Customer Experience

Soofa enhances solar powered digital platform for smart cities

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March 21, 2022

Soofa, which operates a solar-powered digital platform and sign with E-ink display, announced design improvements to its solar-powered digital platform for smart cities, according to a press release. The company's U.S. reach tripled in 2021 and the Soofa platform is now used by city and municipal partners in 41 cities across 15 states.

"We've had rapid growth over the past year as cities look for ways to increase communication with their constituents as well as to deploy sustainable technology in their communities," Jason Young, CEO of Soofa, said in the press release. "City communication has become even more vital during the pandemic. It's important that we continue to innovate and to enhance our platform to meet the evolving needs of our city partners to help inform and enrich their communities."

The Soofa platform has been enhanced to make it more user-friendly for city leaders as well as more engaging for community members and businesses. Soofa signs now feature:

• Enhanced readability and engagement: With a fully refreshed and modern screen layout, Soofa signs have been enhanced for maximum readability and engagement and redesigned to display even more information.
• Additional real-time updates: Soofa has added an RSS feed integration, allowing cities to automatically share local updates and information like upcoming local events, nearby vaccination sites and more.
• Enhanced real-time transit capabilities: Cities utilizing Soofa's transit widget can now automatically display more accurate transit updates — thanks to Soofa's new GTFS feed integration — to augment static transit timetables with real-time transit information. No more wondering if the bus already came.
• Weather displays: Soofa signs will now feature local weather displays, showing up to five days of local weather information.

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