#Outsourcing Wayfinding Signage

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Digital Signage Design Service- Your Sign for Success

INDOVANCE Inc has been offering custom digital signage services and delivered inspiring designs to WOW our clients. Our Digital Signage designers are well-versed with evolving digital industry standards & trends and use their creativity & cuttings edge technology to transpose an idea or thought process into an attention-grabbing design. 

We provide a wide range of internal and external signage and door signs, simple post and panel, channel lettering in a custom font, or a whole set of rebranded interior signs, ADA-compliant custom Braille signs, wayfinding signs/graphics, and wall/ceiling mounted signage from diverse industries. We ensure the quickest TAT (turn-around time) and comply with required ADA standards and codes at the same time. 

Digital Signage Services at INDOVANCE INC

Concept Design 

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Presentation Drawings 

Production Drawings 

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Why Digital Way finding Signage is better for your Business

Have you ever walked into a large mall and found you have no idea which way to go?

You are not the only one to face such a situation. Most of us often find ourselves lost inside large buildings roaming through hallways, frustrated and taking wrong turns or looking for someone to show us the way. Whether in a large campus or a shopping complex, people need to reach where they need to be with ease. Digital wayfinding signage is a powerful interactive solution to take care of this vexing problem.

When positioned appropriately, wayfinding signs help visitors inside your facility reach their destinations with ease, saving their time and energy. An excellent wayfinding signage design is indeed an excellent solution to improve your service and keep customers happy.

Read the remainder of the blog to get more proof of how digital wayfinding can benefit your business.

Benefits of Digital Wayfinding Signage for your Business

1. It is Cost-Effective

Businesses still using printed maps and static signs need to quickly switch to digital wayfinding signage solutions. Such maps and signs can get outdated quickly since offices relocate or reorganize regularly, and their exhibits also change frequently. To print maps and signs repeatedly is expensive. But, wIth digital wayfinding, you can update all these changes easily and quickly. You can update directories and maps quickly without spending a lot of money printing or installing static posters. Moreover, you can also scale in the future by adding more customer-friendly features when you require them.

2. Easy to Use Interface

The other great benefit of digital wayfinding signage is that you can make changes as needed for your business using its simple backend GUI. There is no need for you or your employees to be tech-savvy. Hence, you also need not incur the expenses of outsourcing such services to specialists but can make any relevant changes yourself.

3. Provides Better Customer Experience

Wayfinding signs can greatly improve the customer experience at your facility. You can get creative with the signs and impress customers with personalized content and features. Add special touches to the messages and use eye-catching colours to create a good impression of your brand.

4. Reduces Wastage of Employees’ Time

Does your reception staff spend most of the time directing visitors to the right floor or department? With digital signage, you no longer have to worry about such a wastage of time. Since the signage guides your visitors to navigate, your employees get more time to focus on other significant activities. Your employees will not spend time providing directions to each and every person who enters your facility.

5. Improves the Aesthetic Appeal

Wayfinding Signage Design is much more eye-catching than traditional pamphlets or brochures. By incorporating visually attractive wayfinding signage, you convey the impression that you value your customers highly and are committed to following consumer-friendly practices,

With digital wayfinding signage, you reduce your customers’ frustrations and help them find their way easily through your business premises. It is a very flexible platform to promote your products and services, display the content you want, and engage with your customers.

Wayfinding signs help you attract your consumers’ attention and even influence their buying decisions. The rich, dynamic content on your digital signage communicates your messages instantly and provides the customers with a better experience, keeping them satisfied.

Focal Media provides digital wayfinding solutions personalized as per the customers’ needs and resonate with their brand identity. Their digital signs are guaranteed to provide a superior return on your investment and help grow your business.

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Budget

Will it be within budget?

The budget for this project is $40-$70,000.

App/Platform creation

A discussion needs to be had with the developers and relevant authorities about what form the platform can take. A bespoke platform built and owned by the government will be an expensive process, but will not require licensing fees.

I would recommend using a pre-existing app or platform, such as Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat. The widespread adoption of these platforms by the demographics specified in the client brief means that this is the easiest and least intrusive way of convincing and attracting consumers. If a partnership cannot be made with these companies, apps such as Overly could be alternatives. If this approach is taken, then the initial cost will be very low, but licensing and operational fees will be charged.

If an app is created specifically for the project, this will take roughly $2,000-$15,000 for a robust, custom built service. Most of the higher end AR systems involve consumer interaction or physical markers, and this project fortunately does not require alteration or interaction beyond simply viewing the project.

This aspect of the  budget is subject to great variation depending on whether development is done in Australia or outsourced to cheaper markets such as India.

