Products | Digital Signage iCOMPEL Digital Signage Platform for SMB (Continued) Software features: Sophisticated layout tools. The publisher and kiosk models include a number of free layouts, so you can be up and running, displaying your choice of content in a professionally designed format within minutes. Or you can create your own. The intuitive layout and design tool makes it easy to create layouts. Adjust, resize, position, and layer zones with a simple click and drag. Also, you can manually set pixel or percentage measurements to achieve pixel-accurate alignment or lock a movie zone to a desired aspect ratio (16:9, 5:4, or 4:3). Set up one or more screen layouts containing one or more rectangular zones for display, either in a portrait or landscape screen configuration. You also get the flexibility to format text so it’s consistent with the look and feel of your business’ branding. That’s because the iCOMPEL supports importing custom fonts. You can set their style, weight, and color, as well as control their scroll speed and direction on a screen. Schedule playlists for different times of the day. All iCOMPEL publishers can be used to control multiple content channels. This way, you can deliver a high-impact display to the particular audience or segment of customers before you, whether you need to show stored or live media. Every zone in the display layout can run on its own schedule. When you activate a schedule, the relevant media will appear, as laid out, on your display. Different layouts can be scheduled to play at different times of the day. Each playlist runs in a continuous loop per a preset schedule. You can also show a video file stored on its internal disk (or on models with a TV or HD video capture card, you can show live video), show text from an internal feed, and more. Using the RSS subscriber features, you can easily display text crawls from the Internet — which is great for streaming news or stock tickers. Plus, purchase the GPIO adapter and all iCOMPEL units will support general-purpose input/output (GPIO) capabilities so content playing can be triggered (or halted) by signals originating from external device inputs. Attach a motion sensor, for example, and program the system to activate a screen when the sensor detects someone approaching — great for saving energy and extending screen life. Or set it up to provide emergency notification based on a signal sent when a secure door is opened or when an environmental condition occurs. Resize and position items in precise increments or click and drag. Overlap and make zones transparent. iCOMPEL supports unlimited zones for text or still images, up to 15 zones for HTML, and either two or four zones for video (depending on the model ordered). Activate scheduled content delivery from the playlist interface. Includes FREE layouts. Customize them how you like! For more on iCOMPEL SMB, turn the page. 28 Tech Support 030 - 241 77 99 | Sales 030 - 241 77 77 | On-Site Services 030 - 241 77 44 Update messaging in real time with “ad-hoc” capabilities. A customized welcome message (like that shown above) can be added for the specific site where the iCOMPEL subscriber is located, replacing the default content in a screen presentation.
iCOMPEL SMB Typical setup: Use for a standalone application… iCOMPEL units work in one of three roles: • As a kiosk player, to itself; can create and play but not publish. • As a publisher, through which you can create layouts, manage playlists, then publish one or more channels to itself as an FTP client or to a USB storage device or an external FTP client. It sends a snapshot of all required files to an FTP file server at a preconfigured location in your attached IP network. • As a subscriber, pulling down new content and instructions from an FTP client, a USB storage device, or another iCOMPEL unit. In a basic kiosk setup, a single iCOMPEL connects directly to your network and to your display device. Accessing the device can be done one of four ways: via a Web browser by providing an IP address along with a name and password; via an FTP client by providing a name and password (for uploading content to the iCOMPEL unit); or via Secure Shell (SSH) by giving an IP address and root password. … or in multiscreen, multisite applications. The iCOMPEL units function as kiosk players, as publishers, or as subscribers in more elaborate multisite deployments, too. Used in a multisite application, however, iCOMPEL clones its media from another iCOMPEL over a network, acting as a channel manager, with the same digital signage presentation showing on screens at different sites at specific times. When working as channel subscribers, the iCOMPEL units automatically download and show a channel that’s been published by another iCOMPEL unit. The subscribers poll the publisher periodically for changes that may have been republished, downloading new content and deleting old content automatically. You can also log into each subscriber and customize content on an “ad-hoc” basis. All iCOMPEL units support this, but it’s particularly useful in multiscreen setups where you want to locally update screen content to issue alerts or customize messaging for specific audiences. iCOMPEL Publisher Central Control LAN iCOMPEL Subscriber Local Customization Remote Location 2 Splitter Internet Splitter LAN Key functions performed by iCOMPEL: • Managing of media files used to create content. • Creating a number of content presentations with various layouts. FTP Server Local Customization Remote Location 1 LAN iCOMPEL Subscriber In a typical multiscreen, multisite application, you designate one iCOMPEL unit as a channel publisher and other units as subscribers. You then publish your latest schedule as a collection of files on a channel server (either the iCOMPEL itself or an Internet file server). Subscribers then download all files from the channel server and run content according to the new schedule. • Scheduling the distribution of content presentations in playlists. • Playing stored media, including slideshows and recorded video. • Playing live video (on TV capture and HD capture models). • Changing content at the screens for “ad hoc” messaging. • System monitoring and troubleshooting. For more on iCOMPEL SMB, turn the page. For more information and our online store, visit www.blackbox.nl 29
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