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  • Behind the World’s Busiest Airport

    How Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport leverages digital signage to facilitate travel and operations. After seeing more than 92 million passengers in 2011, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the world’s busiest airport. With two terminals, six concourses, two different train systems, a consolidated rental car facility and more than 200 gates, travelers have a lot of ground to cover. When the airport’s new expansion opened on May 16, the airport grew to seven concourses, three main passenger entrances and three baggage-claim areas.

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  • Connecting the Hype

    New interface, cable technology provide a new solution for hyperwall interconnects. The demands for display and processing of visual data in commercial, industrial, financial, aero-space and multimedia applications have led to the recent advent of powerwalls and hyperwalls. These arrays of multiple coordinated high-resolution flat-panel displays allow seamless visualization, integration, synthesis and pattern discrimination in complex and high-dimensional data spaces.

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  • Putting the Dials in the Right Spot

    Choosing the right content management system means understanding the content and environment. Content management systems allow digital signage networks to easily manage content. The traditional digital signage network is a reasonable investment, and to justify the cost of the hardware, you’ll need the right content on the right screen at the right time. Content management systems assist signage networks with editing, publishing and scheduling content. But it’s not just the system you need to worry about; it’s also the people who are involved in the process.

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  • Floored by Digital Signage

    The world’s largest flooring supplier is using digital signage to improve employee morale. The global recession hit the commercial and residential building industry hard, and the world’s biggest flooring supplier was not immune to the slowdown. Shrinking demand forced Mohawk Industries to reduce its workforce by roughly 20 percent, and the company saw morale start to slip as staff worried about their futures. In workplaces, one of the biggest contributors to employee attitudes is the quality of communications. Mohawk’s human resources department realized company methods for getting information to all staff, across all facilities, wasn’t working.

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  • Vegas Does Digital

    The bright lights of Las Vegas just got a little brighter. Up and down the strip, hotels are adding digital signage, and not in forms of marquee signs or flashier casino games. This time, the larger-than-life lights are everywhere, from the reception desk in the lobby to kiosks and terminals sprinkled throughout the properties. Digital signage is entering new arenas, and cities like Las Vegas are leading the way with unique implementation of the latest technology.

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  • A New Standard for Times Square

    One Astor Plaza, located at 1515 Broadway, is an icon in New York’s Times Square. As the headquarters of Viacom, tens of millions of people visit the building every year, and television viewers around the world recognize it as the location of MTV’s broadcast studios. In addition, the building is home to the Minskoff Theater, which hosts the Broadway production of The Lion King. For owner SL Green Realty Corp., the desire to install a groundbreaking LED video display on the building’s high-profile façade was rooted in more than just aesthetic concerns.

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  • The Rundown

    PQ Media examines the global market and trends for the digital out-of-home industry Digital signage, specifically digital out-of-home (DOOH) media, is changing the advertising world. DOOH media thrives on three equally important aspects: technology, relevant content and audience engagement. The common denominator here is social media. Just as DOOH is changing advertising, social media is changing DOOH. Businesses are turning to social media in droves to reach their customers and find new ones.

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  • Here's Your Sign

    The Future of Retail Digital Signage is Here While recently shopping for a new pair of jeans at my favorite department store, I encountered something I’ve never seen before: a small, standalone 5-inch LCD monitor that served as a shelving price tag; there was no power cable or connections. Forgetting about the jeans, I inspected the signs, which were located throughout the store, and wondered how they worked. There had to be a wireless network, but how exactly did it operate?

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  • Saving Lives

    Healthcare is one of the strongest candidates for a robust, multi-channel digital media network Of all the industries that benefit from information management, healthcare is one of the best candidates for a robust, multi-channel digital media network. The amount of information that passes among hospital administrators, doctors, staff and patients is staggering.

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  • Growth in University Adoption of Digital Signage Demands ROI Analysis

    Universities are rapidly adopting digital signage networks as an important communication tool. As Platt Retail Institute’s (PRI) Research Report entitled “Communication Effectiveness in Higher Education” illustrates, digital communication networks (DCNs) are a viable alternative to various older forms of on-campus communication. Yet little research has been conducted that quantifies the value derived by a school from this investment.

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