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Commercial Touchscreen Tablets 6″ to 55″

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Post date October 24, 2019

Powerfully Engineered, Innovative Touchscreen Tablet Signage Displays

Designer + Developer+ Manufacturer

We design the ARM Board as a developer, thus we’re able to offer instant & lifetime tech-support for our solutions.

3 different processors for different configurations

We have developed different hardware configurations based on 3 different ARM processors: Rockchip PX30, Rockchip RK3288, Rockchip RK3399, ; To address different project needs with different budgetary requirements. ARM board Specification: PX30, RK3288, RK3399

Unified architecture across hardware & firmware

We have built unified architecture with the shared API across hardware & firmware, Clients could choose, configure, & control our solution with provided tool kit & code manual even with different hardware, OS versions as well as peripherals. This reduced time, communication cost while improving solution reliability.

An IKEA-like Custom Display Solution Specialist

Over 10 years experience

We have been in custom display industry for over 10 years, together growing with many clients all the way.

Over 10 skilled software engineers

A team of young & old engineers working all around our own solution boards, we are the solution maker.

Over 100 happy A Brands

We believe we succeed only when the clients do. Over the years, we have supported the most respected brands worldwide to turn a concept into a product in the field,

One-Stop Total Solution

Solving challenges for retail & self-service kiosk integrators, display manufacturers, brand end-users by delivering proprietary solutions with an interplay of hardware & software & lifetime tech-support for the delivered units.

Everything Android Commercial Devices

Commercial Tablet Android

Available from 6-inch to 55-inch

From the tiny screen on shelf-edge mounted to the giant screen floor-standing in shopping mall, Our android commercial tablets have rooted android O/S to let end-users debug with their own android apps, we also support clients with custom ROM and hardware modification when they need to control audio, serial peripherals with customized user flow.

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Hotel Check-in Kiosk

Available in 13.3-inch, 21.5-inch

This solution board is versatile with face recognition capability and support for RFID/NFC reader, Access Card Dispenser, Thermal printer & 2D code reader, it is completely designed for commercial use where running 7/24/365 is crucial. It simplifies the user flow of access control, token dispenser & payment, to make it an all-in-one solution as hotel guess self check-in station (unattended ), cinema ticketing, visitor management in public community,

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Queue Management Kiosk

Available From 10.1-inch To 31.5-inch

This line of android tablet kiosks simplifies the user flow management in the public space, With user app, device app & CMS in cloud server, it offers a complete, centralised management of front & back office activities. Typical application scenarios are in public authority, hospitals, banks, schools, restaurants. We offer queue ticket printer tablet as well as queue token android display, with power-over-ethernet function.

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Facial Detection Customs Terminal, Now comes thermometer display with fever detection & alarm

This solution is made of our access control tablet with face recognition capability completely designed for commercial use where running 7/24/365 is crucial. Its face-recognition biometric camera supports quick recognition for human faces preloaded or online library. The built-in infrared camera makes it idle-picture proof and reads only real human face ( printed face not working ). In addition, it has integrated RFID reader for visitor access, the built-in Relay can manage the external locker switch,

Facial Recognition Payment Kiosk

Facial recognition payment is more and more popular, Besides facial detection camera on frontal top, this desktop self-standing kiosk is a solution with perfect viewing angle, the nature user flow of QR code scanning, NFC card reading, Keyboard input, as well as thermal printer; All the peripherals are plug & play, thus the solution has other applications as well with different app support.

In-Store Self-ordering Kiosk

Self-ordering kiosk shares the same hardware of hotel check-in kiosk, in most cases, clients require customized metallic or plastic casing in order to ensure a user-friendly yet anti-tamper user interface. With facial recognition camera becoming more and more affordable, the next generation self-ordering kiosk is available with facial detection camera. In the usage when an administration would be in place, a separate handheld payment terminal could be added for non-facial recognition payment.

