LCD Enclosures

Digital posters are often an overlooked piece of the digital signage puzzle that is widely available at a very affordable price.

Some units are fitted with motion detectors so they only display content when consumers are in the vicinity, saving power and reducing the impact on the environment.

You may have seen them mounted to shelving units in supermarkets or at the end of the aisles, offering the latest discounts and the best prices compared to other competitors.  Occasionally they provide demonstrations to show housewives and husbands how easy a piece of equipment is and how much your life will be bettered if you buy it.

Another neat option is to introduce the digital poster into a news paper stand, so that you can load particular content from the storage device and display it on the screens, below the screen is an area where people can pick up their selected paper, is this something of the future?

One thing a digital poster struggles with is if you have to upload fresh content on a regular basis, imagine the task at hand if you had around 50 posters and had to update them on a daily basis, the labour costs would be huge, this is where a digital menu board comes in – forget the name for now as this is what they where initially designed for.

Digital menu board.

A digital menu board is similar to a poster however it does not have an inbuilt media player as this limits the flexibility of the solution, when used in a digital signage network. Now a network of screens can be deployed around a soccer stadium and run from either a wired or wireless media player that is connected to the LCD, high definition screen, so if you want to update content on a daily basis, you can with minimal effort.

LCD Enclosure Global – offer a range of digital poster and digital menu boards, as well as their range of ourdoor LCD enclosure that protect outdoor digital signage.

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One of the worst things to happen to any digital signage hardware is for the screen to fail; this costs businesses a lot of money to rectify and lost revenue due to the down time, so what can be done to protect the LCD screen?

There are several options, the first is to protect the display from any potential risk of damage by vandals, then you have to consider the weather – this natural element can put an end to and outdoor digital signage project overnight.

Weatherproof TV or Flat Screen Enclosure?

Some companies only deploy outdoor weatherproof screens; these also have to sunlight readable, so the screen can be seen even in direct sunlight. The only problem with these screens is that they are very expensive to deploy and if anything happens to the display the entire unit has to be replaced adding extra cost to a project.

A more cost effective solution is the flat screen enclosure, this is a purpose manufactured solid steel LCD enclosure, that provides both vandal and weather proof protection for the hardware housed inside. The enclosure will accommodate an LCD or plasma screen along with a media player or small factor PC, perfect for either outdoor digital signage or factory information systems.

Cable access is through waterproof cable glands that protect to IP65 and NEMA 4X ensuring no water enters the enclosure during its operation.

These units are more flexible than a weather proof television, as they allow integrators to put digital signage in unusual places, areas where previously ruled out due to the potential vandal risk and the extreme weathers they would encounter.

These flat panel enclosures now allow a screen to be located in any location from the hotel car park, college campus to ferry terminals, proving digital signage will be every where – so get ready for the invasion.

LCD Enclosure Global are a leading manufacturer of LCD enclosure, these are supplied throughout the world at a very affordable price and very quickly, for more details contact them toll free on 888-460-3573.

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One of the key things to separate you from the competition is to have some kind of Unique Selling Point (USP), this can be anything from the uniform the staff wear to a free car wash with every vehicle service. But digital signage is moving this on now to getting customers interactive.

By using touch screen displays that encourage customers to get additional information and specifications for the item they are interest in gives businesses the opportunity to sell other items to them. This could be your unique selling point.

This will certainly get your customers talking and done correctly will increase your profits. Get it wrong and it will cost you a fortune.

The total flexible solution allows single and multiple users to use the screen, just connect the screen to a computer and using the application software be creative! These can and will replace interactive whiteboards, as they are so dynamic and eliminate the use of trying to find a working marker for the whiteboard.

Use these in digital signage for an awesome customer experience, for example Apple are looking at a similar solution for outside their stores for when they are closed, so people can still access the store and place orders and even try Aps out.

Once you get customers interacting with your advertising, they are hooked, providing the product lives up to your claims they will be your loyal customers forever.

Now interactive touch screens are here to be used and will push static printed posters to the back of every ones mind.

The only issue you have is that they are not developed enough to be used outdoors, other than using them as a through the window touch screen.

