The LED Studio: Going green behind the big screens

Sustainability as a topic has never been higher on the agenda than it is today. The demand for green technology and digital signage solutions has risen astronomically and with the rising cost of energy, efficiency and total cost of ownership are more important than ever.

When we hear the term green signage, most concepts will focus on ways in which we can reduce our carbon footprint, such as through models that promise reduced power consumption and by switching displays off when not in use.

We take a more holistic approach and ensure that sustainability is inherent in everything we do. This includes energy-efficient design and manufacturing processes, compact shipping, logistical solutions, smart operations, futureproofing solutions to reduce waste and reusing as many components as possible.

Energy efficient design
One fundamental way to reduce the energy consumption of a display is by ensuring it runs cold and emits no heat from the screen surface. By doing this, the LEDs are operating more efficiently and energy isn’t being wasted to generate heat, so power consumption is lowered. All our products are designed with this as standard to reduce the carbon impact.

The Edge, our 55in LED display which acts as a direct replacement for power hungry LCD displays, is the greenest, most energy efficient and sustainable LED display of its type on the market. This is achieved through a unique display design and cabinet architecture, which is designed to move the heat away from the individual LEDs and disperse through the cabinet, using the frame as a heatsink.

As a result, power consumption using this design is reduced by up to 75%, drawing just 153w per panel, without decreasing brightness or contrast ratio. The reduction of heat also means that the LEDs have a longer lifespan, so the Edge product lifetime exceeds 100,000 hours, with uniformity across all modules.

The Edge 55in display from The LED Studio, a sustainable replacement for LCD video walls.

Smart operation
We prioritise sustainable design in all our solutions, whether it’s one of our product lines or something custom. This results in LED displays with specifications that not only increase performance levels, but have long-term business benefits as well.

Our Fusion all-in-one digital billboard solution features a responsive brightness sensor as part of its integrated features. The power required to run a 6mm pixel pitch, 18sqm Fusion is just 3.2KW, with an average power consumption of 180w/sqm and a maximum power consumption of 500w/sqm. This is half the consumption of the average LED based billboard display.

Electrical wastage and therefore heat generation are significantly reduced, negating the need for noisy and energy wasting fans, extending the lifespan of the display and ensuring industry leading total cost of ownership.

Fusion also has the world’s most comprehensive monitoring platform built directly into the frame of the display. This means no additional media players, switchers or analytics devices are needed to connect the billboard to a network, drive content and monitor its performance. The built-in solution provides full remote diagnostics, secure network security encryption, a monitoring system for hundreds of points, pro-active alerting and four layers of data backup and two for power.

Compact shipping
Another factor of sustainability relates to the shipping. Designing products that are compact to ship, have streamlined packaging and materials that can be recycled makes a huge difference.

We designed the Fusion with this in mind. The plug and play signage solution is comprised of five 3000 x 1200mm cabinets that fit into one compact box. The modular design fits simply together for efficient installations and allows for easy, ongoing maintenance.

This also means it is currently the lightest display of its kind, reducing the need for complex structural support. Crucially, it can be hung on traditional billboard infrastructure, enabling instant digitisation of existing billboards.

The all-in-one nature of the display also contributes to this reduced shipping and overall sustainability, as Fusion requires no additional hardware.

One cabinet of the Fusion all-in-one digital billboard solution from The LED Studio.

Reuse and recycle
We’re always thinking about the future and adding unique functionality into our displays that ensures as many of the components as possible can be reused past the considered replacement periods.

A market leading design in our Edge range allows the display to evolve as pixel pitches continue to reduce. This is achieved by simply replacing the existing modules with the new ones, so a 2.5mm pixel pitch display, for example, can easily be upgraded to a 1.2mm by simply refreshing the panels.

No additional infrastructure or architectural changes are required and with front serviceability, upgrades can be done quickly and simply. Displays can even be relocated and moved to another area or used for another business function if the pixel pitch allows, enhancing the benefits and flexibility even further.

This contributes to our sustainable mission by reducing waste whilst still allowing you to move with the times.

Featured Products

The Edge
The Edge is the world’s first true LED video wall solution that offers a direct replacement to LCD. The 55in single die cast modules are four times that of a standard 16:9 cabinet, resulting in four times fewer components making them four times quicker to install with improved alignment and a lighter solution, all for four times less cost!

Fusion
Fusion is an all-in-one digital signage and DooH solution. From one box, estate owners have everything they need to run and display content, deploy a wider network and integrate hardware into their own content management solutions. This smart device is making it easier for customers to bring the benefits of digital signage sustainably and responsibly into more out of home environments through one purchase that delivers everything.

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The LED Studio
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