LG Electronics has already spearheaded in the fields of electronics, communication equipment and home appliances. In the digital signage field, which has been developed since 2012, we have strengthened our leading position in providing the most innovative products in the world. Digital signage solutions are designed with a focus on a deep understanding of industries, and customer convenience. Integrated solutions ranging from content management, service to maintenance are delivered.
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The What: 22Miles is releasing Digital Signage Ready (DSR), a portfolio of ready-built software and service bundles that allow for quick setup and deployment of the most popular digital signage experiences. DSR encompasses entry-level digital and interactive signage software and content management features that are ready-to-customize, ready-to-bundle, and ready-to-deploy.
The What Else: The DSR SaaS portfolio consists of a content management system with numerous application sets, widgets, stylish templates, and a white glove support service that is designed to set customers up for success. Customers can choose from a wide range of project examples for their respective industry and application; easily re-brand and edit the content; then drag-and-drop the content and widgets to customize to their liking.
22Miles’ DSR also includes white glove service to assist customers with project setup, training and deployment, content development, and data assistance. The DSR software bundles are installed on a growing list of DSR certified hardware and operating systems and includes tech support and cloud hosting for seamless operation. 22Miles partners with hardware manufacturer partners—like Intel, Crestron, LG, Samsung, Mimo, Iadea, and BrightSign—so adding DSR to existing and new systems alike is streamlined.
The Bottom Line: With a robust range of applications that get customers up and running within minutes, 22Miles says DSR relieves integrators, AV/IT and facility managers, and decision-makers from the costs and complications associated with proprietary design and content management. Built on the 22Miles platform, DSR offers future-proof scalability and growth potential as building and customer needs change, according to the company
Panasonic has not been an overly visible player in the North American digital signage ecosystem for many years, but the Japanese visual systems and electronics manufacturer is taking a focused run at the business with what it is calling a Complete Digital Signage Solution.
The company has announced what could be called a turnkey solution that covers displays, related hardware, software and services, and suggesting it covers everything from corporate and retail to Houses of Worship.
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The AT&T Discovery District in downtown Dallas is one of the more ambitious experiential digital projects out there – in the U.S. or globally – with a big reason being the focus from the inception on coming up with something that was more than just the technology circus coming to town.
Telecoms giant AT&T engaged the huge global design firm Gensler to come up with a cohesive, visually exciting design concept for not only its headquarters building in Dallas, but for the area surrounding it – delivering a destination and talking point.
There is a massive LED media wall on the corner of one building, what Gensler calls digital trellises on the urban office campus plaza, and more LED on the walls, support columns and even the ceiling of the head office lobby. That’s coupled with synchronized lighting and something that sounds a bit like a show control system.
It’s super-impressive, and it cost more than a couple of bucks to build, and to sustain. The first wave of creative includes digital art from some of the top people in the field, from Refik Anadol to Moment Factory.
I had a chance to speak with two of the key people behind the project – Justin Rankin, director of Gensler’s Digital Experience Design Studio, and Dana Hamdan, the Project Manager on the project.
As face-to-face interaction becomes less of a priority in the marketplace, organizations of all types are reconsidering the ways they communicate with their customers. In many cases, they’re incorporating large-format displays to accomplish the task.
July’s D=SIGN Power Hour panel addressed multi-display & video wall content creation with moderator Paul Fleuranges of the Digital Signage Federation. Experts Daniel Hurtado of Userful, Digital Signage Creative Director Jim Nista, and Bryan Meszaros of OpenEye Global.
Display signage for retail qsr is the highest capital cost (aka big potato), albeit by themselves low margin
Selling those though often means selling a bunch of “small potatoes”, many with much higher profit
As Haynes sums it up — Recurring SaaS CMS revenue is the gift that keeps on giving.
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If you are active on the software side of digital signage, you’ve undoubtedly seen Samsung evolving its MagicINFO software from a low or no-cost add-on for small jobs to a full-featured enterprise platform that competes against pure-play CMS software companies.