LCD Enclosure Global offer everything from digital posters, gesture recognition signage through to outdoor LCD enclosures. The range of LCD enclosure provide protection for standard commercial screens used for digital signage.

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Indoor or outdoor digital signage – that has always been the question, now let us look at the most cost effective solutions on the market.

Touch Screen Digital Poster.
This is a digital poster that has a segmented touch panel in front of the screen, and this senses when a human hand touches the screen – allowing stores and businesses the facility to interact with their customers.

This provides additional information on products or services that are offered, providing consumers with this additional information traditionally would have meant hunting out a sales assistant who actually knew about the product range. Now this is not the case, all the information can be updated to a digital poster either through the memory card, or UBS port on the internal built in media player, or through a WIFI connection on a wireless digital poster, eliminating any sales floor staff having to upload new promotions or offers. Leaving the sales floor staff to help customers with their purchasing decisions or customer service issues.

Touch screen LCD advertising screens are manufactured for indoor use as they do not have the protection needed for the weather outdoors. One company has manufactured a solution for standard non touch digital posters and this protects the display from being touched.

Outdoor LCD enclosure.
An LCD enclosure are manufactured from thick steel sheet, welded to provide a waterproof and vandal proof solution, this allows digital signage hardware to be placed outdoors in hostile or hazardous areas.

These units accommodate both the LCD screen and a media player for digital outdoor signage use or can also accommodate an LCD or plasma television and a cable or satellite box for home use.

Perfect for outside a shopping mall or in your own back yard, providing protection from the weather and vandals, these units provide protection to IP65 (European Water Ingress protection standard) and NEMA 4X (US water ingress protection standard.)

These two solutions are used for different uses: the digital poster is used for indoor digital signage and the LCD enclosure is used for outdoor digital signage use.

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A digital poster is so versatile, this is due to the unit having a commercial grade screen and a built in media player, providing a flexible yet cost effective solution.

With more and more businesses seeing digital advertising as a way to interactive with consumers and uplift sales, business owners and managers are investigating digital posters due to their low investment cost but high impact visual and audio promotions.

These units start at a small 17” display and go up to a massive 80” display, all have a built in media player that stores the advertising content onto a memory card, normally CF cards.

Who is using digital posters?

Well, everyone from nightclub owners to restaurant and bar owner/managers. They want to move with the times and replace their old static printed posters with dynamic advertising screens.

Potential problem with digital posters.

The only issue that has been raised is with the kind of clientele that frequent these locations, sometime consuming too much alcohol and get violent and occasionally vandalises something in the rest room or the nightclub, however one company has gotten round this by designing and manufacturing a steel ArmaPoster, this protects the digital poster from vandalism, with a thick ¼” thick viewing window that has a special anti reflective coating on it.

How to update content.

If you only have one site where the digital posters are located, it is easier and more cost effective to just update the content using the USB connector on the poster to upload new content and ads.

Otherwise a wireless digital poster is the solution if you have multiple sites, so WIFI takes the stress out of visiting each location and updating the media manually. These cost a little more however they will cost less than the fuel you would be paying for driving to each location excluding any labour time.

Why would nightclubs and bars want to use digital signage?

Well we have all seen the neon signs above the bar promoting the weeks “special beer” or cocktail, now using digital posters the manager can create a “special menu” of drinks that are on offer between a set time and schedule this using the onscreen software to display the promotion during slow periods to get people in the bar spending, then switching to another promotion when it traditionally gets busier.

Nightclub and bar owners can also sell advertising spots on their system to local taxi companies and restaurants, so when people have finished at the bar, they can get a taxi easier or even book a restaurant table to follow on from the nightclub or bar.

LCD Enclosure Global have added the ArmaPoster to their range of products that they manufacturer, along with their monitor enclosure and flat screen enclosures, providing a cost effective solution for every application. They also supply a range of digital poster for indoor digital signage, however most of their solutions are for outdoor digital signage.

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Outdoor digital signage comprises of many different types of solutions from monitor enclosures, flat screen enclosures and circular LED billboards – there is a solution for every application at varied budgets.

One thing an outdoor digital signage campaign has to do is create a need, this is the new 24/7 sales person, it can be at a transportation hub or at the side of the road, the idea is the same, to increase brand awareness and get people to buy your product. So let us look at two potential solutions.

