Advanced scheduling capabilities

For yet more flexibility and scope, you can also combine RTEs with other functionality within Signagelive. The advanced scheduling capabilities enable any content, within which you send commands, to run on specific dates and/or during pre-set time-frames, or when launched by web or local triggers, or even sensors.

The built-in tag manager helps streamline the scheduling process, letting you group players together to scale out relevant content quickly by, for example, geographical area.

So what can you do with RTEs?

The answer to this question is almost anything and everything.

For pro AV professionals, it can transform the Signagelive platform into an all-in-one, turnkey LCD video wall, or direct view LED video wall control system.

Reducing the overall cost of investment, it simplifies multi-screen control, enabling users, with one configuration and from a single platform, to do everything from changing the volume and brightness to the screen source.

For a big presentation, you could, for instance, send messages within a video file to trigger a source change for some of the displays at a certain time, so you can share your laptop screen alongside the on-screen content.

For more complex projects, you could even use RTEs to move motorised screens from landscape to portrait mode and vice versa whenever the on-screen content format changes.

Corporate communications

In workplace environments, the RTE solution is equally transformative, giving organisations more opportunity to drive productive collaboration and communications. Streamlining and automating meeting room set ups, it can, for example, allow commands to be sent to lower the blinds and dim the lights as soon as any content hits the video conference screen.

It’s also possible to optimise room booking display systems, using colour-changing LED lights around the screen, so staff are able to see, at a glance, if the room is free. When the room status appears on-screen, the command for the LED lights to turn green if the room is “Available”, or red if it’s “Booked”, can be triggered. 

Gamifying the workplace also becomes easier. To keep employees motivated, leadership teams have the option of scheduling content to celebrate the best-performing employees of the month. 

Such playlists can be used to send commands that help maximise the employee shout-out, like, for example, by triggering celebratory music to play from wireless speakers.

Retail

For retail, Real Time Events can help bring the benefits of experiential marketing to more brick-and-mortar stores. With just a few well-placed in-store screens and a compatible media player, the whole ambience is easy to set and amplify, either to appeal to the store’s usual clientele, celebrate a special date in the calendar, or promote a new range.

If you wanted to, for instance, promote a new line of swimwear, you could immerse customers in the retail experience. This could be done by running a promotional video, which simultaneously triggers commands to turn the lighting an ocean blue colour, play beach-themed music and project seaside imagery on the surrounding walls.

In another example, to engage customers as soon as they walk through the doors of, say, a toy store, motion sensors could be used to launch promotional content. With this one pre-programmed playlist, you could promote on-screen the latest special offer on a line-up of connected dancing bots, and, at the same time, send commands for the bots to start performing in a store front showcase. 

Whatever RTEs are used for in retail, Signagelive’s integrated Proof of Play functionality can help to measure the success, enabling retailers to check asset playback analytics against the latest sales figures.