Key Takeaways

• Google Chrome OS offers a green solution for digital signage.
• Chrome OS Flex allows recycling of old hardware to modern standards.
• Recycling reduces landfill waste and saves costs for IT companies.

Topics

• Digital Transformation
• Technology
• Innovation
• Sustainability

Transcript

So we partner with the team at Google Chrome OS for a lot of our digital signage projects. One of the benefits of working with Chrome OS is that it's actually very green. There's multiple reasons for that. So the system itself has been built in such a way where you can easily power cycle the device and has quite a low CPU threshold. So it's not burning lots of energy, which is green. But actually, the bigger thing they have is something called Flex. So Flex is the ability to recycle previous hardware. So you might take an old Intel NUC, which is no longer being used. You can flex Google Chrome OS onto that device and effectively turn it into a Chrome device, which you could then use for digital signage. The thing is, digital signage doesn't necessarily need the latest and greatest computer hardware. It needs amazing software on it, which is screen-focused, in order to power up that screen. And the panels last for ages. So you may have a very outdated screen running potentially really outdated software. But recycling an old NUC device and then attaching that to the screen, launching on Chrome OS brings it right up to a modern spec and standard, and it should work perfectly. So as IT companies start to think about, like, how are we sending too many devices out to landfill, we can recycle so many of these for digital signage. It also saves you a lot of money, too. Microsoft Mechanics www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com