LONDON — Now in its third year, KioskCom Self Service Expo Europe opened yesterday at Olympia and for the offered attendees a look into the European display market with the inclusion of the Digital Signage Show Europe. Many of the kiosk exhibitors had already jumped on board early on, using digital screens as part of total kiosk solutions. One such company was Cammax, which showed a patient check-in kiosk used in health clinics. The unit issues numbered tickets for those in the waiting room and those numbers are automatically fed to a digital sign, so patients know their place in the queue. The kiosk also allows users to purchase personal items such as pregnancy tests, etc. through the kiosk without having to see a doctor or health consultant. "It's saving the nurses time, helping speed up the processes and does this discreetly," said Adrian Hamor, production manager for Cammax. On the digital signage front, Samsung's booth proved to be a popular destination for those interested in display technology. The Samsung ID video wall was launched in recent months and is being shown in the U.K. for the first time at this show, said Ami Randhana, commercial manager for Samsung. The unit comes with a base that anchors the screens, which can then be stacked up to five high using interlocking posts. Randhana said that the video wall at the show, a three-by-three matrix, took only about 20 minutes to set up, while other video walls can take several hours to assemble. Using the posts, screens can pivot allowing the wall to be convex or concave as well as flat. The screens themselves were thin-bezel digital information displays (DIDs) that are manufactured to commercial-standards. The screens are intended to be left on 24/7, so they are equipped with temperature controls to minimize heat which causes considerable wear over time.
Content was driven to the video wall using Samsung's MagicNet software for digital signage, which allows users to stretch the content across the entire matrix or control each screen individually.
Also in Samsung's booth was a 70-inch fully-integrated touchscreen powered by infrared touch, the 460CXn screen networked with Samsung MagicInfo and the customizable 400MNx display.