Artwork creation

An example of AR artwork can be seen in a virtual KAWS exhibition (https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-virtual-kaws-exhibition-tests-market-augmented-reality-art). The rights to a large virtual piece cost $10,000 with smaller pieces costing between $1,500 - $5,000 a piece. This is an expensive example, but two large pieces of artwork such as the one shown would be a great start to this project, with smaller alternating peripheral pieces spread across the area. $30,000 should be enough for a significant amount of art to meet the requirements.

To encourage innovation and community interaction as well as exposure for young artists, contests could be held for selecting designs. The winner would have their design implemented. If marketed right this could become a regular publicised event to attract attention and repeat visitors to the area.

Info stands & statues

I talked to a local sign-writer (https://www.bigfootsigns.com.au/) who estimated that a self-standing, architectural designed wayfinder/info sign would cost:

Corten steel base with a 2-pac aluminum base-plate with digitally printed graphics, approximate overall size 1800x900 millimeters installed into ground - $2,000 plus tax. x 4 = $8,000 total

Smaller version - powder coated steel framework and face with digitally printed graphics approximate size 500x900 mm - $1,100 plus tax x 5 = $5,500 total

Budget comes to max $15,000 for a AR platform, $30,000 for the artwork, 13,000 for signage to house QR codes + info about history. In total $58,000.

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Several Tips to Benefit Your Company If Owns an Industrial Inkjet Printer

Whether you’re a manufacturer, reseller or somewhere in between, there is an industrial inkjet printer that will work for nearly any type of material you offer. If you own or want to own a industrial inkjet printer, here are several tips to benefit your company.

1. Simplified, More Efficient Workflows

Modern inkjet printing technology with variable data, process color and opaque white ink capable printers are far less difficult to use than older, more complicated presses. With very little set up time and rare mid-production adjustments, jobs can be run unattended and be completed within much shorter timeframes.

Now, industrial printers are much simpler and the speed and accuracy in which they print is light years beyond old-school techniques. With single bed pass printing and low maintenance requirements, operating and caring for this equipment to ensure peak performance quickly becomes second nature.

Many printers also have related smart phone apps that let you monitor production remotely, allowing you and your employees to focus on other job duties.

2. On-Demand Possibilities

With an industrial printer on site, you’re able to turn around finished products in a very short time frame. This also gives you the ability to take unique customer requests, which can be a major differentiator between you and your competition. You can also quickly create seasonal and timely pieces, like if a local high school wins a big baseball game or an upcoming event needs last-minute banners printed.

3. High-Quality, Large-Volume Printing

You don’t always know what you’ll be getting if you send your products off site for printing or purchase them preprinted. Outsourcing companies may claim to have “cutting edge” equipment, when in reality they are using antiquated systems that are not suitable for your application, resulting in low-quality prints.

Inkjet printers are well-known for producing vivid colors on a variety of different materials, some of which include:Smartphone Covers, Awards, Wayfinding/Safety, Signage, Packaging, Identification Cards, Wedding Specialties, Membrane Switch Panels, Key Fobs, Lenticular Panels, Shoes, Medals, Signs, Stickers, Flags & Banners

By investing in an inkjet printer with capabilities that suit the types of materials you need to print on, you can ensure your final product is of the highest quality. You’ll also become the one in charge of production, so you’re able to monitor the outcome of your materials and make any necessary adjustments in real time.

4. Cost Benefits & Incentives

An industrial printer is an investment that can provide financial benefits in several areas. Owning equipment eliminates the need for outsourcing, which can often have huge upcharges compared with in-house production along with uncertain delivery dates that can affect not only your schedule, but also your customers’. You’re also able to avoid the minimum quota requirements set by printing companies and print on only what you need, which will greatly reduce your per job expenses.

Owning your own printer will also prove valuable on your taxes. Whether you lease or own a printer, you can receive a tax break for your business but it will be more substantial if you own the equipment. Purchasing software and ink can also count as deductible equipment accessories.

5. Little to No Waiting Periods

The wait time to receive your final product is seemingly nonexistent if you own your own inkjet printer. Outsourcing can have a long turnaround since items need to be shipped, printed and then shipped back to you. The delivery dates are also never a guarantee since there could be production issues, shipping delays or both.

We Feiyue Team offers the equipment in sublimation printing process, such as sublimation paper, sublimation ink, inkjet printer and some other accessories. Any demand, please feel free to contact us.

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GPS vs reading your city.

