Signagelive transforms University of Turin’s digital signage

The University of Turin, in Italy, has tasked Signagelive with supporting its ambitious Iscreen digital signage project.  

The content management platform has been entrusted to power a network of 71 AOpen Chromebox Mini Players, to help centralise communications to optimise learning outcomes and drive a more inclusive and engaging campus culture.  

The centuries-old university comprises 120 buildings located across the region of Piedmont, which has presented significant communication challenges, making the need for digitalisation essential. The implementation of a Signagelive-powered digital signage network has allowed the establishment to produce university-wide notifications, as well as to deliver hyper-targeted information exactly when and where it’s needed. 

The Signagelive-powered network has quickly become key to the fabric of campus life. Serving as a multimedia communications hub, it’s driving an inclusive university campus culture, allowing up-to-the-minute news to be displayed across the campus.  

The integrated web page app on the Signagelive Marketplace enables the university to share exam and lecture timetables on big screens. The platform’s Seenspire app allows the university’s social media feeds to be displayed on screens, alongside other information, using the Signagelive multi-zone content template.  

Signagelive is also facilitating and speeding up the day-to-day management of the university’s content workflows by bringing together communications from the various editorial and faculty offices. 

The university has benefited from several other Signagelive features that have helped simplify the management of a large network. The Tag Manager function categorises the media players by location, so notifications need to be sent only to each group, rather than to each individual player. The Proactive Monitoring feature has facilitated network maintenance by automatically delivering opt-in emails to the network administrators in the event that any content fails to reach the displays. 

Signagelive has been integral to the success of the Iscreen project, according to the university: “We’ve been able to achieve everything we set out to do, and have managed to simplify what would otherwise have been a complex project, given the scope and scale of our network. 

“Signagelive’s tried-and-tested compatibility with all our hardware, its user-friendliness and the ease with which we’re now able to centralise and scale out content have helped transform our communications system. Integrated with such a wide range of services and apps, the platform has, in effect, given us everything we need to build a next-generation multimedia hub that can extend the impact and reach of all our communication channels.” 

Jason Cremins, Signagelive’s chief executive, says: “The benefits of digital transformation for educational establishments have long since been proven, but with Iscreen, digitalisation is now quick and easy to achieve for even the most historic and vast institutions. Our platform has helped the university build on its communications strategy to engage the next generation of students and bring the university – with its remarkable history, research traditions and resources – into the future.”