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Helius, Inc & Microspace Communications
Receive ActiveLight ’s 2005 DIGI Award
Award recognizes excellence in the digital signage industry
Lindon, Utah and Raleigh, NC (March 15, 2005)
- Helius, Inc. (Helius), the worldwide leader in
business class data broadcasting solutions, and Microspace
Communications Corporation (Microspace), the leading provider
of point-to-multipoint satellite services, today announced
they are the recipients of a 2005 DIGI Award in recognition
of innovation and excellence in the digital signage industry.
The award was presented on March 12 at NSCA Systems Integration
Expo in Orlando for their work on the StagePost/Flagstar
Bank digital signage network.
The
2005 DIGI Awards were given to ten outstanding resellers,
dealers and integrators of digital signage. This is the
first year of the annual awards, presented by ActiveLight,
a national distributor of advanced displays, projectors
and digital signage solutions, and sponsored by Systems
Contractor News and Pioneer.
Helius
and
Microspace worked with StagePost, a media and marketing
firm,
to develop a network that delivers real-time marketing,
training
and corporate communication content to Flagstar Bank locations
via satellite. This network consists primarily
of
Microspace’s VELOCITY® satellite service,
Helius MediaWrite®, and Helius MediaGate® routers.
This digital signage application capitalizes on “dwell
time” – the time a customer is in the store
awaiting assistance – at Flagstar Bank locations
to
showcase the bank's products and services.
"
The
Flagstar bank signage system provided by Helius and Microspace
is the kind of robust solution for the delivery of information,
advertising, entertainment, and training that is making
the digital signage industry stand up and take notice.
Its provision for passive advertising, customized interactive
advertising, and employee training on a single system was
well deserving of a DIGI Award," said David Keene,
DIGI
Awards Chairman and Executive Editor, Systems Contractor
News
Magazine.
According
to
Helius President & CEO, Ron Heinz, “Digital
signage
continues to be an important and growing market limited
only by the imagination. According to Flagstar,
they
have experienced an increase in sales of more than 25 percent.
The financial benefits of such a system speak
for
themselves.”
Including
Keene,
the awards were judged by five journalists in the digital
signage industry: Darek Johnson, senior technology
editor
of Signs of the Times; Mark Mayfield, editor of Pro AV;
Pete Putman, senior editor of Studio, and Film
and
Video; and David A. Silverman, editor of Sound & Communications.
About Helius, Inc.
Helius
provides
leading business class data broadcasting solutions through
secure and reliable delivery of broadband IP over
satellites
and local area networks. Helius products serve as the communications
bridge between the satellite transmission
and
terrestrial integration of business-critical data, addressing
in particular the stringent requirements for
video
transmission. This reliable and secure integration gives
organizations the ability to implement new high bandwidth
applications
such as digital signage, distance learning,
and
corporate sales training and deliver these applications
from
satellite distribution straight to employee desktops. For
more information, visit www.helius.com .
About Microspace
Microspace
Communications
Corporation (Microspace) is the leading provider of satellite services
for video, data and audio
content
distribution and operates the largest global business satellite broadcasting
network, with over 315,000 remote
links
worldwide. A variety of both businesses and government organizations rely
upon Microspace’s VELOCITY® for
high-quality,
cost-effective and secure content distribution at savings of up to 98%
over terrestrial services. VELOCITY
supports
customers such as Morgan Stanley, LodgeNet, Muzak and the Christian Radio
Consortium via a wide range of
IP
broadband applications such as business TV, distance learning, digital
signage and digital cinema, among many
others.
The service is available as either a dedicated solution or as an on-demand
service, enabling customers
to
easily and affordably expand their bandwidth as their needs change. Founded
in 1988 with headquarters in the
U.S
and a presence in Europe and Latin America, Microspace is a subsidiary
of Capitol Broadcasting Company. For more
information,
visit www.microspace.com.
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