New York City is known
for being on the cutting edge of technology, design and culture, so it is
ironic that the most notable feature of the city’s stock tickers is that they
all look like 1970s alarm clocks, displaying single-color text on a plain black
background. Today, a midtown
Manhattan branch of a major financial institution set a new standard for
information displays with the unveiling of the city’s first NanoLumens-powered stock ticker.
As the main technological
attraction of the branch’s top-to-bottom renovation, the incredibly bright,
full-color, 3-foot tall by 60-foot long L-shaped LED display is one of New York’s
most dynamic, vibrant and unique stock tickers, according to Bill Shiverick of
Atlanta-based Vertical AVTV, the AV
integrator who recommended and installed the NanoLumens NanoSlim Design-Specific
display.
“In Vertical AVTV’s
10-year relationship with this financial institution we’ve installed all types
of audiovisual and television systems, but never anything quite like this,”
Shiverick said. “As far as stock tickers and information displays go, there’s
nothing else like this being used in New York City. But now that we’ve shown
what a unique NanoLumens DS display can do for the ambience of a retail environment,
I doubt it will be the last.”
A high-resolution stock
ticker display was a vital element of the design of the branch’s new
storefront, and the decision to use NanoLumens’ unique NanoSlim DS display
technology was the result of an intense comparative analysis of three
state-of-the-art LED display manufacturers. After Vertical AVTV and the client’s
project management team evaluated the ease of installation, ease of maintenance,
the brightness, weight, durability, life expectancy and total cost of
ownership, they came to a decision to install the NanoLumens DS display.
“The truth is that the
branch could have chosen a lower-cost alternative that may have served the
purpose, but when we considered all the different variables and strengths of
each manufacturer’s technology, NanoLumens was clearly the best choice,”
Shiverick continued. “All you need to do is walk into the branch to see exactly
what I mean. I’ve worked in hundreds of office buildings and corporate
headquarters in a dozen of the biggest U.S. cities over the last 11 years, and
I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Vertical AVTV has built a
successful business installing and maintaining television delivery systems in
hundreds of commercial office buildings across the country, and since 2006 has
expanded its operations to include custom AV installations using the latest in
display technologies. The company’s dedication to providing high-quality customer
service, ongoing system maintenance and products that consistently exceed their
clients’ expectations is evident in the fact that they have kept this
particular financial institution as a client for more than a decade. In the
crowded yet growing marketplace for custom AV installations, this stellar level
of client satisfaction gives Vertical AVTV a leg up on the competition.
“With the new
applications made possible by displays like the NanoLumens NanoSlim DS and
NanoFlex DS lines, we are experiencing significant growth in the use of digital
signage. We expect to see every retail environment, corporate lobby and public
transportation space soon become home to a bold, unique digital signage
system,” Shiverick added. “We at Vertical AVTV are growing to meet the market’s
demands for innovative AV solutions, and NanoLumens’ one-of-a-kind technologies
are helping us provide systems unlike anything our clients have seen before.”
NanoLumens’ NanoSlim DS Series is a bold departure from the traditional
one-size-fits-all design paradigm that has been a mainstay of the display
industry for decades. Available in
4mm, 5mm and 6mm pixel pitches, the NanoSlim DS Series allows customers to
specify truly unique displays in their designs and open the door for
corporations, retailers and venue operators to create a completely original
digital experience.
NanoLumens displays are
extremely slim, ultra-lightweight, energy efficient, and feature a bright,
seamless, high resolution picture quality that can be viewed from any angle
throughout the display horizon without color shift or image distortion. The
company’s patented display technology promises to transform the way marketers
engage their customers in every type of trade show, retail, hospitality,
stadium, arena, transportation and public event environment.
All NanoLumens displays
accept input from nearly any device or content management system. There is no
need for special software, hardware or special personnel to display content
beautifully. With a profile of
only a few inches and operating with nearly zero heat or noise, the NanoSlim
DS and NanoFlex DS series can be installed on virtually any surface without
being obtrusive, adding the ‘WOW’ factor to any indoor or outdoor environment
without taking up precious space.
NanoLumens’ technology
has been named ‘Best Large-format LED Display’ of the year by Signage Solutions
magazine in its 2012 Product of the Year awards program, as well as being
recognized by Entrepreneur magazine as a 2011 future-proof tech trend and cited
by The Wall Street Journal in its 2010 Technology Innovations Awards.
NanoLumens’ technology also received the 2011 Breakthrough Technology of
the Year Award at the American Technology Awards. Digital Signage
Magazine awarded the NanoLumens NanoFlex a 2011 DIGI Award for “Best New
Display Device – Non-LCD or Plasma.”
About Vertical AVTV:
Founded by Bill
Shiverick, Robert Harlin and Robert Weisert in 2002, Atlanta-based Vertical
AVTV has become one of the leading installers of audiovisual and television
delivery systems for commercial office buildings in the U.S. In addition to maintaining AV systems
for hundreds of corporate offices across the country, they have been expanding
their business to offer the latest cutting edge display and presentation
technologies for corporate lobbies, boardrooms and meeting spaces. The
company’s dedication to providing the best products to suit every client’s
needs and commitment to superior customer service and ongoing system
maintenance has endowed them with a reputation as one the most reliable and
capable AV integrators in the country.
About NanoLumens:
Headquartered in Atlanta,
Georgia, NanoLumens®, Inc. (www.nanolumens.com)
is a privately held corporation engaged in the research, product development,
marketing and sales of unique flexible and fixed large-format LED display solutions
in any size, shape, or curvature, that address a yawning technology gap in the
$14 billion digital display industry.
Since its founding in 2006, NanoLumens has built a portfolio of more
than 20 international families of issued and filed patents on its flexible
display technology that effectively address the commercial market void between
relatively small flat-panel displays and huge, limited application LED boards.
NanoLumens technology is not constrained by standard sizes and shapes, or by
the weight, heat, noise and cost issues traditionally associated with
commercial LED products.
