Digital Signage Solutions

I was out in LA this week (in the insane heat) visiting with a company looking at digital signage to enhance their employee communications and be a key vehicle in their crisis planning for floods, earthquakes, fires or whatever else Mother Nature throws at them.

What's also really interesting is that the company pushes a lot of environmental responsibilities down to their employees. High expectations are set all through the ranks. They ask workers to do simple things that really add up over an entire corporation, like use a coffee mug instead of paper cups. And since they are so conscious of their environmental footprint, they had quite a few questions about how they could best manage the power needs of a digital signage network.

One of the useful features MediaTile's Digital Sign in a Box provides is the ability to schedule your screens to turn on and off on a daily schedule. Let's say you work in a place where your coworkers leave at 6 pm and do not return until 7 am. With MediaTile's digital signage software, you can schedule to have your screens turn off once your coworkers leave and then turn back on at the designated time. And if no one is around on the weekends, keep them off then, too.

Scheduling your displays to go black does three things for you:

1. Extends your screen life by not running them when you don't need to
2. Shows you're not wasting electricity by powering your digital signage  when no one is around
3. Demonstrates to your employees that you're paying attention to your network

However, even if you turn your screens off, the displays stay connected so that you can push new content to them or even revise the existing schedule.

Be energy responsible with your network. Black is the new "green" with digital signage.
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