DC Arena Uses Tiled Screens To Change Concession Branding On Demand October 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes These are concessions at the renovated Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, home to NHL hockey and NBA basketball. What’s interesting to me is how the digital signage is not just the menu boards, but also the headers for the concessions – which allows the venue operator to rebrand a stand pretty much on the …
Smart Displays On The Rise: Updated Report On SoC In Digital Signage October 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes About 18 months ago, Sixteen:Nine first looked at the state of smart displays and raised the question of whether digital signage displays with embedded System on Chip (SoC) players inside represented the future path for the industry. In early 2017, almost every sign pointed to widespread adoption. Today, it is clear that adoption is happening. …
SkinnyIT Reportedly Closes Doors, Just Months After IST Acquisition October 26, 2018 by Dave Haynes It appears that SkinnyIT, the Dallas-area field service management company that bought Installation & Service Technologies earlier this year, has folded. IST, as it was known, had been a significant player in the digital signage field service space in recent years, and a big presence at DSE. From anything I knew, IST was very much a …
Fail: Digital Menu Gets Print Fix October 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes You kinda have to be a signage nerd to immediately see the badness of this, but when you do … A reader from Ohio sent this in from his local juice shop: “Not only are they just layouts thrown on USBs, that don’t fill the whole screen, one of the screens has been non-functioning for over …
Understanding Programmatic Digital Out Of Home In One Easy Post October 25, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Vince Banks, Broadsign Around the world, digital out-of-home (DOOH) inventory has begun to be sold programmatically. As major players in the DOOH space make programmatic a top priority, it’s expected that this new sales model, with all its associated benefits, will quickly become an industry standard. Unfortunately, not everyone understands how this model works …
NEC Launches Retail Intelligence Platform, Called ALP October 24, 2018 by Dave Haynes NEC Display just got into the retail intelligence business, launching ALP – short for Analytics Learning Platform. It’s a subscription-based retail intelligence program that uses cameras and other sensors, AI, big data, cloud computing and network appliances to give retailers a better sense of what’s going on in their stores. There are plenty of existing …
IAdea’s Small All-In-Signboards Can Now Run Samsung’s MagicINFO CMS October 24, 2018 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based hardware manufacturer IAdea has done an interesting partnership with Samsung that sees IAdea’s small signboard displays pre-loaded with Samsung’s own content management software, MagicINFO. It’s interesting because Samsung has for many, many years tried to somehow have its own free-ish CMS software available to display customers, while also developing partnerships with software companies that …
Rick Wood On The Eight Second Rule For Transit Displays, And E-Paper At Your Bus Stop October 24, 2018 by Dave Haynes Rick Wood’s company was founded to bring some order and logic to how mass transport systems present information – like routes and schedules – to passengers. It was a tall order for CHK America – because many or most transport authorities had their own way of doing things, and not that many were particularly good …
LED Lobby Feature Wall Centerpiece of Reimagined Miami Office Tower October 23, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the lobby of 100 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami – a commercial office tower just across the road from the big Bayfront urban park and entertainment area downtown. The 30-storey office block’s facelift includes a direct view LED feature wall that wraps around the entry to the elevator lobby. Not totally sure of the …
SEC Filings Show CRI Raising Money To Fund Allure Acquisition, Pay Down Debt October 23, 2018 by Dave Haynes SEC filings by Creative Realities show the solutions provider is buying Allure from Christie Digital out of money it hopes through an offering of common stocks and warrants. I go into rapid eye-blink mode when I read SEC filings (I did not miss my calling as a securities lawyer), so I am quoting this verbatim. …
