Key Takeaways

• Wall-mounted screens create significant Wi-Fi interference for devices behind them
• Local content storage prevents blank screens during connectivity issues
• Updates sync automatically when Wi-Fi connection is available

Topics

• Technology
• Engineering
• SaaS

Transcript

Wi-Fi is everywhere, right? Wrong. Although we might be able to connect most screens to a Wi-Fi network, the quality of that connection tends to be very patchy or quite poor. Screens tend to go on walls or pillars, and the computers running those screens are then behind them. So there's a lot of interference to that signal. But the screens need to work. We cannot have blank or error screens. So we run all of the content on ScreenCloud locally on each device. Fairly simple if that's just images and videos, but more complicated when it's a web-powered product. That runs locally on the computer, and then we just take updates over the web when that Wi-Fi is working again, if it ever does.