Inside a Digital Signage Software Company

Some images from our stand at ISE (Integrated Systems Europe).  As you can see, Team Euro played up on Ryarc's Australian heritage :).  At the stand we demonstrated CampaignManager's system integration by showing CM running inside EuroSign, and integrated display and PC and by linking up with Quividi Audience Measuring and analysis system.  Based on the gender of the people in front of the screen, the system can determine males from females and CampaignManager then displays the appropriate ad automatically. 

Kangaroos need not apply.

Pictured (left to right) are Jan Seutens (Business Development Manager, Ryarc EMEA), Oliver Duizabo (CEO Quividi) , Gert Jan van Engelen (Technical Sales Ryarc EMEA), Stefaan Leroux (Technical Sales Ryarc EMEA) and Hans Vogel (GP Systems).

In the lower right of the picture you can see Radiant Europe's Eurosign product.  An integrated display and PC device that comes with CampaignManager installed.

Thanks for tuning in. Bit of news on the Digital Signage Software CampaignManager product road-map I'd like to share with you. We have been talking this year about our new version "3.0". This came as a surprise to some given that we are currently on rev 1.x. Well, the features talked about in 3.0 are all still intact and being worked on. However, we are going to do an intermediary release (2.0 no less) which will add some long requested features to the product. These will be:

• Multiple Splits of the Window
• Multiple Items per side pane
• Double Tickers
• Local Node Server (so one machine can act as a slave server for a bunch of locally connected players)
• Security integration with Microsoft Windows Active Directory
• Better Support for Audio
• Support for DirectX 10 and new DirectX 10 Tickers

2.0 will ship within in the third quarter and 3.0 will ship in Q4. 

We're delighted to report that Ryarc and Advantech have joined forces to offer a combined Player+Software offering for Digital Signage.  The Advantech unit is a compact, robust high performance PC unit about the size of a book and will come factory fitted with the CampaignManager software.  Here's the press release: http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/14050/

Advantech will now offer CampaignManager as a part of their expanding Digital Signage offerings.  See the units here.

We were "back stage" at Tech.Ed yesterday helping install our demo Embedded System at the Sydney Exhibition Centre.  Don Kerr (Pictured) is Strategy Manager for Embedded Computing at Microsoft Australia and was very nearly as excited (as you can see) as us to see High Definition digital signage running Windows XP embedded.

And it looks like they got their net connectivity issues sorted because as you can see from the image below, the device we installed there is up and running.  (The device at Tech.Ed is configured to connect to our lab here on the other side of the City.)