The rise of ubiquitous GPS and other navigation technology has made us passive commuters rather than active boulevardiers. We no longer feel the need to 'read' a city since our smartphone can tell us where to turn.  I once took an auto-rickshaw ride in Chennai with a driver who was new to the city and didn't know the route to the destination. Throughout the journey, he navigated entirely through oral directions from passers-by and neighbouring vehicles at every junction. He would get three or four instructions at a time — turn right, ride straight on till a movie theatre appears on the right, take the road alongside the theatre. He proceeded with these instructions until he reached his next informant. After 20 minutes, quick directions from around six passers-by and, miraculously, not a single wrong turn, we reached our destination. Navigating in India has always been more than getting from point A to B, more about oral directions more than maps and signages. Directions which come with their unique set of quirks and local knowledge — a 'roundtaanaa' in Chennai is a Circle in Bangalore, a 'dead end' means a T-junction, the colour of a house is usually more important than the door number (which would have an old version and a new version). How does the GPS-revolution and ubiquitous technology fit into this system of informal landmarks and asking the passerby which bus to take?   There is something unsettling about outsourcing the use-it-or-lose-it skill of navigation to a device, and running the risk of getting lost with a drained cell phone battery and no sense of direction. Mobile phones began changing the way we move even without GPS — when the bus-ride experience transitioned from looking-out-the-window-or-at-people to playing-Candy-Crush-Saga-oblivious-to-the-crowds-and-location-of-the-bus, when walks in the neighbourhood started involving talking on the phone to a friend across the city rather than a next-door neighbour. “It turns the boulevardier into a sequestered individual, the flaneur into a figure of privacy. And suddenly the meaning of the street as a public place has been hugely diminished,” wrote architectural critic Paul Goldberger about mobile phones in his piece ‘Disconnected Urbanism’, about how a place no longer has an all-consuming effect as you are never really cut off from other places anymore. With increasing dependence on GPS, the experience of moving and navigating in the city has further changed — in a classic urban design text, The Image of the City, architect and urban planner Kevin Lynch explored how different parts of the city are recognised and organised by people into coherent patterns, forming paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks. Landmarks prove to be a very important feature of legibility, which get reinforced as the journey becomes more familiar, helping people form a sense of place, a memory, a sub-conscious absorption of the way you get from point A to point B.   The landmarks may be inconsequential — a crowd of people around a tea-shop mark a point in your journey, or even the smell or sounds of a certain place help orientation and navigation. In cities where Internet penetration and mapping is still low, these forms of casual landmarks are often more important in navigation, a fact that was recognised by Google when they did a study to implement Google Maps in India. “Google Maps would say: ‘Head southeast for 0.2 miles.’ A person would say: ‘Start walking away from the McDonald’s,” they report in the official blog, after running a research study on visual cues and wayfinding by calling people and asking for directions, and finding that landmarks were easier to see and remember than street names, which are often hidden in visual noise. The final design was thus tweaked to give more prominence to landmarks or buildings along routes because people often wanted to compare and confirm where they really are. This persistence of landmarks and oral directions is not just about low internet penetration and refusal to move with the pace of technology. It is a reflection of the way people continue to interact with the vast part of the city’s urbanscape that is still unmapped but still a vivid, important part of the city’s daily rhythms. Although many urban middle-class Indians may have had their life made easier by being able to share their location after calling an Uber or following American-accented GPS instructions while driving in a new route, the city is much more complex than what the maps offer — ‘tea kadais’ and roadside hotels; street-hawkers selling coconut water or kitchen utensils, unnamed alleys and informal settlements; the vegetable-vendor who transforms into a kolam-vendor during festivals; the electronics shop that repairs even pen-drives.   Streets that are named and numbered are often unpredictable — a 2nd Cross may have a 4th Cross after it, and the 3rd Cross may be sitting four lanes away. So, that broken wall or small temple under a tree becomes important to distinguish one street from another. Dual street names add to the mystery — the auto driver may tell you he is turning on Oliver Road when the board says Musuri Subramaniam Road. The collective memory of people who are used to the older colonial names hasn't yet disappeared, making Mount Road very difficult to replace mentally with Anna Salai. In this casual and intangible way, the past constantly interacts with the present, and landmarks that have long ceased to exist are still important navigation cues — I was once told off by an auto-driver for trying to explain my destination in Adyar as a ‘large car showroom on LB Road’ rather than to just say ‘Eros Theatre’ — this single-screen cinema hall has long vanished from the city’s urban fabric, but collective memory is too strong to vanish as easily. The commuters of today who still fondly refer to old street names are likely to eventually be replaced by a GPS-savvy generation that prefers strictly defined, organised codifications and being rigidly told where to go, when to turn and which route is the best. But there is something unsettling about outsourcing the use-it-or-lose-it skill of navigation to a device, and running the risk of getting lost with a drained cell phone battery and no sense of direction. Where ubiquitous technology will change the imagination and experience of the city is in the gradual erosion of undocumented local knowledge by a rigid system that reduces our capacity to remember routes, notice landmarks and recognise districts because we no longer have a reason to ‘read’ the city, no reason to look out of the window to recognise where to get off the bus because your phone can tell you when to.