Display Output Types
Remote CMS supports a wide range of display technologies for
device outputs. Each type of display has a number of benefits
that are suited for specific applications.
1080p and 4K Video Panels
With the 4K video output module, any 16:9 aspect
ratio digital panel can be connected to Remote CMS.
Advanced programming logic provides ease of content
creation with multiple elements on the canvas being
any combination or quantity of video, image, text,
widget or live elements. Remote CMS is more than a
simple media player, it is inclusive of scheduling, auto
on/off controls, fall back logic in case of a fault and
remote monitoring.
Graphic LED Displays
Graphic LED displays are typically greater that 32 pixels
in height but less than 512 x 256 pixels. This type of
display is the most advanced hardware providing
exceptional robustness and reliability with industrial
asynchronous processor. Advanced screen control with
imbedded fonts provides crisp and highly readable text
specially designed for outdoor display clarity.
Numeric-type Digital Displays
Numeric type display are commonly used for time of
day clocks, counters, parking spaces and petrol price
displays. Remote CMS has a display module output
specially designed for numeric type display panels and
their low level logic control.
Video LED Displays
A video LED display is a synchronous LED panel that
clones the video output of a multimedia device.
Typically resolutions exceed 512 x 256 pixels, the
Remote CMS output is designed to cater to any
custom display resolution and display position within
the desktop canvas. While the display output is
synchronous, system development allows for
brightness control, screen lock, hardware monitoring
and fault diagnosis.
Text-based Displays
Text type displays are commonly referred to as
‘tickers’. A ticker is a low resolution digital display with
an embedded type asynchronous processor requiring
a dedicated communication interface. Advanced logic
programming is required to ensure that the desired
display output matches what the user has defined.
Live Content
Weather Data
Weather display is a standard module that users can
subscribe to and receive hourly live weather updates
by the displays postcode location. Weather options
include current temp, graphic widget, short weather
description, humidity, UV levels and 3 days forecast.
Environmental Hazard Alerts
Get live environmental hazard alerts, such as lightning
vicinity alerts, cyclone status displays and blast
warning display panels. In the industrial environment
the conditions are harsh and the system reliability and
up time is critical.
Stock, Shares and Trading Data
ASX and other trading data can be dynamically
integrated into any digital display. BYO data source or
subscribe to various platforms allows for live trading
data to be displayed.
Boating / Ocean Data
Live data relating to tide levels, wind speed, swell and
weather warnings are examples of data that can be
subscribed to or received from an industrial device
output. Volunteer Marine Rescue use Remote CMS to
share public information such around marine warnings
while various port authorities use Remote CMS to
display critical data relating to port operations,
essential for safe marine operations.
Fire Danger Rating (FDR)
In line with Australia’s standardised, improved, and simplified fire danger rating system,
dynamically update your digital displays automatically, every hour. Suitable for display on LED displays,
LCD monitors and analogue outputs for “traffic light” type displays. With Scripting enabled, set rules on time,
date, temperature, and FDR status to automatically update your digital display with specified content.
Emergency Service Alerts
Subscribe to emergency service alerts to automatically update a digital display panel based on various public emergencies
including severe weather and bushfire. Advanced system interfaces through API or SMS allow for geolocation automatic
updates and also provides emergency services direct access to override the display for specific localised critical
information such as ‘leave now’ or ‘road closed’.
RSS News Feeds
Remote CMS RSS module is a standard data interface
that allows for live streaming data such as news feeds
to be displayed on digital displays, with support
provided for ticker type scrolling displays.
Schools
Adding Remote CMS for a digital display in school
environments provides many advanced features and solutions
School Zone Control
Automatically display school zone speed limits and wig
wag lights on any outdoor digital display based on
school term dates and times.
Emergency Lockdown control
Interfacing to school lockdown controls allows all
digital displays to reflect the lockdown requirements
when triggered. Outdoor digital displays can alert
parents not to enter school grounds, with indoor and
wayfinding displays able to direct students and staff on
lockdown requirements.
Amber Alerts
Allows community interaction through sharing of
access control to display amber alerts through public
addressable systems.
