Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2016

NEC Adds Single Control Support to Surface Concept

by Bob Raikes

Richard Wilks who heads the global airport business for NEC. Image:NECNEC did not have any new hardware at the show, as we are so soon after ISE, but had a strong team promoting the …

Rockwell Collins Can Eliminate Passports and Boarding Passes

by Bob Raikes

Rockwell Collins were almost over-enthusiastic in the pursuit of us by its PR people. We don’t think of the firm for applications in the area of flight information, but two years ago, it bought …

Net Display Systems Covers All Bases

by Bob Raikes

Net Display Systems was demonstrating its Pads 4 digital signage software (mentioned by the firm’s UK distributor, Anders and Kern when we met the company at the Retail Digital Signage Expo, last week). When …

BagTag Wants to Add Tags to Bags…..

by Bob Raikes

BagTag is from the Netherlands and was at the show to introduce its electronic bag tagging system which is built around an E Ink display. The tag is designed to be fixed to individual …

… While Rumowa Wants the Tags in the Bags

by Bob Raikes

Rimowa is a high end supplier of baggage that is based in Germany. Like BagTag, it wants tags to be electronic, but wants travellers to buy the firm’s baggage with the displays already fitted. …

NEC Highlights Display Surfaces

by Bob Raikes

As expected, we saw all the new hardware from NEC Display Solutions at the recent ISE show, but the company had a good presence at PTE. Given that only they and Data Modul were …

Data Modul Tests Reaction to Transparent OLED

by Bob Raikes

When we met with Data Modul at the recent Embedded World show, we promised to cover the transparent OLED that it showed when we got to PTE as we knew that there would only …

Passenger Terminal Expo Aims to Boost “Opportunity to spend”

by Bob Raikes

The view to the city at the end of PTE 2016. Image:MekoI thought, as I wrote up this report, that the last Passenger Terminal Expo that I had personally attended was about three years …