Philips professional displays and Monitors bring across campus education solutions teaming to Didacta and BETT 2023 for smarter sustainable schooling

PPDS is, together with Philips Monitors, excited to announce it will be showcasing its latest ‘next generational’ across campus innovations for education – including breakthrough sustainable technologies – at Europe’s leading education trade fairs, Didacta (7-11 March) and Bett 2023 (29-31 March).

Part of an accelerated commitment to delivering complete, site-wide solutions for educational environments – from classrooms to canteens – local PPDS and Philips Monitors teams will be on hand at the Messe Stuttgart for Didacta (Philips stand 1F81) and at the ExCel London for Bett 2023 (Philips stand NH61) to unveil, discuss and demonstrate a variety of new and updated solutions, designed to support advanced interactive teaching and learning opportunities, while delivering more streamlined and tailored communications.

Powering evolution for teachers and students

Both PPDS and Philips Monitors have made significant advancements in the education market in recent years, with their solutions – including digital signage, dvLED and interactive displays, as well as professional, home and gaming monitors – installed in a variety of teaching and learning environments, including classrooms, lecture theatres and auditoriums, libraries, reception areas, canteens, sports halls / stadiums, hallways, elevators, and student accommodation.

Working closely with the education market and developing specialist partnerships with leading hardware and software providers (including Logitech and i3 Technologies), the companies have continuously unveiled a growing and evolving range of timely solutions designed to assist students and tutors. This includes responding rapidly to unforeseen market challenges, developing and driving BYOD capabilities to support students’ unique needs in the classroom, as well as those learning remotely and distantly, ensuring they never miss out or fall behind in their studies.

Showcasing on the interactive 55m2 Philips stands at each event, Philips professional displays and monitors will include, but are not limited to:

• Philips E-Line 4K interactive education displays (65”, 75, 86”): PPDS’ latest powerful Android 11 all in one solution designed to elevate the education experience and inspire creative minds with this best-in-class interactive touch screen on the market. The brilliantly designed Philips E-Line boasts an anti-glare and anti-reflection 4K screen, including blue light filter on 4052E models, to ensure content is always the focal point in any lighting condition. It’s equally impressive on the inside, with a plethora of features that enable students to design, invent, collaborate and translate their ideas for the real world.

• Philips 6000 Series dvLED: A range of highly flexible direct view LED displays, designed exclusively for the creation of 16:9 or 32:9 displays and installations within educational environments. The 6000 Series guarantees uncompromised, smooth and judder-free viewing experiences with even the smallest details – such as words and numbers in presentations – displayed with crystal clear sharpness over distances of over six metres.

• Philips Tableaux: No power, no problem. The Philips Tableaux was unveiled at ISE 2023 last month, immediately winning the Best of Show award for its pioneering approach to digital displaying. Allowing users to show a full colour image without using a single kilowatt of energy, these displays are ideal in areas where there is no power supply, for wayfinding, information and more.

• Philips Evnia monitors: ‘Gaming beyond innovation’ the sleek and stylish Philips Evnia displays (42”-34” models) have been designed to create the optimal learning and gaming experiences, providing best-in-class set-ups for educational environments looking to seize new opportunities around gamification (see below) in the classroom. With an ultra-240Hz refresh (and blur reducing) rate, Evnia offers a virtual lag free performance, while the Ambiglow technology available on selected models creates a more immersive experience.

• Philips 5000 Series monitors: Showcasing in 34” and 27” models, the Philips 5000 Series are the perfect at home school solutions, benefiting from an integrated 5MP Windows Hello Webcam, delivering sharp images, and a noise cancelling mic ensuring communications between classmates and tutors is loud, clear and fully secure.

• Interact - Wireless presentation for the classroom makes it easy for teachers and students to wirelessly share their screens from any device onto the big screen, while also interacting with those in the room or connected remotely. Interact works with any device (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Windows, Linux) for instant connectivity.

• Air Quality Sensor: A new complimentary solution designed to monitor and manage air temperature and quality in the classroom, including carbon dioxide and particulate matter, allowing classrooms to maintain the perfect learning conditions, while reducing risks of the spreading of airborne viruses.

Waving in a new era for display management

Debuting in the education market at the two events, the newly available PPDS Wave, an evolutionary cloud-based display management ecosystem, brings a fresh and future proofed approach to controlling and managing display fleets of any size.

In a continuing climate of rising energy prices, PPDS Wave Controller can play a pivotal role in delivering environmentally conscious, sustainable solutions for education establishments, while also helping to reduce total cost of ownership with energy saving opportunities and extended product lifetimes.

Connecting with the features built into the hardware of Philips professional displays, PPDS Wave allows users to use power scheduling for their displays to automatically power down when not in use, for instance outside of core school hours. Brightness can be adjusted intelligently, based on the lighting conditions, again supporting energy savings and extended product lifetimes.

Open2 gaming

If that wasn’t enough, two interactive Oracle Red Bull Racing simulators will also be open for competitive gaming on the booth, highlighting the opportunities and potential of e-gaming and e-learning.

It’s estimated that by the time children are 21, they have played 10,000 hours of video games – the same amount of time they’ve spent in school. Because of this, they are more likely to respond to the use of games in other settings, like the classroom. Applying game principles to non-game situations, gamification is more likely to be successful today because students are more willing to be active participants in its implementation, with students naturally gravitating to the aesthetics of games and immediately understanding and respecting their mechanics and rules.

Frank Trossen, Global Business Development Director Education at PPDS commented: “We’re delighted to be showcasing at Didacta 2023 in Stuttgart and to BETT 2023 in London to inspire the market with some of our latest solutions, advancing teaching and learning both in and outside of the classroom. At this year’s events, we are proud to be showcasing our hardware, as well as the advantages of our in-house developed platform, PPDS Wave, which we will be demonstrating for the first time in Germany at the show. From pre-school, primary and secondary school, to higher and further education, we are committed to supporting and advancing the teaching and learning experience. We look forward to meeting the tens of thousands of visitors attending the shows on our booths.”

To learn more about PPDS’ education solutions on stand at Didacta and BETT, or to get a free ticket for Didacta, please visit the website here or contact your local PPDS or Philips Monitors sales manager.