by Eclipse Digital | 20 Apr 2016 |
The University of Kent teaches over 15,800 students on its Canterbury campus and has recently celebrated its fifty year anniversary.
With national recognition for research intensity, and the provision of an exceptional student experience, the university approaches the next 50 ears with confidence and ambition.
Its Templeman Library has undergone a major redevelopment recently, transforming it into a leading 21 st Century facility incorporating books, study space, computers, and other learning resources. A digital screen and signage strategy were very much part of that metamorphosis.
University of Kent needed a simple to use Digital Signage solution that gave them hardware flexibility to put displays in a variety of library locations and to integrate with internal systems to show live PC availability data. They also wanted to use the same system to deliver key information and wayfinding in the newly developed Maths department building.
“Navigating around the large 15,000sqm space for up to 9000 visitors a day can be a challenge, so digital signage was employed to aid navigation across the four floors – helping students find a computer to use, books or space to study in. Some screens are also used for room availability and promoting events/services to library users.”. – Julia Crompton, Marketing Manager, Templeman Library, University of Kent.
The screens are installed in a variety of environments including landscape kiosk enclosures, portrait totems, wall mounted portrait enclosures and room booking housings outside study rooms.
Eclipse Digital worked with University of Kent throughout the entire project and supplied a digital signage network consisting of over 35 Samsung Smart Signage Platform displays in a variety of sizes, paired with the cloud based digital signage software embed signage.
by eclipse | 16 Nov 2016 |
Chelsea College of Arts is one of London’s most prestigious art and design colleges. Offering courses in curating, fine art, graphic design communication, textile design and interior and spatial design.
With just over 1400 students, the college’s small size and supportive atmosphere makes studying here feel more like being part of a community.
The Chelsea College of Arts needed an internal communications update to act as a professional and welcoming invitation to new visitors but also offer the opportunity for better communications with current students and staff whilst also offering the opportunity to share and broadcast creative projects undertaken throughout the year.
A Digital Signage strategy was needed to achieve this.
“I found the process of upgrading to Eclipse Digital Media a really simple process and we were able to get up and running very swiftly and had an excellent training session to show the team how to get the most from the software. The screens look so much more professional now and we are able to schedule interesting media which is updated regularly without taking up too much of the teams time.”.
Emily French – Marketing Manager for Chelsea College of Arts
The screens are installed in a variety of environments including reception areas, hallways and the cafe and provide a professional, welcoming information point and also display students creative projects throughout the campus.
by Eclipse Digital | 8 Mar 2016 |
The University of Winchester has been providing excellence for education for over 175 years and currently has nearly 7,500 students enrolled.
The University of Winchester’s Catering Department provides a healthy sustainable lifestyle for students, whilst maintaining excellent customer service and of course value for money. It caters for students, staff and for the general public as part of its conferencing services through it’s eight outlets on campus.
The University of Winchester catering department were looking at ways of delivering allergy information to their students for their food outlets. They were seeking modern ways to engage with their students and staff, as well as providing critical information about the allergens as required by EU law.
“The primary objective for us was to increase the availability of crucial information that staff and students of the university require. This information includes vital detail regarding the allergen information of each of dishes on our daily rotating menu.” – Rob Ferrin, University of Winchester
Allergy Information Boards Plugin
Eclipse Digital Media supplied and installed a 32″ ELO Touch Display with integrated PC paired with embed signage digital signage software license and the embed signage Allergy Information Board plugin.
This solution provides University of Winchester with an interactive display that is fast becoming the expected method of information discovery in western society. It also gives the University a scalable marketing tool to deliver not only the allergen information for menus but to run marketing messaging and promotions alongside. The University have the opportunity to redesign and edit their content by adding or removing pages of interactive content as they need to and scheduling content to change at critical times, for example on international student open days.
by Eclipse Digital | 12 Feb 2016 |
HARINGEY SIXTH FORM CENTRE
Haringey Sixth Form Centre is an Education Facility based in Tottenham, London. It is purpose-built centre dedicated to offering full-time courses for 16–19 year olds.
The Centre is zoned to provide specialist facilities for each area of the curriculum and includes a wide range of facilities on site such as Dance Studio, 200 seat Theatre, Art studios, Recording studio, Science Laboratories, ICT workshops and Sports Facilities.
Haringey Sixth Form Centre were looking for a more efficient and effective way to communicate messages to students on campus and identified digital signage as the right solution for them.
They requested the ability to be able to display different messaging in different areas of the building and to provide multiple users with access to update content relevant to their area. The centre also requested that the signage solution included the ability to distribute live TV to various screens at certain times of the day.
Haringey Sixth Form Centre required a signage solution that could be installed and managed on their internal network infrastructure.
Eclipse Digital Media provided a ONELAN digital signage solution consisting of one Publisher with a built in DVB-T TV Tuner and a streaming license, with a collection of subscribers with WiFi and stream in licenses to receive content from the Publisher.
To make a focal point for information at the entrance, Eclipse Digital provided a 55″ Freestanding Digital Totem with a ONELAN player mounted within. As Haringey Sixth Form Centre already had some existing screens in place, subscribers were installed nearby and deliver content direct to the displays. A brand new commercial grade 42″ was also installed within the Library resource centre where there was no exisiting display.
Multiple users have access to specific areas of specific location content to provide relevant information to the students and all the subscribers have the ability to display a stream of Live TV from the publisher at various scheduled times.
by Eclipse Digital | 11 Feb 2016 |
More House School is a prestigious Catholic focused all Girls school based in Knightsbridge, London established in 1953. The School is managed by a lay charitable trust and prides itself on providing an environment for pupils to not only gain the qualifications they need to pursue the courses and careers of their choice, but also the confidence and self assurance to meet the challenges that lie ahead in an ever changing world.
More House School required a new way of delivering important student and parental information and saw digital signage as a good option to do this. They wanted to be able to place various media content types and have the ability to schedule content to display at different times of the day for different school periods.
The school specified that the solution needed to be easy to use, simple to install and be at a good price point.
Eclipse Digital Media specified a 48″ Samsung commercial display together with an embed signage Zero Device Android mini PC and an annual license for the cloud based digital signage software embedsignage.com.
This solution provided an attractive price point for the school and gave them access to an extremely easy to use, feature rich digital signage platform to meet their needs. Using embed signage, More House School are able to publish multi zone, multi media content layouts to their screen with full scheduling functionality. The cloud based software meant that installation was simple, as requested and off site support is a straightforward process.
