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Parabit lands digital signage kiosks at new JFK Terminal 5i

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has again chosen the Parabit team to design, manufacture, install, and to provide monitoring and content updating services for the new Welcome Center within JFK International Airport's Terminal 5I.

January 6, 2015

Parabit Systems, a designer and manufacturer of embedded security and self-service technologies, announced that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has again chosen the Parabit team to design, manufacture, install and to provide monitoring and content updating services for the new Welcome Center within JFK International Airport's Terminal 5I, which opened Dec. 23, 2014.

This new Welcome Center is in addition to 18 other Welcome Center installations completed by Parabit within JFK, LaGuardia, Newark and Stewart Airports. "I am excited to be working with the Port Authority at JetBlue's new International Terminal at JFK," Parabit Systems President Robert Leiponis said in the announcement. "Our previous designs have been extremely successful. The Terminal 5I center will enhance their passengers' experience while transitioning to their final destination."

Parabit's Welcome Centers provide an area of safety and information, and provide visitors an easily identifiable service location to assist with navigation beyond the airport. The Welcome Centers include digital signage kiosks operating Parabit's "eTract" software, designed to attract, engage and inform users with digital displays and telephone directories. These directories support integrated courtesy telephones, which provide access to ground transportation, hotel and car rental services, as well as a restricted Internet browser to PANYNJ-permitted websites supporting the airport's services. 

The Welcome Centers will also feature Parabit's "eBrochure" software, which provides an "unlimited capacity" for digital brochures on local attractions within a small footprint, the company said. The Digital Brochure Kiosks provide touchscreen access to hundreds of "things to do," and with a scan of a QR code, the user can receive the information on their smartphone, or receive SMS messages with their requested details.