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Startup launches Concerto-based digital signage service

Innio, 'a startup with its roots in the digital signage system its founders developed while attending college,' announced it has released a subscription-based digital signage product based on the open-source Concerto signage system.

October 12, 2015

Innio, which describes itself as "a startup with its roots in the digital signage system its founders developed while attending college," announced it has released a subscription-based digital signage product. Based on the open-source Concerto signage system, Innio's service can be used to distribute promotional, event, informational and emergency messages to networked displays, the company said.

Innio said its Concerto service uses a variety of small-form-factor computers running Linux to display public signage on televisions. Users can submit textual, graphical, RSS, video and other Web content for display on topical feeds. According to Innio, Concerto avoids centralized and complex workflows; using its plug-in architecture, Concerto integrates with existing data sources and infrastructure, such as calendaring and emergency management systems.

Concerto began as a student government project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, targeted at spreading student-created postings across campus. It used a decentralized network of students and moderators to create and approve content, largely supplanting the highly centralized cable television-based network that preceded it. Concerto's Web-based nature allowed each screen in its network to have a theme and content tailored to its location, and it proved popular with numerous colleges and businesses worldwide, according to the announcement.