Meet the new tool that transforms your building into an advanced, tech-forward property. Digital signage helps you deliver messages to residents, streamlines day-to-day building management and maintenance, and upgrades residents’ quality of life. If you’re on a building committee, you simply have to have digital signage in the lobby. 

Key Takeaways

  • Digital signage in a modern lobby serves announcements, events, and promotions
  • A single screen replaces physical bulletin boards and updates remotely
  • Simple content management via app or cloud interface
  • Improves resident experience and property value


It’s Time to Upgrade Your Building to the New Digital Era

Does your shared building’s lobby still feature an old, worn-out bulletin board? A faded cork board or wipe-clean board, the kind with dozens of handwritten papers stuck to it, printed notices on yellowing pages, and a pile of expired flyers? Considering that we’ve all long since moved into the era of smartphones and apps that make our lives more convenient, don’t you think it’s time your building also caught up with the smart digital age?

It turns out that more and more building committees are now choosing to upgrade their lobby with digital signage. If you’re wondering what that means, it’s essentially a smart television screen that delivers all the essential information about building life to residents in real time. Important updates relating to the building, notices and activities from the municipality or the neighborhood, photos, video clips, and a variety of other handy features and goodies – all presented in a visually attractive graphic shell, even including pleasant background music.


Stylish, Aesthetic Signage That Also Keeps Things Tidy

Think for a moment: as a building committee, what do you want to communicate to residents and visitors? A sense of a dirty, neglected, and outdated building, or would you rather convey the feeling that you live in a modern, well-maintained, and cared-for property?

If you don’t yet have digital signage, chances are that from time to time the lobby floor at the building entrance fills up with crumpled papers and flyers that have fallen off the board, and no one bothers to clean them up. Annoying? Probably. Unsightly? Definitely. But in today’s advanced reality, with digital signage your lobby can undergo a stunning upgrade and look like a million dollars.

The smart screen you install in the lobby will give the building entrance a modern, aesthetic, and decorative look. All residents will enjoy the new style of the building – and not only them; family members, guests, even delivery people who come by the building
will give you admiring compliments. Worth it, isn’t it?


Why Building Committee Representatives Should Make the Lobby Smarter  

Digital signage is a world of difference compared to the way you’re used to operating today. It catapults your building to the next technological stage, upgrades its appearance and curb appeal, improves residents’ quality of life, and even raises property value. But most importantly, digital signage makes the building committee’s work far more efficient, faster, and easier than ever before.

Tell the truth – how much time and effort does it take you today to post a notice on the old bulletin board? You have to type and save a file on the computer, print an A4 page (if you don’t have a printer at home you’ll have to find someone to print it for you), physically go down to the building lobby – which doesn’t always fit into a packed schedule – stick the notice to the board with tape or a staple gun, and then check in the days that follow to make sure the notice hasn’t fallen off or been torn down. Wait – what if after two days you need to update or change the wording of the notice? That means going through the entire procedure from the start. Or alternatively, scribbling a correction in pen or marker on the page on the board. Beyond the fact that it looks bad and even a little primitive, isn’t it a waste of your time and effort?

By contrast, just imagine how easy and simple it is to achieve the same result when you use digital signage. All you need to do is enter the message once into the smart system, which is accessible to you from any computer or mobile device, and then with a single click the smart screen is already displaying it in the lobby for residents to see. Even if you later want to update the wording of the notice, you can do it in under a minute from your computer or mobile, and it’s instantly updated on the screen in the lobby.


What Types of Notices Will You Want to Publish on Digital Signage?

Day to day, there are plenty of essential and important notices – some even urgent – that the building committee needs to keep residents updated about.
Reminders to pay the monthly committee fee? A residents’ meeting scheduled for Tuesday at 8 has been moved up to 7? The elevator will be out of service tomorrow for three hours for a safety inspection? A notice about municipal pest control? Garden waste collection times? What about a reminder not to store unnecessary items in the stairwell? Or to ask neighbors not to flush wipes down the toilet and clog the sewage every other day? With digital signage, all of these notices and more can even be scheduled to appear and disappear at specific times that suit you.

