FEATURE: CLOUD TECHNOLOGY
alternatives, opens up new opportunities in many fields of application. “Digital signage based on the Cloud can connect with other Cloud-based applications using remote computers to manage the combined content, rather than simply playing out pre-prepared content from a media player behind the screen, even if that is rapidly updatable and combined with live web feeds or TV,” explains Tony Davies, CEO of Visiosign UK. “Our 360 Visual Communication Platform is a modular total information system that combines digital signage, meeting room management, wayfinding and other audiovisual services within a building in an intelligent way. It draws on other IT-related Cloud applications such as Outlook and SQL to extract meaningful data. So the system will analyse a diary, create a meeting room schedule, display visitor welcome messages and wayfinding routes on screens in the building. “Beyond that, multi- location organisations, for
example, can show real-time operational performance data and sales figures as well as utility consumption rates for individual buildings/sites against global targets and levels, issue articles of interest across the whole organisation and selectively analyse and present them using up-to-date Cloud- stored information. “We have successfully
deployed a system like this for a global management company which showed information on screens to staff in common areas: restaurants, lift waiting areas and coffee lounges. They did not need to trawl through reams of emails to gather information, some of which would not even be pertinent to them. The return on investment was shown to be less than six months.”
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT This concept will be taken further in the future as new technologies become more mainstream, such as QR codes, NFC and direct Twitter interaction with smartphones and other personal devices becoming more popular and
integrated in the business world. Crestron’s Fusion RV Energy
Management software provides a similar type of service, tying room management of lighting, environmental control, shades and AV equipment into an IT-centric system that aligns itself with demand and room management on a worldwide basis. “As Cloud-based services
grow in popularity, integrators can provide more globally accessible solutions to their clients,” points out Mark Ridgwell, business development manager at Crestron. “AV vendors and integrators will have to choose between furthering their own IT expertise or partnering IT companies, as the two sectors begin to overlap more often. The demands of a complete system require the expertise of both areas, combining remote access to stored data via virtual machines and servers with the distribution and display of content. Service providers can
divest many of the tasks involved in distributing and
VISIOSIGN INFOBOARD HELPS DANISH HOSPITAL IMPROVE PATIENT RECOVERY EXPERIENCE
Silence, security and helpful orientation are key when recovering from a serious traffic accident. The Neurosurgery Department at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark installed a shielded recovery area for patients with acute brain trauma to allow them total rest in a secure environment in order to optimise recovery periods. Above each bed an
information screen is installed providing information to patients about who and where they are, when they wake up. Pictures, for example, of family members are remotely uploaded to the screen to help brain and memory training.
VisioSign’s technology is
hosted on Microsoft servers and developed in
ASP.NET, while the player boxes are designed in Windows Embedded Standard. The innovative recovery room includes features such as circadian light, with staff able to survey the patients via infrared cameras at night. Speakers are installed to
reduce noise and play music; each patient also has a digital screen by their bed with information based on highly specialised nursing requirements for intensive care patients and utilising unified communications alongside the digital signage and audio system, to achieve a faster and better healing process for patients.
28 June 2013
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