THERMOMETER DISPLAY WITH COVID19 FEVER DETECTION & ALARM

Solution Features

Allow users to access allowed APK or Website only;
Supports Full-Screen Browsing With Hidden Status Bar;
Password protection for exiting the Full-Screen;
Auto USB Copy & Auto Power On/Off;
Supports Various External POS Peripherals;

Available in Framed, Openframed, Or Multi-Screen Shared Touch;
Proven High-reliability 7/24/365 By Top Brands;
IPS panel full viewing angle for all models;
Various Android O/S Versions;
Various Hardware Configurations For YOUR project;

SERIAL AND INTEGRATION — Serial & Integration

Peripheral Integrations Support

Customized Form Factor For Projects

Quality, Commercial Grade Touchscreen

Solution Specification

LCD Panel / Display
- 6.2 /7 /8 /10.1 /11.6 /13.3 /15.6 /18.5 /21.5 /23.8 /27 /31.5 /43 /55 (check the tech-spec in the quick selector table below )
Processor, RAM & O/S
- Cortex-A9 Quadcore RK3188, 1GB RAM, 8GB ROM, Android 5.1
- Cortex-A17 Quadcore RK3288, 2GB RAM, 8GB ROM, Android 5.1
- Cortex-A72+Cortex-A53, RK3399, 4GB/2GB RAM, 8/16GB ROM, Android 7.1
Interactivity
- Multi-touch projected capacitive;
- 5-point simultaneous touchpoint;
Connectivity & Interface
- Video Output: HDMI (optional );
- Audio Output: External Speaker Connector Or Built-in Speakers;
- External Control: Ethernet / RJ45 ( POE available up to 18.5-inch );
- Other Connections: USB, OTG, SD Card, RS232, RS485, GPIO;
Audio
- Built-in Speaker 2x2W /3W /5W;
- USB Audio Class (UAC support );
- SPDIF (Toslink / Optical Port );
Custom Options
- ARM Board Development & Custom ROM;
- Play Control App Support;
MultiMedia Applications
- USB Playback Audio: .AAC, .M4A, .MP2, .MP3, .WMA
- USB Playback Picture: .BMP, .GIF, .JPEG, .JPG, .PNG
- USB Playback Video: .3GP, .AVI, .DAT, .FLV, .MKV, .MOV, .MP4, .MPG, .TS, .VOB, .WEBM
Operating Conditions
- Temperature range: -5–50 degrees;
- Relative humidity: 20–80%;
- Temperature Storage: -20—-60 degrees;
Ordering Options
- Tablet Unit Console Framed, OpenFramed, SKD;
- POS/ Retail / Automation Peripherals With Control Kit;
- AC Adapter;

Quickly Select To View Tablet Specifications:

Openframed Tablet (Frameless)

Framed Tablet

Covid19 Thermo Meter display

55″

RFID

Projects We Ever Made…

AMAZON GOOGLE IoT EXPERIENCE CENTER Commercial Touchscreen Tablets

Amazon & Google IoT Experience Centre in Best Buy / 2018, 800 sets, USA

Beats Headphone Kiosk /2017, 1500 sets ,USA
Immigrant Gate & Customs Terminal /2018, 30 sets , Korea
Touch Tablet Experience For LG Sound Bar / 2017, 170 sets , UK
SONY Sound Bar Demonstration / 2017, 100 sets, UK

Our Clients

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Our happy clients include Amazon, Beats, Google, Sony, Bowers & Wilkins, LG, Samsung, Panasonic, Tomtom, Marshall, Denon, Sonos, IKEA, Yandex, Philips, Ring, Nest, AKG, Audio-technical, JBL ……

Our Mission

Our mission is to improve the quality of the clients’ business life with safety, efficiency and peace of mind, via simple customization of our existing product lines or design & development of 100% new products.

Safety Lowest Product Failure Rate, Product Life-circle Support;
Efficiency Increase productivity and decrease costs;
Peace of mind Proprietary, modular-base solution with interplay of hardware & software.

Shopper Analytics Becomes A Universal Technology With Biometric Camera For Face-Recognition

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Post date May 15, 2019
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There have been quite a few years when retail shopper analytics is not effective. No matter how advanced technologies we use, for example iBeacon, RFID tag, touchscreen to record in-store shopper’s activities, the shopper analytics is just neither precise nor relevant, if we found the analytics not positive, we are not able to improve shopper experience at the very moment.

face recognition camera for retail analytics

Today, Shopper analytics becomes a universal technology. As biometric camera with face-recognition capability & built-in algorithm helps retail signage app developers understand shopper’s activity precisely & effectively.