The list of notices is endless and constantly changing. The good news is that from today on, you’ll no longer need to bother yourself printing dozens and hundreds of pages from a printer and tacking them up on a plain, outdated, half-broken bulletin board hanging in your lobby. Most likely, residents won’t even bother to stop and look at it. By contrast, modern digital signage that looks good, attracts interest, and stands out ensures that no resident misses your messages – so everyone is always up to date on what’s happening in the building.


Far More Than Notices! A Portal That Displays (Almost) Any Possible Content

Don’t want the screen to display only dry, boring information? You’ll be glad to hear that digital signage really isn’t limited to textual information alone. You can broadcast a stunning gallery of rotating photos, video clips and funny or moving short films, and essentially anything interesting you’ve found online and wanted to share – simply take a screenshot, upload it to the system, and display it on the digital signage in the lobby. For example, you could display a gallery of drawings created by the building’s children, share successful recipes from the home cooks living in the building, or even wish residents a happy birthday or anniversary – turning the experience into a social, community-oriented one for all the neighbors.

But that’s not all. Digital signage is much more than a “regular” bulletin board – it’s actually a portal of essential information whose content you control. It can display the date and time, weather forecast for today and the coming week, Shabbat candle-lighting and end times, news updates scrolling along the bottom of the screen in real time just like on television broadcasts, and sports updates from the local and global scene such as soccer and basketball results, Champions League and NBA scores. If your building has a residents’ room or a screening room, you can display the times when it’s free or occupied and what activity is taking place there.

The beauty of it is that the content is tailored to the needs and requirements of every individual building. You define and dictate what is displayed, how it’s displayed, and when it’s displayed. And the cherry on top – all the information can be accompanied by pleasant background music of your choice, with the playlist hits you love so much. 


So Easy and Fast to Update – Just Like Sending a WhatsApp Message

Thanks to advances in technology and the move to cloud platforms, digital signage doesn’t require you to connect equipment with cables or to plug in a portable device like a USB stick. Writing messages and controlling content is done through a lightweight, smart system that lives in the cloud. You can access it via the browser on your computer or mobile device without even needing to install any app. Of course, the management system is secured to strict standards, and only authorized users with a username and password can sign in – typically, the building committee representatives.

Remote control of the digital signage actually lets you update messages and content from anywhere, whenever it’s convenient for you. Sit comfortably at home on the sofa with a cup of coffee and update notices on the board. Or update them during a break at work in the office. Relaxing on vacation abroad and suddenly remembered an important message to send to residents? Absolutely – you can also update the digital signage content from abroad; all you need is available Wi-Fi, and with a single click the message is immediately shown on the smart screen in the lobby back in Israel.


An Affordable Solution for Any Building – Install and Start Using Right Away

Installing digital signage is so straightforward, anyone can essentially do it themselves. On the hardware side, all you need to do is mount a smart TV screen on the lobby wall. If you have a spare screen lying around somewhere, just use it. If not, you can buy such a screen at any electronics store for a very low price, in the size that suits you. What about software? You just need to install a dedicated app on the smart screen. That’s it – the digital signage is ready to use.

From a financial standpoint, the cost of connecting and using the software isn’t expensive and includes an initial fee plus a monthly subscription. The return you get is exceptionally high. The money you’ll save on work time and the unnecessary hassle of papers and printouts alone is worth the price – not to mention the significant upgrade the whole building will benefit from, both in terms of efficiency and day-to-day operations, and in terms of quality of life and added value for residents. 

In conclusion, if you’ve also reached the conclusion that it’s time to upgrade your building, and you’re interested in tapping into the innovative developments shaping the urban environment – digital signage is the affordable, advanced solution for you, and will allow you to deliver notices, messages, and content to residents quickly, accurately, and efficiently. So go ahead and refresh!