BrightSign, LLC is a privately held company located in Saratoga, California founded in 2002 by Anthony Wood, the inventor of the digital video recorder (DVR). BrightSign is a leading supplier of solid state digital sign and kiosk controller products that are innovative and easy to use for the commercial digital signage market worldwide.
BrightSign is a leading worldwide provider of high-quality, solid-state digital sign and kiosk controllers for the commercial digital signage industry.
BrightSign is a reliable non-PC, solid-state digital sign and kiosk controller perfect for driving any stand-alone or networked digital sign or interactive display. BrightSign delivers high-definition video, images and audio with superior quality and simplicity. Media playback is automatic from removable flash memory cards, and interactive features include support for touch-screens, buttons, mice and more. BrightSign also supports networking for remote content delivery, scheduling of content playback, synchronization of multiple displays for video wall applications and Zones for displaying multiple content windows on a single screen. With BrightSign, quality and reliability are delivered in a simple all-in-one solution without complicated PCs, making it ideal for a wide-range of digital sign applications.
BrightSign’s family of non-PC digital signage controllers are packaged with specific features and connectivity options. The product line-up comprises an aggressively priced standalone player handling looping HD video and playlists; two models add basic or advanced interactivity; and two players provide networking for remote content delivery and reporting. Since each model offers a specific level of functionality, customers only pay for the features they need. Each of the new models pack a complete, powerful, dependable solution into a new compact-sized package that’s easily placed out of sight.
BrightAuthor
The BrightAuthor PC software application is the central interface for BrightSign single-site and networked digital signage displays. It makes creating, updating, managing and monitoring digital signage displays so easy, no IT department is required. Users will find it easy to create full-screen and multi-zone playlists for looping displays, and to implement BrightSign features such as day-parting and networking. Combined, BrightAuthor software and BrightSign digital signage displays offer complete, end-to-end solutions for businesses and organizations to economically showcase a product, demonstrate it in-use or provide entertaining information on flat-screen or HD displays. Best of all, this software solution is included with a BrightSign purchase for free.
BrightSign Network
BrightSign Network is an all-inclusive networking solution. It frees users from the complexities and cost of host and maintaining their own network, and is scalable from networks with one to hundreds of players.
Through the BrightAuthor PC-based application, users subscribing to the BrightSign Network solution will gain access not only to the tools to create presentations, but also to schedule updates, manage multiple networked groups of displays and review real-time reports via a secure Internet connection. BrightAuthor additionally provides network monitoring and network health reports for the BrightSign Network. High security and fail-safe features use standard Web technologies to ensure maximum up-time and dependability.
Jeff Hastings - CEO
Anthony Wood - Founder and Chairman of the Board
Steve Schlief - Vice President, Operations
Robert Gardner - Director, Product Management
Pierre Gillet - Vice President, European Sales
Ted Shaffer - Director, Software Engineering, BrightSign
Greg Garner - Director, Hardware Systems Engineering
Ann Hover - Director, Finance & Human Resources
