Features
Astron has many sophisticated features and tools to make creating and managing your digital signage easier.
Select a feature from the list below to find out more:
Visual Manager
The Astron visual manager uses Microsoft Maps to provide you with a truly innovative
way to manage your player network.
With the Visual Manager each player is represented as a pint on the map at the player’s
location.
Using the visual manager you can move around the map and hover over a player pin
for more detailed player information such as its status and details of the current
presentation playing.
Each pin is colour coded red, yellow or green providing you with an instant notification
on the player’s current condition.
Asset Management
Astron displays all of your images, videos, YouTube links and other media elements
as thumbnails.
With Astron all of the graphical media you upload are displayed as thumbnails rather
than individual filenames allowing you to easily identify your graphical assets.
And thanks to the ‘Quick view’ function double clicking any of those thumbnails
instantly displays a live preview of the asset.
Playlist creation
A powerful easy to use drag-and-drop playlist creator makes creating engaging content
easy.
The playlist creator enables users to create playlists of media assets all through
a simple to use drag-and-drop interface.
Using the creator it’s possible to intermix different media types such as video,
images, YouTube video and audio.
And it’s possible to configure the play duration for each media asset.
Presentation creation
Our easy to use presentation creator makes creating multi-zone layouts simple.
The Astron presentation creator enables users to create multi-zone presentation
layouts that can then be populated by playlists.
The presentation creator supports a wide range of landscape and portrait resolutions
and comes with a library of presentation templates to help get you started.
Presentation Gadgets
A collection of built-in gadgets allowing you to add weather, RSS, Clocks and IPTV
to your presentation
The Astron presentation creator comes complete with a set of gadgets to really make
your presentation stand out, these include:
- A collection of high definition clocks
- A high definition weather gadget that can display weather today or 5 day forecast
- IPTV gadget that allows your presentation to steam BBC News, Sky News, C-Span and
more
- RSS Ticker that enables your presentation to display external RSS feeds
Deployment
Group your players, schedule deployment and check if the player has received its
content.
With Astron Manager you can logically group players making it possible to deploy
content instantly to one or more easily.
Astron also incorporates a presentation scheduler, allowing you to specify the play
times of presentations across multiple players.
Plus the unique 'Multi-start' feature even allows you to specify completely different
presentation layouts throughout the course of the day.
And thanks to the unique receive receipt astron manager can notify you when players
have downloaded that content making sure your players are up to date all of the
time.
Reports
Advertisement impressions, player on/off times and other powerful reports all at
your fingertips.
Astron comes complete with several key reporting tools including an advertisement
impression report that displays advertisement impressions across one or more presentations
and one or more locations.
Heartbeat report detailing a player’s health over a period of time.
Plus the unique 'Multi-start' feature even allows you to specify completely different
presentation layouts throughout the course of the day.
Player report detailing the presentations it’s displayed over a period of time.
To find out more about Astron, please contact us.