Honolulu International Airport Brings the 'Wow' Factor Back to Travel with State-of-the-Art LED Displays

Adding to a growing portfolio of airport installations around the world, NanoLumens, today announced the completion of a new installation at the Honolulu International Airport (HNL). In partnership with systems integrator Ford Audio-Video, NanoLumens, the industry-leading manufacturer and innovator of LED display visualization solutions, installed two 44.65’ X 7.28’ NanoLumens NanoSlim LED display solutions that now serve as the central traveler communications platform for an improved experience. 

According to Airport World, environmental graphic design within airports is often not the first thought when looking to boost revenue, but it has a tremendous potential to influence a traveler’s experience. In fact, J.D. Power and Associates, reports that happy passengers spend an average 45 percent more than grumpy ones or $20.55 versus $14.12 on airport retail purchases in shops and eateries.

The Honolulu International Airport project joins a growing list of NanoLumens airport installations that now include London’s Stansted and Heathrow Airports, the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, the Miami International Airport, the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and the Darwin International Airport in Australia. According to NanoLumens Regional Sales Manager Eric Seigler, “More and more airports understand that large format LED based visualization solutions are the best way to cut through the clutter and engage hurried travelers with critically important messages, information, and, in many cases, sponsored advertising content,” Seigler explained. “The Honolulu International Airport installation represents the latest addition to our transportation portfolio, with more to follow.” 

NanoLumens worked with its systems integration partner, Oklahoma City-based Ford Audio-Video, to install two 44.65’ X 7.28’ NanoSlim 6MM pixel pitch solutions to help the airport operators more efficiently and compellingly communicate flight information to travelers. Ford Audio-Video selected NanoLumens for the project based on its demonstrated ability to custom design solutions in any size, shape, or curvature that are also thin, light in weight, and easy to service. 

“Ford Audio-Video has partnered with NanoLumens on many successful projects,” said Bid Division Manager  at Ford Audio-Video Ed Knoll “NanoLumens was selected for this project because of their strong integrator support program, superior product performance, and long-term performance reliability. The NanoLumens team is very accessible and responsive, and is always eager to help us with design and creativity.”

According to Ford Audio-Video Project Engineer, Travis Ellis, “Ford Audio-Video has been the long-term provider of Public Address, Flight Information Display and Gate Management System Maintenance and AV integration at the Honolulu international Airport (HNL). The goal of the project was to provide departure flight information that could be visible throughout each of the two lobbies that are approximately 120-feet in depth. Additionally, the airport required that there be additional LED real estate space to show additional content of passenger interest, such as a destination city’s weather and a Hawaii tourism video slideshow.”  

To operate the NanoLumens 6MM, 2,000 NIT visualization solutions, Ford Audio-Video installed SITA manufactured software running on Dell Optiplex XE2 computers to generate the flight information in addition to a BrightSign 4K242 solid state media player to output the destination city weather and Hawaii Tourism video slideshow.

Available in any size, shape or curvature, NanoLumens solutions fit seamlessly into any architectural space and on virtually any surface without being obtrusive, adding the ‘WOW’ factor to an airport without taking up precious space. Each display is extremely slim, ultra-lightweight, energy efficient, featuring a bright, seamless, high-resolution picture quality that can be viewed from any angle throughout the display horizon without color shift or image distortion.

“This is the first large format LED display installation at the Honolulu International Airport,” Ellis concluded. “The success of this project should help us to bring future large format LED displays to lobbies four through eight of the airport’s overseas terminal.”

Seigler concluded, “NanoLumens values the relationship with Ford Audio-Video and looks forward to working on many more projects with them in the near future.” 

NanoLumens Introduces "NanoLumens Advantage" to Help Businesses Affordably Achieve Their Customer Engagement Goals

Empowering businesses in every vertical market to more affordably achieve all of their customer engagement goals, NanoLumens (www.nanolumens.com), an industry leading manufacturer and marketer of visualization solutions, today announced the introduction of NanoLumens Advantage —a streamlined approach to digital display acquisition and maintenance.

