Signage software and integration

Digital Signage Software & Data Integration

Connect your displays with the systems behind your business. We develop digital signage software and integrations using Fusion, PADS4 or our own software, including connections to live data, business systems and operator controls.

Discuss a signage integration How integration works

Platforms

Configure a platform, extend it or use our own software.

The approach is agreed around your project: the information you need to show, who will manage it and the systems you already have.

  1. Configuring Fusion or PADS4

    When the platform already does what you need, the work is configuration: layouts, templates, schedules and content set up within Fusion or PADS4. We have built solutions with both.

  2. Custom development around a platform

    When your information or controls go beyond what the platform offers, we develop custom integrations and content interfaces around it, subject to its capabilities, access and project requirements.

  3. Our own software

    Where a tailored approach suits the project, we can build using our own software in partnership with Metromatics. This allows the interface and content workflow to be designed around the information you need to display.

Connected information

Screens that show
what’s happening now.

Every integration starts with the source data. Three examples from our project experience:

  • Adelaide 36ers: we designed the integration between the Genius Sports statistics API and PADS4, so live game statistics appeared on the venue screens. Delivered by LaunchPADS, 2019.
  • Roma Street Terminal, Brisbane: we converted bus and coach feeds into live feeds for the PADS4 passenger-information screens. Delivered by Metromatics, who also supplied the hardware, 2019.
  • Kangaroo Island Airport: PADS4 integration for the check-in counter, flight status and passenger-information screens, with tablet-based control. Delivered by LaunchPADS, who also supplied the hardware, 2018.

We assess where your information comes from and develop the connection and on-screen presentation your project needs.

Integration process

How an integration comes together.

These are the requirements we work through on every integration. Update frequency and behaviour depend on the systems involved.

  1. Identify the source

    We identify where the information comes from and how it can be accessed, such as an API, a data export or a feed from the provider.

  2. Agree update behaviour

    We agree how often the display should update and what it should show if the data is unavailable.

  3. Develop the connection

    We build the connection and the presentation of the information on screen.

  4. Test with the display system

    We test the integration with the signage platform and the agreed display hardware.

  5. Document operation

    We document how the integration works and what to check if something changes at the source.

Controls and management

Controls and management interfaces.

Give operators practical tools to manage displays and content. We develop interfaces around the tasks people need to perform, from content updates to project-specific display controls.

For the Adelaide 36ers, LaunchPADS provided a custom control centre that let game-day production, including the perimeter advertising screen, be adjusted in real time.

Centre-court screens showing sponsor content before an Adelaide 36ers game, with players warming up and a control laptop in the foreground
Sponsor content on the centre-court screens before an Adelaide 36ers game, with the control laptop in the foreground. Delivered by LaunchPADS, 2019.

Case studies

Beyond the Brief.

Projects delivered under the LaunchPADS and Metromatics names are credited to them on each case study.

All case studies

Working with Metromatics

One coordinated project,
hardware to software.

Metromatics supplies the hardware; Red Earth delivers the software and integration. We coordinate the software requirements with the agreed display system.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about signage software and integration.

Can you connect to our business system?

We can look at the interfaces, permissions and data your system makes available, then recommend whether and how it can be connected. Not every system can be connected, and we’ll tell you if yours can’t.

Can you work with Fusion or PADS4?

Yes. We have built solutions with both Fusion and PADS4.

Is custom software the only option?

No. We choose the platform to suit your requirements and the systems you already have. That might be Fusion, PADS4 or our own software.

Who owns the software and what support is included?

Ownership, licensing, maintenance and any third-party costs are set out in the proposal for your project, so you know what’s included before work starts.

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Tell us what information
your displays need to show.

We’ll look at where the information comes from and how it can reach your screens.

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