Digital Signage Software

Navori Brings Out its QL 2.1 Software

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First shown at ISE 2019 and soon at Digital Signage Expo, Navori brings out its QL 2.1 software, with new features to capture the trend of greater intelligence in digital signage today.

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The QL 2.1 software release also extends Navori’s System on a Chip (SoC) interoperability to new platforms, adds IPR technology-- and introduces Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) support for the first time.

“Navori is amplifying the power of data in digital signage for more sophisticated needs such as audience analytics, inventory tracking, room scheduling and emergency notification,” says Jeffrey Weitzman, MD, Navori. “Our customers want content to be dynamic and responsive as opposed to being pre-planned and scheduled. The QL 2.1 digital signage software release delivers that flexibility.”

Navori will directly address these trends with its new conditional playback and triggering software. The application leverages data-tagging of media assets, players and scenarios, along with real-time data integration with systems. For example, now retailers can use inventory levels or deliveries to base decisions on what to play on specific screens in stores. Or they can be remove a sales promotion from digital signage playlists if inventory levels run low—or set a threshold that triggers the promotional spot to expire.

Navori’s new conditional triggering capabilities will analyze data sets and respond with relevant content based on what’s happening at the moment. For the end user, there is no need for extra programming or to face complex technical operations.

Other new features for QL 2.1 on demonstration at Digital Signage Expo included:

Navori’s “wow factor” in QL 2.1 is its IPR technology, which drives 8K video walls or four clusters of 4K digital signage displays from a single media player. IPR uses only 20% of the CPU when displaying 8K content due to its efficient processing power, and can frame-accurately synchronize with any content type, including HTML5 and tickers, since the entire workflow is centralized on one workstation.

Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Support: To be introduced for the first time at DSE, QL 2.1 now supports the XML-based data format for CAP, which exchanges public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies.

New mobile interaction app: that streamlines digital signage content management for businesses and organizations.

The QL 2.1 software release extends Navori’s native support for SoC displays to LG’s webOS platform.

“The mobile interaction app is an especially exciting development that extends the potential pool of content contributors, and makes it easy to update content from iOS and Android devices,” notes Jerome Moeri, CEO, Navori. “Pre-defined control reduces the number of steps it takes to review, manage and publish digital signage content, which ensures that content and messaging is fresher, more dynamic and quickly up-to-date.”

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NoviSign Adds LG’s webOS SoC Platform

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NoviSign’s cloud-based digital signage software has been tested and verified for compatibility with LG Electronics’ webOS for Signage system-on-a-chip (SoC) digital signage platform.

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This eliminates the need for an external media player, reducing the initial cost of ownership.

“NoviSign’s comprehensive set of web-based tools gives LG webOS commercial display customers exceptional capabilities to develop and manage outstanding digital signage installations,” says Clark Brown, vice president, digital signage, LG Electronics U.S.A. Business Solutions.ship.

With the completion of phase 1 testing, users can now use NoviSign’s digital signage solution to remotely design, update and manage digital signage content for webOS-enabled LG commercial displays from any computer at any time. 

Supported functionality includes:

  • All-In-One: access to NoviSign’s cloud-based online Studio editor, drag & drop widgets, dynamic content scheduling, media performance statistics, an analytics dashboard, player status reporting and multi-user admin control
  • Cloud-Based: no on-premise server’s, no complicated software installations, no intricate IT support
  • Online Studio Editor: design, edit and update your digital signage content
  • TV Capture: add a zone streaming live TV or cable
  • Text Widget: incorporate zones of announcements, information or other text
  • Images and Video Widget: add an unlimited combination of HD images and videos
  • Dynamic Content Scheduling: day w/time, dayparting, recurring dates
  • Professional Templates: full library of premium templates that can be edited and customized
  • White label reseller: completely unbranded white label website with wholesale license pricing

NoviSign has helped deploy more than 20,000 screens, covering 5 continents. Some of NoviSign clients include Disney, Ikea, Dole, NASA, Nokia, Papa John’s Pizza and more.

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RMG Launches WayView for Interactive Wayfinding

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RMG WayView is a wayfinding software designed to help visitors easily find their way between floors and buildings-- and to help building owners and operators maximize their tenants’ engagement with the service. WayView can easily be managed by an organisation’s designated administrator. With its simple 3-step process that does not require any coding (Create. Route. Publish), anyone can keep your WayView solutions up-to-date in a matter of minutes.

The advanced path finding feature allows administrators to create multiple, customised paths and provides your visitors the convenient option of receiving their paths via text message.