“Businesses of every size and type have discovered the impact that NanoLumens LED visualization solutions can have on their businesses,” explained NanoLumens Vice President of Strategic Growth Nate Remmes.  “Our visually stunning displays can be customized to any environment, in a variety of shapes and curvatures.  Their light, thin nature makes them easy to install in a range of spaces.  In addition, their advanced technology uses less energy than comparable display types while lasting longer than any other currently available display technology.”

NanoLumens Advantage is the next-generation lease financing program that makes it possible for a business to finance an entire digital strategy on a monthly basis rather than making the purchase outright — while enabling customers to easily add upgrades and additional assets to an existing contract.  In fact, the NanoLumens Advantage best-in-class program is designed to help businesses gain a competitive sales advantage with the latest technology, protect against obsolescence, secure budget approval with ease, better spend working capital for strategic investments, simplify asset management, ensure predictable budgeting, preserve credit limits, and realize tax advantages, while simplifying all of the many benefits into a one-stop solution.

Also, according to Remmes, NanoLumens displays have become an extremely effective digital media choice for many types of businesses looking to engage and influence their audiences in a more compelling way.  “With the introduction ofNanoLumens Advantage, businesses can now see an even greater return on their investment while limiting their upfront capital equipment costs.”

“Business owners are turning to NanoLumens for visualization solutions that meet a full range of uses, from displaying advertising and promotions to creating fully immersive customer experiences,” Remmes emphasized today.  “Now, thanks to the NanoLumens Advantage program, businesses can enjoy all of the benefits of NanoLumens displays without an upfront capital expense.” 

NanoLumens Ranked #267 on Inc. Magazine's 2015 List of the Nation's 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies

Inc. magazine’s 2015 list of the nation’s 5000 fastest growing private companies is out and NanoLumens, Inc. (www.nanolumens.com), a visualization solution (“digital display”) provider that delivers value, advertising revenue, experience creation, and customer engagement has recently been named Gwinnett County’s #1 fastest growing company, Georgia’s 15th fastest growing company and the nation’s #267th fastest growing company.

“We provide solutions to problems that haven’t been thought of yet by others, and our ability to do this for customers around the world is driving our success,” CEO Rick Cope (an entrepreneur, former combat commander and Special Operations advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf) said today, “This achievement stems from the vision, commitment, and can-do spirit of the entire NanoLumens team who believe that Made in America is not a statement about our past but a promise about our future as Americans competing in a global economy.” 

With a three-year growth rate of 1692%, NanoLumens redefines the way architects, designers, integrators, retailers, casino operators and event/convention center organizers engage with their customers through LED display solutions in any size, shape, or curvature.  The company’s ability to listen to a customer’s needs and then respond with a unique solution that no one else can match has resulted in record-breaking sales for NanoLumens in an industry dominated by Asian manufacturers. 

Because of this extraordinary American-made quality NanoLumens is also the only display designer in the field to offer customers an unconditional Six Year, Zero Failure Warranty that covers the entire display from corner to corner, including all parts and controller devices sold by NanoLumens to end users, resellers, and distributors, effective from the date of shipment. 

NanoLumens Lights Up CenturyLink's New Technology Center of Excellence With a Unique NanoWrap™ Solution

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Last March, CenturyLink (www.centurylink.com), a global communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company, cut the ribbon on its new Technology Center of Excellence. The 300,000 square-foot state-of-the-art (LEED certification pending) R&D center features of a stunning array of NanoWrap visualization solutions from NanoLumens (www.NanoLumens.com), an industry leading manufacturer and marketer of visualization solutions.

