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Digital Signs for Businesses and Schools

Today's successful businesses and top schools have found ways to communicate with and serve their patrons and employees efficiently without sacrificing the quality of their products and services. One way that savvy companies have achieved this has been to continue to monitor and make use of the best available technology. Digital signs for business have proven to be useful and dynamic in their capabilities and their uses similarly satisfy the needs of universities and other schools. If education is your business then you will find that digital signs for schools will enhance their environments and make them more user-friendly.

School and Business Applications

Directories and Wayfinding: Office building lobbies can be difficult to navigate when the only available information is a felt board tacked with room numbers and names even when none of the plastic lettering has disappeared. Directories are an excellent use of digital signs for business that need an upgrade to their navigation system. Electronic display screens provide an attractive and reliable image and can integrate software that allows for extra help such as interactive maps. These are also ideal types of digital signs for schools that require the use of enormous maps for navigating their campuses and buildings.

Real Time Messaging: There are times when businesses of all sizes need to send important time-sensitive messages to multiple groups of people. Whether the message is a menu change or an emergency warning, this is when digital signs for businesses become extremely useful, even essential. Sending a mass emergency message is also an excellent use of digital signs for schools where security is a high priority. Digital signs can be strategically placed for your message to be received by everybody who needs it, when they need it.

Networking and Broadcasting: Businesses that use waiting rooms no longer need to hang televisions and keep track of their remote controls. Restaurants and cafes no longer need to use chalkboards to display their soup of the day. Displays like these allow them to digitally integrate their own menu with the sign, or to connect to the internet for live streaming of the broadcast of their choice. This is also useful for educational facilities in buildings like student unions, cafes, and other common areas. These types of school displays are especially effective in areas that get constant use by students.

These are just some of the many uses of digital signs for business and for schools. Four Winds Interactive will help you successfully implement this technology into your business to suit your specific needs as we have done for clients such as the Franklin Marriott and Boise State University. Do not hesitate to contact us for further or more specific information about how electronic displays will enhance your business.

See Some Examples

Digital Signage Applications:

  • Facility mapping
  • Event display
  • Menu boards
  • Schedules & live scoring
  • Employee communication
  • Safety alerts
  • Welcome messaging
  • Weather forecasting