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This will be our last post and digital signage klip for 2011 so enjoy. 2012 will be another exciting year for digital signage so please come back and pay us a visit.

One of our Sydney readers sent us a photo of a mobile phone charging station with a digital screen.

The company that developed this innovative system is actually from Australia and they are called ChargedMedia. Their idea is to provide a means of charging your mobile phone power for free but there’s a twist, you will be exposed to ads whilst you wait for the phone to charge. Now that’s quite a clever idea.

If you have klips you would like to share with the rest of our readers let us know by sending an email to info@digitalsignageblog.com

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Hi Everyone, Just wanted to introduce myself and offer any help or services in regards to digital signage content creation.

Until recently I was the creative director at Valmorgan Retal Media, who currently have over 500 plasma screens in about 90 shopping centres around Australia. Before that I was involved with Visemax and the Hitachi Airsho system, a combined 15 years worth of experience in digital signage (yes it has been around for that long!)

Anyway, I have just recently started my own business to offer content creation to both small and large companies/retail outlets to help design content that not only looks great, but actually WORKS. Content is king, and there is definitely a right and wrong way of doing things.

I can provide services in all areas of signage from simple …

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S.V.A Vending Machines provides vending machine services in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, Geelong and in Australia.

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RT @asisignage: Great #digitalsignage stuff out of Australia: Nokia fuses digital signage, mobile technology in its latest ad campaign. http://ow.ly/56DR0

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Aeris Solutions conquers the great indoors with the launch of Wifarer in Australia and NZ…very cool tech.. http://bit.ly/eqyL3E

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Here’s another awesome and innovative solution. This weekend we were able to catch up on some fun and stumbled across a video of a smile-activated ice cream machine. Basically it’s a digital signage vending machine that uses facial recognition to capture and measure your smile 15 times a second which determines the age and gender and – if you smile big enough – rewards you with ice cream. You can even upload and share your smile-for-free-ice-cream picture on Facebook. Just watching the video makes me smile. It will be anytime soon that we’ll soon see one here in Australia.

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In Australia, we love our Bunnings and we noticed how they are using small digital signage screens in their warehouse. I guess the idea is to show product video and information to people interested in the product.

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Multitouch whiteboards are now becoming quite popular in schools and meeting rooms. In particular, having the ability to share content, collaborate information with others at the same time is something of the past. Being authorised resellers of Panasonic we want to introduce our readers the latest multitouch whiteboard UB-T880 (77″) from panasonic. This unit was launched in Australia last month and they have been available in the US and other parts of the country for a while. The cost for one of this unit is RRP $2,869 but we’ll be able to hopefully reduce this price. For those that want bigger screens you can get the UB-T781W – obviously for a higher cost.

Multitouch Whiteboard Panaboard UB-T880

Below is a video demonstration from Panasonic. As you can clearly see from the video there are many uses and industries this whiteboard can be used in. If you think about it, this can also be used for digital signage implementations…

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RT @Audrey_William: Falling hardware costs drive steady growth in the #Australia #Digital #Signage Systems Market http://tinyurl.com/2davyz3

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Bob, many thanks for the insight. We have been in the digital signage industry for quite a number of years now and we agree with everything you’ve said. For small new businesses, I believe it’s hard to raise capital especially when you don’t have the client base or the portfolio. We were at one stage thinking of heading down the path of looking for investors but didn’t like the idea of giving away a percentage of the company.

In Australia, there aren’t too many digital signage network operators because the investment capital to setup the network is too high. I have noticed that large advertising companies who already have exposure and the cashflow are actually sustaining this operation (I’m guessing that they are potentially offsetting this cost from their existing print media).

What do you suggest for new small businesses who are looking to raise capital or even look for financing companies.

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USA embraces Digital Signage in 2010, will Australia follow?: DOOH Networks Expand With New Affiliates, http://bit.ly/denMdF #mediapost

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Does anyone know whether it’s illegal to have LCD/Plasma screens with animation mounted on the top of the taxi cab in Australia or other parts of the world?…

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Shopping centres attract over million customers each week nationally, so when you have these pairs of eyes walking in the shopping centres who would want to have the biggest screen to attract the attention of these customers. Using digital signage for advertising in shopping centres is one of the biggest revenue making streams and obviously we know the reason why…. exposure.(…)
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I note your comments and if Asia is 3 years ahead of America, the UK must be 5 years behind America!

Only a very select few companies in the UK are investing in digital signage that we can see.

95% of our products are experoted to America Australia….

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We are the worlds leading manufacturer of protective TV cases for outdoor use and due to our current position we are seeking distributors throughout America and Australia.

We manufacture solutions for as well as outdoor signage enclosures.

The truth be told, we could do with some distributors to deal with the sales leads, but I guess that is what you have to deal with when you are at the top of your game….

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This weekend we almost missed an important event that was created and organised through the facebook events application. For some reason, the event displayed the correct date on the Facebook website, but on the iphone and the blackberry it showed the incorrect date (using the mobile application) – the reminders were not triggered because of this issue. My guess is that there is probably an issue related to the timezone (ie Australia). Does anyone else have the same issue?

