ONELAN at IBC 2010 10-14 September 2010

At IBC 2010 Stand IP304, ONELAN will be showing their new TV Gateway (TVG) product. The TVG has been developed following the success of ONELAN’s Omni-Server range. The TVG allows streaming over a network using a unique multi-unicast technique. The Omni-Server range allows recording of up to 20 TV channels and 20 radio stations, stored in a carousel mode, to be watched at anytime.

ONELAN now has customers across a broad spectrum of markets from corporates e.g Airbus, and retail e.g TalkTalk to education e.g. University of Bedfordshire. Existing ONELAN customers have been very receptive to the new product ranges for TV streaming.

TalkTalk Attracts New Customers with ONELAN

ONELAN Digital Signage has been chosen by TalkTalk to attract and communicate to new customers.

TalkTalk wanted a means of attracting new customers into their pilot shop and selected digital signage as an effective tool for advertising their products and engaging people.

ONELAN digital signage was chosen as the most cost effective solution for TalkTalk’s requirements. ONELAN’s solution was also selected for its ease of use and ease of integration with TalkTalk’s existing IT infrastructure.

A ONELAN NTB 5505 is installed displaying content on 40” and 46” LCD screens throughout the store and a 3x3 video wall. The digital signage is fully integrated with the audio system.

ONELAN’s digital signage is used to show a range of content including TalkTalk’s live TV channel, proprietary video advertisements and RSS news feeds. The content is managed and updated onsite.

The main benefits of the digital signage system for TalkTalk are the fast transitions between different advertising that can be shown to clients as well as the ease of use for the individual changing the content.

‘The ONELAN product gives us the flexibility to quickly update our customer messaging in a wide range of really engaging formats which is a must for a leading broadband company.’ Maggie Roxburgh, General Manager TalkTalk.

About TalkTalk
TalkTalk is the broadband and home phone company launched by The Carphone Warehouse, committed to helping people gain access to fast broadband and home phone services at an affordable price.

The company launched in 2003 with a revolutionary home phone package, that enabled TalkTalk customers to talk to each other for free. In 2006, they were the first company to offer free broadband. This meant that broadband, which historically was very expensive, was available to all. Today TalkTalk continues to help their customers cut their costs without cutting back on the quality of service they receive.

ONELAN Joins Forces with Enistic

ONELAN have undertaken a joint integration with Enistic, a leading provider of corporate energy management solutions for education establishments and businesses.

Enistic’s Energy Management System can now be integrated into ONELAN’s Digital Signage solutions and will record up to sixteen different energy consumption zones, showing how much power is being consumed by devices in each zone. This is particularly useful for schools where there is considerable pressure to be more energy conscious and ‘green’ and can be used as a tool for altering behaviour e.g by encouraging students to switch off lights.

There is easy access to real-time device data, and historical data. Reports can be viewed that show which devices could potentially be turned off in order to save money and reduce CO2.

In a corporate environment, reports can be viewed live on a screen e.g in a foyer, not just occasionally on individual staff desktops. On a Net-Top-Box (NTB), these reports can be combined with other dynamically changing information such as Live TV, RSS newsfeeds and weather forecasts.

ONELAN offer free layouts to any NTB owner that can be customised for their own energy consumption profile.

Illamasqua Makes Up with ONELAN

ONELAN digital signage has been installed at Illamasqua cosmetic counters both across the UK and internationally.
A London-based cosmetic brand, Illamasqua celebrated its first birthday in November 2009. Developed by leading chemists, manufacturers of stage and screen make-up and make-up artists, Illamasqua brings truly professional make-up to the high street for the first time. Thus far the success of their ‘make-up for your alter ego’ has been impressive, but the need for differentiation in a highly competitive market cannot be underestimated and Illamasqua decided to use digital signage to help achieve this.

ONELAN digital signage was chosen by Illamasqua because of its scheduling capabilities and flexibility. In addition it also fits easily into the network on each counter. Content is managed centrally by Illamasqua’s Strategic and Creative agency, Propaganda, and sent to each counter both in the UK and Australia. Each counter has an exclusive internet connection for their digital signage. ONELAN digital signage is used primarily to display Illamasqua’s new collection films, model and product photography. Occasionally offers are displayed relating to seasonal holidays such as Christmas and Valentines day etc. and also specific offers for particular regions.

Initially launched in Selfridges in Oxford Street, London, Illamasqua now have eight counters with ONELAN digital signage across the UK from Selfridges in the Trafford Centre in Manchester to Debenhams in Cardiff, and Belfast. In Australia digital signage has just been installed at an Illamasqua counter in Myer Sydney City. These all use ONELAN’s NTB 5500, driving a variety of portrait and landscape 30” and 40” screens. Illamasqua also have counters in Dubai and the USA.


