Touch Screen Enclosures: How to Increase Branding with Outdoor Interactivity

Armagard touchscreen enclosures provide a unique solution for using interactive screens in outdoor locations. Using a capacitive touch-foil film attached to the outside of the protective glass, the touchscreen enclosures provide total protection against collisions, wind-blown debris, impacts, vandalism and varying temperatures, while enabling full touchscreen interactivity.

Digital Signage Gives Return on Investment and More

A high quality digital signage system will be an asset to your company for many years to come. Screens can last for a long time, and over the years they can mean a significant reduction in the cost of printing and replacing traditional adverts. It can also mean that you’re able to react quickly and positively to all kinds of situations.

Armagard Enclosures and the 2012 Olympic Experience

When the various bodies preparing for the Olympic Games needed protection for their various outdoor digital signage screens, they turned to Armagard, whose range of PDS enclosures ensured that outdoor screens designed to communicate, inform, entertain and advertise to the hundreds of thousands of people at the Olympics would function without problems.

London’s Emirates Air Line uses Armagard Custom Enclosures

The requirements for the video wall enclosures for the Emirates Air Line posed some significant challenges for Armagard. The operators wanted two ground wall video walls in each terminal, a larger expansive system and a smaller version. The larger screen was much bigger than typical digital signage screen systems, and as it needed protection, it required a steel enclosure that would protect the video wall from physical impact and provide environmental protection against the varying temperatures experienced at the terminals.

How to choose the best cost effective screen protection for your project

All digital advertising display needs some form of protection over the screen face. LCD and plasma display screens are vulnerable to damage, so even indoor screens require some protection from accidental impact or deliberate vandalism. However, for outdoor digital displays, this protection becomes even more important as outdoor screens, especially those in unsupervised locations are more vulnerable to vandalism.

An Outdoor LCD Enclosure for Pubs, Restaurants and Homes

Of course, a TV required to operate outdoors is going to need protection from the elements and ensure security. An outdoor LCD enclosure is perhaps the most cost effective method of providing outdoor television and offering the best return on investment for a hospitality business. The enclosures protect TVs from the weather, physical damage and the variable temperatures of an outdoor environment and are ideal for providing a simple TV solution to entertain customers outside pubs, bars and restaurants.

Is winter freezing your adverts? Armagard test to -30°C with their LCD enclosures

Creating temperature conditions from -40°C to 100°C, Armagard’s environmental chamber simulates extreme conditions to test LCD enclosures, helping to improve product and insulation efficiency for environments that would otherwise destroy or incapacitate electronic LCD equipment.

Choosing the Right Digital Signage Display Enclosure

The type of digital signage display enclosure required for a screen can often depend on where the screen is to be positioned and how it is to be mounted. Screens can be positioned in two different orientations: landscape, where the screen is placed horizontally, the same way as a TV at home; or portrait, where the screen is placed vertically, much like a traditional poster.

Benefits of Outdoor Digital Menu Boards for the Restaurant Industry

The restaurant and fast food industry relies on impulse purchases. In such a competitive industry, finding new and innovative ways of tempting customers into a diner can make a huge difference to revenue. Outdoor digital menu boards are an engaging and eye-catching method of generating custom that has so many benefits over traditional menu systems.

Using Information Screens Outdoors

Flat screen TV enclosures house not just LCD TV screens, but also can contain media players or compact PCs, so are able to keep the entire information system together in one unit. The enclosures provide all the relevant protection needed for using this equipment outdoors, including weatherization, temperature control and physical impact protection to prevent damage through impact and vandalism.