Biometric camera module, which is always made of two cameras, one is with infrared sensor, the other is equipped with RGB sensor, can read real people only. So retail signage system with shopper analytics can detect the presence of people and univocally identifies them, no matter whether the shopper is passing by with straight footfalls, or taking a quick glance but actually didn’t stop to engage at the retail display, or just stopping to keep engaged for a while. Through the preset object pattern set, the system detects the interactions of the shoppers with the products on the shelf/riser/ demonstration table if a product is picked up or the product is taken & then put back. It can be integrated with connected displays, also, it can work independently, to boost retail analytics performance for the traditional, off-line retail screens. It can work as a smart sales assistant to add audio trigger, video trigger with preset rules, thanks to the face-recognition capability, the system understands people’s intention along the retail shelf precisely, then these preset triggers can be fired at the very right time with a very good manner.

Here is a research paper about shopper analytics & retail audience measurement.

This is a new era of retail vision tracking with enhanced shopper interactivity. With Rockchip RK3288 & RK3399, their strong GPU can do video analysis and pattern match, computation very effective & precisely, they are also the mainstream processor for the face-scan access control terminals in China high-speed train station check-in points, Alipay face-scan payment terminal screens.

Checking the technical specification of these face-recognition biometric cameras ? Download Datasheet via clicking the link.

This model has been used for our 8-inch retail tablet with Face-recognition camera, it is also a wonderful solution for access control & meeting room management.

Tags biometric camera, face-recognition, retail analytics, retail audience measurement, retail tablet, retail vision, RK3288, RK3399

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POP Retail Screens: Critical Decision Factors & Hardware Variations

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Post date February 12, 2019
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Today’s Retail Signage Projects come with different requirements, they are mainly about cost & performance as well as the specific user interactivity flow.

To make a right decision in choosing the most suitable retail POP hardware has become a challenge for most retail fixture makers and retail furniture manufacturers, before they start to understand the critical decision factors & the available hardware variations.

Retail Screen Decision Factors — Decision Fatigue ? Not Every Retail Screen Is Born Equal !

Supposing there is a project requiring a 7-inch openframed POP Video Player motion sensor activated,

We are actually facing at least 3 hardware options as below:
1# Deluxe model No. OP7007, Specification Sheet

12V input,
1080P decoder,
without on-board memory,
720P seamless video loop (what’s this ? click the link )
IPS 350 nits brightness full viewing angle screen;
metallic casing;

2# Economy, a cost-down version of OP7007

5V input,
1080P decoder,
without on-board memory,
720P seamless video loop,
IPS 350 nits full viewing angle screen;
metallic casing;

3# Entry-Level, model No. OP7003, Specification Sheet

5V input,
720P decoder(no seamless video loop),
with built-in 256MB on-board memory,
TN Screen with limited viewing angle screen ;
Plastic casing;

It is not difficult for us to figure out the full list of decision factors:

>>>User Experience: 1# seamless loop or not ; 2# full viewing angle or limited;

>>>Cost: housing materials, memory option, input power voltage,

>>>Media decoder type,

>>>Screen type;

>>>Ease & method of deployment: SD card Vs on-board memory (USB auto-copy is available to both options);

Each variable mentioned above plays some impact for end-user, it is always important to understand the actual requirements. Fortunately, today’s retail fixture design agencies & manufacturers are happy to learn to understand what they need and what they will get.

AOK Displays has committed to become a decision-free, IKEA-like total solution provider for retail signage, we look forward to sharing client’s needs and wants, contact us today.

Tags POP screen, retail POP, retail POP hardware, retail screen, retail signage, Seamless Video Loop

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Non-Android Touchscreen Solution: Why Do The Seasoned Retail Integrators Prefer ?

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Post date October 23, 2018
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Non-Android Touchscreen Solution: Why Do The Seasoned Retail Integrators Prefer ?

Banner:The Seasoned Retail Integrators Non-Android Touchscreen — Multi-Layered Touchscreen Player For Retail Comparator Display

Today’s Interactive Retail Touch Media Players Are More And More Popular, Thanks To The Widely Available & Commoditised ARM-based Retail Commercial Hardware With Android 4.4 / 5.1 /6.1 / 7.1, When App Developers Could Do What They Want All Via Their Own, Retail Integrators Could Set Up A Device In-Store With Several Touchs On The Screen : A Commercial Tablet Rooted With Google Play Pre-installed, Loading The Auto-run Apps And Make It Running 7/24/365, Connecting With Remote Content Management System For Analytics & Reporting.

This Is The Typical Scenarios Facing Brand Owners, Retailers As Well As Retail Integrators, In Most Cases, Everyone Is Happy With The Results.

