How Managed Wireless Lets Digital Signage Networks Cut The Cord June 6, 2016 by Loren Bucklin Guest Post: Curtis Tilly, Microspace Connectivity is the unsung hero of digital signage, making possible the whole idea of delivering the right message at the right time, in the right location, to the right audience. On-screen content, media delivery, file forwarding and system monitoring all depend on taking a reliable, scalable and cost-effective approach to …
Adoption Rates Of Digital Signage in Corporate Office Spaces On Rise June 6, 2016 by Neil Chatwood Guest Post: Ben Davis, Futuresource Consulting We’ve been looking closely at the adoption rates of digital signage solutions in corporate environments, and based on feedback from some 500 organizations across Western Europe and the US, there’s some clear growth happening in corporate office spaces and meeting rooms. Over half of the companies Futuresource surveyed, which currently use …
Projects: White Label QSR Uses Digital Signage To Change Brand And Offers On Demand June 3, 2016 by Super User Here’s an interesting take on using digital signage in the restaurant business – make the displays the dominant visual marketing element, and change the restaurant brand, menu and operator on demand. That’s what the specialist agency Beaver Group has developed for London Excel, an exhibition and conference center in London, UK. They have kitted out …
Packaging Up Content For The Market June 3, 2016 by Super User I’m not sold on the idea of digital signage marketplaces when it comes to selling software and gear, but where I do think it can make some real sense is for packaged-up content and creative. Subscription content has clearly worked well for thriving companies like Screenfeed, and I think selling creative can work when the …
Google Releases Open Source Software Library For Interactive Displays June 3, 2016 by Super User I’ll leave it to people who code, and their masters, to determine if this is, in some way, relevant to the digital signage market, but from my unschooled perspective this new open source interactive display software from Google looks pretty interesting. Google’s Creative Lab describes AnyPixel.js as “an open-source software and hardware library that makes …
Projects: University Of Kent Using Signage To Connect Students To Services June 3, 2016 by Super User The University of Kent, in the south of England, is using digital signage at its redeveloped library to help students find and use services. Thirty-five Samsung Smart Signage displays have been installed around the library by UK-based Eclipse Digital Media, using the cloud-based digital signage software, embed signage. “Navigating around the large 15,000 sq. metre space for up …
Leyard Debuts Series Of Light, Skinny Carbon Fiber LED Displays June 2, 2016 by Super User When I was over at the ISE show in Amsterdam a few months ago, I remember seeing a Shenzhen company that had a set of lightweight, skinny and flexible LED display products that I thought would make the NanoLumens guys think, “Gee, that looks familiar.” But the company was one I’d never heard of, so …
NBA’s Raptors Visualize Data From IBM’s Watson To Build Team’s Future June 2, 2016 by Super User The NBA’s Toronto Raptors had a good playoff run once their key guards remembered how to shoot, but the ownership and management team is also using less obvious cues and clues from visualized data to build the club’s future. In mid-season, the team launched IBM Sports Insights Central, a data viz set-up using MultiTaction’s software and hardware …
Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Webinar Replay June 2, 2016 by Super User If you missed Canonical’s webinar yesterday on using Raspberry Pis and Ubuntu Linux for digital signage, you can hit this link and get a replay of the one-hour session. I blabber on for a bit at the start as I host the thing, but the attraction is Viktor Petersson, who runs Screenly, a signage CMS built around the low-cost micro …
ONELAN Joins Ranks Of CMS Firms Supporting SOC Panels June 1, 2016 by Super User The UK-based CMS software firm ONELAN has joined the ranks of companies that have developed to and support System on Chip (SOC) all in one commercial display panels. ONELAN has announced its CMS 3.0 solution can be installed on and run on either a Samsung Smart Signage display or LG’s webOS platform. The company also says these …
