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New Digital Signage Power Hour Set For May 19th; Focus On Access Controls For New Consumer Norms

The lineup is now set for the second Digital Signage Power Hour webinar, slated for May 19th. Following up on a well-received, fun event that explored the arguments around touchscreens in the age of COVID-19, this one will also be timely – discussing the seeming explosion in display products designed to manage access into retail. […]

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Mon, May 4, 2020 at 3:44 PM

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16:9: Palmer Digital Group Develops Larger, Custom Temperature-Reading Display Stations

Numerous vendors have in recent weeks been sending me news of their company’s addition of COVID-19 access control products, and almost all of them have looked like subtle variations on a standard design – a tablet-sized display/camera combo from China that sits on a pole, attaches to a wall or sits on a counter. […]

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Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:30 AM

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Beabloo Launches Interaction Care Solution Designed To Address New Retail Norms

Numerous companies have been announcing new products – like access control and thermal sensing displays – to help run businesses in the midst of COVID-19, but Barcelona-based retail tech firm Beabloo has gone several steps further by launching a full solution designed to address a variety of needs for what may be a new norm for retail. […]

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Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 7:40 AM

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OOH and Small Business Go Together – Now More than Ever (DSConnection)

For decades, Out-of-Home (OOH) and small business have been the most steadfast of partners with the majority of OOH ads being sold to promote local businesses. This powerful, enduring partnership has taken on new and vital meaning during the current COVID-19 crisis. […]

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Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:50 AM

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16:9: Germany’s xplace Markets Smart Entrance Kit For Retail

One of the things discussed at length in the latest 16:9 Podcast, released overnight, is the use of displays, sensors and software to control foot traffic into stores and other businesses. The heads of the German consultancy invidis relate how these digital A-Frame displays are being used as a measure to limit access and meet social distancing guidelines or mandates. […]

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Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 7:42 AM

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Montreal’s Vif Communication Building Own Digital Signage Screen And Sanitizer Combo

In the last few weeks, I have noticed several companies in a variety of countries – from Israel to here in Canada – reading the marketplace and starting to market screens that are paired with a hand sanitizer dispenser. I don’t know if it is one or several manufacturers, but the design seems to have a lot of takers. […]

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Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:43 AM

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16:9: More Digital Signage Tech Companies Coming Up With Tech For Pandemic Measures

More digital signage companies are betting technology investments in the next few months will be built around pandemic measures, and marketing products that see are solutions to mostly new problems. […]

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Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:11 AM

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16:9: Touchscreen Challenges In Pandemic Times Webinar Now Available On-Demand, Via YouTube

If you missed the great AVIXA webinar the other day on the touchy issue of using and maintaining interactive, touch-driven solutions in the midst of a pandemic, you can revisit that session online, on-demand. […]

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Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 11:04 AM

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Visionect Touts E-Paper Version Of Access Control Displays

This is a different spin on the idea of access control screens outside of businesses – a podium, wall or even window-mounted e-paper display that runs off batteries. This is from Visionect, the Slovenian company that does e-paper displays and software for everything from meeting room signs to live bus stop notice and schedule signs. […]

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Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:43 AM

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16:9: Battery-Powered Sandwich Board Wheels Outside Shops To Attract, Control Foot Traffic

Predictably, writing about an emerging and suddenly hyper-relevant piece of tech has smoked out vendors who have a version on offer, and looking for customers. I wrote Wednesday about digital sandwich/sidewalk boards that are in demand to be used as access control devices for open businesses that need to restrict access based on social distancing/venue density recommendations. […]

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Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:38 AM

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16:9: Are Lowly Digital Sandwich Boards The Next Big Thing In Digital Signage?

Florian Rotberg from Munich’s invidis consultancy did a state of the industry brief on a webinar I was part of Tuesday, and he mentioned how digital signage that enables simple access control has become a red-hot customer ask in Europe. […]

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Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 6:57 AM

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16:9: AVIXA’s Latest Impact Survey Confirms Pro AV Business For Many Has Dried Up, Mass Layoffs

The latest COVID-19 Impact Survey, based on feedback last week from more than 325 Pro AV people globally, confirms what we all pretty much know – the pandemic continues to hammer businesses all over. […]

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Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:00 PM

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16:9: Beijing Subway Line Adds Transparent Digital Windows On Passenger Cars

This is a video from Beijing’s subway system, in a passenger car that has digital signage running in a window. It is on line 6, and my guess is the display is a transparent OLED. There’s no side lighting to make it LCD and the pitch is, by the looks of it, far too tight to be LED on film. […]

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Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:02 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Solution Tweaked To Enforce Social Distancing At Retail

When I load up with my sanitizer and wipes, and grab my mask, to go out on a grocery or hardware run, I almost invariably end up in a line-up outside the store – with social distancing markers on the sidewalk and a cashier turned bouncer controlling access at the door. One person leaves, and then one person goes in. […]

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Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 5:05 PM

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Diversified Partners With Aurora On VitalSign COVID-19 Screening Display Kit

The big NJ-based AV integrator Diversified tends to sell expertise and services, and re-sell gear, but in the face of a public and private landscape changed by COVID-19, has started marketing a branded physical product tuned to health safety. […]

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Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:05 AM

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