Nexmosphere Expands Beyond Interactive Sensors With New NEO Power Management Devices January 22, 2025 by Dave Haynes Nexmosphere has built up its footprint in the digital signage industry by developing a sophisticated set of more than 25 diverse sensor solutions for interactive installations – the products tuned to this industry as opposed to adapted from other purposes and made to (hopefully) work. Now the Dutch tech company is adding technology that addresses …
Longtime Intuiface CEO Vincent Encontre Pivots From Reading Budget Docs To Watching Grandkids Grow Up January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes Happy, happy trails to Vincent Encontre, the longtime CEO of the French interactive software firm Intuiface, who has retired. Vincent has a post up on Linkedin outlining how he has stepped down and is looking forward to doing things that don’t involve budget forecasts and software roadmaps. He also relates the company’s journey, particularly as …
Future Displays: How TSI Touch Quietly Built Up To Now Handle 70% Of The US Digital Signage Touch Market January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a reworked summary of a profile story from the new Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … TSI Touch was one of six companies that kindly stepped up to sponsor the report – the sponsor dollars covering off a lot …
AV Tech Firm VuWall By PE Firm As Part Of Control Room Solutions Roll-Up January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes Montreal-based VuWall, a substantial player in video wall control and visualization solutions, has been acquired by the private equity firm Naxicap in what appears to be a strategy to roll up complementary technology solutions for control room environments. Naxicap had previously acquired Guntermann & Drunck (G&D) in 2020 and Tritec Electronic in 2022. With VuWall in the …
Start-up NetSpeek Uses AI To Make Managing Big Screen Networks Easier January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes A start-up with roots in PC-based digital signage media players has launched a unique new service aimed mainly at pro AV solutions providers and end-users – using artificial intelligence to largely automate and streamline the management and integrity of enterprises that use a lot of screens and other devices. NetSpeek, which comes out of stealth …
Future Displays: STRATACACHE’s Billion Dollar Bet On Building America’s MicroLED Future January 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a reworked version of a story from the new Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … I did a lengthy interview with STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel about the status of the microLED manufacturing – not just assembly – …
Delta Airlines Wraps Up FIight Info Display Design Across Its Airports System January 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes Airports and their major tenant airlines – the ones with dedicated terminals or a hub status – are some of the most active and most ambitious adopters of digital signage technologies, and if I had to name a U.S. carrier that puts a lot of focus on getting all that right, it would be Delta …
ESL Companies Start Harvesting In-Store Light To Power Shelf-Edge Displays January 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes Batteries have been the primary way to drive electronic shelf label displays in retail aisles, but a couple of ESL manufacturers have started working with a Swedish company that does the interesting work of harvesting power from in-store lighting. It’s a variation on the idea of using solar cell arrays to drive e-paper displays at …
Future Displays: E Ink Has Digital Signage Ambitions, But Costs And Formats Are Adoption Barriers January 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a reworked version of a story from the Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … Taiwan-based e-paper giant E Ink sees digital signage and digital out of home as a next big, scalable market for its larger color …
That Crazy, LED-First Footy Stadium Outside Riyadh Is Getting Built January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes When multi-billion dollar, way over the top mega-projects like sports stadiums are announced, it is entirely reasonable to wonder if they’ll ever go beyond the press release phase. But arguably the most ambitious, digital-filled stadium to ever get announced is now in early construction in Saudi Arabia. The grounds for the plateau-edge Prince Mohammed bin …
