Digital Signage for Enterprise: How to Manage 100+ Screens

Do you intend to manage 100 screen in one location? Do you intend to create larger cinema-style screens out of tens of smaller screens? Are you looking to control many different screens in many different locations? These are all questions you need to ask because they all have different solutions.

Do you intend to manage 100 screen in one location? Do you intend to create larger cinema-style screens out of tens of smaller screens? Are you looking to control many different screens in many different locations? These are all questions you need to ask because they all have different solutions.

Many Screens In One Location

A good example of this is within malls and large outdoor events. A great many digital signs may point the way to parking lots, to toilet areas, to refreshment areas, and may offer live notifications and schedules to the thousands of people who attend.

In these cases, you simply use a program like Kitcast, you connect to your signs over the Internet, and you control what each sign says through the software on your computer. Each sign is named, so you stream information onto each depending on its location and its use. It is not that different from streaming to a single screen.

A Larger Cinema-Style Screen

Perhaps you wish to push together tens of screens to create the illusion of a very large screen. You then run a single movie stream on the sign, and from a distance, it looks as if the movie is being played on a single large screen.

Pulling this off is a little more difficult. Even if you manage to wire up all the screens and find suitable power sources and power balancing, you still need software that understands the dynamics of a multi-screen display. It is possible to do it all yourself, but it is tricky. Doing it yourself involves breaking up a video into selections of a single image, creating a movie showing only each section, and then run them all simultaneously. If even a single digital sign is behind the others, then the illusion of a single image will not work.

Many Screens in Many Different Locations

Let’s say you run a number of call centers, and you want your national statistics and/or stock levels to be shown at each location. You put digital signs at each location and set them up as you would normally (with a streaming device, hooked up to the Internet, each having Kitcast or a suitable
software program installed on the streaming device). On your computer, you can name each screen based on its location and then control the content from a single hub.

If you are looking to show off a live feed of something like stock levels, then grab the live feed and simply apply it to every digital screen. The location and distance between signs is not an issue. Having a single sign in Texas and another in New Deli is no different than having two screens sat
beside you. How you control them and what they show is dictated by you from your computer. It acts as a central hub for your digital sign content. If you think you need help with keeping track of your digital assets read Best Digital Asset Management Software.

Start Small With Your Signs

Getting to grips with how the systems work and how digital signs work is something you should do very gradually. With just a few signs in a single place so that you may learn how to control them, and so that you can troubleshoot any problems while the solutions are still small. Check out 5 things to keep in mind when designing a billboard advertisement.

The great thing about digital signs is that it is usually a case of scaling up very evenly. Adding six new signs to your collection is no different to adding sixty. The only place where things get tricky is when it comes to power distribution and management. Just like with most things, the more you have, the more difficult it becomes to power them and manage them. However, even with that said, maintenance is rarely a problem.

The only place where digital signs do not scale up evenly is when you are using tens of screens to create the illusion of a single larger screen. In those cases, going from big to bigger often takes a lot of work and a lot of optimization. With the exception of this type of cinema screen example, most other types of digital sign setup are pretty easy to install, maintain and scale up.

It is actually easier than remote controlling PCs, and in some cases, is easier than screen casting from a PC. Simply start with a few digital signs, and before you know it, you will have the tools and knowledge required to install and manage hundreds of digital signs.