Category: digital signage enclosure

Outdoor Digital Signage at the Races

Tic-tac, the traditional trackside bookmaker’s method of communicating betting odds across the course to other bookies has been used it the UK for decades. The system of using hand gestures ensure that bookmakers are offering similar prices around the track, to prevent customers—the punter—from taking advantage of lower prices. Communicating with customers has always been […]

Armagard Launch Two New Digital Signage Products

Armagard, have launced two new products to their digital signage range: The Outdoor Digital Signage Totem and the Personal Branded Retail Totem are the latest products in Armagard’s burgeoning range of digital signage hardware. The Outdoor Digital Signage Totem is a floor standing enclosure designed to accommodate both 46” and 47” screens, protecting them from the […]

Protecting the Face of a Digital Signage Screen

Protecting outdoor digital signage from the weather is important, which is why outdoor LCD enclosures were devised, to ensure that standard LCD and plasma screens could operate outdoors in no matter what the weather. The most vulnerable aspect of an outdoor display, however, is the screen face, which is also the most crucial part being […]

Retail and Service Industry – Digital Signage Devices

Digital signage is one of the fastest growing media industries. With such fragmentation in mainstream media, this form of out of home advertising is growing rapidly with digital displays used for promotion, branding and marketing cropping up in all sorts of locations. A common sight around shopping malls, concourses, airports, and transport hubs, now many […]

Sunlight and Your Outdoor Screen

Outdoor digital signage has many challenges. Protection is an obvious example, ensuring proper defence of the screen, against the weather and temperature of the external environment. Impact protection too, is a must, protecting against accidents and vandalism otherwise the screen may have to constantly be replaced. One aspect not much talked about when it comes […]

Reasons and Aspects for Physically Protecting Outdoor Digital Signage

Protection for outdoor digital signage often centers about weatherization and ensuring the screen is kept dry and in reasonable temperature ranges—highly important to ensure all-year round operation. While weather protection is important for outdoor screens, another aspect of protection that needs thinking about, however, is physical defense. While most outdoor screens offer some sort of […]

Digital Signage in Manufacturing – Protection

Manufacturing is an important aspect to the economy. While manufacturing has declined over the last decades, especially in the UK and United States, governments have pinned hopes on manufacturing to help boost economies and return their nation’s balance books back into the black. Modern manufacturers face huge challenges, though. With stiff competition from the Far […]

ScreenMedia Expo 2011 – Big Thank You to all Who Stopped By

Following another successful ScreenMedia Expo at the Earls Court show last week, Armagard would like to extend our thanks to all those who stopped by and who took an interest in our products. For the second year running, Armagard attended the London ScreenMedia show, and with such interest, the exhibition was well worth the effort. […]

Growing use of Digital Signage around College and University – Australian Examples

Digital signage screens are not only a form of out o home advertising. Display screens used for communication and information purposes are increasing in popularity, and one area where their use is becoming popular is around education establishments, particularly colleges and universities. The communication needs for further and higher education institutions differ to those of […]

Is Your Digital Signage Ready for a Heatwave?

Reports in the national press suggest that the end of this month could see a heatwave across Britain, lasting for two weeks and making it the hottest May in several centuries. Of course, such weather predictions can often be inaccurate or just plain wrong, but if proved right, excessive temperatures could have an effect on […]