Outdoor LED billboard.

These are large LED panels that are used in a frame to create a circular image around a building, these create such a dramatic opportunity to advertising on and they cost in the region of $2,000 per square metre plus installation.

Each LED panel has pixels positioned at 16mm centres, providing images that are vivid in colour with a resolution of 3,906 pixels/m2. The pixels are built up 3 diodes 1 red, 1 green and 1 blue.

The maximum brightness is 5,000cd/m2 or 5,000 nits, guaranteeing that the screen can be seen on the brightest days of the year.

Lifespan – these units are designed to run 24 hours per day and have a lifespan of 100,000 hours the equivalent of 11 and a half years running every day.

Control – This is controlled through a controller that is connected to a computer or can be updated through a wireless connection.

Video input – DVI, Composite video, RGE, VGA and S-video

Monitor Enclosure.

Also called LCD enclosure, these are a special steel case that surrounds the screen and provides a safe, secure environment for the digital signage hardware, such as the screen, media player and internet connection.

These are a lower cost solution and allow businesses to invest in digital signage without having to layout large amounts of money on the final solution.

A monitor enclosure offers a cost effective method of deploying standard screens in hostile and potentially dangerous areas that are susceptible to vandalism.

LCD Enclosure Global manufacture various LCD display enclosures and also supply circular LED billboards for any outdoor digital signage solution.

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Plasma lift cabinets are becoming increasingly popular, due to the amount of space we lack within our homes, now there is a cost effective solution.

Now no matter where you live, you can have a large format TV hidden away in our plasma TV lift cabinet, this unit can either be manufactured for wood or form steel for industrial applications.

The television lifting mechanism will accommodate screens with the following VESA mounts:

• 75×75mm
• 100 x 100mm
• 200 x 100mm

This unit is bolted into the case and then when the control is activated, the lid rises and the TV glides elegantly out of the cabinet.

This plasma tv lift will take screens up to 46” and can even be integrated in to the base of beds, so when you are in bed, you can watch the TV.

Perfect for concealing TV sets and making rooms look much larger than they are, using the lift mechanism, you can even alter the angle of the screen without getting up out of your seat, just by using the remote control. The unit only uses 30 Watts power consumption so your little piece of luxury does not cost the environment or the planet.

These cabinets are perfect for board rooms, homes and even outdoors, one company actually supplies a ceiling descending mount, where by a flap in the ceiling releases and the TV set descending into the view of the waiting public.

A lift cabinet is similar to an LCD enclosure with the built in TV lift mechanism, this allows for the TV to be put outdoors near your pool, spa or outdoor kitchen. Solutions are available for screens up to 70”so that you can enjoy your time outdoors in your garden. This is one way your neighbours will be envious of you and your new outdoor living area.

LCD Enclosure Global are the Worlds leading manufacturer of outdoor digital signage LCD enclosure.

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Monitor enclosures are used to protect monitors and larger LCD screens when they are used for factory information systems. Without these protective cases, the factory information system could be brought to its knees within minutes.

Factory information systems are a very visual part of manufacturing life, without them the large screens and monitors would vanish over night from our production facilities. These screens vary in size from 17” up to and including 65” LCD displays, these have a high investment cost within a project so the do need to be protected, from everything including dust, fluid, truck drivers and heat.

Imagine if you had invested $50,000 in a data collection system only to find that the screens go down and have to be placed within a matter of weeks of commissioning the system, this would not look good for the project managers. So one of the forms of attack is defence (we have all heard that – haven’t we?).

So the best form of defence would be put all monitors that are on the production line into monitor enclosures, these are designed to accommodate both the screen and either a small factor PC, thin client or media player, so all the content can be pulled form a source locally, this is why anyone installing SAP or SCADA look at monitor enclosures as important parts of the chain, without them the project is as useless as if it had no software.

With the reduction of use of CRT screens, the old PC enclosures are being decommissioned and being replaced with thin client enclosures, these too accommodate a flat panel screen and a small computer, however with more large screens being used, this makes using 60” displays a real option for the project team to make the production information system a part of the factory environment.

