Waitrose has now rolled out SOLUM electronic shelf labels to more than 200 stores nationwide. The milestone marks further progress in one of the UK’s largest store digitalisation programmes, with deployment continuing across the retailer’s estate. Since announcing the partnership in December 2025, Waitrose has continued deploying SOLUM’s Newton Pro electronic shelf labels across its estate to modernise how pricing and product information are managed in-store. By replacing traditional paper shelf-edge labels with centrally managed digital displays, the solution enables product and pricing information to be updated quickly, accurately and consistently across stores. As retailers continue to invest in technology that…
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VITEC’s IPTV and digital signage solution at BayArena has uprated the stadium’s media infrastructure, enabling seamless, low-latency video delivery and future-ready digital signage across one of Germany’s most modern football venues. The flexible, scalable platform supports a wide range of content sources and legacy hardware, ensuring exceptional experiences for fans, VIPs, and staff alike, while laying the groundwork for next-generation fan engagement and operational efficiency. BayArena, home of top German Bundesliga football team Bayer 04 Leverkusen, is renowned for its commitment to delivering an outstanding matchday experience. To maintain this reputation, the club’s technical team, TecArena Plus, identified the need…
The RRS (Royal Research Ship) Sir David Attenborough, operated by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), is one of the world’s most advanced polar research vessels. Designed to support scientific work in some of the planet’s most challenging environments, the ship provides extensive onboard research facilities and a range of mission‑critical operational systems. As part of a planned technology refresh, BAS sought to modernise its onboard KVM and visual control capabilities with a system that could integrate seamlessly with the vessel’s distributed displays and video walls. Datapath was brought into the project at an early stage to help evaluate requirements and confirm…
D-Tools, the Integration Business Platform for the technology integration industry, today announced D-Tools Cloud Release #100. The milestone release delivers 66 improvements, more new capability than any release since the platform’s 2018 debut, spanning payments, sales reporting, inventory and project drawings. Many of the improvements came directly from customer requests, and together they make D-Tools Cloud faster, clearer, and more complete at every stage of the integration business lifecycle. “This release ships more meaningful new functionality than at any other point in our history,” says G Paul Hess, CEO of D-Tools. “It’s a clear marker of our commitment to elevate…
Puy du Fou España historical theme park located near Toledo, Spain, has upgraded its projection system for “El Último Cantar,” with the acquisition of nine Christie Griffyn 4K35-RGB pure laser projectors for the show’s immersive 360-degree projection system. The new installation forms part of Puy du Fou España’s ongoing technology upgrade and continuous improvement programme for its 2026 season, during which the park expects to welcome more than 1.9 million visitors after closing 2025 with record attendance figures. Opened in 2021 and recognised by IAAPA, the global association for the attractions industry, as “Best Show in the World,” “El Último Cantar” tells the…
Tucked away in Ebisu, one of Tokyo’s most refined neighbourhoods, BAR DANRO is the kind of venue that rewards those who seek it out. Conceived around a luxury vintage concept, it combines the allure of a hidden speakeasy with the polished elegance of an upscale hotel lounge. At the heart of the space sits a stone fireplace, a focal point around which guests settle into plush sofa seating and relax with a carefully crafted drink, enveloped in warmth and quiet sophistication. In a space this precisely curated, every element had to earn its place, including the audio. The brief set…
Ronnie Scott’s, London’s legendary Soho jazz club, has turned to Shure to deliver the audio backbone of ‘Upstairs at Ronnie’s’, its newly redeveloped live music room. The venue, which sits above the club’s famous downstairs stage, has been built from the ground up with a single ambition: to create the greatest small live music venue in the world. Designed to seat 140 guests, ‘Upstairs at Ronnie’s’ combines world-class technical specification with intimacy, pairing a Yamaha S3X Grand Piano and d&b sound system with a fully digital Shure microphone and monitoring signal chain built around SLX-D+ and Axient Digital PSM. The result is a…
HIVE and Panasonic have helped deliver one of the world’s most technologically ambitious immersive museum experiences at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), where more than 170 HIVE media engines drive 128 Panasonic 20,000 lm 4K projectors across a series of large-scale projection environments. The deployment processes more than 21 billion pixels of visual content every second, bringing Qatar’s history, culture and future ambitions to life through immersive storytelling. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel, the National Museum of Qatar is renowned for its striking desert rose-inspired architecture and immersive visitor experience. The museum’s galleries combine cinematic projection, artefacts…
The Black Crowes are back on the road this summer for the “Southern Hospitality Tour,” a 41-city run across the U.S. and Canada in support of ‘A Pound of Feathers’, the band’s 10th studio album. Delivering the tour’s sound is a Meyer Sound PANTHER line array provided by Bay Area-based rental house and integrator UltraSound. For UltraSound project coordinator Jason Mills, the challenge was to design a single system capable of serving diverse venue sizes from 3,000 to 30,000 seats. “The band is playing a smattering of arenas, and then mostly amphitheatres,” he says. “It’s easier for the guys on tour…
Lightware is introducing the biggest update yet to the LARA Wizard Touchpanel configuration experience, designed to help integrators work faster while delivering a more professional end-user interface. The update focuses on practical improvements that reflect common room setups, with more control, clearer visuals, and easier deployment. A key addition is Dual Display Control, allowing integrators to configure two video outputs from a single touchpanel, with independent display settings per output. This supports the most common real-world spaces where two monitors either the same type or different types are used, removing the need for workarounds. The Wizard also adds Light and Dark themes via…