by Eclipse Digital | 20 Apr 2016 |
The University of Kent teaches over 15,800 students on its Canterbury campus and has recently celebrated its fifty year anniversary.
With national recognition for research intensity, and the provision of an exceptional student experience, the university approaches the next 50 ears with confidence and ambition.
Its Templeman Library has undergone a major redevelopment recently, transforming it into a leading 21 st Century facility incorporating books, study space, computers, and other learning resources. A digital screen and signage strategy were very much part of that metamorphosis.
University of Kent needed a simple to use Digital Signage solution that gave them hardware flexibility to put displays in a variety of library locations and to integrate with internal systems to show live PC availability data. They also wanted to use the same system to deliver key information and wayfinding in the newly developed Maths department building.
“Navigating around the large 15,000sqm space for up to 9000 visitors a day can be a challenge, so digital signage was employed to aid navigation across the four floors – helping students find a computer to use, books or space to study in. Some screens are also used for room availability and promoting events/services to library users.”. – Julia Crompton, Marketing Manager, Templeman Library, University of Kent.
The screens are installed in a variety of environments including landscape kiosk enclosures, portrait totems, wall mounted portrait enclosures and room booking housings outside study rooms.
Eclipse Digital worked with University of Kent throughout the entire project and supplied a digital signage network consisting of over 35 Samsung Smart Signage Platform displays in a variety of sizes, paired with the cloud based digital signage software embed signage.
by Eclipse Digital | 11 Feb 2016 |
Siemens, the leading global engineering and technology services company, has been active in the United Kingdom for over 170 years.
Siemens provide innovative solutions to help tackle the UK’s major challenges, across the key sectors of energy, industry, infrastructure & cities and healthcare. Siemens has a significant presence throughout the UK, with 13 manufacturing sites and more than 25 major offices.
Siemens required an internal communications tool to enable its marketing and corporate communications team to efficiently and effectively deliver messages to the right areas of their business at the right time. They wanted central and local control with the ability to use live TV and display data at various locations.
Working with Siemens for a number of years, Eclipse Digital Media have consulted with the Siemens HQ comms team on an ongoing basis to scope out nationwide digital signage network that could be segmented and targetted as required.
The Digital Signage solution provided was a ONELAN CMS hosted centrally with a nationwide network of subscribers. At various locations, HD encoders have been installed to stream Live TV across site locations.
The centralised ONELAN solution has currently been installed in 21 UK office locations including Manchester, Leeds, Hull, Congleton, Newcastle, Poole and the UK Head Office based in Frimley. This continues to grow in the UK.
A content strategy has been developed by Eclipse Digital with Siemens to put every display in the network to use in the most effective and appropriate way. This includes, various layout templates which have a combination of external and internal news alongside dynamic information and site specific access to update content. Some sites have also chosen to use 55″ interactive touch screens to deliver a wide range of information to their employees.
Eclipse Digital Media have developed bespoke KPI data graphs using ONELAN’s Data Collection Engine software allowing Siemens offices to display real time KPI data from internal systems to display critical information for employees and their key business objectives.
by Eclipse Digital | 11 May 2016 |
CAE is a global leader in modelling, simulation and training for civil aviation and defence. The company employs approximately 8,000 people in roughly 30 countries. CAE offers military, civil aviation and helicopter training services and trains approximately 100,000 crew members annually. In addition, the CAE Oxford Aviation Academy offers training to pilot cadets in 11 flight schools. The company applies operational and simulation experience to help their customers enhance safety, improve efficiency and solve many challenges they face. CAE’s business is very diverse, ranging from selling simulation products to providing end-to-end services such as training and aviation, integrated enterprise solutions, in-service support and crew sourcing.
CAE’s variety of locations were seeking a digital signage and AV supplier to provide various solutions to suit their needs.
For Digital Signage they required a solution that was easy to use, include the ability to schedule a variety of content including Live TV and show localised content per screen updated via various users.
For AV the various locations needed large scale monitors, touch monitors and speaker equipment to transform their pilot training classrooms.
