NEC Touting Solutions at Summit
By Anna Marie Kukec
Itasca-based NEC Display Solutions Inc. will be showing off its latest technology at its own Solutions Summit on Thursday at the Westin Hotel in Itasca.
About 300 business executives are expected to see such things as a large LCD display screen geared to hotels or convention sites that can change content to automatically provide meeting information for a participant as they walk up to the screen.
Such meeting participants would be wearing name tags that include radio-frequency identification chips.
That type of screen is expected to be used in the next few months at the Hyatt Regency Chicago hotel in downtown Chicago, said Doug Albregts, senior vice president of NEC marketing and business development.
Another new technology is a “touchless” touchscreen kiosk, which is being used at the Virgin Megastore in downtown Chicago.
A person only needs to hold their finger close to the screen, and not touch it, and the screen will read what they’re pointing at.
The third annual event will include around 45 vendors, many partners who work with NEC, said Albregts.
“We’ve changed the way we structured our business,” he said. “We’re not just about displays anymore, but providing solutions.”
For information, e-mail marketing@@necdisplay.com.
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