The new building’s lobby is a palace of glass that incorporates 37,000 square feet of View Dynamic Glass, making it the single largest installation of electrochromic glass in the country. View Dynamic Glass leverages nanotechnology and pre-programmed intelligence to tint automatically in response to outside conditions and user preferences, eliminating the need for blinds or shades. But, even with that technology, the lobby is still very bright. The exceptional brightness of NanoLumens’ technology, which can be adjusted as the ambient light levels change throughout the day, assures that the video on the solutions will remain clearly and crisply visible at any time, under any conditions. 

“The NanoLumens displays create a stunning effect in the lobby, and it’s fair to say that this sets the lobby apart from any other atrium like it,” said Ben Cating, Senior Consultant-VP of Idibri (www.idibri.com), the Addison, Texas-based consulting firm hired by CenturyLink. “It’s more than just a video installation — it’s a visual achievement.”

The center also includes a technology research and development lab, a network operations center, a customer experience center and a collaborative office and meeting space.  But, said Cating, the space also needed to make a definitive statement that immediately established the facility as a cutting-edge technology location. NanoLumens NanoWrap solutions helped the client make this visual statement and capture the attention of customers as they walk through the door. 

Three columns in the building’s three-story-tall atrium are wrapped with NanoLumens’ 5MM NanoWrap displays in a 42-inch-diameter circular panel that covers 12 feet of vertical surface on each column. The NanoLumens LED panels, made up of thousands of Nixels™, NanoLumens’ patented display module, turn these architectural elements into archi-technological elements. They provide a continuous stream of full-motion video that’s visible throughout the entire lobby and from any angle. Each display can show different video content or all three columns can play synchronously, with content fed over IPTV via fiber from a cloud-based Cisco-AppSpace content delivery system.

The NanoWraps are attached to the columns by a unique circular mounting system, incorporating a custom metal frame around the column in which the panels are attached. This system was carried out by AV systems integrator American AVL, based in Ruston, LA.

“CenturyLink wanted to make this lobby a unique technological experience for visitors and guests,” Cating emphasized. “We looked at a lot of possibilities, and video would keep the columns as an integral part of the aesthetic design. But attaching conventional flat displays to them would have ruined the flow they create visually. Only the flexibility of the NanoWraps, which we could literally wrap around the columns, offered us the solution that we needed. NanoWraps were the only way we could address this particular form factor. The result is striking to look at.”

“The space- and energy-efficient NanoWrap solution offers quiet, low energy consuming cylindrical visualization wherever a customer would like to place it,” emphasized NanoLumens Executive Vice President of Business Development, Karen Robinson. “Whether that’s hanging overhead, in a fixed position on its own, or around the columns of a building, NanoWrap solutions are made to equip customers like CenturyLink with the perfect visualization solution that’s just right for them– no matter what size, shape, or curvature is needed.”

To download additional hi-res images, click here. All photography is courtesy of Idibri Consulting

NanoLumens Opens the Largest Full Line Visualization Center in the United Kingdom

NanoLumens (www.nanolumens.com), an industry leading manufacturer and marketer of visualization solutions, today announced the opening of the largest and most comprehensive full line Visualization Center in the United Kingdom, a move that reinforces the company’s long-term commitment to customers throughout the region. 

According to NanoLumens EMEA Managing Director David DaCosta, the new showroom in Bath marks the next step forward in the company’s UK and EMEA regional marketing activities and provides customers and prospective customers with a wonderful opportunity to see the full range of NanoLumens solutions in a central location.

“I am very proud to announce that our customers and prospective customers now have a place, outside of a trade show environment, to see the full range of our solutions in action, demonstrated in a relaxed environment that is conducive to discussing how a bespoke solution from NanoLumens can help them achieve their customer engagement objectives," DaCosta stated. "Even more importantly, visitors will be able to run their own content on our solutions to get a real sense of how it would appear." 

The solutions on display in the new showroom include NanoSlim, NanoSlim Engage, NanoCurve, NanoWrap, and NanoClear.  The new showroom is located at 10 Argyle Street, Bath, BA2 4BQ UK and the phone number is +44(0) 1225 439780.