SpinetiX is a Swiss hardware manufacturer of professional hardware devices aimed at providing an open platform for digital signage

Digital signage

Digital signage is a form of electronic display that shows television programming, menus, information, advertising and other messages. Digital signs can be found in public and private environments, such as retail stores, hotels, restaurants and corporate buildings.Digital signage Displays are most...

 applications based on standard web-technologies. Their products are called 'Hyper Media Players' and work with W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web .Founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the...

 standards such as SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

Scalable Vector Graphics is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic . The SVG specification is an open standard that has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium since 1999.SVG images and their...

, SMIL

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things...

, JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

, PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

 et cetera. The HMP devices are non-pc based, compact and low energy consumption devices using Hyper Media

Hypermedia

Hypermedia is a computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs and computer graphics related to a particular subject.Hypermedia is a term created by Ted Nelson....

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• Extensive support for the SpinetiX product line can be found on the SpinetiX Support Wiki

Company history

• SpinetiX was founded in 2006 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
• First product introduced in 2008 (HMP100).
• HMP100 won the rAVe Publications
  RAVe Publications
  rAVe [Publications]rAVe [Publications] is a digital news organization that covers the audiovisual industry – both commercial and residential. rAVe, originally Kayye Consulting Inc., was founded in 1998 by Gary Kayye. The company produces e-newsletters, blogs and video to provide opinionated news...
  
   'Best non-PC hardware solution' in 2009.
• 2010: Scala announced integration with the Hyper Media Player platform.
• SpinetiX won, in the US, the rAVe Publications
  RAVe Publications
  rAVe [Publications]rAVe [Publications] is a digital news organization that covers the audiovisual industry – both commercial and residential. rAVe, originally Kayye Consulting Inc., was founded in 1998 by Gary Kayye. The company produces e-newsletters, blogs and video to provide opinionated news...
  
   Best of InfoComm 2010 Award.
• Strategic-technology relationship realised with Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
  
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• Stinova integrated Hyper Media capabilities within their DMS SaaS solution.
• AMX LLC announced technology partnership (OEM licensing) for the HMP technology.
• Poster Digital Won the Best Installation Award at the Total Media show for the Senate of Spain project.
• HMP100 won the Best Digital Signage Product 2010 from the European AV Magazine
• November 2010: SpinetiX launched two new products: the HMP200 and FUSION (a browser based content manager).
• December 2010: Full SMIL
  Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
  SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things...
  
   3.0 compatibility

Products

• HMP100 device
• HMP200 device
• HMD software
• FUSION software

See Digital signage product comparison.