Case Study: University of Toronto Mississauga achieves major cost savings and expanded campus digital signage with Rise Vision

How Large Universities Save Money with Digital Signage

The University of Toronto Mississauga, a large campus with over 12,600 undergraduates, 600 graduate students and more than 2,000 faculty and staff, relied on 25 NEC-driven digital displays to share campus news, directions and profiles. Those NEC OPS PCs were expensive (about $1,300 each plus Windows licenses) and required significant IT time for configuration, patches and maintenance.

Switching to Google Chromeboxes managed with Rise Vision’s free digital-signage platform solved those issues: Chromeboxes are plug-and-play, auto-update, and matched the PCs’ performance while freeing IT from ongoing maintenance. The lower hardware cost lets the university expand its network affordably (effectively getting an extra setup for the price they previously paid for three), and after six months the system has run reliably, enabling staff to focus on creating engaging content.

University of Toronto Mississauga

Luke Barber

Senior Systems Analyst