If you are using RMG’s Korbyt, WayView is completely integrated with RMG’s state-of-the-art visual communications CMS platforms, Korbyt and ES. You can make WayView an integral part of your enterprise wide communications strategy and manage your cross-platform digital signage networks from one central location any time and from anywhere through the cloud.

Or you can run it as a stand-alone.

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Either way RMG understands that wayfinding can be much more than a tool to guide people around a venue or premises: WayView is built to allow flexible integrations with any third party system or database including SMS, Bluetooth, NFC, wi-fi, websites, mobile beacons, advertising platforms and the Korbyt ES and CMS platforms.

It allow users to request and receive information directly in their email or mobile phone. Connect people’s routes to live promotions, e-commerce shops and online shopping carts for a seamless retail experience. Banner and full screen advertising within WayView provides a powerful tool to put brands in the spotlight.

WayView also serves as a customer acquisition tool by allowing visitors to opt-in to store specific loyalty programs for permission-based marketing activities.

WayView’s multi-touch interface provides users with familiar touch-screen experiences for easy navigation.

Here are some of the features that make Wayview a versatile enterprise solution for retail malls, hotels/resorts/spas, theme parks, events and trade shows, smart cities, airports, ports and stations, colleges and universities, corporate campuses…

  • Multiple end points: Run the solution on stand alone or connected screens, kiosks, interactive LED displays or any possible visual end point that best suits your venue and communications strategy.
  • 2D, 2.5D as well as 3D visuals: RMG’s team of visual design experts provides detailed 2D, 2.5D or 3D mapping of the venue in detail.
  • Mobile compatible: Send live location based instructions straight to visitors mobile phone and provide them with the ability to design their perfect efficient journey. Visitors can also use the WayView mobile app for increased usability.
  • Fully Interactive: Allow visitors to fully interact with the WayView system and receive any additional information they desire as well as leave comments for their peers. Embed social media for an even more immersive experience.
  • Multi-lingual interface: The WayView system is standard available in a wide range of languages making a global implementation quick and cost-effective.
  • Events management: WayView provides a very clear and easy to use events calendar informing people in a dynamic and pro-active way of current and upcoming interesting events
  • Multimodal Navigation: Create alternate routes based on specific user characteristics, such as wheel chair friendly itineraries for example.
  • Built in advertising engine:With robust built-in advertising capabilities, IVS WayView allows owners to incorporate store or dynamic promotional information, including special offers and events, along a visitor’s route.

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What‘s New in Korbyt 1.2.5 Update?

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Korbyt

Korbyt is on the GO again with another software update. Fast on the heels of their January 1.2 release, Korbyt 1.2.5 introduces a host of new features and enhancements for the digital signage and mobile extensions of Korbyt.

The latest release packs in many UI/UX enhancements, features to meet customer requirements and strategic features that provide innovation to the platform.

The 1.2.5 update introduces these new features for the mobile extension of the platform, KorbytGO.

•A new Gamification feature set for KorbytGO lets administrators increase employee adoption and engagement with the mobile app.

•Making KorbytGO even more scalable for administrators, a new feature lets you add new bulk user provisioning features.

•Push Content to Digital Signage: the new feature allows administrators to utilize a KorbytGO mini-app (GO-TO) as a content publishing tool for Korbyt powered digital signage.

Korbyt Platform

The 1.2.5 update added features to Korbyt that make digital signage content creation, content scheduling and network management easier, more scalable and even more enterprise friendly.

•A massive new Playlist Triggers feature allows Korbyt content administrators to easily use information from real-time data feeds as triggers to make dynamic playlist content changes.

•RMG added a new bulk player provisioning feature for more scalability when integrating a large network of devices into Korbyt. There is practically no end to the number of devices that network administrators can now integrate in a growing enterprise.

•Korbyt's Layout Interactive Button Element improves usability by now allowing content authors to select from the new Quick Actions menu to designate interactive actions and destinations.

This requires no coding and makes the interactive creation experience faster and easier for all levels of Korbyt users.

•The new Media Library feature allows content to automatically expire in Playlists, making content publishing for large networks quicker and easier.

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ClearOne Shows Upgraded View Pro Software at DSE

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A software upgrade to ClearOne’s VIEW Pro solution makes it easier to configure AV over IP streaming platforms for full power of any enterprise digital signage system.

ClearOne built the solution to configure streams, signal routing across a large installation and assign IP addresses. It also comes with a web-based GUI, so installers can manage the system from a web browser. Users can also purchase optional software licenses for video walls, video composition and local playback with the solution.

