Madrid’s Public Bus Company Chooses C-nario’s Digital Signage System for its Public Buses

C-nario, a global provider of digital signage software solutions, today announced that Madrid’s public bus company, EMT Madrid, will install digital signage systems on its buses, based on C-nario Messenger software.  Telefonica, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, is responsible for the implementation of the project.

Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid S.A. (EMT Madrid) operates 2,100 buses on 217 lines across Madrid, Spain’s capital, serving 425 million passengers a year.

EMT Madrid is conducting  a pilot project on 35 of its buses, where three screens were installed in each bus. The screens display various information for the passengers, including timetables, weather information, cultural events, next station’s details (including connection to other lines), advertisements and more. Information is displayed without sound, to avoid any disturbance to passengers.

The screens also shows the bus’s location on the route, based on a GPS system. When the bus approaches a tourist site or attraction, it provides information about it. All information is displayed in Spanish and English.

Following the pilot project and analysis of the results, EMT Madrid will install digital signage systems in all of its 2,100 buses in the coming years, 600 of them during 2011 and 2012.

“The digital signage network in our buses is a tremendous development in both the public transportation sector and the digital signage industry,” said Enrique Diego Bernardo, Assistant Director of Technology and Information Systems, EMT Madrid. “Due to C-nario’s unique platform we succeeded in meeting very complex technological and informational challenges.”

“This project reflects the combination of centralized and decentralized digital signage network management, since it allows each bus to display both common information, shared by the other buses, as well as real time targeted information for the specific bus,” said Tamir Ginat, C-nario’s CEO. “Once again our platform, C-nario Messenger, is achieving a major milestone in the digital signage world, including the integration of  GPS-based real-time information with other informational resources.”

C-nario Messenger is a complete digital signage display, distribution and management software platform that provides better-than-broadcast quality playback in any shape, size and resolution. C-nario Messenger is characterized by its superb multi-display playback engine, as well as its advanced management, monitoring and control tools. In addition, the system is based on open architecture, which makes it easy to customize and adapt to different needs. The system’s innovative content creation tools easily help to create displays and cut costs.

About C-nario
C-nario is a global industry leader providing corporations and organizations worldwide with advanced digital signage software solutions and applications. C-nario helps its clients attract customers, increase revenues and enhance branding. Focused on the customer’s business needs and requirements, C-nario provides the industry’s most advanced digital signage capabilities with maximum Return-on-Investment (ROI). The company’s easy-to-use solutions are the product-of-choice for hundreds of customers, including Fortune 500 corporations, in a variety of industries: retail, banking, transportation, advertising and media, entertainment, sporting events and facilities, education, and telecom, among others. Through its global partners and international value-added resellers, C-nario has deployed its solutions in 40 countries. The company has offices in the United States, Europe, and Israel. For more information about C-nario visit www.c-nario.com.

About EMT Madrid
EMT Madrid is a public company owned by the City Council of Madrid. It has operated the entire fleet of urban buses since 1947. The current fleet has more than 2.100 vehicles, all of which are accessible to the disabled, equipped with CCTV cameras and free Internet connection. EMT Madrid runs 217 bus routes (night and day routes), including the Madrid Tourist Bus service and the Airport Express (24 hours a day). For more information about EMT Madrid visit www.emtmadrid.es.

Source: C-nario