Projects: Going From Chalkboards To Digital Saves Bar 180-Plus Labor Hours A Year April 7, 2017 by Super User A little bar and restaurant down the highway from me in Stratford, Ontario has worked out that putting in digital signage displays has saved them 182 hours in labor costs annually. Until a big reno in 2013, Bentley’s Bar, Inn & Restaurant did their daily menu specials, beer boards and martini boards all by hand …
DSE May Be Over But The Trade Show And Conference Season Is Anything But … April 6, 2017 by Super User Digital Signage Expo is over but trade show and conference season is anything but over. There are many events in the coming three months that touch or focus on digital signage, among them: InfoComm China – There’s a track on digital signage at the event next week in Beijing. I know because I am speaking …
BMO Uses Flip-Disc Tech For Mobile App-Driven Wish Fountain April 6, 2017 by Super User In an odd twist, here’s a second post in a week about flip-disc technology being used as an alternative to digital screens. The Bank of Montreal – one of the big five national banks in Canada – is celebrating its 200th year in business in 2017, and one of the things it is doing to mark that …
Projects: Swedish Payments Company Visualizes Business In Real Time April 6, 2017 by Super User I’m not seeing as much data visualization as I might have expected by now on large video walls – given how great dataviz creative can solve the dual problems of keeping content fresh while also controlling content budgets. But here’s a great example of dataviz in action in the lobby of Stockholm-based online payment company …
Projects: Louisiana Wellness Center Spans 12K Video Across Three Walls April 5, 2017 by Super User The new Education Center at the Wellness Center of Thibodaux Regional, in Thibodaux, Louisiana, greets visitors with a 17-minute video that showcases the native beauty of Louisiana across three 4K video walls. The multi-screen video experience developed by VisionQuest Design & Production of Atlanta features nature scenes, landmarks, plantations, and the Bayou, among other local …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jerome Moeri, CEO of Navori April 5, 2017 by Super User I’ve known Jerome Moeri, the CEO of Navori, for more than a decade, but we’ve never had much of a chance to have a good long chat. That changed at ISE a few weeks ago, when we slotted half an hour to talk about how the Swiss software company got started and where it is …
HTML5 And 4K Taking Interactive Digital Signage to New Heights April 4, 2017 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea As touch-enabled large displays become more affordable, we find a quick rise of interactive digital signage everywhere. With the touch of a finger, wayfinding screens take you to your destination with the shortest route. A swipe on the shelf-edge display instantly creates an endless aisle of products that cannot otherwise …
BeeBoard Introduces Publisher And Viewer For “Social” Digital Signage April 4, 2017 by Super User A Boston start-up has quietly launched BeeBoard, what it describes as a social digital signage application that makes iOS tablets into a contemporary version of corkboards in homes and offices. The BeeBoard Publisher (iPhone) and BeeBoard Viewer (iPad) are free from the Apple app store. BeeBoard is aimed at both the residential and commercial markets. …
Reflect Adds AdLogic In-House Retail Ad Planning Platform April 4, 2017 by Super User One of the slightly curious things I learned last week at DSE was Reflect – which I totally think of as a retail-centric digital signage CMS – introducing an advertising platform. My first reaction was: “Huh?” Between Ayuda and BroadSign, and a handful of others out there, that turf is well-covered. Then there are the …
Watch A Digital Menuboard That Changes Languages On Demand April 3, 2017 by Super User This digital menuboard demo from the Seoul solutions company Soundgraph caught my eye at DSE last week for a couple of reasons. First, I liked the creative design. Second, the company was showing a clever demo of on-demand switching of languages for the menu items. There were four buttons on the counter, each with a …
