Name: Effective Digital Signage Solutions Without Wi-Fi
Uploaded: 2024-03-13
Duration: 0:49
Channel: Mark McDermott
Description: I explain why Wi-Fi connectivity for digital signage is notoriously unreliable and how ScreenCloud solves this. Screens mounted on walls create signal interference, so we run content locally on each device and sync updates when connectivity allows.

I explain why Wi-Fi connectivity for digital signage is notoriously unreliable and how ScreenCloud solves this. Screens mounted on walls create signal interference, so we run content locally on each device and sync updates when connectivity allows.

Effective Digital Signage Solutions Without Wi-Fi

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.

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Effective Digital Signage Solutions Without Wi-Fi

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