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Scala drives digital signage network in Copenhagen

The Scala network, named Info-TV, centralizes relevant national, regional, facility and department-level healthcare information on-screen to provide information to people located in the waiting rooms of the facilities run by the city's authority.

October 8, 2014

Scala this week announced it is driving a very large-scale digital signage network, running over 500 screens across 20 medical facilities, on behalf of Region Hovedstaden, the regional authority of Copenhagen, Denmark, according to a press release.

The Scala network, named Info-TV, centralizes relevant national, regional, facility and department-level healthcare information on-screen to provide information to people located in the waiting rooms of the facilities run by the authority, according to the annoucement.

Deployed by local Scala system integrator ATEA following a public tender for centralized digital signage and support, Info-TV is part of a project by Region Hovedstaden to improve overall patient satisfaction during their interactions with the public healthcare system. 

The deployment at Region Hovedstaden includes 520 Scala players, driving a similar number of 42" and 55 screens split into a dynamic frame and a scroll feed, according to the announcement.

"We are managing 500 discrete playlists and channels, no two channels are similar," said Jacob Simonsen, technical project leader and consultant at Region Hovedstaden. "Using the Scala player and content manager, we can schedule, plan and manage different types of programming and manage this great volume of content in a centralised manner. Scala was the only provider that could handle the management and distribution of content to such a wide network."