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Digital Signage

Episode 34: Robin Ford on Open Systems, Preparing for Change & Trusting Your Instincts

Today’s guest is Co-founder and VP of business development at Global Cache. Global Cache makes connectivity products that let programmers like me control and automate pretty much anything using whatever software we like.

In an industry full of propriertary solutions, this is quite the unique approach. That’s why I am really looking forward to learning a lot today from Robin Ford.

Episode 32: Vangelis Mihalopoulos On Opportunites In Digital Signage and IoT Security

Vangelis Mihalopoulos has a background in software engineering, product marketing and startup investing. He is currently CEO and founder of yodeck. a digital signage management platform.

Highlights From This Episode

  • The Raspberry Pi is capable of displaying 1080p 60fps video
  • Video performance in a web browser is limited because the browser does not use hardware acceleration
  • Interactivity applications in digital signage are not all that popular yet
  • The most common environmental awareness applications involve detecting footfall
  • Digital Signage security has three aspects: security of the player, protecting sensitive content, preventing unauthorised logins
  • Organizations that display confidential content with digital signage usually opt for an on premises solution

Mentioned In This Episode

yodeck, Raspberry Pi Foundation, NEC, etcher, Chrome

Episode 30: Thomas Walter On Customising Video Displays With A Built-In Raspberry Pi

Thomas Walter is the Strategic Product Marketing Manager for NEC Display Solutions Europe where he also served as product manager for public display solutions. He’s also served as Product and Sales Manager for Sanyo Sales & Marketing Europe.

Highlights From This Episode

  • Open Modular Intelligence allows a product to be customised in ways a manufacturer cannot forsee.
  • The lifetime of a computing device is usually shorter than a displays. Modular solutions address this.
  • Digital Signage is the most common application of on board computing.
  • Operational benefits include device control for power saving and using sensors to adjust content based on the current environment.
  • OPS (Open Pluggable Specification) Slots allow third party computing power and video signal interfaces such as HD-BaseT in a standardised format.

Mentioned In This Episode

NEC, Raspberry Pi, SDVoE, ISE, Screenly, Yodeck

Resources

Display Trends Forum 2016 – NEC Teams Up With Raspberry Pi

KFC Case Study

NEC Open Modular Intelligence – OPS and Raspberry Pi

NEC’s Open Modular Intelligence (OMi) platform

NEC / Raspberry Pi Compute Module FAQ’s