LG is a bit cheekily re-announcing and re-marketing the vast videowall installation at Orlando’s airport that uses some 700 of its smart display screens. It pushed out a press release this morning encouraging AV pros coming in to Orlando International Airport next week for InfoComm 2019 to have a look. […]
The flight information (FIDS) and gate information (GIDS) screens went out of service last week at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport after a ransomware attack on the passenger-facing systems. The screens went dark a week ago, and the airport’s CIO said this morning that it was still working to get them all back online. Wow! […]
An ambitious project that was intended to generate new revenues for Denver’s airport, and showcase the innovative LED technology of Panasonic, has run into big problems less than two years after it was first switched on. […]
The Indianapolis Airport Authority is activating a system that uses LiDAR-driven motion analytics to monitor and assess passenger queuing conditions at security checkpoints, and automatically push real-time updates on wait times to digital signage screens. “It’s all about the customer experience,” says Indianapolis Airport Authority Executive Director Mario Rodriguez. […]
This is a very big job that’s now lit up at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas – 60 large, 4mm pitch LED screens replacing the static OOH ad positions around the cavernous Terminal 1 baggage claim area. […]
This is a very nice, inventive projection-mapping job done at Toronto Pearson Airport for the lux vehicle, the Genesis. BIG Digital, a Toronto solutions provider that kinda sorta specializes in temporary digital signage displays, put together a custom exhibit along one of the walkways in from the parking garage to Terminal 1, the one Air Canada flies out of. […]
From a reader – This is a very large LED display board at international arrivals at Montreal’s main airport, shot this weekend. I THINK this is a media company’s display, and not the airport’s. […]
The new Istanbul Airport in Turkey, which is opening in phases, has almost 700 Samsung LCD and LED displays, with the direct view LED encompassing more than 1,000 sq. meters of visual space. The centerpieces of the install are two giant 193-sq. […]
The LAX International Terminal digital experience is a few years old now, but to the credit of the airport and JC Decaux, which has the media concession for the airport, the content is being refreshed. This is a loop showing the content being developed for the seven big display elements in the post-security part of the terminal, as developed by the Paris-based experiential content shop Admemori. […]
Drinking coffee that comes out of vending machines tends to be an act of desperation (or utter indifference), but here’s an automated coffee machine that serves up the good stuff. […]
The new terminal 2 at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport in China (Guanzhou is in the same mega-city region as Shenzhen) has a set of very impressive digital OOH and ambient media pieces in called Cultural Sky Plaza, located in the center of the pre-security check-in area. […]
If finding a free half-hour to talk is any indication, Refik Anadol is one busy, popular guy right now. That likely owes a lot to the mind-blowing data visualization work he’s been doing lately in public spaces. He’s a Turkish-born digital media artist who now has a busy studio in Los Angeles doing what he calls parametric data sculptures for public art spaces. […]
The nightmare digital signage problem at Gatwick Airport Monday was resolved around 5 PM local time, with the problem isolated to a Vodafone fiber optic cable being inadvertently cut – perhaps by a construction crew. The earlier issue with with our flight information screens in the terminals has now been resolved and flights are showing correctly. […]
A damaged connectivity cable has taken the flight information display boards offline at London Gatwick Airport today, forcing airport staff to – honest – get out the dry erase markers and scribble information on whiteboards. […]
A nine-gate, $200 million addition to Charlotte Douglas Airport, in North Carolina, opens tomorrow morning, with a main feature being some 2,000 sq. ft. of visualized data on several vast fine-pitch LED video walls. […]
