by Eclipse Digital | 8 Mar 2016 |
The University of Winchester has been providing excellence for education for over 175 years and currently has nearly 7,500 students enrolled.
The University of Winchester’s Catering Department provides a healthy sustainable lifestyle for students, whilst maintaining excellent customer service and of course value for money. It caters for students, staff and for the general public as part of its conferencing services through it’s eight outlets on campus.
The University of Winchester catering department were looking at ways of delivering allergy information to their students for their food outlets. They were seeking modern ways to engage with their students and staff, as well as providing critical information about the allergens as required by EU law.
“The primary objective for us was to increase the availability of crucial information that staff and students of the university require. This information includes vital detail regarding the allergen information of each of dishes on our daily rotating menu.” – Rob Ferrin, University of Winchester
Allergy Information Boards Plugin
Eclipse Digital Media supplied and installed a 32″ ELO Touch Display with integrated PC paired with embed signage digital signage software license and the embed signage Allergy Information Board plugin.
This solution provides University of Winchester with an interactive display that is fast becoming the expected method of information discovery in western society. It also gives the University a scalable marketing tool to deliver not only the allergen information for menus but to run marketing messaging and promotions alongside. The University have the opportunity to redesign and edit their content by adding or removing pages of interactive content as they need to and scheduling content to change at critical times, for example on international student open days.
by Eclipse Digital | 20 Apr 2016 |
Carisbrooke Shipping is a privately owned shipping company based in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight (the heart and soul of UK sailing), and located approximately 10 miles south of Southampton. From its relatively modest origins in the 1960s the company has evolved into a worldwide shipping company owning/operating a fleet of over 50 modern, dry cargo and multi-purpose vessels from offices in Cowes (UK), Zwijndrecht (Holland) and Bremen (Germany).
“We’ve been looking for a way to improve information flow within our Company as well as providing some introductory info for out visitors – Digital Signage seemed like a perfect fit. Our solution needed to be flexible and easy to managed – preferably cloud based, allowing centralized management of devices located in different geographical locations.” – Daniel Lewandowski, IT Manager, Carisbrooke Shipping
Eclipse Digital Media supplied a range of Samsung 48” Commercial SSP Displays installed across 3 Carisbrooke Shipping Offices (UK, Holland, Germany).
All displays are powered by cloud based digital signage software (embedsignage.com) allowing multi zone, multimedia content to be delivered to each individual screen.
Carisbrooke also extensively uses the ability to connect EmbedSignage with other, external web services allowing dynamic content updates – for example: exchange rates or commodity prices. The same “dynamic content” add-on was also used in a custom project linking embedsignage with Carisbrooke Energy Efficiency Monitoring System allowing the real-time overview of fleets fuel oil consumption.
by Eclipse Digital | 12 Feb 2016 |
SHERATON SKYLINE HOTEL LONDON HEATHROW
The Sheraton Skyline Hotel at London Heathrow is a 4 Star hotel with 350 guest rooms including Club rooms and is part of the Starwood Hotels and Resorts.
The hotel also boasts an 18-room conference centre that offers an range of services. This conference centre hosts daily business meetings, conferences and corporate events and is one of the key features of the hotel and continues to be a popular choice for businesses.
Sheraton Skyline were looking for a cost effective way to update their methods of communicating their conference centre room booking information to the public each day. They requested the software be very easy to use and to be able to make changes very quickly and they also wanted to replace their out-dated existing screens with new professional grade displays.
Eclipse Digital Media provided a cloud based digital signage software solution to meet Sheraton Skyline’s requirements. Using embedsignage.com it was possible to install a number of Android based digital signage media players and connect them to the existing totems and wall mounted displays, together with the installation of two new professional grade screens for the conference centre.
The media players are connected using WiFi and managed by the cloud based digital signage software. The conference centre displays (located in the lobby concierge and the Conference Centre main desk) display content that is updated directly from an Excel spreadsheet. A user role was created providing access to only be able to update the Excel spreadsheet data on embedsignage.com providing the conference centre the ability to change the information quickly without being able to edit any of the other displays content.
This solutions provides Sheraton Skyline with the ability to update any content on any of the screens from a central location saving them time. It also provides them with advanced scheduling functionality in order to preschedule content to play at various times throughout the week, meaning they can show the right content, in the right place at the right time.
by Eclipse Digital | 11 Feb 2016 |
Marwell Zoo, (formerly Marwell Zoological Park) is a 140-acre zoo and registered charity situated at Hampshire, UK. It is home to over 170 exotic and endangered species and situated in beautiful, landscaped surroundings.
Beyond the park itself, the Marwell Wildlife charity works for international conservation, with a particular focus in Africa. The name of the park was changed from Marwell Zoological Park to Marwell Wildlife in 2009 to promote these wider activities.
Marwell Zoo wanted a new interactive way to engage with its visitors. They had an abundance of information they wanted to communicate to visitors and found printed media was limiting. They tasked Eclipse Digital with providing suggestions of ways to engage and communicate more effectively with the park visitors all year round.
After evaluating various options, Eclipse Digital provided an outdoor interactive wayfinding solution. This outdoor wayfinding solution was composed by Eclipse Digital using an industry leading IP66 rated capacitive touch enclosure, from Harp Visual, a Samsung high-bright commercial grade panel and a ONELAN digital signage content management network.
This was then built onto a beautiful timber framework from outdoor furniture and sign specialists Fitzpatrick Woolmer.
The map design allows users to explore the park and touch the animal sections to discover key information about them. There are several other areas on the map to discover including, upcoming events, details on becoming a member, talks around the park and general information on where to eat, shop and the location of the facilities. All content can be updated by Marwell’s in house marketing & events team providing them the flexibility required to engage with their visitors and communicate important information in an effective and simplistic manner.
by Eclipse Digital | 11 Feb 2016 |
Fulham Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, London. Founded in 1879, they are one of England’s oldest established professional football teams.
Fulham FC are located at their waterfront stadium; Craven Cottage which has been their home since 1896 and has a seated capacity of 25,700.
Fulham FC wanted to improve the retail shop experience for their customers and needed a new, more efficient way to communicate in store offers, match day line ups, forthcoming fixtures and wanted to incorporate live TV feeds including live match day feeds.
They required a system that could be updated quickly and provide the flexibility to change entire content at specific time and date periods.
Eclipse Digital Media provided Fulham FC with a ONELAN digital signage system that has the ability to capture external HDMI sources.
This system, provides Fulham FC the ability to edit and change retail store offers in a few clicks as well as the ability to delivery match day information, squad updates, up coming fixtures and crucially live TV feeds including their own match day feed.
Eclipse Digital provided the whole digital signage solution for Fulham FC, including a period of consultation to specify the suitable hardware for the project, designing the initial on screen templates, configuring and installing on site and provided training to key digital signage content managers.
