Digital signage technology is a modern electronic display form used to display seller specific information as a medium of advertisement. The technology helps pass on messages through display installations running on centrally controlled software. The technology is today called digital out-of-home advertising medium or simply DOOH technology. Unlike the analog TV medium the signage system only displays digital content in forms of signs, thus the name digital signage.
This digital content is displayed on a monitor-like output mode. The monitor in this case can be LED, LCD, projection images or plasma displays. Modern display hardware includes flat screens mounted on walls. The screens are ultra-thin, truly flat and with amazingly high ranges of resolution and color distinction.
The fact that digital signage only uses digital content makes it preferable to other static signs like billboards, posters and the like. This means that the signage allows business owners to display constantly changing signs that are more thrilling, entertaining and captivating than the static signs. With modern software the digital signage content can easily be changed, improved with animations and enriched with all forms of graphics. The signage can also easily adapt to any context desired by the one in charge of deployment or even to the audience being targeted at a particular time and location.
Digital signage gives advertisers an interactive forum to reach out to the market. In many instances, companies install and deploy their own content through the digital signage display units as a means of advertising. Companies can also install digital signage displays in their premises, especially if it is in a high traffic environment like a government building, retail outlet, department store, cinema etc. and then sell out the advertising space to third party companies who need to reach out to the particular audience frequenting these designated locations.
Whichever one of these intents you may have, the important thing is to install the digital signage display units in strategic positions where the bulk of the human traffic to your premises will be able to notice them. Again, you need to ensure that you install modern and stylish display units such as plasma screens and not the age old projection units. Like all mediums of advertisement, digital signage displays must be meticulously deployed based on market research and planning so as to reach the right audience, with the right message, in the right style and at the right time.
