In our last article, we talked about what questions you should ask before using logmein.com for your kiosks. Here are a few more good ones to ask their support staff: Do you want to control how content gets sent to your machines? Sometimes you need to schedule when software distribution is moved, installed, and activated. You might have certain time constraints and want to be in charge of when the software is downloaded, installed and run. This is important because it…

Technology has given us many tools to solve traditional business problems. Sometimes that choice can be overwhelming, as there are hundreds of different types of software one can use to implement any solution. Making the right choice depends on understanding what issues may pop up. An example of a product where there are issues that could use a software solution are digital signage machines and/or kiosks. Working with clients who use standard IT and server monitoring tools to manage their…

Farming heavily influences the landscape and quality of its environment. This can affect produce tremendously, making it more expensive resulting in higher costs to the farmers and consumers. There is growing demand for farmers to implement technology that will improve the predictability of their crop, improve the efficiency of their processes and capture all that data to help them make smarter decisions in the future. By implementing agricultural weather sensors, farmers can get readings that tell them the exact weather conditions of any…

Farmers are known to be hard workers, but many people don’t realize the amount of analysis that goes into running a successful farm. In order to produce the best yield and quality for their crops, there are many variables farmers have to take into account, such as soil moisture, temperature, humidity, wind speed and wind direction. That’s where weather sensors come in. Weather Sensors can help farmers make better decisions faster Thanks to the readings of weather sensors, farmers now…

A lifelong innovator, Ed Andrew had plenty of experience as a COO before taking on an IoT Project. Ed and his team at SkoolLive created a digital signage program to help students be better informed about upcoming events, exams and also generate advertising revenue for schools. While they had a great product that helped improve communication within and between schools and their students, they ran into some challenges in the implementation. Weak networks, kiosk tampering and administrative challenges all made…

As our society’s technology is constantly evolving, many people expect to give up a little privacy in exchange for a lot of information. But people still have a limit on how much they want to share, and are reasonably apprehensive about technological solutions that seem to share too much. With the Internet of Things connecting many devices to a greater network in ways that were previously thought impossible, many end users have become even more skeptical. But do they have…

With an election coming up, the United States has seen an increased focus on their education system during the campaign. Some people think that quality education isn’t accessible enough and they want solutions, while others claim that there is no problem and you can actually take money out of the budget. The truth is somewhere in the middle, but the answer isn’t necessarily more money. In fact, the Internet of Things can actually improve education without many additional costs. How…

With many urban challenges coming up in the near future, many cities are looking to local connectivity for the solutions. Singapore is a leader in this field, as they have already taken steps to ensure that the Internet of Things will help their city prosper in the years to come. What exactly are they doing? IoT Infrastructure Singapore is moving to an IoT infrastructure more out of necessity than anything else. With their senior citizen population expected to triple in…

With the advent of mobile devices and other digital technology, print is slowly becoming obsolete when it comes to mass communication. According to PQ Media, digital signage marketing in particular is the second fastest growing advertising medium in the world. Moving from print to digital signage Many insiders see the transition from print advertising to digital signage as inevitable. For one, the static content of traditional print is less eye-catching than the variation of bright and vibrant images used with digital…