If you’re integrating facebook with your digital signage application and are displaying events just make sure you check and test that the dates are displaying correctly before publishing this to the screens.

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Post tags: australia, blackberry, digital signage, Events Application, Fun, Guess, Important Event, iphone, Mobile Application, Reminders, screens, Timezone

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We can handle Australia wide installation. One of the projects our installation team and currently in the process of rolling out is the Commonwealth Bank Digital Signage Network.

You can contact me via the following:

email: coles.darren@ymail.com
mobile: 0410 268341

Kind Regards

Darren Coles…

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We have a long weekend coming up in Australia for the first weekend of Oct. As much as I hope to go away, I can most likely say that I will be working on up to 8 site installation projects that are tightly due before Dec!…

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Contact Marco at Advertiseme he should be able to help you with all your needs. He is also here on the forum.

http://www.advertiseme.com.au/…

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We could be in a position to help you. Can you give me more details please? You can email me at darren@aerissloutions.com.au
Check us at www.aerissolutions.com.au

Regards Darren…

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If your digital signage solution is not implemented correctly it may work against you. Let me explain…

On the weekend whilst walking past a busy street I spotted across the road a real estate company with several LCD screens located at their front window. This is what I saw: (excuse the quality of the pictures but it was late at night and I was using my blackberry):

Digital Signage Screen not working

Digital Signage Faulty Screen

Digital Signage Faulty Screen

Now, in Australia quite a number of real estate agencies have moved away from using the traditional static posters for displaying their property listing and have implemented some form of a digital signage solution (visual display screens or touchscreen technology).

What I was most surprised about this particular installation and setup was that 1/3 of their screens was either turned off or had a fault with the LCD unit. Does this mean that 1/3 of the properties were not displayed? How would the property owner feel knowing that they are potentially losing interested buyers.

So what I have learnt from this situation is the following:

1. If there’s a hardware fault fix it immediately

2. Always have a backup plan – don’t be afraid to revert back to the old method of using traditional posters when required

3. Use a mixture of digital signage solutions and traditional posters

4. It looks unprofessional and embarrassing for both the digital signage solution provider and owner if the solution fails

5. You will definately lose customers if the problem is not rectified in a timely manner

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Hi all, i’m looking for installers for digital signage (audio/visual) for shop fits + corporate offices who can do Australia wide. Anybody know of any?…

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I should be right with project mgt, I just need to find somebody who is capable of doing installs across all states. That way I only have to deal with one person rather than looking for subbies in each state….

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I don’t know any but if you really need people there, I can get you someone for project management to supervise all processes….

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We all knew this was going to happen and it eventually did. Coca-cola has released digital signage vending machines which are interactive. Here’s a video to show you what we mean:

And here’s a video of someone actually using the vending machine… I like it how he had to press the right arrow several times before it scrolled to the right and it also has the Pay Pass payment option (I haven’t really seen this been used in Australia):

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Aeris Solutions specialises in the implementation of digital signage solutions in Australia visit us at www.aerissolutions.com.au

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Who are we?

We are a group of technology enthusiasts who are passionate with the uses of gadgets and nifty pieces of equipment.
When digital signage came into our picture, we got excited and decided to take it for a ride. In fact, with the tremendous popular rise of digital signage and its applications everyday, it has now become part of our profession.

Our first success was Advertise Me, an established digital signage company in Australia.
Through establishing many clients and partners, we created the Digital Signage Portal.
And if that wasn’t enough, we decided what the heck – let’s blog about it!

So what is this Blog about?

We have been operating in the digital signage industry since its birth in Australia, and have come across many experiences in this line of business.

Apart from working, we also obtain many useful sources of news and information that we think would be beneficial to the digital signage community.

So where else would we collaborate all our experiences and news? Right here of course!

Contributors

There are currently several contributors to the digital signage blog.

From time to time we like to invite others to write something or submit a topic to us, and we will post it on the blog.
Having said that, if you would like to share a post with us, feel free to send it to info@digitalsignageblog.com.

Don’t forget …

To visit our Digital Signage Portal to interact with the digital signage community from around the world or visit the Digital Signage Articles for a mix of different digital signage articles from around the world.

Now if you’re looking to exchange links visit the Digital Signage Experts.

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We’ve been pretty busy working on a project and slacked off in posting blog entries. We’ll hopefully post information about the project that we are working on at a later stage but we thought we’d mention how digital signage is everywhere. We recently walked in the busy streets of Bondi junction Australia and noticed how common it was for businesses to have display screens in their stores. The majority of these shop were displaying content from a DVD player, or showing live TV whilst others were actually displaying in house advertisements.

One thing that I noticed was that even thought Mothers day was approaching, not many businesses had any relevant messages relating to this event. Even today, being mothers day, businesses were not using digital signage to their advantage. Oh well maybe its just Australia… My thinking is that maybe one day, businesses will be educated and skilled in the digital signage technology to update and stay connected with their audience.

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