The Video Wall - Step Into the Future With Interactive Technology

In the past, businesses displayed pertinenthelps to streamline processes and organize. It can be
information to consumers using what is known as aused to log tasks and open up lines of communication
data wall. The data wall was a fairly impressivebetween workers and supervisors. And workers get
technology, but all it did was display letters andthe sense they are working with an organization that
numbers. Essentially they could be used at the stockwalks the cutting edge, which has a direct influence
exchange to display tickers or they could be used aton production and the inner "esteem" of the
airports to display departure and arrival times. It iscompany.
safe to say that the sky is not the limit when itIn corporate headquarters, they provide an easy
comes to devices such as this, especially when youway to initiate visitors and new workers to the
consider the retail cost of a data wall is aroundcompany. In addition, they can be used to make
$25,000.announcements to employees, or once again, open
With new technologies, however, come a world ofup a whole new world of possibilities for project
new possibilities. The older video wall provided amanagement. For bigger buildings, they can operate
great alternative to the data wall for many years.as way finding maps that show how to navigate the
Originally, it was a series of televisions groupedbuilding and allow users to flip through floors like
together, and though they would have all displayedflipping through the pages of a book.
the same image, it was a bit awkward for viewingAnd then in distributions centers, video walls can be
purposes.used to interact with customers. Of course, person
But with the introduction of the HDTV, we can nowon person interaction is still a necessity, but these
create an almost seamless video wall, allowingtypes of displays cut the fat out of time-wasting
consumers to get the information they need,tasks that can be easily handled with a couple
whether it be stock information, ticket prices,touches of the finger and some clear instructions
departure times, or any other information you canfrom the software program.
think of. The only question now is what will yourEven restaurants have found ways to use digital
business use the technology for—and thattechnology to change menus regularly, titillate the
really just depends on what you want to accomplish.senses of their customer's, or simply provide
Video walls are the future of interactive businessaesthetics in a new way. With each day, more uses
communications, from the factory to corporateof this amazing technology emerge.
headquarters to distribution centers. In factories, it