The hospitality market nowadays understands the vital importance of focused and streamlined communication with its audience. Being customers, employees or visitors in a hotel or in healthcare, all need updated and accurate information about provided services, special promotions or general information about manager on duty or news and weather forecasts. News is often delivered in a 'live' format, being either a RSS feed or even live Television. Locatel and dZine have decided to collaborate in this area by integrating each other's technology, providing the hospitality market a cost effective and proven solution.

What are the deliverables:

1] Locatel ECLIPSE will provide Live TV feeds or movies through an Ethernet connection (“IPTV”) which will be displayed by the dZine digital signage player together with other content like images, scrolling text or flash. Channel selection of the IPTV can be programmed through the digital signage software or instantly by using a dZine touchscreen.

An ideal solution for:

Large format displays in the lobby or bar area
Kiosks
Way finding



2] One or more dZine players will create an information or advertising channel which will be streamed by the Locatel ECLIPSE server. This channel is made available in the hotel room through the Locatel interactive TV system, allowing the hotel customer to search for his required information in a relaxed manner.

An ideal solution for:

in-room hotel info channel
in-room tourist channel
in-room special hotel promotions

This unique combination of a Locatel ECLIPSE IPTV solution and a dZine digital signage solution allows an easy to install and reliable system, built for 24/7 duty. The dZine player (“DISplayer”), being a non-windows player platform, relieves IT from all stress regarding network security issues.


About Locatel
 
Founded in 1962, Locatel has today more than 250 employees. 50 are located in Denmark where the company has its R&D and Production center, designing individual solutions for some of the world’s biggest hotel chains.

With offices in Europe and Middle-East, and a presence in 60 countries, Locatel is the European leader in multimedia solutions and interactive hotel TV systems, with over 900 000 rooms installed worldwide including 90 000 Full IP installations.

Locatel is expanding its activity rapidly (+200% growth during the last 3 years), and continuously brings many innovations to the hospitality market: Video on Demand, Music or News on Demand, live weather forecasts, games, PC and internet on TV, full High Definition and MPEG4 smartboxes, possibility of connecting iPods, cameras or USB keys to the TV , IPTV over DSL or CAT 5/6 network, Internet,... Locatel is able to supply movie rights from the biggest US major studios, which allows us to deliver movies just 3 months after their box-office release and our solution is integrated with all the existing PMS systems used in the hospitality market.

Locatel is the most flexible solution on the market, allowing each hotel to have a personal design through a customized user interface. No other hotel will look like yours. Your guests can use the Locatel system in their own language, with support for not only all European languages including Russian, but also Japanese, Chinese or Arabic. This flexibility is reflected by the huge range of customers that have selected our solution - from 2 stars hotels with a simple interface to the most exclusive Palaces with unique features. Locatel offers continuous support and service through our experienced technical division.


About dZine

dZine, an independant private company founded in 1992, has always been a pioneer in building digital signage systems and professional mobile solutions. Due to dZine’s high qualified hardware and software division, customer-made solutions with a long life span are supplied for numerous applications. Today, dZine is a profitable small giant, which employs over 40 high-graded persons.

dZine, being a key player in its two markets, has already distributed over 90.000 players worldwide and it is rapidly expanding. dZine is a devoted innovative company founded on a strong dedicated team of engineers. The combination of dZine’s R&D skills and technical know-how results in solid and future proof solutions. dZine has drawn up the perfect balance between quality, performance, durability and price to serve its customers.

dZine considers partnership to be a key factor. It is dZine’s business to assist its customers and partners through every step of their project. Knowledge and experience is shared with them in various stages; predesign, support, installation, after-sales-service. Over the years, dZine’s technology has proven to be the key to the customer its success.


Contact details:

Tel: +32 56 24 90 90
Fax: +32 56 24 90 99
E-mail: frederik.vroman@dzine.be