"The ClearOne View Pro solution is the key to unleashing the full power of any digital signage system," says Lewis Eig, ClearOne sales director of network video and audio distribution. "In fact, View Pro delivers the highest quality multimedia streaming on any existing IP network and our new software upgrade makes it easier than ever to configure a system design that enables users to experience the ultimate in 4:4:4, true-color media distribution that is unmatched in scalability and ease of deployment."

A convenient web-based GUI is now available for installers to access from a web browser. Also, the configuration tools on CONSOLE software have been organized and redesigned for intuitive and simplified set-ups.

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RMG Networks Launches Korbyt

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Korbyt

RMG Networks launches an advanced enterprise Content Management System (CMS) platform, Korbyt.

RMG designed and built this new CMS platform from their own experience serving the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100: that’s why the company says Korbyt offers a range of unique core features that make it "the most flexible and adaptable digital signage solution available in the market."

The platform is built from the perspective of the user’s challenges, preferences and objectives based on research on what CMS users are (or are not) looking for in the perfect CMS platform.

The idea is that Korbyt (with a modern flexible architecture) sets itself apart from other platforms by tailoring itself to the user’s needs. The new Channel Director in Europe for RMG Networks, Justin Peyton, will be looking for partners for the platform.

Korbyt is available as standard or premium enterprise version. Korbyt is also available as a cloud SaaS or on-premise solution so the partners can target any size of organisation and usage pattern, from small to medium size as well as large organisations.

The platform supports the most popular web technologies (including HTML5 and CSS) and runs JavaScript (works with any JavaScript-based technology).

The company emphasizes how important it is for users to be able to create/produce content once-- and then publish it on a large number of different types of end points, regardless of time and location.

Especially of interest is Korbyt's ability to bring different types of content to mobile devices. Korbyt provides mobile applications for both iOS and Android mobile operating systems, allowing administrators to target and reach their audience wherever they are, regardless of device. These applications will consume Korbyt-generated content, messages and notifications managed by Korbyt’s mobile CMS module. Korbyt works with Windows, Linux, Android, Tizen, Chrome... and others.

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Korbyt customization

Korbyt's goal is to be the most intuitive, straightforward, easy and enabling CMS to operate: and Korbyt does let users create a playlist in as few as 5 steps, a lot faster than many other digital signage CMS platforms.

The Korbyt user interface can be customized by the client. It also provides users with advanced tools for custom application development and data integrations developed by the RMG professional services and design teams. Korbyt can connect to a very wide range of third party systems and platforms.

Built on a new data graphing engine, Korbyt Data Adapters support simple and complex data integrations.

Korbyt is able to collect, aggregate, structure, store, and dynamically display huge content and data sets from many different disparate sources in unified and actionable visuals. In the new era for Big Data, Korbyt lets users target their customers based on logical metadata, analytics, and user/viewer behaviors in real-time or near-real-time.

Users can remotely monitor, update, and control the media player hardware. Via intelligent system monitoring and optimisation features, Korbyt boosts a network’s ecosystem’s efficiency and usability, avoiding and reducing any down-time and optimising output quality and performance. Korbyt provides 24/7 around the globe with its own support offices in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.


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Korbyt features

For even a very large number of users, RMG can custom configure specific user roles to provide 100% fit between the user structure and the organisation's objectives and working processes. Administrators are given the right set of tools to guarantee smooth and correct message delivery at all times.

Speaking about the launch, Robert Michelson, President and Chief Executive Officer of RMG says “The launch of Korbyt marks a step forward when it comes to managing a digital signage network as you can publish and manage content on just about any platform. With the digital signage industry evolving so rapidly, and new technology providing organisations with new ways to speak to whoever is consuming its content, it’s important organisations feel empowered in terms of how they manage that communication. Being highly adaptable and making it easy to share content across multiple platforms we’re confident that Korbyt will prove to be invaluable to organisations.”

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First Major Public Demo of Cabletime’s Creator

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Cabletime Creator

Cabletime will show at ISE 2017 its new content creation software, Creator, designed to allow users to build digital signage assets.

Creator enables corporate livery, text, full HD images and live video streams to be incorporated into digital signage designs.

Visitors can also see the full range of digital signage templates, inspiration galleries, backgrounds, RSS feeds, web clips and content ideas.

