Projects: New Tech Center Makes Big Visual Statement With LED Columns September 3, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is the new Technology Center of Excellence that connectivity and IT services firm CenturyLink has opened in Monroe, Louisiana – with 37,000 square feet of nanotechnology glass that tints automatically and three big NanoLumens wrap-around displays inside. Opened earlier this year, the building alone makes a pretty big statement, but the company wanted to amplify that with …
Projects: Slovenian Capital Using Visionect’s Smart E-Displays On Transit Stops September 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Slovenian smart display firm Visionect is working with officials in the capital city, Ljubljana, on sets of street-level bus stop displays that use electronic paper. Running on Visionect’s hardware and software, the new electronic paper screens show bus schedules, arrival information and potential route changes on four bus stops along Ljubljana’s central district. The value …
Capital Networks, OPTiFi Partner On New Audience Analytics Tech September 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Digital signage and broadcast software company Capital Networks has entered into an interesting partnership with a small company that enables consumer behaviour metrics by picking up on smartphone signals. OPTiFi uses wireless sensing to anonymously register smartphones that come into a zone, and build aggregate patterns of what all those people do and how they …
Asus Announces Set Of $129 PCs On Sticks September 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes The gap continues to close in the battle over the lowest cost technology for putting digital signage in the field, with news this morning that Asus is marketing a $129 PC on a stick that has an Intel processor under the teeny little hood. The Asus VivoStick PC measures 5.4? x 1.3? x 0.6? and like …
DSrupted: The Future Is About Pixels Everywhere September 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes So much has happened on the software and computing side of the digital signage business in recent years that I think we tend to overlook how much has also happened on the display side. When I got into this business 16 years ago LCD panels were small and crazily expensive, and the big flat panels …
Projects: Giant LED Traffic Totem Lights Up In Kazakhstan August 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very nice, very different take on using LED boards along highways. Instead of endless ads for lawyers and auto dealers and casinos, this vertical LED totem that just lit up in Almaty, Kazakhstan runs traffic information. The 10 mm pixel pitch unit, installed by Billboard Video LED Engineering, is 7 meters high by two …
The Digital QSR Future Is Now … But Ya Gotta Like Quinoa August 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes A new San Francisco eatery called Eatsa has gone as far as I have ever seen integrating digital into its customer experience – actually removing visible staffing from the mix. Ordering is all done by tablets, payment is all by plastic, a big video wall promotes the overall product and lets customers know order status, and …
Ireland’s Instillo Launches Android-Driven, HTML5-Powered Audience Measurement Tools August 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes Video analytics tools have been around for many years now – and the key players have changed through the years, with the exception of France’s Quividi, which has been a constant. An Irish company called Instillo has announced its own video analytics platform – Instillo Audience, and changed the proposition around quite a bit in …
Who Buys These Things??? August 27, 2015 by Dave Haynes Google Alerts is a little tool I use to pay attention to the various news wires and sent me regular digests of stuff that moves on digital signage and other key phrases. Among the regular news items that come up are reports from research companies I’ve never heard of, that definitively say how the signage industry is …
Blue Bite Launches Dual-Mode Beacon Platform August 27, 2015 by Dave Haynes New York-based Blue Bite, which has been working for years with digital OOH companies on tech that bridges smartphones to screens, has launched a new BLE beacon solution intended to make it much easier for marketers to reach consumer. The big fuss around beacons in the last 3-4 years has always included the caution that for …
