ISE 2024 Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profile: Videri Launches “VIP” Zero-Touch Intelligent Provisioning For Digital Signage Screens January 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is now on, and I have this post timed to run the day after the mixer that I am assuming went off in Barcelona just fine. The event had eight great sponsors, who helped cover the considerable costs of the evening, and one of them – Videri – wanted to hold their …
Intuiface To Show Tight AI/GPT-4 Workflow Integrations For Interactive Screens At ISE January 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the things I was intending to look for at ISE in Barcelona next week were tangible uses of AI/Large Language Models by digital signage companies within their products, and the French interactive software firm Intuiface has passed along news that will make me want to stop by its stand. CMO Geoff Bessin tells …
Workplace Communications Clearly Improved When Digital Signage Deployed: New Research January 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Google’s Chrome OS team and UK-based CMS software firm ScreenCloud have jointly released findings from extensive survey research about using digital signage for workplace communications, with the crowd confirming digital signage significantly improves employee engagement, motivation and performance. The survey done in Q4 2023 simultaneously polled both decision-makers and employees from larger manufacturing, logistics, transportation …
ISE 2024 Mixer Tech Provider Profile: Agile Queue Platform Provider Moviik Enabling Easy, Swift Guest Check-Ins January 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Unless something kooky happens, we really, really should finally have kiosks handling check-ins at the Sixteen:Nine mixer come Monday night in Barcelona, ahead of ISE next week. I tried at DSE in late 2022, but the suppliers turned out to be knuckleheads (I will will spare you the details). We had it all down and …
SignageOS Bulks Up Expert Services Capabilities Via Acquisition Of Power-User Partner SignageLab January 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Czech software firm signageOS has bulked up its ability to do custom implementations and integrations of its core products by acquiring one of its most hands-on customers Signagelab, a digital signage solutions provider and professional services company. The deal means signageOS can expand what it calls its Expert Services arm – non-standard work on …
UK University Testing Big Hologram-ish Displays For Remote Guest Lectures January 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have my doubts about some of the retail and consumer being floated by the companies who make and market those big, shower stall-sized transparent LCD displays marketed as holographic, but I can definitely buy into this plan by a UK university to enable guest lectures by people unable to physically get to the school. …
Signagelive, meldCX Pair Up For Modern Take On AI-Shaped And Triggered Messaging In Retail January 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes That oft-used phrase “everything old is new again” comes to mind reading an announcement this morning about a software company using third-party computer vision algorithms to deliver content based on the audience and moments. It’s something that probably goes back 15 years, but keeps resurfacing as the technology matures and increases in sophistication, and end-users …
Assured Systems, MediaVue Partner On ABEL: A Single SKU Hardware/Software Digital Signage Bundle January 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes A pair of companies most known for industrial computing solutions have taken the interesting step of teaming up to develop and co-market a single SKU digital signage bundle – called ABEL – that includes hardware, software and support. The ABEL digital signage platform reflects some 30 years of combined experience in the digital signage and …
STRATACACHE Now Driving More Than 100K Digital Drive-Thru Screens; Expects To Double That In Year January 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes The digital signage solutions provider STRATACACHE hit a big milestone recently, with more than 100,000 digital drive-thru displays running off its software and hardware, including outdoor displays from the company’s own final assembly facility in Ohio. The Dayton, OH company says its AMP software, Spectra media players and Elevate outdoor display enclosure solutions for the …
Samsung, Chevron Testing AI-Driven Virtual Advisor For Buying Wine … At A C-Store??? January 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes Buying wine at a convenience store strikes me as the kind of thing semi-desperate, had-a-bad-day people do when regular options like grocery or liquor stores are unavailable, or not on the way. C-stores aren’t really the sort of place where the buying decisions are gratefully shaped by the recommendations of a sommelier. But that’s kinda …