Estimote Puts Digital Signage System On A BLE Beacon September 17, 2016 by Super User Bluetooth beacons have been turned into interactive digital signage players by one of the largest manufacturers of the high buzz factor radio transmitters. The Polish start-up Estimote has announced a new product called Estimote Mirror, a dongle that plugs into the back of any display that has an HDMI and USB port (if they are next …
Key Copy Kiosk Shows What Much Interactive Retail Should Really Be About September 16, 2016 by Super User Here’s a great example of an interactive screen solution, coupled with a machine, that goes to the heart of what any of this “customer engagement” stuff should be about – making something faster, better and easier for consumers. In this case, it’s a kiosk that can copy a house, car or other key in a …
Show Me The Way To Go Home, On The Jukebox September 15, 2016 by Super User If you were at a bar, and decided it was time to pull the eject lever and head home, would you whip out your smartphone to see the subway or Uber availability situation, or consult a jukebox screen? The hope, and I guess expectation, is that patrons in bars across 14 US markets will keep …
Whole Foods Goes Truly Digital With Signage At Seattle-area 365 Store September 15, 2016 by Super User Via GeekWire The tech news site GeekWire has a good piece up about the heavy digital investment made by Whole Foods at a new small format 365 store in Bellevue, Washington. The store has electronic ink price labels, digital weigh scales, interactive digital kiosks to facilitate wine pairings, a touchscreen-driven TeaBot and larger digital displays …
Lock Down Your Tablet Kiosk Screens With These 5 Easy Tips September 15, 2016 by Ryan Cahoy Guest Post: Jon Sproule, Armodilo Display Solutions This blog had a post up recently that showed how easy it can be for pranksters to interfere with your carefully considered tablet kiosk deployment. We think about and protect tablet-powered kiosks all day long, but on the hardware side. It’s not a surprise when security gets overlooked on the …
LinkNYC Shuts Off Web Tablets To Stop, Ummm, Problematic Browsing September 14, 2016 by Super User It should not surprise anyone who’s been on the operations side of digital signage networks that the flashy and very expensive interactive information stations that are replacing payphones around the sidewalks of New York are running into problems with the general public. If you’ve never done operations work, you assume the general public is uniformly well-behaved, and …
Ayuda Expands Digital OOH Platform To Mobile Via New Subsidiary, Ayuda[x] September 14, 2016 by Super User The Montreal out of home ad software firm Ayuda Systems has made what it calls a pivot by spinning off a wholly-owned subsidiary called AYUDA[x] that uses geospatial data to hyper-target and deliver ads to Digital OOH screens AND smartphones. “Digital marketers are increasingly buying location-based mobile media, and we are intentionally melding DOOH and mobile into …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Luka Birsa, Visionect September 14, 2016 by Super User This week, I’m speaking with Luka Birsa, the CTO and co-founder of Visionect, a Slovenian tech company focused on solutions that use Electronic Ink. If you’ve got a Kindle or Kobo e-reader, think of that display but used instead for updated bus schedules at stops, or for telling people whether a meeting room is booked …
Is Running Live TV Legal On Your Digital Signage Network? September 13, 2016 by Super User For as long as the term digital signage has been out there, end-users have been asking suppliers about the ability to insert live TV in a zone on the screen. And for just as long, there have been many questions and few solid answers as to whether it was entirely legal. I’m not sure we’re any …
Three Hard-Won Lessons For Rolling Out Large QSR Digital Signage Projects September 12, 2016 by PhyliisM Guest Post: Gord Phillips I remember thinking when I first started putting together what turned into Canada’s biggest digital menu board network: “This will be easy. I’m a professional engineer and pretty good at DIY.” That was 2007, and turns out, it wasn’t that easy. I joined a very large QSR firm that year to …
