Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jin Fan, ClearLED December 6, 2017 by Super User One of my big takeaways from the trade show circuit earlier this year was my conclusion that transparent LED was starting to look really good. If you’re not with me on what that is, think LED displays that are a bit reminiscent of window blinds, with the LED lights on the louvers. What you end …
A Queue Management Digital Signage Solution … For Washrooms December 5, 2017 by Super User Spotted by a reader on Reddit … Somewhere in South Korea, there’s a bathroom that has mashed up IoT sensors and digital signage to create what amounts to a queue management system and dashboard for washrooms. This smart toilet information system, set up in a men’s washroom, shows in a graphical display how many toilet …
A Boston College Turns Renovation Tarp On One Building Into Giant Digital Canvas December 4, 2017 by Super User A college building on the corner of Boston Common has a big, white tarp covering the facade for the next 18 months – as it undergoes rears and renovations – so that very large piece of cloth has been turned into a massive projection canvas. Emerson College has projectors blasting visuals from what looks to …
Fine Pitch LED Walls Used For Barneys’ Trippy Holiday Shop Windows December 4, 2017 by Super User Barneys New York has developed a reputation for doing Christmas/Hanukkah season shop window displays that are well outside the holiday norm, and the retailer appears to have really gone for it this year with trippy windows developed by a pair of artist brothers. The 2017 holiday collaboration, Haas for the Holidays, was developed by Simon and Nikolai …
Here’s A Glimpse At The Crappy Digital Signage Market Analyses From A Junk Research Factory December 4, 2017 by Super User It irritates the hell out of me when I see another member of the trade press giving any attention to companies that are peddling crap research about this industry – quoting market analysts from these research factories in Pune, India who are pulling numbers out of their collective butts to forecast industry growth and value. Because I …
AdMobilize’s New AI Capabilities Enable Ad Targeting By Vehicle Types November 30, 2017 by Super User Miami-based AdMobilize has launched what it calls a Vehicle Recognition Engine – an AI-driven system that Digital OOH media planners could use to target outdoor advertising down to roadways that tend to see higher percentages of certain vehicle types. Using the information developed out of the Vehicle Recognition Engine, says the company, brands and media companies …
Already Big ISE Gets Bigger For 2018; Adds Its Own TIDE Conference November 30, 2017 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe 2018 is now just a couple of months out, and from what I am reading and hearing the already huge show is even bigger – with more halls and more educational components. I heard this week that there are tents being added outside the main entry hall of the RAI Amsterdam to …
Scala Starts Making And Marketing Branded Digital Signage Media Players November 29, 2017 by Super User Scala has started marketing a pair of branded, Windows 10-driven digital signage players as part of the company’s solution offer. While many or most digital signage CMS companies have their go-to boxes, not that many settle on and brand a specific device or set of devices as their own. There appear to be two versions of …
Video: LCD Shelf Label Strips At Gatwick Duty Free Drive 40%-50% Sales Lift November 29, 2017 by Super User A post the other day referenced shelf-edge display strips in a set of chiller fridges in the U.S., with my covering comment that I’d seen that sort of thing in trade shows but wondered if there were real-world deployments. That one was using LED strips. This one – at World Duty Free in London’s Gatwick …
Why Digital Signage At Scale Needs Enterprise Features November 29, 2017 by Super User Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix Even though digital signage can be as simple as a laptop playing a PowerPoint slideshow hooked up to a display, it’s really designed to reach large audiences. Some organizations spread out over multiple floors, multiple buildings or even multiple geographical locations. When you are operating at that scale, the basics …
