Case Study: Porter Digital Signage achieves reliable, affordable campus-wide digital signage and emergency notifications with IAdea

Porter Digital Signage - Customer Case Study

Porter Digital Signage, led by industry expert Jeff Porter, addresses the growing need for reliable campus-wide communications—driven in part by the need for emergency notifications and day‑to‑day student/faculty messaging. The challenge was to find lower‑cost, easy‑to‑manage hardware and software that could scale across buildings, dorms and event venues. Porter Digital Signage highlights IAdea digital signage media players (second‑generation quad‑core Android players) as a preferred solution.

IAdea provided affordable, easy‑to‑deploy Android media players that support a wide variety of software platforms, cutting hardware cost (about half the price of a NUC) while enabling emergency alerts, wayfinding, event promotion and digital menus across campus. IAdea’s players have been deployed at over 100,000 locations—including many college campuses—demonstrating measurable scale, reduced per‑unit cost and simpler management for campus digital signage networks.

Porter Digital Signage

Jeff Porter

Founder