However, More And More Seasoned Retail Integrators Prefer Non-Android Interactive Players, In The Following Applications Scenarios, They Choose The Alternate Interactive Touch Players Based On Old-fashioned Retail Video Screen Solution With Capacitive Touchscreen.

1# Device Working Life: Retail Projects’ In-Field Duration Is Less Than One Year.

2# Cost: B Level Brands Require B level Budget ( Cheap Brands Don’t Like Expensive Retail Hardware ).

3# Remote Content Update Is Not Required, Or, Network Connection In The Retail Field Is Not Secured Or Expensive

Unfortunately, More Than 90% Of The Retail In-Store Advertising Campaigns Face The Pains Listed Above, If The Brands’ (end-users ) In-house Data Analyst For OmniChannel Data Integration Is Not In Place, They Would Follow The Advice For Non-Android (Non-Networked ).

The Non-Android Solution Has A Special Term Called “Multi-Layered Touchscreen Player“, The Multi-Layered Means The Touch Players Could Guide The Shoppers Into Very Deep Level Of The Information Tree Of The Demonstration Like The Index System In The Library. Most Importantly, It Employs The Identical Multi-Touch Capacitive Touchscreen To Make Sure The User Experience Is Not Compromised. As A Cost-Effective Retail Solution, It Often Comes With A Content Author For End-users Or Retail Integrators Do Design Their Own Art Of Interactive Program, Like Making A Power Point Presentation ; It Is Pure Simplicity Outside With Complexity Dedicated Inside, Technically, Every Function Of The Solution Is Split Into Separate Modular With Interface Identifier & Parameter Set; For Seasoned Retail Integrators, They Could Use A Text-File Based Configurator To Quickly Design An Interactive Advertising Program Via A Windows Based PC. The Content Author Also Has The Built-in Self-correction Logic Checker To Make Sure There Is No Mistake Before Loading The Folder Of Media Content & Syntax Generated Into The Device. USB Auto Copy Is Enabled When Uploading Or Updating The Content.

Is AOK Displays Capable To Provide Such A Cost-Effective Non-Android Solution ?

Good Question, And Yes, We Always Provide Such An Alternate Solution For Years, And We Manage To Improve The Solution To Make It More Installation-friendly and Maintenance-friendly. And Now, We Offer From 10.1″ To 31.5″ Either in Openframed Or Framed Versions.

Here Is The Brochure Of The Most Popular Model Of This Range, 10.1″ Capacitive Multi-layered Touch Player

And Here Is The Documentation Of User Manual For The Content Author.

Tags 10.1" Capacitive Multi-layered Touch Player, android touchscreen player, Capacitive Multi-layered Touch, capacitive touchscreen, custom retail screens, Interactive Retail Touch Media Player, multi-layered touch player, Multi-Layered Touchscreen Player, Non-Android Interactive Player, retail custom solution, Touchscreen, touchscreen player

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What Trouble Do We Meet With Apple Lightning & Type-C For Audio POP ?

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Post date November 30, 2017
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Challenge in the filed with Apple Lightning & Type-C For Audio Retail Demo
Building a retail headphone demonstration system becomes a challenge, When Type-C and Lightning will take place of the conventional 3.5mm headphone port on smartphones.

There will be some demanding requirements from headphone retail integrators like:

“Can you build a type C port and a lightning port on board to accept type C & lightning input for the consumers ?”

This is technically feasible, considering the known pin assignment of type-C pin & lightning port for audio part, and Apple’s MFI program is also open for retail display manufacturers like AOK Displays.

But that would be a long headache for communicating with Apple MFI licensing.

Alternatively, We could use the ready type-C to 3.5mm and lightning to 3.5mm adapter cables.

LIGHTNING PURPOSE — P1: 3.5mm to 3.5mm & Lightning

Apple Lightning Adapter Cable — P3: Original Lightning port to 3.5mm adapter

P4 :3.5mm to lightning and type-C adapter

type c earphone — P2: Type-C to 3.5mm Earphone

Obviously, Combining P1 & P2 could support either type C and lightning input from today’s latest smartphones’ headphone ports.

Is that all done, so easy ? Then what’s the challenge when the cables are available from any retail channel ?

Type-C and Apple Lightning Are Different

For Type-C, we can use it analogue audio output pins for cable adapter, this is no difference with conventional 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable, see the following type-C pinout:

usb type c audio pin — USB Type-C audio Pin Assignment

But we would never be so lucky with Apple Lightning Port, there is no analogue audio output in lightning port, and yes, like what Apple does for all of their products, there is a communication controller there for audio output, see the pin out as below:

For lightning port, it is digital signal output to the adapter cable and inside the adapter cable there is some extra circuitry including DAC and impedance compatibility components.

