Display systems and digital signage that do more than fill a wall

A display system is designed, networked, configured and documented to keep showing the right content; buying screens is just the hardware. With a system, the screens are surveyed for brightness and viewing distance, connected to your network and a content management system, set to recover on their own, and handed over with drawings and training. Buy screens alone and you own panels that someone still has to wire, schedule and keep running. The difference shows up six months later, when the content is either current or still on the demo playlist.

It depends on the size, the seams you can accept and the light in the space. An LED video wall gives one continuous image at any size and high brightness, which suits feature walls, atriums and outdoor locations. A single large-format display up to about 98 inches is simpler and cheaper to run for meeting rooms, menu boards and standard signage. A tiled LCD wall costs less indoors but has thin bezel lines between panels, which is fine for a control room and less so for a brand wall.

The media players are specified to recover on their own after a power or network interruption, and they are monitored remotely so your team is alerted before a visitor notices. During commissioning we prove the recovery, not just assume it. A frozen lobby screen is almost always an unmanaged player, which is a design choice you can avoid by putting auto-recovery and monitoring in the scope.

Your team does, once a content owner is named and trained before handover. We configure the content management system, set up the playlists and zones, and hand over a simple scheduling guide and operator training. We can also manage content under a service agreement if you prefer. The failure to avoid is finishing the install with no owner named, which is how screens end up stuck on a holding slide.

Yes. Networked screens, players and IPTV outlets run on your structured cabling, and where they share the corporate network the segmentation is agreed with your IT team before any device comes online. Displays can also take an emergency-message override from the fire or building management system, so content is interrupted when it matters. These links are design decisions made before installation, not afterthoughts.

SMATV distributes satellite and terrestrial television over a coaxial network to every outlet, which is reliable and well understood. IPTV delivers the same channels plus interactive services over your data network, so a guest room or screen can show channels, hotel information and on-demand content from one platform. IPTV needs a capable network and a head-end; SMATV needs less but offers less. We size and recommend the right one against your building, channel list and the services you want to offer.