Sedao Adds FTP Export Feature to Digital Signage System
The simplification of the QuickChange system helps Sedao appeal to SMBs without the resources for training or management.
Presenting such tabular information as restaurant menus, price lists, timetables, or room bookings on digital signage displays is common. This type of tabular information needs updating on a regular basis. In many cases the updated information is already stored and managed on external computers in common office productivity programs, such as Excel, or in an online resource over a network. The question for SMBs can be, “Who’s going to take that data and move it to the signage?”
To facilitate such a transfer of information, Sedao has added a new FTP export feature to its QuickChange digital signage system. This simplifies the management and updating of content flowing into the digital signage system from the host data computer.
Signage operators can simply manage spreadsheets and databases, while the information is automatically transferred onto the display, even using a graphic image template if desired.
Sedao says the addition of FTP targets the content can also be easily displayed on devices other than Windows-based digital signage displays, “extending the network and range of applications to include almost any type of digital display, including digital picture frames, PDAs and iPhones, Web sites, and Linux-based digital signage players.
David Oades, Sedao’s managing director outlines the enormous range of applications that this has opened up. “Digital signage is no longer simply about a single large flat panel display in a corridor or office that shows a revolving set of images,”he says. “With these new features in QuickChange, anyone can easily manage an extensive system that delivers dynamic content in a professional-quality graphics confident that the same content is instantly updated on a whole set of coordinated but diverse display devices.”
Oades says operators will not need much training at all. “They just carry on working in their normal manner on their familiar office productivity programs, such as Excel, and QuickChange does the rest,” he says.
