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Harris, Microspace, Scala highlight 2009 DIGI Awards

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Raleigh's Capital Area Transit, Disney among notable winners at The Digital Signage Show.  

November 11, 2009

Harris Corp., Microspace Communications and Scala, along with many others, made off well this week as several of their projects were announced as winners of 2009 DIGI Awards. The awards ceremony was held Tuesday, Nov. 10 at The Digital Signage Show in New York City.

Professional Communications Systems (PCS) and Harris Corp. won the "Best Content, Creating the Ambient Experience" category for a project with the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. The venue installed a Harris InfoCaster digital signage solution that enables the compilation and display of high-definition video and program content on monitors around the Arts Center. PCS of Tampa managed the design, engineering, installation and maintenance of the complete visual display and digital messaging system.

Microspace accepted the DIGI for the "Best Deployment, Digital Signage and Mobile" for the first public deployment of broadcast mobile DTV in the United States this summer. The Capital Broadcasting project is a free, over-the-air broadcast of mobile digital television to the public. A joint effort of LG Electronics, WRAL, the CBC New Media Group and the City of Raleigh, N.C., the venture delivers live WRAL-DT broadcasts to Capital Area Transit (CAT) buses traveling around the capital city.

Scala accepted three awards on behalf of the Miele Insperience Centre, the Sprint Studio Store and the BC Children's Hospital for the Best Local Retail Rollout, Best National Retail Rollout and Interactive Technology Rollout, respectively.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Retail Roll-out, Local: House of Media Experience for Miele Inspirience Centre   Retail Roll-out, National:Level 5 / Hammond Communication Group, for Sprint Studio Store   Interactive Technology Roll-out:2C Visual Communications For BC Children's Hospital   Best Deployment, Transportation: iMediaT Digital and Best Buy Commercial Services Canada For British Columbia Rapid Transit Company, SkyTrain   Best Deployment, Entertainment: Cisco for Cisco Digital Signage System at Dallas Cowboys Stadium   Best Deployment, Integration of Digital Signage and Mobile/Cell Phone Technology: Microspace Communications Corporation for City of Raleigh, Capital Area Transit (CAT)   Best Content, Merchandising:Schult for Regal Entertainment, Digital Menu Boards   Best Content, Ambient: Professional Communications Systems for Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center (TBPAC)   Best Content, Corporate Communications: Digital Display & Communication for Rogers Communications' UR Music   Best Content, Interactive:Monster Media for Oxygen Network's Dance Your Ass Off Storefront   Best Content, Advertising: Digital Display & Communication for HYPE Campaign/Rogers Stores Canada   Best New Technology Innovation in Digital Signage Displays: Samsung Electronics America for the Samsung 820TSn Interactive LCD Panel   Best New Generation Display Device, Large Screen: ADEX International, Dual-Projection Glass Walled Structure with Polarized LCD Overlay   Best New Display Device, Small Screen: MicroSigns Inc. for Integrated, Wireless Display Network and Content Management System   Best New Generation Display Device, (non-LCD or Plasma): GestureTek for 3D Depth Sensing Interactive Digital Sign with Mobile Phone Interactivity   Best New Content Management Software/Web-based (SaaS): SignChannel, from Thinking Screen Media   Best New Content Management Software/Premise-based: Omnivex, for Moxie

Best New Audience Measurement Package: CognoVision Solutions Inc., for Anonymous Impression Metric (AIM)

Judges Choice Award: Walt Disney World, for their Digital Guest Communications