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DC convention center deploys NanoLumens digital signage

March 25, 2013

The Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., recently installed a 7.5-foot-tall by 23-foot-wide, 6mm pixel pitch NanoSlim DS LED display from digital signage provider NanoLumens, according to a company release.

The 172.5-square-foot display hangs above the entrance to the convention center's Hall D, which can see traffic up to 15,000 people on its busiest days, the company said.

"When I first learned about NanoLumens' display technology in 2011, I immediately thought of Hall D," said St. Elmo Crawford, president of Digital Conventions, which operates the digital signage at the convention center. "But the size requirements were just too unique at the time. With the new NanoSlim DS line we were able to have a display built to our exact specifications, giving us a super-bright, energy-efficient, long-life display that is big enough to be seen clearly from 100 feet away. A projection system wouldn't work here because of the bright ambient light, and any other manufacturer's digital display would have weighed 5-10 times as much. The NanoLumens display provides 170 square feet of signage space and weighs less than 1,000 pounds! The display needed to be suspended from wires because of space constraints, and hanging a 10,000-pound display where people are walking under it was simply not an option."

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