‘The system provides us with continuity, reliability and versatility in handling the video content on counter’ Steve Rabbitt, IT Manager at Propaganda

Streaming Media Readers Choice Awards

We have been nominated in the Streaming Media Readers Choice Awards. Our nominations are for 'Best TV over IP Solution' and 'Best Streaming Innovation', please click on the link below to vote for ONELAN
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Highbury College chooses ONELAN for High Impact Communication

Highbury College have selected ONELAN digital signage to improve College communications across their multi-site campus.

As part of Highbury College’s multi-million pound and multi-campus redevelopment programme the College sought a better way to communicate with its stakeholders in a modern and more efficient manner. Digital signage and in particular the ONELAN system offered this solution.

Highbury College wanted to display dynamic content, e.g live student timetable information from the student management information system that would provide useful and up to date information for students that changed automatically. As a multi-site organisation, Highbury wanted to ensure that consistent messages were published centrally to all sites. The digital signage system also needed to show RSS feeds with live content incorporating college news and events.

Highbury have installed five ONELAN Net Top Boxes (NTB) 615, four NTB 610s (one running as a publisher) and one NTB 510S.

All the NTBs are located in Data Server rooms around the college with signals distributed via Smart-E Cat5 solutions. While the NTB’s are spread across three campuses in Portsmouth, they are all working off the central publisher located at their main site.

As part of their digital signage network, Highbury also have ONELAN’s Data Collection Engine (DCE), a framework of software functionality that provides connections between a wide variety of customer data sources to ONELAN’s NTBs. At Highbury, the DCE shows Live Timetable around the college showing all lectures starting in the next 1/2hour in an “Airport” style layout with room, description, time, and lecturer information. For each different area, relevant information is displayed.

The system also enables the College to stream live TV to the student recreation areas and the College gym. The management of this can then be devolved to various College staff, with the Head of IT assured that they can only control areas of the system that they have been delegated to control.

The system is so flexible that various departments in the College can access and contribute to it. The Print Centre has overall responsibility, however a number of other departments are contributors.

“The ONELAN digital signage system is feature rich, extremely flexible and at the same time easy to use. We regularly have positive feedback from staff, students and visitors. Students really see the benefit of being able to see live timetable information. The College is also working on a number of other exciting projects to use the DCE to display other useful information such as student and staff profiles, environmental information and other information.” Paul Rolfe, Head of IT & Library Services.

About Highbury College
Highbury College has over 45 years teaching and learning experience, and takes pride in its commitment to equality and diversity, supporting students of all abilities from all backgrounds. The College provides a vast range of courses in and around Portsmouth, from first-step courses to university-level qualifications, specialised services for business and education in the community. Student success rates place Highbury in the top 10% of general further education colleges in England and the overall top-performing college in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire presents Queen’s Award to ONELAN

Having won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2010 in the Innovation category, digital signage firm ONELAN received a visit from the Queen's representative The Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, Tim Stevenson, accompanied by two of his cadets, Tim Nye and Jonathon Holroyd.

Following a tour of the premises and a short presentation from David Dalzell, ONELAN’s Founder and Managing Director, the Lord-Lieutenant enjoyed a buffet lunch provided by local company Absolute Delights with ONELAN staff, the Mayor of Henley Councillor Mrs Jennifer Wood and the Vice Chairman of South Oxfordshire District Council Councillor Felix Bloomfield.

The award takes pride of place in the company’s already considerable array of awards.

In 2009, despite a challenging economic climate, the company saw sales growth of over 19%, representing a 27% increase in unit sales and continued profitable growth for the fifth consecutive year. Exports were largely responsible, with sales turnover up from 18% to 30% as ONELAN continues to extend its global reach.

Having established itself as a leading provider of Digital Signage to the Education sector, the company has continued to expand its product portfolio to address markets such as Retail and Health that require Enterprise Class solutions.

Innovative enterprise products that have been developed include the Digital Signage Manager, designed to remotely monitor and manage networks of Net-Top-Boxes e.g. in a large retail shopping mall. Another product is the ONELAN Data Collection Engine (DCE) - a solution for capturing, collating and re-purposing data held in customer IT systems for display on a ONELAN Digital Signage system in graphical form for example in a university or library. Also, the ONELAN IPTV Omni-Server is a single box streaming solution for networked delivery and storage of video content via Ethernet networks e.g. in shopping malls, large corporates or universities.

Up to the minute” Hotel reduces print costs with ONELAN Digital Signage

The Runnymede hotel wanted a facility to communicate information to guests effectively. Approximately 200 guests pass through the hotel daily.

Project objectives
Runnymede chose digital signage as it is contemporary and gives guests the impression of an ‘up to the minute’ hotel. In addition they were keen to reduce costs of printing of brochures and flyers that are used around the hotel. Digital signage can also be updated instantly, while a brochure reprint takes time.

They chose ONELAN digital signage for its ease of use and Ad Hoc capability. The hotel has 25 ONELAN Net-Top-Boxes installed. The Ad-Hoc capability is a simple facility for local changes and input of messages, announcements, visual paging, table data, TV selection and layout changes.

