Saturday, August 9, 2014

Digital Signage Systems Are Influential And Interactive

By Tanisha Berg


Signs are created with technology, and used in a variety of ways. Digital signage systems are located in many places these days to display all sorts of information like products and services in banks, marketing promotions in large department stores, schedules on university campuses, and flight schedules in airports. These systems can be used for virtually anything, given your imagination.

These digital sign systems have many different identifications. They include narrowcasting, captive audience networks, out-of-home television, electronic billboards, or retail TV. However, even with all these names, the main goal of the signs remains the same; they seek to provide information to patrons through videos, graphics, and audio. The graphics and videos are usually very high quality, and are placed in specific areas for a target demographic. For example, they can be placed within financial institutions like banks to occupy the attention of customers and to promote certain products and services. This raises revenues for these premises and provide a lot of visibility for the services.

A lot of retailers have invested a lot of their budget to marketing with these digital systems, allowing more customers to experience more interactive and enjoyable stays on the premises. Installing these systems allows for speedy communication, impactful advertising, rise in revenue, and marketing towards certain purchases. Many other industries have also started using these signs such as the government, healthcare industries, sports venues, entertainment facilities, and public transportation.

There are many components that determine the overall structure of a digital sign. They could be installed with one or more displays, numerous media players, and content management servers. These different components could even be installed all in one device. Usually, a system will include a display and a server, all connected to a network and a media player.

You could connect a content management server to many different media players, or connect a media player to various displays. You could even have a stand-alone sign that includes all these components but doesn't utilize a network connection. Even without a network, all digital systems like these can run through different operating systems.

Using SMS systems through mobile phones, people could send messages to the displays. With Bluetooth, users can directly connect to the system and interact with the options on the screens. If the systems are additionally connected to a network, it can also allow for location-based or social media activity.

These digital signs are highly convenient with the use of remotes, while paper has to be manually replaced and might require brief travel. Since digital signs don't need replacement every time information changes, it is environmentally friendly as well. They are also much more vivid and animated than paper signs.

You should plan ahead on how your system will be handled. Make sure you know what content and messages you want to display on the monitor, and which audience you want to target. Do all this before you set up your signs, and make sure your file formats are uniform. Additionally, you should plan future content as well so you can easily implement them later.




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