Ava Display › The platform

One system behind every screen you own, and one place it is run from.

Casting hardware, signage software and the alerting system are usually three purchases, three renewals and three vendors. Here they are one product.

Emergency broadcast that outranks everything

One message takes over every screen at once, sent from a phone, on site or across town. Written text is spoken aloud through the screens, it interrupts whatever was playing, and nothing else can outrank it. Screens that were asleep wake up for it.

Priority override · sent 10:44
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Secure your room now
every screen
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10:44:02
Woken from sleep
31 screens
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10:44:04
Scheduled content
held
Outranked
10:44:02
Spoken aloud
where a speaker exists
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10:44:05

Casting the room already knows about

Whoever is presenting opens Ava and casts to the rooms they are allowed to reach, which need not be the one they are standing in. No pairing code to hunt for, no dongle to find, no adapter to unplug. Nobody else on the network can see a display, let alone connect to one. When the host wants somebody else to take the screen, they put a code on the screen itself, as digits and as a QR code. The other person scans it and asks for the screen, the host accepts, and nothing reaches the glass until they do: a teacher taking one student after another, or a chair handing the room to a visitor. Same mechanism either way.

A classroom screen showing a lesson being cast

Idle screens that rotate themselves

When nothing is being cast or broadcast, a screen is not blank and not a fixed slideshow. It rotates through cards chosen for that screen: by priority, by the time of day, by the date, and by where the screen physically is. A hallway at lunchtime and a front office at eight in the morning are not showing the same thing, and nobody set that up twice.

Scheduled broadcast

A broadcast is different: an interruption you schedule. Morning news plays together across rooms, pre-loaded onto every device beforehand so the network is not carrying it at the moment it matters, then the screens return to their idle rotation.

Bell and day awareness

The screens know the schedule, including the days that break it. Assembly timetables and odd-even rotations change what is shown without anyone touching a screen.

Central control

Post to one room, a wing, a building or everything. Roles decide who can do which, and every action is recorded against the person who took it.

The system behind the screens

The screens are the part you can see.

Ava Display is one surface of a larger platform. Most signage systems are a content manager with a media player attached: someone builds a slide, someone schedules it, and the screen plays it back. Ava works the other way round. She holds what your organization actually knows, and the screens read from that.

Say it once, and it is everywhere it belongs

A closure, a shift change, a room move or an early release is a fact about your organization, not a slide. Tell Ava once and the hallway screens, the room displays and the front desk all reflect it, because they are all reading the same thing rather than each holding their own copy.

That is also why the screens know what day it is. Shift patterns, term dates, bell schedules and the days that break them are not signage content someone remembers to update. They are what the place runs on, and the screens follow.

One platform, not an integration project

Casting, signage, announcements, bell awareness, emergency broadcast and fleet management are one system with one login and one bill. Nothing between them needs wiring together, because nothing between them was separate.

Ava Classroom, when you want it

The screens you already trust become the way a teaching partner reaches every room. Ava Classroom adds lessons, practice and the bridge home, on the same devices and the same login. Display is the safe place to start, and nothing gets replaced to go further.

Controlled from wherever staff are

Runs in any browser today.

Video

Three ways a moving picture reaches a screen, and they are all in the license.

Most signage is stills with a play button bolted on. Video is the part that separates a platform from a slideshow, because it is the part that needs a backend: something has to get the file onto hundreds of devices before it is due, decide what yields to what, and prove afterwards that it played.

Scheduled, and already on the device

A campaign, a safety film, a training video or a season trailer is cached on every screen before its slot. When the moment comes it plays at full rate from local storage, so a busy network at the wrong minute cannot turn a paid spot into a frozen frame. Every screen reports that it actually played.

Live, from wherever it is happening

A camera or a screen capture goes out as a live stream to every display in scope: a keynote to overflow rooms, a leadership address across a campus, morning news from the studio down the corridor. It starts from a browser and needs nothing installed in the room it is coming from.

Cast, by whoever is standing there

A person presents to the screens they are allowed to use, in several rooms at once, from anywhere. authorized rather than discovered, so there is no pairing, no dongle and no display visible on the network.

Idle screens

A screen with nothing to do is still doing something.

Most of the day, no one is casting and nothing is being broadcast. That is when a signage system either earns its place or sits there showing a logo. Ava chooses what each screen shows from three things at once.

Where the screen is

A gym, a front office, a staff room and a cafeteria want different things. Cards are targeted at rooms, wings or the whole site, so a screen shows what belongs in that place without anyone configuring it screen by screen.

What time and what day it is

Cards carry the hours, the days of the week and the date range they apply to. Breakfast before the bell, the day rotation during class, the game on Friday, and the whole thing changes for a holiday week on its own.

What matters most right now

Everything eligible is ordered by priority and each card holds the screen for a set dwell before the next one. Something urgent moves to the front of the rotation rather than waiting its turn.

A broadcast is the opposite of this: a deliberate interruption that takes the screen, then hands it back. The rotation is what the screen does for the rest of the day, and it is the part nobody should have to maintain.

How it gets better

Your staff ask for it from inside the product. We ship in days.

Most workplace and classroom technology gets better on a vendor roadmap, at a vendor pace, decided by people who have never stood in the room. This one has a request button in the console, and the people who wrote the software read it.

Ask from where you are standing

Staff raise a request from the same console they use to cast. No support ticket, no account manager to route it through, and no waiting for an annual survey nobody remembers filling in.

Watch it move

Requests carry a state your staff can see, so whoever asked for something knows whether it is being considered, is being built, or has shipped. Asking into silence is what makes people stop asking.

Days, not quarters

We are the people who build it, so a good idea does not have to survive three layers of prioritization to become real. Requests from staff on site are already in the product.

This is why the feature list on this page will be out of date. It grows most weeks, and the direction it grows in is set by the people using it.