Where it is used
A menu board and a hospital waiting room have almost nothing in common on the glass. Underneath, both need content managed, scheduled, played reliably and monitored from somewhere else. These are the settings we are most often asked about, and what tends to be on screen in each.
01 — SETTING
Promotions, pricing, product information and window displays that change by time of day and by branch, without anyone printing anything.
TYPICALLY ON SCREEN
02 — SETTING
Menu boards that change between breakfast, lunch and evening, plus the ordinary business of telling people what is available and what it costs.
TYPICALLY ON SCREEN
03 — SETTING
The screens an organisation uses to tell its own people things: announcements, visitor welcomes, room and wayfinding information, and whatever the internal comms team needs on a Monday.
TYPICALLY ON SCREEN
04 — SETTING
Campus announcements, timetables, event information and emergency messaging across buildings that rarely share a single content owner.
TYPICALLY ON SCREEN
05 — SETTING
Waiting-area information, queue and appointment displays, and public health messaging — where legibility and reliability matter far more than visual effects.
TYPICALLY ON SCREEN
06 — SETTING
Large or distributed installations where many screens have to stay consistent, stay current and stay on — and where nobody can visit each one to fix it.
TYPICALLY ON SCREEN
What actually differs
Not the software. These three, and they are worth settling early because each one changes the shape of the project.
01
One marketing team, or forty branch managers, or a facilities coordinator who also does three other jobs. This decides how simple publishing has to be, and it is the single biggest predictor of whether a signage system is still current in a year.
02
Twelve screens in one building is a different problem from two hundred across sixty sites with local autonomy. Grouping and permissions carry most of that weight, and getting the structure right at the start saves rebuilding it later.
03
A lobby, a window in direct sun, a corridor read at a walking pace, a waiting room where people sit for forty minutes. Viewing distance and light change the content design far more than they change the software.
If none of these is you
The six above are the ones we are asked about most often, not the boundary of the problem. Anywhere there are screens that need to show the right thing at the right time, be updated by people who are busy, and be checked on from somewhere else, the same system applies.
We have built and run systems of this kind across more than one of these settings. We would rather walk you through the relevant work on a call — including the parts that were harder than expected — than put other people's screens on a marketing page.
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Tell us what the screens have to say and who should be keeping them current. If the honest answer is that you do not need us, we will say that too.