Creator works hand-in-hand with the MediaStar 782 DS media player, which delivers rich HTML support, live IPTV streams or video playout as well as full multizone digital signage capabilities. This will be featured on the stand alongside the most recent additions and development to Cabletime’s MediaStar Lancaster Gateways, Encoders and other Chassis blade products.

The MediaStar LAN-Caster Gateway range provides customers and integrators with the ability to receive live TV feeds off-air or via satellite or cable feed, convert and route those streams onto an IP network and manage and direct multiple IP streams to specific end points based on rules created in MediaStar Media Manager. It also has the ability to route and convert multi-cast streams to unicast and vice versa.

The solutions on show will include the Multi Tuner (Multi-Mux) LAN-Caster Gateway, the IP Multi-Mux Gateway and the IP Re-Caster. The whole MediaStar system provides an end-to-end 4K workflow for IPTV and digital signage using Cabletime’s Media Manager software.

Shaun Oxenham, CEO at Cabletime, adds: “We also expect to be making some new announcements at the event, designed to further enhance the IPTV and digital streaming abilities of our customers around the world….”

The MediaStar range provides TV/AV and multimedia distribution products primarily for medium to large enterprises, such as live TV, corporate communications, multicasts, music TV, training and digital signage.

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VITEC Marries Broadcast-Grade Integrated IPTV with Digital Signage Platform

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VITEC's EZ TV 8.0 platform

VITEC announces the worldwide launch of its integrated IPTV and digital signage platform. The latest generation of VITEC's EZ TV platform enhances the turnkey system with comprehensive digital signage capabilities, allowing organizations to create eye-catching digital signs, centrally manage IPTV and signage content from a single interface, and automate video streaming workflows and signage campaigns.

The platform utilizes powerful hardware-based IPTV and signage end-points that provide low latency 1080p60 playback and the reliability required for large-scale deployments.

"With the latest enhancements we have set the bar high in terms of ease of deployment, performance, user experience, reliability, and cost," says Eli Garten, VP of IPTV & Enterprise Video Solutions at VITEC. "We're thrilled with the amazing success we've had so far with EZ TV 8.0, including its recent deployment at the brand-new Golden1 Center in Sacramento, USA. The EZ TV platform is quickly becoming the new standard for IPTV and signage projects in sports venues and enterprise facilities."

The new EZ TV 8.0 platform delivers benefits for IPTV users from low-latency playback, real-time updating of electronic program guide, video-on-demand content with new assets updating while events take place, time-shifted TV, live video access from PCs and mobile devices, and user-controlled mosaic viewing of multiple channels.

VITEC's IPTV and signage end-points feature discrete hardware processes for video and graphics, supporting the most complex digital signs that blend live streams, video files, social networking widgets, and dynamically updated data including sports scores, calendars, and catering menus.

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easescreen Announces Technical Partnership with SES

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easescreen, manufacturer of digital signage solutions, and SES-imagotag, a digital solutions specialist for physical retail and the world leader in electronic labelling systems, have agreed to collaborate on a global scale-- making use of the complementary synergies between their innovative hardware and software products and tapping into new global markets.

The SES-imagotag solution automates time-consuming and risk-prone tasks such as price changes or paper-based signage. SES-imagotag’s e-paper labels provide anyone with up-to-date information and advanced interactivity thanks to their integrated NFC chips. This plug-and-play system has many applications in retail, and in digital signage such as marking conference or hotel rooms, automating seat-reservation systems for public transport, or displaying patient information in hospitals.

easescreen is a powerful modular Digital Signage software with an intuitive and user-friendly user interface. With easescreen digital advertising and information systems can be created, managed and distributed comfortably for any number of networked displays on an individual basis. The audiovisual and interactive media content can be controlled, scheduled and updated automatically and/or manually in real-time - from one’s workplace as well as from mobile devices.

“SES imagotag will be an important partner for our global digital signage activities,” emphasizes Gerhard Pichler, CEO of easescreen. “easescreen and SES-imagotag represent an unbeatable combination of high-performance digital signage software and high-quality plug & play display systems. Our focus in the continued development of easescreen is on an open, future-oriented software architecture with interfaces and expandability for a diverse range of applications. Our top priority is to offer our customers flexible and custom solutions that are the best in their class is.”

“SES-imagotag has built a strong international network of partners in recent years. With easescreen, we’re getting a partner on board with strong experience in digital signage. easescreen’s promising references make us believe that this will be a truly successful cooperation between these two Graz-based technology companies,” adds Eberhard Steinort, Head of International Partner Support.

The international resellers of easescreen and SES-imagotag will work very close together in the individual countries worldwide.

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