How the digital signage is being used
50” screens in the reception areas around the hotel show live TV and advertisements relating to activities within the hotel e.g availability of last minute space in the hotel’s beauty salon. Both are changed on a regular basis and eventually the aim is also to show videos of what’s on in the hotel. The digital signage also displays a RSS ticker feed showing up to date travel information and conditions around Heathrow and major road networks.

There is also a 63” screen for special events e.g weddings. This can show photographs of the wedding itself and the reception, during the wedding reception at the hotel. As the digital signage is instantly updateable, this can be achieved with ease.

In addition to the large screens in the reception areas, there are small 10” screens outside each meeting room, that are updated for each new client using the rooms to show company information and videos.

‘The ONELAN Digital Signage solution is perfect for our needs as it is very user friendly, easy to use and easy to update very quickly.’
Andrew Duggan, Runnymede Hotel

ONELAN help “Build School for the Future” with Digital Signage and TV Streaming

Castle View Enterprise Academy was established in September 2009 as one of five schools in Sunderland as part of the ‘Building Schools for the Future’ project. The City of Sunderland Council (cosponsor) and Northumbrian Water, the Academy’s lead sponsor, invested £17 million to build an Academy that specialises in Business, Enterprise and ICT.

Project objectives and scope
Castle View had a wide range of requirements from their ONELAN digital signage system including:

· A cost effective means of delivering information to visitors, students and staff
· Provision of live TV across the IP network for both broadcast material and local events within the school
· Recording to provide video on demand resources for learning
· A video on demand library
· The ability for teachers to create online learning resources.

With the Academy vision of being a regional leader in ICT, digital signage forms a critical part of this. Its flexibility, ease of use and dazzling displays are a new and innovative technology for this school and many of its staff and students. There was no technology quite like it in the original school prior to the rebuild.

Digital Signage Content Strategy
Castle View wanted to use the digital signage to display a range of information including adverts for school clubs, results of House competitions, birthday messages, display of televisions channels during breaks and lunches, behavioural league tables and event details.

The network comprises 11 ONELAN Net-Top-Boxes: 1 NTB 610 publisher and 10 NTB 510 subscribers. One of the key aspects of the project is the installation of two OmniServers. With the OmniServers, staff not only have an ‘off air’ recording solution but also the ability to link into the digital signage network. This provide the screens with live TV feeds for news and educational TV channels across the network infrastructure without the need to run additional RF cabling, thereby keeping additional costs to a minimum.

End User Feedback
Many schools and Academy’s across the country will testify that it’s logistically very difficult and slow to get messages across to a large number of people in a short space of time. Castle View is no exception and the adoption of ONELAN digital signage has dramatically changed this for the academy. Now, a wide range of information including messages, audio & TV programmes, updates and alerts can be easily disseminated to all of its students and teaching staff quickly without having to print endless posters and memo’s and manually distribute.

‘Staff and students are constantly knocking on my door asking if new things can be uploaded and many have commented on how much better it is to have a system that is eye-catching and gets their message across. In my role as Marketing and Content Administrator, the time saving aspects of this system are invaluable. I would strongly recommend this system to any business that wants to take itself forward in the way of signage and getting their message across.’
Gavin Willis, Marketing and Content Coordinator

Scots College: Hands-on Digital Signage Solution from ONELAN

Scots College is an independent day and boarding school for boys Years 1-13, in Wellington New Zealand. As an IB World School, Scots encourages students to excel in areas of academia, sport, culture, service and spirituality by providing a world-class education environment. In 2010, the Board of Scots College embarked on an ambitious campus development programme, which will see the college grow to a roll of more than 900 by 2014.

As part of the school-wide development, Scots introduced and implemented several information and communication technologies, including digital signage to display relevant and up-to-date information to staff and students.

All digital signage needed to successfully integrate with Scots existing network, display various types of content and most importantly be easy to use.

Scots requirements included indoor foyer signage to display student work and achievements, RSS feeds and notices to staff, students and school guests; as well as outdoor signage to display house notices and promote school events to students.

ONELAN's Net-Top-Boxes (NTB's) were chosen as the digital signage solution, due to their ease of use, content options, instant messaging and scheduling capabilities.

Scots College have installed six ONELAN NTB 610s, and six Mitsubishi 42” LCD Displays for viewing the content. Each screen has it’s own NTB unit enabling each screen to show unique content.

A wide range of content is displayed, including photographs of events and activities at the school, student work, upcoming events and timetables, PowerPoint presentations, and news reels. In addition students and staff in each house have access to their own layout so they can update messages and regular points tables on their own outdoor screen.

“Scots College purchased the ONELAN solution to display general notices in our newly refurbished foyer and House notices for the students. We have purchased six units to date and have been impressed with the quality and functionality of the devices. As we continue to grow the digital signage around the College, we will be looking to VideoPro to supply the ONELAN solution again. The support is very good both from VideoPro and ONELAN which is always a factor we consider. Support is only a phone call or email away.”
Mark Embleton, ICT Systems Administrator, Scots College.