First Arriving Breaks Off Digital Signage Services As Standalone Business March 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Virginia digital signage company focused on solutions for first responders – like police and fire departments – has taken the interesting step of spinning out its SaaS-based services as a standalone business. First Arriving IO will focus on rapidly scaling its existing dashboard and data infrastructure services while the parent company, First Arriving LLC, …
Elevator Manufacturing Giant Schindler Launches Own Screen Network In Its Installed Buildings March 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Via German content partner Invidis … The big elevator equipment manufacturers have seen media start-ups equip their commercial and residential cabs with screens for more than 20 years, but have largely stayed out of the direct media business. Now there’s word that one of the largest global manufacturers, Switzerland’s Schindler, has created the Schindler Media …
More Supply Chain Issues: Electronics Factory Hub Shenzhen Locked Down For (At Least) A Week March 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes As much as we all want to wish the pandemic away and go back to normal, COVID-19 continues to be a serious problem both for health and business. The latest big knock comes out of China, where lockdowns are again impacting the supply chain for electronics components. The local government of Shenzhen has locked the …
Electronic Shelf Labels Being Used In Big Retail To Drive Donations For Ukraine Relief Efforts March 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes There is lots of evidence of the digital OOH media community stepping up to support what’s going in Ukraine through free media on digital billboards and things like sidewalk ad totems. But now there’s a way to offer support and trigger donations in mass merchandise and grocery retail, using electronic shelf labels (ESLs). The firm …
OOH Media Vet Kym Frank Added To Digital Signage Federation Board March 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes OOH media veteran Kym Frank has been added to the board of the non-profit Digital Signage Federation (DSF), taking over for another board member to fully meet the commitment. Frank has some 20 years of experience and insights in the OOH/DOOH sector, and brings the benefit of being super-smart and hyper-connected. She is currently the …
Global Public Display Demand Almost Back To Pre-COVID Levels: Omdia March 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes Shipments of public displays – the terminology used in legit research circles for digital signage displays – have almost come back to pre-COVID levels, according to new numbers from the market research firm Omdia. Research analyst Tay Taehoon Kim on Omdia pushed out a brief on Linkedin that says global public display shipments grew 10.2% …
OnLogic Debuts Industrialized Raspberry Pi Micro PCs March 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes Math nerds would know that this is Pi Day, which celebrates the mathematical constant Pi … which is something that evidently winds up math nerds. So … Happy Pi Day! I note this because the New England industrial PC firm OnLogic has chosen the day to announce a new, finished product built around the Raspberry …
UK Custom Display Firm Literally An Anomaly For Market Focus March 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of my takeaways from the last pro AV trade show I was at – a couple of years ago now – was how there were one hell of a lot of companies selling indoor and outdoor display totems, all seemingly chasing the limited markets of DOOH advertising and campus and mall directories. A UK …
Need To Hide Electronics For A Digital Signage Screen? Stick Them In A Drawer. March 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes Product innovation tends to be subtle and incremental in categories like flat panel and LED mounting hardware, and it’s hard (trust me here) to write something interesting about new variations on articulating arms and micro-adjustment thingies. But I came across what seems like an interesting approach to the challenge of tucking media players and other …
New Broadsign Hire Adds Serious Subject Matter Expertise To EU Team March 10, 2022 by Dave Haynes Non-exec level hires don’t tend to get chronicled on Sixteen:Nine because the analytics reliably show few readers are interested. But once in a while there are new appointments that are interesting and notable. In this case, a company is bringing on serious subject matter expertise. Broadsign has hired on Savvas Tombouloglou as an account executive …