Connecting lightning cable to 3.5mm for customer line-in user experience would never be the same as what we have now with 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable, because of the in-built circuitry inside, there will be an added load to the line-in port, it brings extra noise before the music starts as well as when the volume is low.

How to solve the extra noise caused by the DAC circuitry built-into lightning to 3.5mm adapter ?

1# Change the line-in detection into audio detection

For line-in detection system, once the 3.5mm is plugged in, the retail audio demonstrator would trigger a picture display or a video repeat, immediately;

But for audio detection, the triggering point is not the line-in moment, it is when the audio signal is detected then the triggering becomes enabled.

In this way, users pick up the phone, with line-in cable inserted, they would not listen any noise before music starts.

2# Add low-pass filter to get rid of the extra noise

As explained on 1#, the noise before music starts is already deleted, how would we do if there is still some noise ?

Headphone brands don’t want its users to listen the extra noise !

We have a built-in low-pass filter circuitry on-board to tune the audio signal, for this part, we are able to change the parameter of the filter’s capacitors and resistors to avoid the extra noise.

At last, retail integrators may have a question like this:

Do we have a perfect choice to make a system friendly to both 3.5mm, type-C and lightning port ?

The answer is YES !

We could make multiply line-in detection port, saying 2 pcs of 3.5mm port, one port for line-in power detection, the other is for audio signal detection. And the port compatibility issue, we leave this task to get solved by the very creative cable adapter manufacturers.

Tags audio player lightning port, headphone demonstration, headphone retail demo with lightning port, headphone retail demonstration, lightning port headphone, retail audio demonstration

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Top 3 Reasons That Retail Brands Love Seamless Video Loop

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Post date July 18, 2017
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1# No Black Frames, Greater Value For Marketing

Black Frames, Even Half A Second Of Black Screen Means Pause For Shopper’s Understanding / Recognition About The Ads Message That Is In Delivery To The Engaged Mind.

2# Lower Cost With Smaller Sized Storage Memory, No Need to preload a 30-minute long video Made By 600 Loops Of Original 3-Second Video.

How To Live With Black Frames If The Hardware Can Not Omit It ? Some Smart Retail Integrators Try To Lengthen The Video Into A Longer One Via Combining Several Loops, In This Way, A 3-Second Of Video With File Size Only 2MB Is Enlarged Into An 800MB Video With 600 Loops Of The Original 3-Second Video.

3# Easy To Manage maintainance For content creation & content update

Enlarged Video Files Not Only Occupy Larger Memory, But Also Increase The Content Creation & Content Update Cost ( Time & Money ), Taking USB Auto-Copy For Example, It Not Only Means Several More Minutes During Assembly Phase To Preload The Video, But Also Extra Minutes When Operators Try To Update The New Videos In The Field.

In Our Stand-alone Retail Video Player Line, We Have One Bold Words Saying “Seamless Video Loop” In The Product Specification. It Is Actually An Important Feature Like No Other While Few Of The End-Users Have Questions About It . “Seamless Video Loop” Means There Will Be No Even One Single Black Frame During Video Loop, Unfortunately, Almost All The Retail Screens Have A Black Frame During Video Transition From The Last Frame To The First Frame Of The Video As Shown Above.

If The Advertiser Of Christmas Fireplace Is Looping A Commercial Video For Their Flame Lamp, What Does A Black Frame Mean ? Disaster !

If A Video Of The Car Racing Has Cheered Up The Shoppers’ Attention, What Does A Black Frame Mean To Those Shoppers Gazing Onto The Screen ? Disaster !

AOK Displays Has Launched Full Line Of Retail Video Players With “Seamless Video Loop” , They Are Ranging From 7″, 10.1″, 11.6″, 13.3″, 15.6″, 21.5″, 23.8″ Up To 32″.

Tags Framed Video Display, LCD Media Player, POP screen, Retail Integration, Retail Media Player, Retail Video Screen, Seamless Video Loop, video display

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Why Don’t We Develop Networked Shelf Video Strip When We Are Able To ?

