As multiple industries turn to digital signage to deliver low-cost, real-time information and promotional messages to their targeted market, embedded design teams must be ready to integrate this media-centric technology into new or existing products.  Digital signs are extremely flexible and can be used for product demonstrations, store directions, and can be updated as needed to promote items based on the time of day or even the weather. With the proper sensors and analysis software, digi...Read More

Outdoor advertizing signs, also called billboards, are ubiquitous in many countries. The United States has more than 500,000 billboards in place along the nation’s highways. Historically, outdoor and indoor advertising in commercial settings has been updated and maintained by sign painters and sign installers. Now improvements in electronics hardware technology and software have improved the capabilities of the traditional signage application, and added creative new opportunities in the d...Read More

The digital signage market is constantly pushing for solutions with lower cost.  Today the focus of cost-reduction efforts focuses heavily on up-front hardware costs.  While up-front costs are certainly important, they represent only a portion of a system’s total cost of ownership (TCO).  To minimize TCO, signage developers and end customers alike must consider a system’s reliability, longevity, and manageability.  In this blog we’ll explain how these facto...Read More