developed was interesting, but then ask why consumers/patients/whoever wouldn’t just boink away on a touchscreen to get what …