Fundraising and Sponsorship
Digital displays can be financed through fundraising
and community engagement. Remote CMS modules
allow clear segregation and control of content from
third-parties, public information and local school
communication.
Speed Detection and Awareness
Adding a speed detector allows for public awareness
when the speed limit has been exceeded. Slowing
down the public traffic can only lead to increased
student safety
After Hours and Remote Access
Should the digital signage require remote and
immediate access, remote access allows authorised
users to remotely update the digital displays with
appropriate public information.
Delegated Access Control
Allows sharing of limited access for various
departments to publish their own content. For
example, that the Head of Sports may be given access
to a single slide within a sequence and while away
from campus able to publish content.
Parking Systems
Simple Space Counter
A simple space counter module is interfaced to an
existing boom gate and ticket machine to display the
number of available spaces. Parking space data is
shared via a web interface module that allows for space
data to be displayed on an intranet or public internet
site. Once the parking space data has been collected,
the data and content can be shared to numerous
strategically located display panels.
Directional and Wayfinding
Remote CMS allows for advanced programming logic
to automatically direct cars to the most appropriate
parking location. AI logic can detect slow traffic
movement, queued cars and traffic congestion and
redirect traffic to alternate locations based on
predefined logic.
Simple Access Control
Simple access control facilitates autonomous device control and content output based on defined use cases. Most familiar would be carpark full which can be triggered by software, a manual switch, a remote control or via a relay content from an existing access control system, ticket machine or boom gate.
API Interface
Already have a software or carpark management system? Interface any device output, LED or LCD display to provide wayfinding or public parking information. Output options could include access control, directional lights or digital signage.
Retail Applications QSR / Food
Point of Sale (POS)
Integrate Remote CMS with POS Systems for
automated display content. Digital Signage can be
intelligent based on promotion of slow moving items
or reducing promotion on items nearing low stock.
Social Media Integration
Digital signage can be dynamic with social media
interaction. Sharing tweets or posts, followers, likes
or comments allows for digital signage to be dynamic
and interactive.
Digital Menu Boards
Digital Menu Boards are now a standard expectation
for consumers. Remote CMS provides dynamic and
intelligent digital menu boards for a single store,
through to a national brand. Grouping of sites by
brand, price point and demographics allows for a
single point of data entry that is shared across the
network autonomously.
Safety Displays
Security Gate / Access Control
Integrate Remote CMS with an access control system or
provide access control and connect a digital display to
provide directional information and access validation
content. When not being used for access control the
digital display can provide general information, safety
and site awareness content. Integration can be
provided via a digital source as well as simple analogue
interfaces that require a simple relay input from existing
access control systems transforming a red/green light
system (stop/go) into a dynamic digital display system.
Blasting Boards
Digital blasting displays can provide more than a
display medium. Solar powered systems allow for
displays to be positioned on the most remote
locations, data logging and monitoring for solar charge
and battery status provides maintenance awareness for
solar panel cleaning and battery maintenance. Critically
low voltage levels generate alerts to inform the blasting
supervisor that urgent attention is required to
implement the redundancy process. Add a movement
detection module to the display and the blasting
supervisor will be alerted to vehicle or pedestrian
movement in the blast vicinity. Add speed detection
and snapshot interface to report vehicles exceeding the
safe speed limit.
Safety and Production Displays
Safety and production data can be shared site wide
across a variety of display mediums. Custom
developed modules can provide a central repository of
data for content display and statistics or data analysis.
Integration into 3rd party systems allows for selected
data to be shared between systems.
Cyclone Alert / Lightning Vicinity
Digital displays provide alert level warnings for public
and private site locations to provide safety and public
awareness. Remote CMS supports various output
modules that can be integrated with or without a
digital display panel such as lights, sirens or access
control. Remote CMS provides environmental
monitoring such as wind speed and direction, and
detectors for the direction and severity of lightning
using direction-finding and analysis of characteristic
frequencies emitted by lightning. Any data collected
can be shared site wide, control other devices and
issue SMS alerts, as a few examples.
Fire Danger Displays
Fire Danger Ratings and Alerts can be shared across a variety of different display mediums in any give vicinity.
