A+K PADS Digital Signage - Comparison Matrix

With a range of digitial signage software available on offer from us at A+K PADS, we want to ensure that you choose the right package that is suitable for your needs. Our software is designed to work within whatever industry sector you are in. With a massive amount of features incorporated into our packages encompassing design aesthetics to scheduling presentations. Below we have provided a comparison matrix that details each software package. The matrix is split across five key categories shown below.

Digital Signage Solutions

	Professional	Standalone	Standalone+
Software pre-installed on purpose built PC	Optional	No	Yes
Pre-designed templates	Optional	No	Yes

Text	Pre-designed template driven digital signage pre-installed on purpose built PC.	PADS Designer is a powerful design tool that allows you design PADS presentations in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment. You can use simple text messages to inform your public, but with the same ease you can included information from the Web or build complete multimedia presentations using Macromedia Flash, video, sound or even TV.
Pcitures
Lines
Shapes
Video
Web Page
Formatted Text
Scrolling Text
Charts
Tables
Presentation in Presentation
Digital TV
Analogue TV
Plug Ins
Flash
PDF
Advanced TV
Progress Bar
RS232 Control
DVD
Interactive Filter
Streaming Video
Database Connectivity
PowerPoint
Built-in Master Pages
Preview Function

PADS Manager		Pre-designed template driven digital signage pre-installed on purpose built PC.	PADS Manager is the application for scheduling the presentations you have designed. With PADS you can schedule any kind of information for any place at any time. You can schedule a presentation for an individual display or for an entire group of displays.
Comprehensive recurrence features to schedule on a yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly or minute basis
Adhoc Scheduling	24 Hour Loop Only
Priority Scheduling
Unlimited creation of groups of viewers
Schedule Wizard

PADS Server				Pre-designed template driven digital signage pre-installed on purpose built PC.	The PADS server software handles the process of collecting and distributing scheduled presentations and content files as well as the delivery of real-time data to the PADS Viewers for displaying. All PADS server processes run completely automatically as a number of background services.

Display Custom Resolutions	Pre-designed template driven digital signage pre-installed on purpose built PC.	The PADS Pro Viewer application is responsible for displaying the scheduled presentation on a display service. The PADS Viewer software communicates with the PADS Server software for the retrieval of presentations, related content files ( like pictures and video) and real-time data.
Content Sync from Central Server
Daily Reboot Ability
Interactive
Page Sync from between Mulitple Displays
Local Caching of Schedules

PADS Agent				Pre-designed template driven digital signage pre-installed on purpose built PC.	The PADS Agent application can be used to easily monitor and analyse the PADS system and see if there are any problems or to do remote management on the system. The application has especially been developed for system administrators. It saves them a lot of time in maintaining and supporting the system, because all relevant features have been bundled into this application.