Airports and transport

A terminal runs four signage contracts, and none of them can tell you which screens are dark right now.

Concourse wayfinding on one system, the concessions estate on another, employee screens on a third, and the advertising network on a fourth. Between them they are most of the glass in the building, and the thing they all have in common is that a screen goes black and nobody finds out until a passenger says so. One platform runs all of it, every screen reports whether it is actually rendering rather than whether a command was sent, and anything the airport already publishes as a feed can be on any of them.

A large lit advertising display and a row of digital totems in an airport concourse — **Advertising is the biggest thing on the glass in most terminals.** Concourse networks, spectaculars and the backlit run above the carousels, usually sold by a media concessionaire. What decides a renewal is proof of play: which screen, which slot, on the day it was sold for.

A screen in an airside staff corridor showing a shift brief — **The people who never open the intranet.** Airside staff, concession crews and cleaners are the workforce internal communication misses entirely, and the screens they walk past are the only channel that reaches all of them.

A row of backlit advertising panels and a belt screen in an airport baggage hall — **Backlit above the carousels is the highest dwell time in the building.** Which is why it is sold that way. The belt number beside it comes from the same system, on the same screen estate, under one licence.

A lit portrait wayfinding totem in an airport concourse — **The screens that answer what nobody asks a person.** Which way, how far, what is closed today. A lift out of service is something an airport knows in minutes and tells passengers hours later, if at all.

A run of four lit menu screens above an airport food hall counter — **Concession hours are the most wrong information in any terminal.** A unit that closed at nine is still listed at eleven and the passenger walks the length of a pier to find a shutter. Hours come from the concession rather than from a board updated at a refit.

Where we sit next to your flight displays

Flight information is operationally critical and usually runs on a dedicated system wired into the operational database, with redundant data paths and automatic failover. Most airports want that left exactly where it is, and we run alongside it happily: if the operational database publishes a feed, we render arrivals, departures and gate changes on the concourse, concession, lounge and employee screens that sit outside that certified path, so a passenger in the food hall sees the same gate change as the passenger standing under a flight board.

And if you want the critical path itself, that is a build and we will quote it. It comes with a specification rather than a feature list: failover time, redundant players, accessibility, language handling and an acceptance test written down and engineered to. We have always built to what a customer runs rather than to a supported list, and this is the same answer in a harder room.

What an airport asks first, before cost. Whether it opens a port, whether it touches the operational network, and whether a screen failing at three in the morning is something anybody finds out about. Outbound connections only, no inbound rules, and every screen reporting its own storage, temperature and render state continuously.

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Runs alongside your flight information system today, and can be built to the critical path if you want it there.

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Any feed the airport already publishes can reach a screen, including operational data on non-critical displays.

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Priority messaging takes every screen at once, in order, and each one confirms it rendered.

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24 hour operation with per screen temperature, storage and render reporting, because a hot enclosure is what kills a player.

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Outbound only. No inbound rules and no change to the operational network.

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Adapters owned outright at $50 each, so a terminal refit does not become a hardware negotiation.

Order before 31 October

Two things included, and a price that stops moving.

Ava Display Edge included, on orders of 100 screens or more. Casting and content stay inside the building.
Your price is fixed for three years. What you order at is what you pay, and it is published rather than quoted.

Offer applies to orders placed before 31 October 2026. Prices are list; the hold applies to the price you order at.

Talk to us

A terminal is a thousand screens and four vendors.

At $40 per screen per year with the hardware owned outright, the interesting number is not ours. It is the sum of what the concourse, the concessions estate, the employee screens and the advertising network cost today under four separate contracts.

Work out your number