Dynamically update your displays automatically with a Fire Danger Rating subscription and use scripting to set
rules on time, date, temperature, and FDR status to automictically update your displays.
Scoreboards
Outdoor / Community Sport
Adding a scoreboard module to Remote CMS allows
your advertising display to be multipurpose. Being a
web hosted system, community venues are able to
grant access to the digital display panel through a
simple QR code system. A community member is
granted temporary access to the digital display to
operate the display as a scoreboard. Once the
temporary access has expired, the digital display will
revert to its original content display. During scoreboard
mode the user has the ability to use timers and scoring
based on various sport modules subscribed as well as
display on demand graphics and crowd promotion.
Indoor / Schools / Community Centres
Remote CMS is a simple addition to any display panel,
LCD or projector. Full wireless connectivity, mobile or
tablet devices are suited for scoreboard operation
including soccer, basketball, netball, tennis, badminton,
volleyball, handball, water polo and swimming carnivals.
The user can subscribe to any number of sport modules,
and select form standard template design or customise
display layouts as they require.
Timers / Marathon / Motorsport / Golf
As well as the timer display and ensuring multiple
displays are synchronised, Remote CMS provides data
management for split times, results, start times and
finish times by competitor. Data can be used for official
results or shared to a public display leader board system.
Third-Party Integration
Remote CMS can integrate with existing third-party
infrastructure including specialised industrial hardware,
social media, web services, apps, and more.
Hardware Modules
Remote CMS readily integrates with a variety of
specialised hardware systems including switchable
relays, car park counters, loop detectors, distance
sensors and control boards. These devices
communicate with Remote CMS using a generalpurpose protocol that can be implemented in third
party devices, or with an adapter device.
Protocol specifications can be requested for
manufacturing embedded devices that communicate
with Remote CMS systems.
Social Media
Social media platforms with compatible APIs can be
integrated into Remote CMS functionality, for example
by including social media feeds or trending topics on a
display device.
Apps, Services and Web Development
Remote CMS features an extensive developer API for
monitoring device status and controlling device
behaviour. Online documentation for the Remote CMS
API can be accessed here. With a Remote CMS API
subscription, a sample utility for assisting
development is provided, and will include
documentation specific to the API functions granted.
Ticker Displays
Ticker Module
The digital display scrolling module allows for a
scrolling ticker to overlay the background image or
content. Traditionally a digital display was either a
static screen or a scrolling display, now Remote CMS
integrates both medium into a sign display output.
ASX / Stock Data
ASX Signal D data feed is a standard module add on
where the user is wanting to display a selection of
trading stocks. Trading stocks can be displayed based on
volume, capex, change or manually selected and be data
limited. For example, the user could select the top 100
trading stocks by volume to display. Other trading
platforms are able to share trading data or data can be
integrated through RSS feed or third-party API access.
RSS Data
RSS data feed allows connection to a variety of public
shared data content sources such as news or
information. RSS data is integrated by the Remote CMS
server to analyse the operators requirement, this could
be to display the most recent data feed or only display
data feed based on keyword or tags used within the
RSS feed. An example could be a ‘Breaking News’ tag,
when detected the digital display will stop what it is
doing, display a attention grabbing background and
follow with the news ticker feed for a period of 5
minutes before returning to normal operation. These
controls and functions are a standard operator module
provided within Remote CMS.
Video Systems
4K Video Module
Remote CMS supports connection of 4K capable
display panels. BYO media player for Remote CMS
software installation or discuss your hardware
requirement with RCMS Systems.
Video Streaming
With 4G and 5G data services now available,
Remote CMS easily supports live video streaming to
your chosen display panel.
Video Processor
Video Processors provide multiple live video sources to
be switched or matrixed (i.e. Picture in Picture) for
display output. Remote CMS modules support a variety
of video processors providing remote web application
control of the video matrix switcher. Controls for video
source, display output, brightness, saturation and
audio are all integrated into Remote CMS. This
functionality allows a single RCMS node to operate as a
digital signage output, such as a digital scoreboard controlled
as well as a live video matrix switcher.