What is mobileFX DigiSign

mobileFX DigiSign is our new Digital Signage solution, explicitly designed for providing robust advertising and reliable airtime management services for small, medium and large scale deployments, over both low-bandwidth (GPRS/3G) and high-bandwidth LAN/WAN networks.

Software Downloads (Version 3.0.0.116)


To setup a Digital Signage Network you will need the following components:

1.	Download mobileFX DigiSign Server Package
	This software package contains two server applications: a FTP Server for serving content to Digital Signage Players and a Player Monitoring Server for collecting their status information.

2.	Download mobileFX DigiSign Campaigns Manager & Monitoring Console
	This software is used for designing your multimedia campaigns, monitoring your Digital Signage players and viewing statistics.

3.	Download mobileFX DigiSign Player
	This software must be installed on a Windows PC Digital Signage Player box. The software downloads multimedia campaigns from a dedicated Digital Signage Server, keeps campaign content locally in order to reduce network bandwidth, and renders it to any screen.

4.	Download mobileFX DigiSign Player Update Patch
	This software is an unattended variant of mobileFX DigiSign Player installation that updates an existing Digital Signage Player installation. This package can be used with mobileFX DigiSign Campaigns Manager to remotely update the software on Player stations.

5.	Download DataBase Installation Guide
	This is a step by step guide on installing the required DataBase on a MS SQL Express instance.


	mobileFX Digital Signage solution is a Network Platform that should be installed and configured by Network Administrators. If you require assistance on installing and configuring the solution for evaluation purposes, please contact support@mobilefx.com. We will be able to provide remote on-site assistance, free of charge.

mobileFX DigiSign Media Content

Media Content

mobileFX DigiSign supports and fully logs airtime statistics for the following Media Content:



MPEG Videos and Flash Content	Power Point Presentations	XML RSS Feeds	Microsoft Tag Coupons and Instant Win Campaigns



HTML Pages and Web Sites	YouTube Videos (imported / streammed)	Facebook Videos (imported)	Barcodes & DataMatrix Coupon Scans



Animated Slideshows and Image Banners	Web Camera and Capture Device Videos	Twitter twits	Touch Screens, Touch Films and Interactive Window interaction

mobileFX DigiSign

Key Features

Digital Signage Server & Networking features

Super Robust Application Server for heavy-duty Digital Signage installations.
Cross-Database Schema (although we recommend transactional Databases such as Microsoft SQL Server 2008).
Accurate recording of Airtime Statistics, advanced data filtering, reporting and real-time export options.
Bandwidth throttling for smooth LAN serving.
Dynamic assignment of Passive FTP ports for boosting WAN serving.
Use of UDP, RUDP (Reliable UDP) or TCP/IP communication protocols.
Full IP binding options and TCP/IP - UDP ports assignment.
Isolated operation of parallel server application instances for scaled-out serving.
Server Announcement for automatic Player configuration.
Advanced Networking Configuration, optimized for both low-bandwidth (GPRS/3G) or high-bandwidth Networks.
Compatible and transparent with VPN networks.
Optional: DHCP Server Application
Optional: RSS Proxy Application
Optional: Web Server Application

Digital Signage Campaigns Designer and Monitoring Console

Designer:

Extremely user friendly Visual Campaign Designer with a vast array of digital-signage-specific productivity features.
(eg. batch rename files, batch convert images, join images into video, join videos, cut-copy-paste and drag-and-drop)
Design-time Campaign preview in Full Screen.
Slideshow & Banner Rotator designer with over 100+ transition animations, image and text effects.
Batch import and converter of over 30+ different image formats and automatic re-sampling to 96 dpi (direct import from DTP).
1D Barcode, 2D DataMatrix or Microsoft Tag generators for designing your own Instant Win Coupons and Mobile Coupons.
Twitter Widget Designer for real-time twits.
YouTube & Facebook video grabber and converter - or - direct YouTube video rendering on screen.
Visual Playlist Editor with both Tree-View and Thumb-View editing with super-fast video thumbs and preview.
Advanced video converter with auto-crop, splitting, selection and video conversion features.
Outlook-Calendar-like Campaign Scheduling with simple drag and drop operations.
Player Schedule copying and pasting from one Player to others.
Content House-keeping features (remove of redundant media files, etc).
Schedule export to USB memory disk for manual deployments.

Monitoring:

Almost-real-time Player status monitoring with visual indication of Player status (Running / Stopped / Problem).
Vast Array of Remote Player Commands (Start / Stop / Restart / Update / Reboot / etc.)
Remote Editing of Player Configuration.
Player TV On/Off Monitoring (for LG monitors).
Player real-time TV Display Monitoring (see what the player is running on the TV).
Easy Statistics retrieval by right clicking on a Player, a Campaign, a Playlist or a Media Content item.
Advanced Statistics retrieval with Visual Query designer equipped with Lookup values and date-time selectors.
Statistics filtering and sorting, and export to EXCEL Spreadsheet.
Accurate airtime recording in seconds per media item, playlist and campaign.

Digital Signage Player

EXTREMELY ROBUST PLAYER with a) Watchdog functionality and protection over General Protection Faults and Runtime Exceptions of 3rd party codecs and DLLs and b) advanced resource monitoring for detecting GDI memory leaks and automatically restarting the Player software or hardware. - To put it simply, there is no way the Player will ever stop running your campaigns.
Built-in royalty-free option of adding and displaying your company's logo, as product "co-branding", with no additional cost or contract.
Excellent performance on Intel Atom CPU for low-cost deployments.
Full Screen display with optional aspect ratio enforcement.
DirectX media rendering engine supporting all known video formats and codecs.
DirectShow video capture supporting almost any Web Camera or TV tuner card.
Support for any Touch Screen, Touch Film or Interactive Window component.
Support for any COM/USB GSM Modem component for receiving commands over SMS or displaying SMS text as Scrolling Marquee.
Support of LG Monitors (On / Off / Keep On / Keep Off).
Auto-start & Auto-logon functionality with optional delayed auto-run.
Auto-server discovery and configuration.
Background campaign content updates.

How does it work?

In a nutshell, the Administrator designs Campaigns using DigiSign and assigns each campaign to the Schedule of an individual Player or to a Group of Players.

Each Campaign consists of a Screen Layout, a number of Playlists, a folder of related Resources (additional files to be downloaded to the Player) and Interactivity Events.

The Schedule controls the amount of airtime that a Campaign will run on a Player and can be from a few seconds up to years. Once you set the schedule on a Player Station you can easily Copy and Paste it to other Stations or Groups of Stations, or even to the entire Digital Signage Network.

Player Update is controlled by an Update Agent and it is taking place in the background as a separate process which does not affect Player functionality. Once the entire update is completed and all media files and content has been successfully downloaded, the Update Agent restarts the Player.

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