A monitor enclosure is relatively new to the factory floor and will certainly be around for a number of years before they are superseded.

LCD Enclosure Global manufacturer a range of monitor enclosures as well as their outdoor digital signage LCD enclosure.

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Outdoor digital signage is not a black art, we will try to dispel any myths, so that anyone can create an outdoor digital signage solution for a very minimal investment.

One thing that puts businesses off advertising is the unknown, “what if?” now what if you installed an outdoor digital signage solution that was seen by an most of the towns folk, for example if you are in Massachusetts near Lenox or Lee and you have a stock of “Magic Ice”, then for some freak of nature snow comes in January, yes sure the snow clearing contractors do their job and clears the roads, but what about side walks and car parks and the un-treated roads, like Rattlesnake Pass?

Informing passers by that you have this stock will make them think and will result in them calling in and buying your stock, thus increasing your sales for this product. Now not used just for novelty items, you can also advertise anything as well as provide advertising for adjacent businesses or stores, charging them to advertise on your hardware.

So how do I do it?

1. First you need a good spot near the road, you might even have some parking bays that get little use, here you can dig a hole 18” deep, then concrete a 4” x 4” steel post into the ground making sure it is level.
2. Secondly, you can weld a plate that is 27 ½” wide x 20” high onto the post this is what you will mount the hardware from.
3. Third, purchase an outdoor LCD enclosure, this is a special outdoor case for the TV and provides both cooling and heating for a year round solution that is thermostatically controlled.
4. Fourth, purchase a low cost LCD or plasma TV from Wal-mart or Target an install the TV into the LCD enclosure, then cable the TV up to mains and cable back to your store with Category 5 data cable to a computer.
5. Fifth, now create your content on your local computer and upload it to the screen through the computer cable.

Or, you could purchase an LCD advertising screen that has the media player built in and all you need to do is drag the content to the memory card on your computer and then insert the card into the screen’s secure compartment, then lock the LCD enclosure and your advertising screen can be controlled through the remote control of the advertising screen, to select the dwell time (the length of time a particular image or video is displayed for).

An LCD advertising screen up to 40” would cost less than a thousand bucks, but imagine if you pulled in an extra 50 customers over a week and they all spent over $20, you will have turned over $1000, don’t forget the extra revenue from your neighbours ads, this will certainly pay for the all the hardware and installation costs to get this set up.

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There are so many ways, opportunities and purposes to make and save capital expenditure and income in the world of Digital Signage.  Numerous research campaigns have proved Advertising = Revenue, so using this in appropriate locations, for example, a retail point of sale (POP) or in a hotel lobby, promoting a product or service.  This shows the world of digital on-screen messaging has a valid and profitable position in the workplace.

This innovative way of using new technology, not only bring in financial rewards, but in other industries provides an invaluable information system.  This is immense in such industries as Health Care, where patient facing devices allow the patient options like privacy, direct access to their records, updating personal information, whilst minimising staff participation, as their time may be spent better in another capacity.  These devices can be set out in a simple flow chart system, empowering the patient and even in moments of stress are easy and accurate to follow, enabling the medical staff to carry out treatment and procedures effectively.  Advertising can also be incorporated, proving much needed revenue by pharmaceutical companies – we all accept as the norm, advertising on our computer screens, so this is nothing distracting, but can be highly lucrative.

These way-finding signage devices are very helpful for the public as they enter a huge formidable building, trying to pinpoint a particular department, possibly in an anxious state.  The simple, yet effective layout of a route on an interactive touch screen, is reassuring as the chosen route can be picked up again just along the corridor (depending how the establishment choose to set it out – in numerous possibilities, including wireless connections).  Advertising on these menu boards (yet another phrase used for digital signage!) can bring in a return on investment (ROI), when not in use for a particular operation, adverts can be running continuously, proving any number of different companies and their products or services – compare that to a static bill board.

LCD Enclosure Global specialise in manufacturing outdoor LCD enclosures that are used by outdoor digital signage integrators throughout the world, their policy is provide a cost effective solution. Their LCD enclosure range have been supplied to top tier hotels, World renound theme parks and leading space organisations.

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