Courts, licensing and public service

Every question asked at the counter is a question a screen did not answer.

A courthouse and a licensing centre have the same problem in different words. Hundreds of people arrive each morning not knowing where to go, what they should have brought, or how long they will be there, and every one of them asks a person. The information they need already exists in a system the building runs. It is just not on the wall.

A licensing office with a screen above every counter position and now serving boards on the wall — **A screen above every counter, and the boards on the wall.** This is why one building reaches several hundred screens, and why the per screen price and owning the hardware stop being details at that count.

A screen beside a ticket kiosk listing what to bring — **The cheapest transaction is the one that never reaches the counter.** Telling somebody at the door what they need, and that they may not need to be there at all, removes work from the most expensive minute in the building.

A lit screen showing today's calendar in a courthouse lobby — **The calendar changes all morning. The printed sheet does not.** Continuances and reassignments reach the lobby as they happen, from the case management system rather than from somebody retyping a list at seven.

A lit screen in a jury assembly room showing which panel is being called — **A jury room is two hundred people with nothing to look at.** Which panel, which badge numbers, where to go and roughly how long until the next call. The largest single source of questions in the building, answered without a clerk on a microphone.

Why a public building is a different sale

The volume is at the counter, not on the wall. A large licensing centre runs a screen at every window as well as the queue boards, the entrance and the corridors, which is how a single location reaches several hundred screens. At that count the per screen price stops being a rounding error and the hardware being owned outright stops being a detail.

The information is already in a system. The docket lives in case management, the queue lives in the queue system, the road test schedule lives with the examiners. None of it should be retyped onto a screen, and every place it is retyped is a place it goes wrong in front of the public.

Accessibility is not a preference here. Contrast, type size, timing and a spoken equivalent are obligations rather than design choices, and a screen that scrolls too fast to read is a complaint with a form attached. Content is composed rather than dropped in as an image, so it can be rendered legibly rather than shrunk to fit.

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Calendars, dockets and queue state read from the systems that already hold them.

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No personal identifiers on public screens, and nothing about the public held in the product.

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Priority messaging on every screen at once for a building notice, with a render receipt from each.

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Outbound connections only. No inbound rules and no change to a government network.

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Every screen reports its own condition, so a dark counter display is a ticket rather than a complaint.

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Adapters owned outright at $50 each, which is an asset on the agency’s books rather than a rental.

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.

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Several hundred screens in one building, and more buildings after it.

At $40 per screen per year with the hardware owned, a single large office is a line item and a county or a state is a programme. Put it against what the queue displays, the lobby boards and the counter screens cost today under separate contracts.

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