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Carousel Digital Signage Launches Express Players Carousel Digital Signage has announced the availability of Carousel Express Players, a new cloud-based software media player solution designed for keeping remote workers and students informed and up to date. The player help organizations extend their digital signage beyond location-based end points, and reach people wherever they work, learn and live. Carousel Digital Signage developed the Express Players in response to pandemicdriven changes in business, learning and healthcare environments. The lightweight players are a perfect complement to Carousel Cloud digital signage software, as both are deployable together within an organization’s existing IT infrastructure. Once live, users can extend their “classic” digital signage content to desktop computers, laptops and tablets, with each Express Player solution licensed based on the size of the organization. Larger organizations also have the flexibility to target content for different business divisions, regions or teams. “With so many students, instructors, and businesspeople working remotely, it is more important than ever for people to remain connected,” said JJ Parker, Carousel CEO. “Carousel Cloud customers using Express Players can now easily communicate across their entire organization, and not just in dedicated spots with fixed digital signage.
Carousel Express Players unify organizations at a time when being in the same building is at best a challenge.” Carousel Express Players can be deployed, in flexible ways, including as screen savers that provide a practical way of keeping people connected; and by embedding Carousel Express Player solution designed to keep remote workers and students informed and updated. Carousel Cloud channels directly into a company’s web page. TriOak Foods, a a company with more than 400 employees midwest food and grain production comand offices in five states. “Having our Caroupany, has found the embedded web player sel channels embedded into our company strategy valuable for reaching both homewebsite allows TriOak employees to quickly based workers, as well as sales staff, working log in and look at our signage content at any from the road. The latter provides a compeltime. It’s a good remedy for communicating ling use case for companies that expect their important information to people that rarely regional, national and global sales teams are in front of our screens.” to gradually return to business travel as the Carousel Express Players can also effecpandemic subsides. tively reach mobile audiences by displaying “We wanted to make our digital sigfull-screen, browser-based content on iOS nage accessible for all TriOak employees, tablets. Digital signage content can also be regardless of their locations,” said Rory presented from an icon on a tablet home Wagenbach, Administrative Assistant and screen without deploying the full Carousel Digital Media Team Member, TriOak Foods, Cloud Player app.
Crestron Expands Zum Lighting Control Portfolio with the New Zum Wired Crestron has launched Zum Wired Lighting Control System, the newest addition to Crestron’s Zum lighting control portfolio. Zum Wired extends the capabilities and performance of the Zum lighting platform with unprecedented scalability, flexibility, and ease of operation. The distributed lighting control system uses industry standards, such as 0-10V, DALI, DMX and Phase control, merged onto an enterprise IoT network called Zum Net. With this latest addition, customers now have the ability to choose between wired, wireless, and hybrid installations. When networking the control system, Zum Wired leverages the Power of Ether-
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net. From loading programming code to updating firmware and products to remote server management, the Ethernet backbone provides superior speed, flexibility, and strength when compared to older RS485 network communication. The flexibility of Zum Net is so great that the Zum lighting control network can be used to host the communication of other IoT devices, such as people counters or advanced environmental sensors. Installation and setup are faster than ever; all Zum devices, wired or wireless, can be controlled via the Zum app, making it easy to set all room aspects and parameters, including presets, levels and sensor settings. The New edition Zum Wired includes
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Zum Wired Lighting Control System color-coded CAT5 cable connectivity for easy error proof installation and simple standalone or network system options, Zum Wired is flexible to manage via DHCP server and deliver a fully customizable experience via SIMPL windows.
