IAdea Releasing Pair Of Solid State 4K Signage Players May 27, 2015 by Dave Haynes Taiwan’s IAdea is releasing a commercial-grade, video wall-ready 4K digital signage player that supports H.265 video decoding, the emerging standard that can cut monster 4K video file sizes in half. The XMP-7300 is a solid-state and fan-less, and housed in a ruggedized quarter-inch thickness aluminum enclosure. A version of the unit is being made to comply with the Open …
UC View Adds Raspberry Pi 2 Support May 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes The LA software firm UCView announced last year its support for the initial Raspberry Pi micro PC, and its developers have now followed up with support for the beefier Raspberry Pi 2. The new software is also completely compatible with the original UC View ARM Caster HD (Raspberry Pi 1). The company, via its blog, says the …
Cloud down, so sign down (Updated) May 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes Bryan Mongeau, the Vice President of Technology at BroadSign, and a guy who pays a lot of attention to emerging tech, sent along this photo he strayed across online of an ad campaign running on a Times Square LED ad board: Says Bryan: This error is coming from the Azure cloud service, which means someone …
Projects: One World Trade Center’s Digital-Filled Observatory May 22, 2015 by Dave Haynes The 102nd floor deck on top of the new World Trade Center building in lower Manhattan – the building that went up next to the footprint of the two towers brought down on 9-11, opens as an observatory next week. It’s a $32 elevator ride to go up and have a look around, but there’s …
Indoor Positioning Using Nothing But LED Lighting May 22, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is cool. The lighting division of the tech multinational Philips is testing new technology that enables highly accurate, anonymous indoor location and navigation using nothing but banks of overhead LED lighting to inform a smartphone app. The lighting does the traditional job – illuminating a store – but each LED node has something called …
Digital Signage Biggest Growth Driver For Internet Of Things Business: Report May 20, 2015 by Dave Haynes The tech market intelligence firm International Data Corporation has issued an industry forecast that suggests digital signage is the biggest growth driver globally for the so-called Internet of Things. The IoT market is expected to grow by 19% this year, says the forecast, with the biggest bump among vertical industries coming for the one that gets stuff …
LG Shows Off Prototype OLED Panel That Goes Up Like Fridge Magnet May 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is getting a little crazy. A decade ago you needed two guys to manhandle a 55-inch LCD or (particularly) a plasma panel into place on a wall mount. Now we learn, via OLED-info, that LG has shown off in DS. Korea an OLED 55-incher that weighs all of about 5 pounds and is a …
Pattison Onestop Rolls Out New Big Screen To Mobile Service May 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Canadian digital OOH media company PATTISON Onestop has launched a new mobile-enabled advertising service called Engage, which mashes up NFC, SMS and QR codes as mechanisms to bridge big digital posters and the smartphones carried by most consumers. With Engage, says the company in a news release, marketers will be able to create more relevant and …
Startup Analyzes Faces In Digital OOH Crowds To Measure How Response To Ads May 18, 2015 by Dave Haynes A San Diego start-up called Emotient is the latest analytics company to try getting some traction for face pattern recognition technology in the digital out of home advertising industry. We’ve seen several companies come and go marketing products that use machine learning and cameras to look for, detect, count and roughly analyze faces that happen to look in the …
Live Data Screens At Heathrow Baggage Claim Answer Taxi Or Train Question May 16, 2015 by Dave Haynes When I am consulting with clients I speak a lot about moments and relevance – putting screens and content in place that really speak to that moment. Here’s a great example of a company putting that in practice: There are screens now at London Heathrow Terminal 2 that tell arriving passengers, as they are standing …
