19/02: Confex Preview
Our stand (G621) is covered in digital signage screens showing off dynamic wayfinding, meeting room signs/booking, touchscreens and electronic notice boards and we've had our work cut out putting together all of the kit to drive them - we even had to roll a new MediaCAT operating system to drive some brand new embedded screens!
With Confex being aimed at people in the events and hotel business, we wanted to show off our Wayfinding solution which we installed at
Novotel London West last year.
We've placed several 42" LCD screens in portrait mode around the stand acting as wayfinders - one of them showing actual show signage and seminar details. We have two 15" LCD panels embedded into meeting room doors, plus several other general purpose screens built into the stand. We also have a rather nice looking touchscreen and a brand new 22" LCD screen with embedded MediaCAT digital signage player.
To make life more complicated, the meeting room screens also control red/green strip lights mounted above the doors to show when the room is booked/available and we also have a radio controlled keyfob which can be used to make all the screens on the stand display a simulated evacuation message at the press of a button.
Thats a lot of digital signage kit and a lot of content! Normally we'd drive all of the screens using our MC400 MediaCAT Digital Signage player, but due to space constraints, we've had to use some smaller boxes - along with the embedded screen, the touchscreen and the wayfinders, that means we have a total of six different hardware platforms in use! So far, everything has worked really well in the office - we'll find out on Monday setup if we remembered to pack all the right cables!
Confex runs from 23rd to 25th February 2010 at Earls Court 1 - to find out more about our Digital Signage, Dynamic Wayfinding and Meeting Room Sign solutions, please visit us at stand G621 - mention the TechBlog and we'll even give you a free coffee and danish!
