Feb 27 2008
Advance Display Technologies, Inc. announced the introduction of SkyNet, a revolutionary, flexible, outdoor digital display product developed, manufactured and sold by ADTI.
Matthew W. Shankle, the President and CEO of ADTI, stated, “I am very excited with SkyNet™’s prospects and the impact it will have on the large format signage markets. I expect this revolutionary digital display technology will significantly alter the market for the large format, outdoor advertising, entertainment, sporting venue and architectural lighting industries.”
SkyNet™ is a brand new medium for the direct delivery of digitally created signage, video content and architectural illumination on a physical scale previously unimaginable. Utilizing the latest high intensity Light Emitting Diode (LED) components, SkyNet™ creates a full palette of colors viewable in full direct sunlight. SkyNet™’s proprietary lightweight LED mesh technology flexibly wraps the corners of buildings and easily scales up to wrap an entire high-rise building with video and graphics. ADTI’s SkyNet™ product theoretically has no size limitations.
Jody Thomas, ADTI’s EVP of Sales & Marketing, added, “ADTI’s proprietary SkyNet™ product is highly suited to enable massive visual display applications never before envisioned. With SkyNet™’s flexible structure, innovative transparency, negligible weight, stunning video/graphics performance, and redundant systems architecture, ADTI’s entire management team is very proud to have put SkyNet™ in position to serve both existing digital display markets and enable entirely new markets to develop using this product. SkyNet™’s value proposition also includes excellent cost of ownership savings and attractive ROI’s for our customers as operating downtime is minimized with this revolutionary digital display product.”
SkyNet™’s 60% transparency and thickness of only 3 centimeters allows natural light and ventilation to pass through SkyNet™ thereby addressing the architectural requirements of structures with windows or structures requiring air circulation. The highly modular redundant system architecture of SkyNet™ allows its components to be easily assembled in the factory and serviced in the field.
Matt Shankle added, “SkyNet™ digital displays can be built to any height and any width creating a display specifically sized to suit the desired building, structure, framework or other display surface. Traditional “fixed-frame” outdoor digital displays require heavy obtrusive cabinets to conceal power supplies, controls, cabling and provide structure. With our new design, all SkyNet™ components are either part of the lightweight semi-transparent mesh structure or they are concealed in small power control enclosures at the top or bottom of the display. These power control enclosures may alternately be located remotely in convenient visually discrete locations. SkyNet™’s 60% open mesh structure also minimizes wind loading, a very serious structural loading consideration for outdoor signage installations of all types.”
SkyNet™ additional design features include:
- Designed to withstand temperature extremes and operate at full luminous intensity at up to 115 ° Fahrenheit, neither the coldest of winter climates nor the hottest of desert climates are a challenge for SkyNet™.
- Fully moisture-proof; SkyNet™ can withstand driving rain, heavy snow, icing, condensation, and even pressure washing!
- Redundant power and signal distribution architectures enable fully, remote programming, remote control, remote diagnostics and remote proof of play authentication.
- Multi redundant systems architecture makes truck rolls for emergency or scheduled servicing highly infrequent.
ADTI’s EVP of Manufacturing, Jim Martindale, who managed the SkyNet™ product’s research & development program, stated, “SkyNet™ has been designed from the ground up to withstand the extreme environmental conditions of outdoor installations from New York City to Las Vegas or even Dubai to Oslo. Heat, cold and precipitation challenges are easily met by SkyNet™’s proprietary design attributes. This product is purposefully designed for the serious digital display owner who expects a good ROI and knows the true value of controlling ownership costs over time. ADTI has invested heavily in designing the SkyNet™ product to be affordable, durable, reliable and virtually maintenance free. These are the design attributes ADTI’s SkyNet™ customers can expect from this revolutionary digital display product.”