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

Best of InfoComm 2008

Each year, the most innovative products in the Audio Visual Integration industry are revealed during the InfoComm Convention in Las Vegas.

And as always, your IMS Audio Visual representatives have brought back stacks of samples, giveaways and brochures from ground-breaking developers and manufacturers
...with you in mind!

Here are a few of the freshest new products that we've specifically hand-picked to promote to our clientele. We're looking forward to discussing these opportunities and services with our valued customers!

- The IMS Team

Read Our Top Picks from InfoComm 2008 (Drop Down+/-)

Building-wide Lighting Control Systems

AV taking prominence in LEED Certification

See significant energy savings
by allowing Crestron's newest application
automatically adjust lights, drapes, thermostats and sprinklers/fountains based on daylight, time, motion, occupancy, temperature, humidity and other conditions. Monitor and control all these elements from any computer with RoomView remote management software.

Tidebreak
The ultimate team collaboration tool!

Eliminate the laptop huddle. Capture input from multiple participants on one common display while they copy and paste text to and from each other. Disseminate meeting notes instantaneously and automatically. Perfect for classrooms or group work sessions.

Crestron 6X

The Uber-stylish touch screen!

Designed for speed and versatility. With back-lit pushbuttons and sleek glossy finish, it looks great on the desktop then transforms into a portable wireless RF device. View full-screen, full-motion video on the brilliant color screen.

Panasonic's Self-Cleaning Filter Technology

A service and repair Godsend!

Up to an incredible 5,000 hours on one high-efficiency electrostatic filter!

Teliris Teleprescence

Share anything to anybody..anywhere!

Documents, video, audio, presentations and a wide range of other content can be instantaneously shared and manipulated across any number of locations, naturally and easily, as if participants are in the same room. This is the first-ever multi-touch surface designed specifically for immersive collaboration business use.

Instant Access to Handheld MobileDevices

A Breakthrough for College Campus Communication!

From security notifications to campus events, all types of messaging can now be relayed immediatly via RSS feed to PDA's, Blackberries, digital displays and online readers through a multi-channel platform by Nexus Media.

VBrick Online Streaming

Start Streaming Today!

An affordable online presence available through VBoss's end to end solution for capturing, streaming, managing, monetizing, and delivering your video content.

To learn more about any of these promising new developments in integraton and information technology, contact IMS Audio Visual.

On the web at www.ims-av.com

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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.

Digital Signage by IMS on YouTube

With our growing capabilities in the areas of video production and editing, we has launched our own Channel on YouTube, highlighting the various Divisions of our organization through short video reels showcasing our work and some of our people.

Currently, we are operating 5 business units: Show Services & Event Staging, System Integration, Service, Digital Signage and Video Content Production. Check out the piece on Digital Signage below and the rest at IMS Audio Visual's YouTube Channel.

Stay tuned for new updates and new video reels highlighting our projects and other successes throughout our company!

IMS Audio Visual Signs Official Digital Signage Partnerships

IMS Audio Visual has reached an agreement with Scala and has gained status as a value-added reseller. IMS, utilizing Scala's™ high-powered and world recognized software, will offer complete, turnkey solutions, software and maintenance. Leveraging 14 years of experience and a 42+ employee team, IMS has the design, engineering, project management, integration and support services to help customers as they develop their short and long range plans for Digital Signage roll outs.

In addition to Scala's Info Channel 5™ software, IMS Audio Visual will enhance the power of Scala by also offering CastNET™. CastNET is a web-browser based compliment solution that works in harmony with Scala to create an even-easier to use digital signage solution. CastNET empowers many users to create and update content easily through any web-browser, from any PC, without the need for any additional installed software. CastNET provides over 700 template combinations that allow multiple users to update content fast, without having any graphics experience. IMS Audio Visual is positioning Scala and CastNET as high-end digital signage solutions for many applications but directed toward corporate, higher education and gaming customers.

IMS Audio Visual Announces New Digital Signage Division

As the demand from customers for digital signage solutions has increased, IMS Audio Visual has responded by announcing a new division to focus on this need. IMS has hired a Manager ofDigital Signage Solutions with 25 years experience in the industry to spearhead this growth and has assembled a team of existing sales, support, engineering and service resources as a foundation for this exciting new division.

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IMS has conducted extensive market research to establish the best possible blend of products and services to help customers seeking communications solutions. Twelve of the most dominate digital signage developers were chosen for analysis and each was required to provide information based on a thirty category comparison grid. The final group was then interviewed and asked to provide demonstrations of the products and four companies emerged as IMS partners for the Digital Signage Solutions Division.



AGN Pro +/-

An east coast firm offering a diverse lineup of digital signage “appliance” products ideal for entry level systems and stand-alone signage projects. All AGN I PRO products offer compact size, plug-and-play ease of use, simple, inexpensive software and no requirement for “high-powered” PCs.

Scala, Inc. +/-

Headquartered in Exton, Pa with operations in California, the UK, Norway, The Netherlands, China and Japan. Scala is used by some of the largest digital signage engagements and most respectable partners in the industry. InfoChannel 5™ introduces the brand-new InfoChannel Content Manager™ which together with other significant Authoring, Network Management and Playback enhancements ensures that this next generation of digital signage software offers unequaled new features including a new 3D-based rendering engine for improved visual quality and performance and multiple independent output channels per remote Player PC dramatically reducing hardware costs at remote playback locations.

AGN Pro +/-

A web-enabled digital signage solution which was developed to enhance Scala. CastNET works with Scala adding a fully web-enabled feature that allows you to add, update and manage information displayed on any digital display via a simple web browser like Explorer™. An easy 4-step interface empowers many users to share in the content creation and updating process through hundreds of provided templates. Graphics, text and HD quality, full motion video can all be combined in a simple to use, scalable application.

Nexus +/-

A Dallas based digital signage company with offices in Oklahoma, the UK and Malaysia provides two distinct levels of digital signage products. Nexus On-Demand is a “software- as-a-service” offering for clients who do not wish to purchase and manage an on site solution. Nexus CS is an online content and network management suite that is utilized to develop and control enterprise media applications and networks. The Nexus solutions are currently used by companies such as CB Richard Ellis, The University of Oklahoma, EDS, and Pioneer Electronics.

IMS Audio Visual has over 10 years experience in the dynamic AV business under the leadership of Jill and John Renninger and is considered one of the fastest expanding AV companies in the region. IMS operates two business units: Show Services/Event Staging and Audio Visual “Design/Build” integration.

For more information contact Jack R. Cary at 610-361-1870 or jcary@ims-av.com