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Post date May 23, 2017
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Later in 2014, AOK Displays successfully developed shelf video strip that is made of die-cast aluminium housing , media player screen module and synchronizer(playback controller over the screens). Over the past 3 years, we got hundreds of inquiries from retailers, retail shelf makers, store furniture manufacturers, marketing company, retail signage app developer as well as content management system makers, they loved our digital shelf talker, it is a great retail signage solution.

But they would ask almost the same question: Why Don’t You Develop Networked Shelf Video Strip When You Are Able To ?

This is a good question.

Every unique feature of our current stand-alone shelf video strip is wonderful except networking:

Die-cast made alluminium housing, flexible for different strip lengths with one time investment in tooling;
Super narrow bezel and super small between-screen gap, as narrow as 9.3mm;
Low-Power consumption to support battery driven option, each 4.3″ screen consumes less than 150mAh per hour.
Smart USB auto-copy with protection configurator & user-friendly animation
Smart folder-based playlist creator;
Smart Playlist editor built-in with one press on the switch to change between 100 playlists preloaded;

The reason we develop such a cost-effective solution is to address the scenarios that don’t need content update frequently.

People compare ours with some other Intelligent, Intel based, networkable shelf video strip. But don’t forgot the unexplained, hidden cost of those fancy demos, see the comparison below:

ROI analysis for networked and stand-alone shelf video strip

Assuming our stand-alone shelf video strip cost is 180USD; If we build a networked version on the current technology, except the hardware part upcost, let’s say 50USD; We still need to add the following to make the networking infrastructure in place to work as expected:

Content management system , let’s ignore this part as we could buy this service;
Cradlepoint: 3G/4G Ethernet modem to bring internet access to the retail shelf-edge, say U$200
Router: to connect RJ45 Ethernet cable; Say U$50
Monthly fee for content update: let’s say U$5/month
Maintenance: let’s say 1% faulty rate;

The total cost of networked version is U$545.4, it is triple times of stand-alone version. If cost is not an issue, the end-user also needs an analytical data pattern to regulate its daily operation and get a formula or answer: whether the return of investment ( ROI ) in the shelf-edge video strip advertising is POSITIVE.

The final answer to the question: ROI counts, please remember, retail signage is a part of in-store advertising, if the ROI of networked shelf video strip is going to be negative, please hold on:)

Tags digital shelf talker, digital shelf-edge, retail signage, shelf video strip, shelf-edge video strip, shelfvision

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Soundbar Retail Demonstrator All-in-One Made For Sony

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Post date May 21, 2017
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Sony has several great soundbars for its 4K LCD TV, due to the limited shelf size of the retail demonstration bench. Sony decided to use an all-in-one solution: A Soundbar Retail Demonstration Media Player With Built-in Video Screen.

Sony Soundbar Retail Demonstrator With Built-in 23.8-inch Video Screen

It was originally designed with an all-in-one video player with 23.8-inch full-viewing angle screen, sitting all the connectors on the back:

Soundbar Retail Demo All-in-One Video Player

This is not a bad idea, but it would NEVER be installation-friendly or maintenance-friendly, since it would be a challenge to develop an easy-to-manage cable solution for 8 pcs of optical cables, plus 11pcs of Molex connector cables. In order to facilitate the installation & maintenance, AOK Displays team re-designed the solution to separate the soundbar demonstration video player board from the video player, re-assigning the cable installation to a boxed media player. With LVDS cable & Backlight cable being lined-out, the new solution is even more production-friendly:

The heart of this soundbar retail demonstrator is a versatile mother board as following:

This board will support video screens from 10.1″ to 32″, With One Single Board To Rule Them All, for the mini-sized demonstrator bench to luxury big retail kiosk, it supports all the retail demonstration scenarios.

In Order To Simplify The Installation Of The Retail Fixture And Make The Whole System Maintenance‐Friendly, We Have Built‐in The Lighting & Power Distribution Interface To Help Retail Integrators Add Lighting Control To Their Fixture, And Send Power To Other Retail Accessories.

Except the above mentioned design innovation, the 2nd part of unique feature of our all-in-one retail demonstration solution is the text file based configurator to manage:

Customizable Default Play File/ List,
Customizable Default Volume Of Each Output;
Customizable Timeout Interval Of Each Output;
Customizable Volume Increments;
Customizable Playlist ‐Output Alignment To Assign Playlist To Different Product Group(s);

When Switching Music Output, The Audio Continues From The Previous Track So That Shoppers Could Easily Compare The Sound Quality From Each Soundbar. It’s Optional With Customer Device Line‐in To Let Shoppers Listen To Their Own Favorite Music.

