DisplayIt! is an exciting new way to create and display digital sign content. It offers the quickest, easiest and least expensive way to create and schedule content on a network of digital displays.

   

The objectives of DisplayIt! are:

• To give non-programmers the ability to manage digital signage projects.

• To simplify content creation for digital signs.

•  To manage the schedule for one or more digital signs or groups of digital signs using a simple calendar interface.

 The functionality of DisplayIt! is divided into categories corresponding to the functions typically performed by someone creating and managing digital signage programs. These are:

 

Displays - naming and defining the location of a digital sign, and what content should be shown on it whenever nothing else is scheduled.

 

Groups - creating groups of displays, to speed the scheduling process.

Media - acquiring media elements for use with digital signs. These include digital movies, still images, flash movies, text, and web pages (HTML).

 

Templates - defining content templates, using a visual interface that allows you to drag and resize boxes to specify the location of various media types on your digital signs. You can use our pre-defined templates, or create your own.

 

Presentations - combine media elements and templates to specify the exact mix for any situation. You may preview what your presentations will look like right on your computer, or on a nearby display. In either case, you will know how your presentation will look in the field before you use it.

 

Schedule - sends the right presentation to the right display (or group of displays) any time of the day or night. Any schedule event may be repeated, daily, weekly, monthly, on weekends or weekdays, for as long as you want.

 

Logging – the event logging feature keeps track of what content was sent to which digital display and when. Logs are kept in Microsoft Excel format.

 

Emergency Notification System – put an emergency notice onto all of your displays instantly by utilizing the DI Now! companion program. Best Wave also offers artist-designed graphics for this purpose.

DisplayIt! is not one piece of software, but a family of integrated components. Each component serves a specific function. Some components must be used, others are optional.

DisplayIt! is the software you will use for defining your display network, loading media files, creating digital sign templates, adding media to templates to create presentations, and then, scheduling presentations onto your digital signs. It may be run from one or more workstations (additional license fees apply). It only has to be running when creating content or scheduling signs.

 

DI Robot watches your schedule, and, when any display in the network needs to be changed, DI Robot will do that. DI Robot comes in two versions, one that is minimized on the task bar, and another that runs as a background process. After you have scheduled content, one of these two should be running at all times, either on the server or on a workstation that is not turned off at night.

 

DI-Transport is the program that “pushes” presentations onto the local storage of the media players in the network. It does this via FTP protocol. Having media local to the player reduces the amount of network traffic by virtually eliminating streaming of content. More than one instance of DI Transport may be run for larger networks. DI Transport does not work with the ND4210w.

 

DI-Text is a simple way for a receptionist or other person in your organization to change the text being shown on a presentation, but nothing else. This is a great way to greet visitors to a facility, or make other timely announcements quickly and easily.