Auto-Trigger Your Emergency Messaging Services via Digital Signage

Info Source: (Digital Signage Weekly)

Timing is critical when it comes to broadcasting emergency messages to students, employees or customers and now with Digital Display Group’s new Live Safety Live Control interface, your digital signage system can be updated instantaneously by your existing security and other protection networks.


Everything from severe weather alert warnings to critical security announcements can be made immediately, thanks to a new component of the CastNET interface. The software can be configured to broadcast these messages system-wide or only to selected displays, and can be created right from the interface or triggered automatically from fire alarms or other monitoring systems.

Here’s the official statement from Digital Display Group’s product manager Joshua Hoffer: "The Live Safety Live Control option gives customers a whole new level of control and purpose to their digital signage system. CastNET powered digital signage can now be used for more than advertising and employee communication; it can be used to give warnings to guests, employees, or customers. Live Safety Live Control also gives users the ability to immediately display immediate special announcements with a simple click of the mouse or from an outside trigger."

IMS is your partner in consulting, designing and installing CastNet and many other digital signage elements. We are an award-winning team of engineers, designers and installation technicians dedicated to the successful integration of technology for your specific needs.

Contact Jack Cary at jcary@ims-av.com or call IMS at 610-361-1870

Scala Debuts InfoChannel 5 Release 3

IMS Audio Visual is excited to announce Scala's InfoChannel 5 Release 3. This new release shows Scala’s continued commitment to being the world leader in digital signage software. InfoChannel 5 Release 3 adds new features and modules, performance improvements and fixes.

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Highlights include:

• A new high-performance video-playback engine that plays back videos much faster than before, including 60fps video, and HD video on suitable hardware.

• Supported playback of H.264 (MPEG-4) video files. H.264 offers high visual quality at a smaller file size than MPEG-2 or WMV files.

• The new Broadcast Server module allows you to distribute content and plans to players using a multicast or package delivery network.

• Play and control external audio sources from the "Line Input" of your sound card.

• A PC's display can now be in spanning / stretched mode, which performs better and looks cleaner than using two independent displays.

• Support for text-entry field elements from the Buttons panel. This allows you to create interactive applications that take keyboard input.

• You can now specify a proxy server's URL, username, and password.

• Publishing individual files that are bigger than 4GB is now supported.

• Sub-playlists can be easily created by multi-selecting media items and clicking Create Sub-Playlist.

• Text elements using variables, and text crawls now support inline and adjacent style changes for font, color, italics, size, etc.

• You can now "synchronize players" instead of "generating plans"

These improvements are only some of the enhancements which continue to be released as InfoChannel 5 passes its 1 year anniversary.

If you are currently using Scala IC3, now is the time to consider upgrading to InfoChannel 5.

About Scala
Scala is the world leader in software for digital signage. With two decades of experience in the industry, Scala is committed to digital signage. Scala offers innovative, cutting-edge technology and Scala partners help customers integrate digital signage software, hardware, and technology resulting in the best possible digital signage network.

More information is available at www.scala.com.

Please contact Jack Cary at jcary@ims-av.com or call 610-361-1870 to inquire how you can move up to the world standard in digital signage.