London Underground Escalators Lined With LCD Ribbon Walls December 7, 2018 by Super User The London Underground many years ago took on what I think were the first digital escalator panels – a cascading series of synchronized displays in the escalator wells of the subway system. The media firm Exterion Media is in the process of upgrading some of the most well-known and busiest stations on the Underground with …
Visix Releases Beta Of New Alerts And Warnings Platform For Digital Signage Networks December 5, 2018 by Super User Atlanta-based Visix has for many years been a big advocate of integrating alert messaging into its signage management platform – at least in part because higher education is a major vertical market for the company. Now the software company has released a beta version of its new AxisTV Alert – an alert management application that …
Kaijus Asteljoki On Making Workplace Digital Signage Interesting, And Automated December 5, 2018 by Super User Workplace communications is one of the most active verticals in digital signage, and a big reason for that is the ability of screen technology to get important information to staff – without hoping they open and read mass emails or see posters on breakroom cork boards. The Finnish startup Valota saw the rise in business-based …
External Media Players are Better Than Smart Displays, Right? Not So Fast December 4, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Curtis Campbell, Hughes Virtually everywhere we look, we see divisions. Be it politics, how to raise children, dogs versus cats, there never seems to be a winner-take-all argument. And digital signage technology is no different. For a few years now, signage buyers have been presented with an alternative to external digital signage players – namely SoC …
NJ Transit-Intersection Media Deal Will Add Real-Time Digital Signage, Kiosks December 3, 2018 by Super User The OOH media firm Intersection has landed a new seven-year media concession with NJ TRANSIT that will include a significant investment on digital signage and interactive displays. Systemwide improvements, says an Intersection press release, will include installing and upgrading digital displays and adding new IxNTouch interactive information kiosks, giving riders greater access to real-time transit …
Sports Retailer Decathlon’s First US Store Features LED Video Wall December 3, 2018 by Super User Decathlon is the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, with more than 1,350 stores in 39 countries, but the French company only recently entered the US market. Decathlon Sports has moved into 8,313 square feet on the ground-floor space of 735 Market Street, a building designed by legendary architect Willis Polk and opened in 1908, in …
New Bangkok Skycraper’s Main Elevator Has OLED-Lined Walls And Ceiling December 3, 2018 by Super User As someone who got started in digital signage 20 years ago by putting screens in skyscraper elevators – single 12-inch screens that cost $2,500 each – it’s a little freaky to read about an elevator that has its walls and ceilings all lined with 55-inch OLEDs. This is a 360 video – you have to …
LED Feature Walls Give Renovated Space Center Shop Lift-Off December 3, 2018 by Super User This is what’s called the World’s Largest Space Shop, a renovated 15,372 sq. ft. retail space at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Florida’s east coast. The shop re-opened in June this year, upgraded among many things by big indoor and outdoor LED feature walls and interactive screens, all via RMG Networks. The solution uses …
20+ LED Screen Firms Fined By FCC For Compliance Problems; Two For More Than $100K November 30, 2018 by Super User Some US LED sign manufacturers started making noises a couple of years ago about competing manufacturers – especially those from China – were selling product that did not comply with US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations. The primary argument was that the FCC has rules in place that ensure light-emitting display devices do not interfere …
The Disgusting Side Of Customer Engagement Technology: Bacteria-Riddled Touchscreens November 29, 2018 by Super User When interactive touchscreens first came on the market, and everyone started blabbering away about engagement technology and customer engagement, there were more than a few germaphobes who pointed out that, ummm, public touchscreens ran the risk of having disgusting surfaces. Think of anything that gets touched and touched and touched all day long, by people …
