Blenheim i-SITE inspires visitors with ONELAN

May 2012…. The Blenheim i-SITE is part of New Zealand’s official Visitor Network of over 90 Centre’s nationwide. Located in picturesque Marlborough, the i-SITE is a first-port-of-call for visitors - both domestic and international - providing booking services for accommodation, transport and activities, along with maps, visitor guides,  and information on events, restaurants and more on Marlborough and New Zealand.  Marlborough attracts just over 1.3 million visitors each year.

In 2011 as part of a plan for a new visitor precinct the Blenheim i-SITE moved to modern new premises adjacent the Blenheim Railway Station.   The new site provided an opportunity for Destination Marlborough, the Regional Tourism Organisation which operates Blenheim i-SITE, to investigate the use of different medias to encourage and increase visitor spend and time in the region by creating more effective and engaging marketing communications. ONELAN digital signage was chosen to achieve this.

Destination Marlborough’s key objectives included:
To engage and inform travellers by showcasing Marlborough visitor
experiences; 
To orientate and introduce visitors to Marlborough through maps, visuals and interactive displays;
 To promote activities and events;
 To motivate travellers to spend more time and money in the region; and
 To inform travellers of the range of services i-SITE offer.

ONELAN digital signage was chosen due to its ease of use, content and display options and scheduling capabilities.
There are six NTB-620’s displayed on a mix of 42” and 32” LCD screens in both landscape and portrait orientation. Since the original installation an additional LCD screen and NTB-620 has been installed at Blenheim Airport. This ONELAN is also managed remotely by the i-SITE team. The content is fully managed by i-SITE employees.

“We had a long wish list of things we wanted the screens to do for us and Onelan provided a user friendly solution to achieve our needs and then came up with some great ideas to take it a step further.  We are thrilled with the result, especially how easy it is to make changes and the ability to schedule screens to automatically switch off at the end of the day or change to display relevant information for visitors who arrive after hours.” said Tracy Johnston, General Manager Destination Marlborough

ONELAN at Digital Signage Expo 2012

At Digital Signage Expo at The Station, Berlin  12th – 13th June 2012 stand B02, ONELAN will be exhibiting with their partner,Prodytel and will be showing Digital Signage and the latest software updates. HD capture will also be demonstrated.

Digital Signage Expo is Europe's most highly- focused international trade showcase exclusively concerned with all digital signage related topics such as in-store tv, digital media, ad screens, content and solutions. 

ONELAN Wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2012

ONELAN Digital Signage is delighted to announce that they have won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade.

The company wins this award for the first time for outstanding achievement in overseas sales growth with an increase in exports over the last three years of 295%.  Export sales now represent 44% of the company’s sales turnover.

ONELAN’s export strategy is in part a result of the need to counterbalance the potential impact of the recession on the domestic and European markets of external influences.

Says David Dalzell, ONELAN’s Managing Director “We are of course delighted to receive a second Queen’s Award.  We have recognised that our product is international and we have put great effort into promoting it overseas.  Success comes sometimes from unlikely territories, but overall the international response has been very pleasing. ”

ONELAN Enjoys Continued Sales Growth

ONELAN Digital Signage has once again achieved profitable sales growth for the seventh year in a row with increased NTB sales volumes up 13% from 2010.

Continued export success has been largely responsible, with units shipped remaining strong at 45% of the company’s total as ONELAN continues to extend its global reach.

R&D expenditure has continued to exceed the industry average at 20% of turnover, underlining ONELAN’s commitment to bringing innovative solutions to market for the next ten years and beyond.

To underpin this growth ONELAN’s management team has been strengthened with the addition of new people as the business continues to establish itself as a market leader of Digital Signage and content communication in the widest sense.

David Dalzell, ONELAN’s Managing Director comments “My vision for ONELAN for the years ahead is to provide a broad range of solutions in the Digital signage sector that appeal to diverse markets. Our resellers can be confident in the knowledge that we have the resources in place to bring the right solutions to market to support their customer’s future needs.”

Digital Menuboard Whitepaper

ONELAN’s Digital menuboard whitepaper looks at the benefits of digital menu boards with real-life examples of how they are used in a wide range of different environments e.g Ferries, in Petrol Stations, Mines and Universities.
In an increasingly competitive market, digital menu boards enable restaurant and bar managers to keep pace or stay ahead of their competition. For example by using digital signage, restaurant managers are able to incorporate full-motion video into their menu displays and instantly update content to account for last-minute product and price changes for a single location or multiple locations, from anywhere in the world.

This whitepaper gives real life examples of where and how digital menu boards are used. It also investigates getting started with digital signage and provides insight into the best ways to achieve this.

Family Planning Communicates with ONELAN

Every year, more than 200,000 New Zealanders use Family Planning’s sexual and reproductive health services. In addition to its well known clinical services, Family Planning offers sexual and reproductive health information and services for all people at all stages of their life. It runs health promotion classes for young people, parents and community groups, and provides clinical training and development for doctors, nurses, teachers and community workers.

Family Planning was looking for a solution to deliver information to clients at 19 of its clinics across New Zealand. The goal was to manage this from their national office in Wellington. This campaign was another part of the mix to promote safer sex and relationships messages to one of their key audiences, young people. ONELAN digital signage was chosen to achieve this.

