With new space and a renewed focus on solutions, NEC Display’s annual New York Showcase promises to be an immersive experience for companies seeking visual tech solutions to meet business needs – err and much like display advancements themselves, the annual NEC Display Solutions New York Showcase continues to gain momentum, Ed.
[1]This year’s event on November 4 at the spacious SIR Stage 37, just minutes from Times Square and the Javits Center, focuses on helping people and organizations communicate, build relationships, inspire, impart knowledge, and improve productivity through NEC’s innovative display and projector solutions.
In its 22nd year, the event is the biggest yet – with more partners, solutions and exhibit space than ever before.
Despite its impressive size, one continuing benefit is its private, intimate nature. Without the crowds and cacophony found at a typical trade show, the NY Showcase lets attendees chat at length with NEC pros and NEC partners on solving business challenges for markets including corporate, education, operation centers, retail, restaurant, and many more, with display solutions.
To help gain more knowledge about how to create a full technology solution, attendees will be able to speak at length with partners who offer technologies such as software, mounts, screens, audio, control, switching, signal processing, power conditioning, and others.
Attendees also stand to gain a thorough understanding of how NEC Display interfaces with the entire AV/IT ecosystem in order to create solutions for many different vertical markets and applications. The variety and depth of partners elevate the showcase from a technology conference to a solutions event focused on applications.
Those solutions, supported by NEC Display’s latest and greatest innovations, include 4K/UHD (Ultra HD) large-screen displays, desktop monitors and projectors, interactivity with DisplayNote software, ShadowSense™ Multi-touch technology from Baanto™, and Hiperwall content and source management for video walls.
Here are some of the applications that attendees can experience:
- Emergency Operations Center (EOC) / Command & Control. NEC projection, desktop and large-format displays form the basis of this working operations center. NEC video walls will showcase Hiperwall, which delivers content to an unlimited number of displays and video walls, and can accept live feeds from various computer applications and video sources to provide one integrated view of all information needed. As a result, Hiperwall provides enhanced visual domain and situational awareness, supporting faster decision-making and response. Hiperwall is the perfect software for an EOC, where a large variety of information is typically broadcast across multiple screens concurrently or in rapid succession. And Hiperwall’s fault tolerance capabilities ensure a particular screen will broadcast information should another screen fail – providing the reliable communication critical in an EOC.
- Broadcast. NEC’s Ultra HD desktop and large-format displays as well as ultra-narrow bezel video walls will give attendees first-hand experience of a major broadcast studio set.
- Retail. Using large-format displays and RFID technology, NEC will simulate a cutting-edge retail experience built on interactivity and customer engagement. NEC also will be highlighting 75-inch high-bright displays behind a glass entryway to showcase the benefits of choosing brighter displays for uncontrolled lighting situations.
- Classroom/Conference Room/Meeting Room. Multi-screen projection and large-screen displays will be exhibited in a way to highlight how to fulfill current education and business trends around interactivity, collaboration and touch capabilities.
- Interactivity. In one of the demos, a local artist will create digital art using Baanto’s ShadowSense touch technology on NEC’s P703 display, underscoring its pinpoint accuracy and flexibility for all types of specialty applications.
- Projection Mapping. NEC will highlight its robust lineup of SSL high resolution installation projectors in blended and mapped applications. Its industry-leading Solid State Light (SSL) source projectors minimize time-consuming projector maintenance and offer an attractive alternative to lamps for industries that require around-the-clock operation.
- Video Walls. NEC will showcase its broad lineup of video wall solutions (ultra-narrow bezel LCD and LED) in a variety of applications.
- Medical. For the first time at the showcase, NEC will demonstrate its full lineup of medical displays, including the superior accuracy of its diagnostic displays for medical imaging. These displays feature Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), LED-backlit panels and automated brightness calibration.
In addition to the applications above NEC also will take advantage of the expansive exhibit space to engage attendees with additional NEC products and solutions, and to demonstrate its innovative approach toward solving business challenges
Throughout the day, the NEC team will be available to answer questions as well as demonstrate the unique benefits of the company’s solutions.
Moreover, the showcase offers formal training sessions devoted to exploring SSL projectors and large format UHD. Those attending the sessions will come away with further knowledge about these technologies and what key features differentiate NEC’s products. Attendees must register separately for these sessions.
Since the NEC showcase takes place during New York Digital Signage Week [2] – which organizers consider a ‘fashion week’ of sorts for the digital signage industry – attendees can explore all of the events taking place during those five days in one Big Apple visit.
Keith Yanke is the Senior Director of Product Marketing at NEC Display Solutions. He can be reached at
keithyanke@necdisplay.com.