Visual Manager

The Astron visual manager uses Microsoft Maps to provide you with a truly innovative way to manage your player network.

Player management visually easier.

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.

Easily find images, videos and other graphical assets

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.

Easy to use drag-and-drop

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.

PowerPoint but on the web.

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

Make your content come alive!

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.

Schedule and deploy easily.

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.

Powerful reporting.

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.