LG has also had a product called SuperSign in the market for more than a decade, and that display manufacturer is also now marketing a full-featured product. The interesting wrinkle with LG is that it is touting a turnkey solution for QSR that includes built-in capabilities like queue management, open API POS integration and back of house workflow solutions.
It’s called SuperSign QSR, and it LOOKS like it is all in-house, as opposed to partnerships with third parties that specialize in things like queue management.
BenQ debuted its ST02 Smart Signage Display Series aimed at hybrid meeting spaces. Also, its new DVY Series video cameras are shipping and include the DVY21 1080p webcam, the DVY22 4K camera and the PTZ-based DVY23 camera. They are also available as a smart videoconferencing bundle with the ST02 meeting room display series.
BenQ’s DVY Series cameras are USB and include an 88-degree field of view, omnidirectional microphones with noise suppression and automatically adjust to lighting conditions. The USB 3.0 DVY22 4K is a 126-degree, wide-angle conference camera for midsize meeting rooms with 4x digital zoom, AI-powered auto framing and dual-stream support features.
Built for AV systems, the DVY23 is a 1080p PTZ conference camera with 20x optical zoom; an option of USB 3.0, HDMI, 1GbE with PoE and 3G-SDI video outputs; RTSP and RTMP streaming support; an array of control ports, including RS-232, RS-422, RS-485 and LAN; and remote controls to ensure compatibility with any existing control protocol utilized in the room.
The 4K UHD ST02 Series displays combine BenQ’s signage, display and collaboration technology, including InstaShare 2 wireless presentation systems, Device Management System (DMS), Account Management System (AMS), OPS slot, digital signage and whiteboard features. The displays are compatible with mainstream videoconferencing platforms, including Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and Cisco Webex.
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FAIRFAX, VA – Nov. 18, 2021 – AVIXA, the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 AV Experience Awards. This awards program recognizes the innovative integration of content, space, and audiovisual technology to enrich experiences.
“We are witnesses to incredible AV experiences every day, as we work, play, and interact in the world,” said Joé Lloyd, Senior Director of Communications, AVIXA. “The winners of the AV Experience Awards are the creators of those experiences, breathing new life into art, education, collaboration, and so much more. Congratulations to the 2021 winners for elevating the craft of AV.”
In the spring of 2020, LuminArtz teamed up with Pamela Hersch, a local video artist and technologist, to create “Light Up the Night” at the Wenham Museum in Massachusetts. To continue celebrating local history while allowing for social distancing, the team created a 30-minute projection mapping exhibit on the exterior of the museum, featuring stunning visuals celebrating childhood, connecting generations, and honoring heritage. The exhibit was powered by Sharp NEC Display laser projectors, and while each projector provided 10,000 lumens, the outdoor nature of the project required an even higher level of brightness. This was achieved through a stacking configuration, which allowed three projectors to focus on the same area to increase the brightness of the image. The installation was also livestreamed on Facebook and Instagram to help connect the community during the time of restricted personal and physical connection.
BARTKRESA studio created an 8-foot, cube-shaped sculpture that artists could projection map as part of a socially distant projection arts festival. The studio held a 7-week virtual workshop with 50 participants from 18 countries to compose the content for the animated show for the sculpture Hako. During the remote video workshops, BARTKRESA studio utilized virtual backgrounds as one of the methods for participants to collaborate. The participants prepared their virtual backgrounds by using their designs of Hako. This created excitement and motivation for the participants as they were able to see the progress of designs via their virtual backgrounds. The result was a transformation of Hako into a 360-degree projection-mapped art piece that showed a simple shape in new, inspired ways.
Crayola IDEAworks: The Creativity Exhibition is a sprawling 17,000 square-foot interactive experience that premiered at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute in early 2021. This marks the brand’s first-ever traveling exhibition, which focuses on tapping into the innate talent and ingenuity of its participants. Upon entering the experience, visitors choose an avatar and scan their RFID wristband to capture their interactions throughout the more than 25 exhibits for a completely personalized experience. Participants answer questions, collect badges, create solutions, and solve challenges that showcase their creative style.
