How Five Big Business Trends Apply To Digital Signage May 31, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Derek DeWitt, Visix Back in December, Senior Business Consultant for Microsoft and co-founder of Techincon, Rashan Dixon, wrote an article for Entrepreneur listing five business trends he thought would continue to rise in 2019. Coming up on the midpoint of the year, we can see that his predictions were pretty spot on. In this article, we look …
Digital OOH Start-Up That Puts Screens On Uber Cars Adds $30M Series A Raise May 30, 2019 by Super User A San Francisco start-up called Firefly that puts digital OOH media screens on the tops of rideshare cars has announced a $30 million series A funding round, which is on top of a $21 million round late last year. Firefly offers a supplemental revenue stream to rideshare drivers in return for affixing a hyper-local, geo-fenced digital sign …
Skykit’s Parent Company Announces $6.5M Raise To Speed Growth May 30, 2019 by Super User The company behind the Google Chrome OS-centric digital signage solution Skykit has announced a $6.5 million funding round intended to drive what it calls an aggressive growth plan. Minneapolis-based Agosto Holdings, which describes itself as a cloud services and development company, secured funds from Bridge Bank and SG Credit Partners. Agosto’s core business is selling and supporting Google Cloud products for …
Intersection Does Deal To Equip LA Metro Line With Smart City-style InfoStations May 29, 2019 by Super User The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has done a deal with the media and tech company Intersection to install a new messaging and advertising network on the southern portion of the system’s Blue line, as part of rail line improvements. Customers riding the Metro Blue Line between Long Beach and Compton Stations will see …
IoT Weight Sensors On Sydney’s Commuter Rail Cars Show Occupancy Estimates On Platform Screens May 29, 2019 by Super User This is very clever and useful – commuters travelling on the rail network in Sydney, Australia can now make informed decisions on where to stand on a platform for the best shot at getting a seat. The rail authority, Transport for NSW, now has digital signage on platforms that shows which rail cars have seats …
Sydney’s New Metro Line Dotted With E-Paper Information Signs May 29, 2019 by Super User The first 36 kilometers of Australia’s biggest public transport project, the newly-opened Sydney Metro Northwest line, are interspersed with stops that provide steadily updated schedule/status information on solar-powered e-paper screens. Installed from Tallawong to Chatswood, 50 urban bus stops – the biggest deployment of these smart signs anywhere in the world – show interchange bus …
Holograms With A Business Model – Ronnie Lee Explains His Virtual DJ Start-up May 29, 2019 by Super User When DSE was on a few weeks ago in Las Vegas, I wandered down to the other end of the convention center to get a glimpse of the legendarily crazy Nightclub and Bar Show – where endless booths pour free drink samples. I wanted to see how nuts it really was, but I was also …
STRATACACHE Buildings Narrowly Escape Twisters In Dayton, Ohio May 28, 2019 by Super User Screen grab – CNN BIG tornadoes – one possibly an EF-4 or even 5 – tore past Dayton, Ohio last night – making for a long night for STRATACACHE CEO and his ops team. The digital signage solutions company has several buildings in the area, and when I saw a tornado report that mentioned Trotwood, …
Visix To Showcase Voice-Based Interactive Wayfinding At Infocomm May 28, 2019 by Super User Atlanta-based CMS software company Visix is going to showcase new a new voice-activated wayfinding application in a couple of weeks at its InfoComm 2019 booth in Orlando. “This is the next step in audience interaction,” says Jill Perardi, creative services manager for Visix. “People have embraced Voice User Interface technologies like Alexa, Siri and Google …
Huge 107-Wide LED Canvas Celebrates San Francisco’s People And Past May 28, 2019 by Super User A huge, 107-foot-wide digital canvas is now lit up at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), with a year-long exhibition celebrating the city’s people and history. The exhibit is a digital mural that uses a 2.5mm fine pitch LED display made by SNA Displays and put in by frequent technical partner Sensory Interactive. …