Eclipse Digital Media installed various ONELAN media players some with integrated TV cards to deliver the digital signage content to the various screens and locations within CAE.
At Burgess Hill Eclipse Digital installed a 2 x 2 Video Wall solution, comprising of 4 x 46″ Samsung slim bezel LFDs and a ONELAN digital signage 6005-P Publisher for the waiting area of the flight training centre.
Throughout Brugess Hill and Crawley offices, Eclipse Digital have installed a variety of AV equipment including 75″ and 79″ monitors, Iiayama touch screens and presentation speaker systems to upgrade their pilor training rooms.
As CAE wanted to display the same information on both the Reception and Lounge screens initially, Eclipse Digital Media used Cat-5 Extenders to distribute the output signal from the publisher to the AV displays in both locations.
The content package compromises of an animated cloud background, live freeview TV feed, flight simulator status updates, live local weather, news and travel information plus world clocks for other key CAE locations.
The digital signage layout package includes zones that can be edited by the simulator engineer and receptionist, so they can update the relevant content instantly without having access to other areas of the digital signage system and layout. The layout and content package includes live traffic data displayed on Google Maps, live weather, time and date data as well as a central zone to display live TV.
The timeline for the project was tight so CAE challenged Eclipse Digital to provide a full end to end solution meeting all of their requirements within 8 days of initial meeting.
This project was completed within 5 working days from initial meeting through to installation. All design, development and installation for this project was carried out by Eclipse Digital Media.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Another busy day of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/avinstall?src=hash">#avinstall</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/CAE_Inc">@CAE_Inc</a> upgrading their flight training classrooms <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/avtweeps?src=hash">#avtweeps</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/proav?src=hash">#proav</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/aviation?src=hash">#aviation</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ph8o77AstM">pic.twitter.com/Ph8o77AstM</a></p>— EclipseDigitalMedia (@EclipseDigiUK) <a href="https://twitter.com/EclipseDigiUK/status/766263396190781440">August 18, 2016</a></blockquote>
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by eclipse | 16 Nov 2016 |
Chelsea College of Arts is one of London’s most prestigious art and design colleges. Offering courses in curating, fine art, graphic design communication, textile design and interior and spatial design.
With just over 1400 students, the college’s small size and supportive atmosphere makes studying here feel more like being part of a community.
The Chelsea College of Arts needed an internal communications update to act as a professional and welcoming invitation to new visitors but also offer the opportunity for better communications with current students and staff whilst also offering the opportunity to share and broadcast creative projects undertaken throughout the year.
A Digital Signage strategy was needed to achieve this.
“I found the process of upgrading to Eclipse Digital Media a really simple process and we were able to get up and running very swiftly and had an excellent training session to show the team how to get the most from the software. The screens look so much more professional now and we are able to schedule interesting media which is updated regularly without taking up too much of the teams time.”.
Emily French – Marketing Manager for Chelsea College of Arts
The screens are installed in a variety of environments including reception areas, hallways and the cafe and provide a professional, welcoming information point and also display students creative projects throughout the campus.
by Eclipse Digital | 6 Feb 2015 |
Danone Nutricia Early Life Nutrition‘s priorities are to support mothers and babies to get the right nutrition in the first 1000 days – a critical window of opportunity for lifelong health. They do this through a range of global brands including Aptamil, Nutrilon and Cow and Gate.
Danone Nutricia Early Life Nutrition were seeking a way to keep their workforce at the Trowbridge, UK office informed about the latest company developments and departmental product information. They were seeking a digital signage solution to ensure information was delivered quickly and that content could be separated by department. They also wanted to make use of the digital signage displays for meeting presentations.
Eclipse Digital provided a selection of 55″ Samsung Smart Signage Platform (SSSP) displays paired with embed signage digital signage software. This solution ensured that Danone were able to meet all of their needs for digital signage, presentations for meetings and future proofed the displays for IPTV use in future.
The SSSP displays are configured to run the embed signage software to display various messages and announcements by department and can be quickly set up to show presentation content from staff laptops using the built in Intel WiDi wireless presentation software.