Located in the Area15 complex in Las Vegas, Omega Mart is an interactive art installation created by Meow Wolf, featuring contributions from over 300 artists. It begins in what is ostensibly a supermarket, leading to a network of media-rich spaces and storytelling that comments on consumerism and corporate culture. The adventure is open-ended and self-guided.
The Port of Vancouver Discovery Centre serves multiple arms of the Port Authority, offering a space that converts from visitor Discovery Centre to education centre, to town hall meeting space, to event venue, and at times, all in the same 24 hours. Eos Lightmedia helped transform the Port of Vancouver Discovery Centre into a highly flexible space through the integration of interactive panels, projection mapping surfaces, digital informational kiosks, and broadcast-quality equipment.
Grandscape, built on more than 400 acres in Dallas, Texas, features entertainment, restaurants, residential, and office space. Electrosonic and Barnycz Group collaborated to design and integrate engaging and visually stunning multimedia displays that inform and entertain Grandscape’s retail space visitors. This is accomplished with a 43-foot tower made up of 4,000 LED video tiles, a 35-foot kaleidoscope created with 432 LED tiles, and a projection-mapped fountain.
Award entries were submitted by various team members involved in the project, whether project originator, creative or technology agency, or the customer. This includes brand agencies, experience design firms, AV consultants, designers and integrators, AV manufacturers, and others.
With the support of like-minded industry organizations across the globe, including the Association of Luxury Suite Directors, Hospitality Technology Next Generation, and European University Information Systems Organization, the AV Experience Awards program provides promotional support to project award finalists and winners in targeted vertical markets.
AVIXA is the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association, producer of InfoComm trade shows around the world, co-owner of Integrated Systems Europe, and the international trade association representing the audiovisual industry. Established in 1939, AVIXA has more than 20,000 enterprise and individual members, including manufacturers, systems integrators, dealers and distributors, consultants, programmers, live events companies, technology managers, content producers, and multimedia professionals from more than 80 countries. AVIXA members create integrated AV experiences that deliver outcomes for end users. AVIXA is a hub for professional collaboration, information, and community, and is the leading resource for AV standards, certification, training, market intelligence, and thought leadership. Visit avixa.org.
Gable shows up in many projects that we see albeit digital signage as a rule. They did project in Colorado for Simon Outlet Malls around the corner from us. The Colorado sun in the afternoon can be quite the blinding heat. Visual Solution Provider might be good description. Gable uses AcquireDigital for wayfinding kiosk software in instances.
In Brief:
Prefaced with industry in the midst of radical change
Typical AV intergrators contrasted with ad companies like JCDecaux and Clear Channel
Telling stories and create emotion piggybacked fine pitch LED screens
“Fourth Screen” idea with TVs, PCs, Mobiles and now digital signage
Influencing consumers at the point of decision (the continued hunt for hard ROI continues…)
Loyalty programs with touchscreen offers to interact
About the Writer
Stephen Gottlich is the Senior Vice-President of Innovation and Strategy at the Baltimore visual solutions firm Gable. Gable works with some of the world’s leading organizations, real estate developers, architects, and builders, providing visual solutions that attract, connect, engage and direct people to properties, buildings, places, and spaces through the integration of architectural and graphic elements that include signs, digital displays, audiovisual, media and lighting.
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Gable deploys twin screen mall kiosk — From Sixteen:Nine –The retail-centric solutions company Gable has deployed an interesting double display in an Ohio shopping mall that uses one screen for navigation and directory lookup, and a second for DOOH advertising.The company, based in the Baltimore area, says the display unit is the first of its kind, and I can’t say I’ve seen something like this. I HAVE seen mall displays in the UAE that had a big DOOH poster display and a much smaller display kind of flanking it. But this is a BIG landscape mode display set up in a drafting table orientation, with another, equally large display in portrait mode above it.
The display is at the Polaris Shopping Center in Columbus, Ohio and the units are running UK-based Acquire’s wayfinding and signage system software. Gable gets its screens custom-made in China by a longtime partner.
