Digital Signage with infsoft E-Ink Display Beacons

Electrophoretic ink, often called electronic ink (E-Ink), is a technology that imitates the look of ink on paper. E-Ink displays are easily readable from any viewing angle, offer design freedom, robustness, and low power consumption. Devices using E-Ink are referred to as bistable, meaning that the display is consuming power only when content is updated, which is the key reason for the products’ long battery lifes of up to 5 years.

Thanks to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, content can be transferred flexibly and automatically to infsoft E-Ink Display Beacons, and the display’s location can be visualized on a digital map via infsoft software tools.

E-Ink Display Beacons as Infrastructure Hardware

infsoft E-Ink Display Beacons are available in many different sizes. Larger displays can get permanently integrated into the infrastructure and are used for digital signage applications such as the dynamic labeling of rooms, lockers, etc.

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Smaller E-Ink Display Beacons can be used as tag hardware for electronic labeling of containers, shelves, beds, and more :

Information on E-Ink Display Beacons as tag hardware for asset labeling

Businesses are offered the ability to wirelessly update content on the displays quickly and efficiently, without needing to print paper notices and deploy personnel to adjust them manually. In real time, fixed E-Ink beacons can display room or building information, reservation details, points of interest (POI), workspace occupancy, and much more. The displays can be rewritten automatically with individual information such as current room occupancy details or booking status.

Infsoft Infrastructure Hardware E Ink Collage — Examples of E-Inks with different screen contents: room signage, building floor plan

Use Cases for E-Ink Display Beacons as Infrastructure Hardware

Stationary E-Ink displays can be used beneficially in a variety of different applications. Here are some examples:

infsoft use case Digital Information Displays Office Buildings

Digital Information Displays for Office Buildings

Digital Labeling of Lockers

Digital Room Signage in Office Buildings

Functionality of infsoft E-Ink Display Beacons

Infografik Informationsanzeige E-Ink Display Beacon Locator Node Dongle EN — infsoft infographic: information transfer using E-Ink display beacons

Combining E-Ink displays and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology enables transferring content flexibly to the display and also visualizing the device’s location. In order to display content and manage the infsoft E-Ink Display Beacon, the corresponding display can be selected and edited in infsoft E-Inks. Automated updating of the labeling can be realized manually and via an interface with infsoft Automation. Via other various interfaces, such as room booking systems or employees’ calendars, the labeling of the E-Ink displays can be automatically adjusted with the relevant information.

For positioning, the infsoft E-Ink Display Beacon sends BLE signals to infsoft Locator Node Dongles that are installed in the area. The Locator Node Dongles process the provided data and send it to the infsoft LocAware platform^®, where it is intelligently processed.