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Digital signage, also known as narrowcasting or electronic billboards, is a networkof signs that use digital displays to communicate with target audiences in designatelocations by high-quality video, audio, animation, graphics, and texts. Replacingand enhancing traditional signs, digital signage offers a multimedia communicationplatform to promote, inform, educate, and entertain specific audiences in a varietyof out-of-home occasions.
Compared to those PC-based solutions, SMP-WEB, a compact dedicated digital signageappliance, has a lower total cost of ownership. It has lower power consumption andshorter boot/reboot time than PC. Fanless models are also available to eliminate thenoise for some special applications. The system is developed with CayinÂ's hardenedembedded Linux, which effectively increases system security and prevents fromcomputer virus and hackersÂ' attacks.
SMP-WEB is a web-based networked digital signage system. All multimedia contents aredisplayed in full-screen web pages, so designers can utilize their own familiarweb-editing tools and unleash their creativities without being constrained totraditional rigid split screens. This system supports most popular web languages,such as HTML, JavaScript, Macromedia Flash, DHTML, CSS, etc., and most popular codecand file formats, such as MPEG-1, 2, 4, AVI, WMV, MP3, JPG, GIF, etc. In addition tovideo, images, animations, and texts, SMP-WEB can extend to provide interactiveservices incorporating with external devices such as touch screen, keyboard, keypad,or mouse.
SMP-WEB is an open-structure platform for easy integration. This solution isdeployed under server-client structure over IP network, and can integrate easilywith customersÂ' existing network facilities, including web server, data base,storage, backup, or load balance. It provides a flexible and scalable networkeddigital signage solution for various applications.
With CayinÂ's CMS server, administrators can manage the contents and system settingsof SMP-WEB easily. A CMS server can administrate up to 60 clients at the same time,and broadcast right messages to be displayed at right time and right places. Cayinespecially provides a useful web-based management tool for easy remote control.Administrators can centrally manage all SMP-WEB players located at different siteswith automatic content updates, scheduling playlists, and can reboot each playerremotely if necessary. SMP-WEB can also detect the network connection, and change toa pre-set offline display automatically when the network disconnect accidentally.
CayinÂ's SMP-WEB is an innovative product in the market and currently 85 units arepurchased and installed by Chinese Culture University in Taiwan. Those SMP-WEB mediaplayers are deployed with 32Â -50Â LCD TV at front gates, along corridors, in frontof elevators, and outside conference rooms allocated in various buildings indifferent campuses. Administrators can centrally manage system settings in computercenters and distribute the right contents to the right media players in varioussites via IP network. They will display school news, teaching materials, and publicinformation in the format of videos, images, scrolling texts, and Flash animations.They also plan to broadcast live videos, such as TV programs or the graduationceremony in the auditorium.
Cayin Technology in BriefCayin Technology is established by a group of professionals specializing indevelopment, researches, and engineering. Cayin devotes itself to providing completesolutions in multimedia, network, and embedded fields, integrating computers andhome appliances in various commercial applications, such as dynamic digital signage,video-on-demand systems in transportation, education, and hospitality. In additionto standard products, Cayin also provides tailored software services to meetcustomersÂ' requirements for almost limitless applications. Our mission is tocontinue to innovate and concentrate on providing our customers with foresighted newsolutions.