Family Planning had the following key objectives for its signage.
• To share sexual health information with clinic visitors and to maximise use of existing information resources.
• To engage with and inform visitors in its waiting rooms with information and quizzes all focussed on sexual and reproductive health.
• To inform visitors of the range of services it offers including sexual and reproductive health, clinical services, education, and training and research.

ONELAN digital signage was chosen due to its ease of use, content and display options and scheduling capabilities.

ONELAN Net top Box (NTB)-510S SSD media players and 32” LCD screens are installed in 19 clinics nationwide, and a NTB-5500P media player is installed at the head office in central Wellington.

The content is fully managed from the national office in Wellington by Family Planning employees. The content being displayed in clinics consists of
Predesigned jpeg images containing key messaging and images, and Local RSS news feeds.

End Result
A recent survey of clinic clients found that 74% of them had learned information about sexual health and relationships from reading the clinic screens.

“Sitting in a clinic, even if they are only waiting for five minutes, it would be possible for a young person to see three or four different messages on these information screens. This is unlikely to happen if the information was being delivered through any other medium, such as browsing through leaflets; nor would they receive the same depth of information if they were looking at a poster” said Family Planning Chief Executive Jackie Edmond.

ONELAN Unveils New Products at ISE 2012

It was another fantastic year for ONELAN at ISE 2012, with a bigger stand and more visitors than ever.

The hottest area on the stand was without doubt the Cyclone Android player and Enterprise Content Management System. Cyclone was demonstrated driving content not only to traditional digital signage players, but also to websites and shelf edge screens.
Another area that also sparked a lot of interest was the QR code generator, which makes it easy for anyone to use QR codes in their digital signage application. This combined with ONELAN’s Ad Hoc content management interface allows a user to select content relevant to them or even add messages.

The videowall dominated one side of the stand with Samsung 46” displays in a unique configuration driven by a ONELAN NTB 6000 and a Datapath X4 controller. Finally a lot of you could see many opportunities for the new HDCP compliant HD Capture Solution; from bars, cafés, gyms and hotels to live events - basically wherever customers want to combine full HD TV/video with multizone layout designs. The potential applications are numerous.
Watch out for announcements in the coming months as we bring our many new products to market.

Weatherford International use ONELAN to Improve Communications

One of the largest oilfield services companies, Weatherford International is headquartered in Switzerland, and currently operates in more than 100 countries across the world, employing more than 52,000 people. The company has regional hubs in major energy-producing regions such as Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, and the United States. Weatherford has a product and service portfolio that spans the life cycle of a well including drilling, evaluation, completion, production and intervention as well as research and development.

Weatherford selected digital signage from ONELAN to improve communications across their operations in Abudhabi (U.A.E).

Thirty nine ONELAN Net-top-boxes (NTBs) are installed at Weatherford’s premises in Abudhabi, and four further ONELAN NTB subscriber units are installed in other Weatherford office locations across UAE. All the subscriber NTBs rely on the feed from a ONELAN NTB5500P publisher unit installed in Weatherford WTTC, Abudhabi.

A 1 x 3 video wall in Weatherford’s foyer displays content from an ONELAN NTB 510S. The room booking is done through third party software which provides the output in an html file and is retrieved through the HTML zone on the ONELAN NTB. This video wall displays the sessions taking place in all the meeting rooms and class rooms in the facility.

Screens in the Auditorium display are used to present the details of the session in progress, (driven by a NTB in the simulation room) run videos showing how Weatherford’s products are used e.g in oil fields.

In the lobby 42” displays driven by ONELAN NTB 510S units show digital signage content for Weatherford WTTC including information on the organization and its mission statements. A 42” display is installed in the foyer in portrait mode to display greetings and welcome messages to visitors.

Weatherford’s digital signage content is managed centrally by a dedicated member of staff. The Ad hoc capability enables changes to be made e.g stock levels on a daily basis.

End user feedback
Weatherford are very happy with their digital signage as it has improved internal communications, and is much more effective than their previous system which comprised PCs running Powerpoint.

ONELAN at ISE 2012

At ISE 2012 at the Amsterdam RAI, Hall 10 Stand P136, ONELAN has commissioned a new stand, twice the size of its ISE 2011 stand. This will accommodate a new videowall, and additional demonstration zones to show both new features for existing products and numerous new products including:

• A new generation of high, medium and low end Net-Top-Box (NTB) platforms, with HD capture capabilities for the high and medium end options
• A low cost Retail Media Player (RMP)
• A low cost Streaming Media Player (SMP)

New NTB features include the following:
• Timeline – graphical input and display of Time Validity per media item
• Channel view – view of Channel health and Channel reconfiguration via DSM
• Fast output preview – fast screen snapshot
• Detailed player health information
• The ability to fade stills

ONELAN will also be showing the Cyclone enterprise solution with multi-channel capability, auto playlists, Media and site metadata.

Casino Lugano strikes it lucky with ONELAN

Casino Lugano is situated on the lakeside, in the central area of ​​the city of Lugano itself. They wanted a solution that could manage multiple video sources on one screen, and chose digital signage to do this. Having seen ONELAN at ISE 2011, they chose their digital signage for its user friendliness.

Casino Lugano needed to manage 20 screens in real time with different content (publicity,promo,tv) remotely from an executive office.

22 ONELAN Net-top-boxes (NTB) are installed and one Omni-server.