Tags Audio Board, Audio Demonstrator, retail audio POP, Soundbar Demo All-in-one, Soundbar Demonstrator, Soundbar Retail Demonstration, Soundbar retail kiosk

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Why 512MB RAM is Competent For 4K@ 60fps Playback When Many People Stays with 2GB RAM ?

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Post date May 20, 2017
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Is RAM Size Really Important For 4K UHD Commercial Playback ?

Most Of Consumer-Line Based Android TV Media Players Are Boosted To Deploy 2GB RAM For Use Of 4K UHD Video Playback, That Sent An Impression To People That 4K Commercial Video Playback Must Require 2GB Or 4GB RAM, Especially, There Is A RAM Race For Smartphone World When Android Is Frequently Releasing Updates 4.4, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1….

4K UHD 60fps Video Playback Doesn't Have To Use 2GB RAm — 4K UHD 60fps Video Playback Doesn’t Require 2GB RAM For Most Of The Applications

But For 4K UHD Commercial Applications, Customers have to be clear and honest to ask themselves a simple question, Do I really need 2GB RAM ? or Does 2GB RAM give credit to the expected reliability ?

Some Typical 4K UHD Projects Working For 4K UHD LCD TV Retail Demonstration:
For 4K retail demonstration, there is really no need organic android, a simplified, light-weighted android with just a 4K media player app could be fine. Thinking 4K video decoding could be handled via hardware, 512MB RAM works pretty fine technically, and our testing has verified it, even with the highest bitrate of 4K UHD video’s 500Mbps. Most Importantly, The light-weight Android is even more reliable.

Or Some 4K UHD projects with 4K resolution and need extra support from GPU acceleration for graphic-rich apps like sports-training assistant apps ? That Would Require Strong GPU and extra apps or Google service to make customer’s app run smoothly, in that case, an original android O/S must be in place, and 2GB RAM becomes necessary.

Tags 4K, 4K audio, 4K commercial, 4K retail demonstration, 4K retail signage, 4K UHD

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3 Form Factors Of Retail Audio Demonstration Systems

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Post date April 28, 2017
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These years, retail audio POP music demo player has become a recognized category thanks to the increasingly growing demands of the smart & mobile audio devices. To help shoppers experience, compare the music quality of the music devices in demonstration is going to be a challenge if customer’s budge or retailer’s shelf space is limited.

The basic goals of the retail audio demonstration is simple: to engage shoppers experience the genuine audio quality and understand the highlighted features to make purchase decision.

Then we would have 3 form factors of retail audio demonstrations:

Pure Audio Boxed Player

This is the most popular form that is space-saving and cost-effective for retail integration.

With the strong decoder and high quality audio effect, it supports lossless music file like formats .wav, .flac up to 320kbps. Shoppers will be guided with focus only in the audio part via push button activation to play, pause, next track, time-out, volume up, volume down, etc.

2. Video Player With Embedded Audio

Video Player Retail Demonstrator 3 form factor — Video Player Retail Demonstrator for Headphones

Some brands may create compelling video presentations for the headphones / speakers, they want to impress the shoppers with the highlighted features via the video presentation, with music files embedded into the videos.

This may be a good idea, and the ROI is obviously higher if audio quality is not a selling point for the headphones/ speakers under retail demonstration, because high quality audio files like .wav, .flac could not be embedded into the videos. Additionally, the video presentation has to be interrupted by users’ interaction like “next track”, “repeat”.

If the audio quality could be compromised, it could be an ideal solution to get the best ROI.

3. Separated Audio & Separated Video Working Together

Retail Audio Demo With Separated Video 3 Form Factors — Retail Audio Demo With Separated Video Presentation

As explained above, the best retail audio demonstration should make the best use of audio & video, then we need to isolate the interactions of the video part & audio part to let them function separately according to user’s interaction.

In this way, serial port communication would be added into a master device ( audio board ) to control the slave device ( video player ). In this way, when shoppers push a selector button on the right (as per the above picture ) to skip a demo music file, the left video player doesn’t change its playback status, but can be changed when needed depending on serial commands incoming.

Following up to this creative solution, the master device could be a touchscreen tablet, and the slave device can be a simple video player or a sophisticated video strip / wall if needed.

In the retail field, lighting control and power distribution could also be integrated as our solution has built-in interface for lighting & power distribution.

Like being said, the only limitation is your imagination.

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