Digital signage
Digital displays allow content to be promoted across the entire university from a central source and can present various types of information such as department-driven content, news and events, photos/videos, alerts and other information. Digital signage can help to shape culture and inspire collaboration within your entire workforce, no matter if it's in a single building or spread throughout campus. Digital signage platforms typically provide the ability to customize information to individual locations.
What are some benefits to using digital signage?
- Capture attention with bright, animated screen content that engages viewers
- Lessen the burden on receptionists and staff by answering questions on screens
- Show unified communications across your organization to build community
- Display multiple things on screen at once, in any combination you choose
- Target what gets delivered where, down to a single zone on a screen
- Retire messages automatically without any user intervention
- Let more people participate in the communications process with defined user roles.
- Import a wide variety of media you already have videos, PowerPoint, etc.
- Deliver breaking news and important announcements in real-time
- Easily integrate event schedules, current weather and other data sources
- Visualize data to show progress to goals and improve productivity
- Publish alert notifications across the entire system, or on chosen screens
- Show queuing data on screens to reduce perceive wait times
- Entertain, inform and educate viewers at meeting points and in waiting areas
- Save paper, waste, time and money by replacing printed posters and plaques
- Digital signage offers high-impact visible communication to the university.
- Broadcast emergency alerts to ensure the safety of the campus community
How much does it cost for a digital sign?
The inital cost of installing a digitial sign using a standard 55' screen is $1,500. This includes mounting, network connection, display and computer, as well as custom content.
- Hardware recommendation - Signage player combo - C&IT
The yearly service fee cost of using digital signage in campus buildings is $500.
- Includes maintenance, software updates , Help desk, warranty
How does the design and installation process work?
For interior building signage there will need to be:
- A proposed location
- Two Power Outlets - (1 duplex) on a dedicated circuit behind each flat panel display. Note that multiple displays may share the same circuit.
- Network connectivity
- At least one network jack behind the display, ideally two.
The content displayed on the screen is integrated from our Content Management System. Full-screen promotion access is added and edited through CMS, and the web team manages this content.