AMBIENT COMMUNICATION





DRIVING BEHAVIOURS



Our technology makes it possible to create digitally-enabled physical environments, where live data is used to manage locations in real-time.



Aurora @ Setas de Sevilla by Skandal Technologies



Advanced Real Estate is increasingly delivering experiential environments. Merged physical and digital worlds allow for the creation of new kinds of immersive experiences. These can serve instrumental functions such as active wayfinding, safety and wellness and quality parameters such as usability, visual perception and comfort. They can also create a sense of wonder, drive behaviours and enable new revenue models.


Skandal Technologies is an ambient communications solutions provider, developing software and integrating hardware for the purposes of influencing human experience and behaviour in built environments. Skandal’s software platform “POET” enables the design, deployment and operation of physical-digital installations for offices, commercial centres, building facades and cultural spaces. The system integrates machine vision, AI sensors and online data harvesting with lighting, sound, LED surfaces and digital signage to influence how people experience places. Real-time generative content engines make any space responsive and self-adjusting.


Building owners and operators can configure their visual environment to be automatically generated based on crowd behaviours, environmental variables such as weather or noise, or contextual online data inputs and calendar events.


Skandal’s clients benefit from influencing human behaviour, creating unique experiences, increasing their asset value, and earning revenue from the system.



SOFTWARE





POET software enables designers to ‘make the world their canvas’. It revolutionises the design and management of real-time responsive lighting and media for architecture.



SERVICES





POET software is provided to customers as a remotely-managed service. We also supply the full spectrum of solution integration services necessary to integrate real-time digital environments.



HARDWARE





POET Server is required to run the installation. We integrate and supply sensors, cameras, network equipment and both standard and custom lighting and media technologies to suit the projects.



APPLICATION BENEFITS



We have developed a control software that our clients use to design, deploy and manage dynamic and adaptive digital-physical spaces.

They benefit from influencing human behaviour & increasing their asset value and earning revenue from the system.





Create new revenue channels





POET opens a new revenue channel for designers, owners and operators by making it easy to create, commission and execute immersive content. At Radisson BLU Scandinavia in Gothenburg Skandal's POET software was used to integrate brand coloured lighting together with graphical elements and custom generative content, brought together in an artfully curated whole.



RESPONSIVE LIGHT & MEDIA





POET generates real-time content simultaneously for interior light and media features as well as exterior media facades and dynamic lighting at VEN Amsterdam Park Inn Amsterdam City West.



EXPERIENTIAL BRANDING





POET enabled ‘Moment Magnet’ a signature lighting installation that makes a bold spatial and contextual statement for Helsinki Outlet addressing todays visually noisy retail world. It shakes the foundations of traditional advertising tools by creating a calmer backdrop for shopping.



NARRATIVE ENVIRONMENTS





POET delivers full narrative control of any environment, offering a toolbox of techniques for influencing human experience through colour, light, pattern and movement. Finnish energy company FORTUM chose POET for these capabilities for the “transition tunnel” experience at their headquarters in Espoo, Finland





POET Software



Create generative content responsive to people and environment. Integrate the content with sophisticated 3D sensing and output to lighting, video walls, projections, low resolution light surfaces, functional lighting and sound. Drive your visual environment with real-time changes making any space responsive and self-adjusting. Use the system for driving human behaviours and creating experiential spaces increasing their flexibility and functionality.



DIGITAL CONTENT CREATION



POET offers rich set of tools for the content creation in an intuitive, designer friendly way. You can use inbuilt content engines for non-repetitive light patterns or bring in video files, images or live camera feeds and then abstract them to suit the project.



REAL TIME CONTENT ENGINES



Beautiful and highly complex morphing patterns, calm ripples, elegant particles and much more can be generated instantly and each aspect of the content connected to an external input. So for example the wind direction can control your ripple movement and people density the brightness, weekdays could input the tonality and so much more. Get creative!



3D PREVIEW



When designing complex, data driven lighting moods for a space its essential to see what you’re doing in real-time and then being able to show this to your customer. POET let’s you do all this. You can use your favourite 3D software to make the model with and then import it to POET.



DATA AS INPUT



Everybody is talking about the Big Data. Now you can use it to trigger your lighting moods. We can connect POET to plethora of data feeds ranging from public transport, weather, sports, social media and, well, almost any public data that is flying out there. This usually needs a bit of customisation to suit the project so if you have something specific in mind let us know and we can look into it.



SMART SCHEDULING



In POET you can set “behaviours” for your lights, so if its raining, and it's Thursday and there’s less than 10 people then run preset “PARTY TIME” because you wan’t to attract more people to the space, or at least to have a good time. All this is done with intuitive “drag-and-drop” graphic interface.



TRACKING AS INPUT



POET includes and Ai module that allows you to select if you would like to use people movement as lighting input or maybe track cars or bicycles instead without having to change the sensor. As this feature requires specific graphics card it is currently only available with the POET Server.



OUTPUT TO LIGHT & MEDIA



POET Servers can output from 2 x HD to 3 x 4K DVI signal. The 4K or HD video feeds can then be sent direct to various sources or converted with additional hardware to Art-Net, sAcn or DMX512. In addition TCP/IP, OSC and MQTT commands can be sent and received.



SENSING AS INPUT



Ai driven 3D Sensors are integrated and their data converted to triggers and input parameters to live content generators and scheduler.



POET SUITE



POET CREATOR



Design suite for responsive light and media that allows for generative content creation, live 3D preview for client presentations and sign off, input simulators and sophisticated scheduling. Fully compatible with POET Server.

Windows 10.



POET SERVER



Professional high performance server system designed for demanding permanent installations. Scalable versions. Linux operating system. Supplied with full POET Server software. Designed for reliable 24/7 operation with remote monitoring and operations.



POET Cloud & Support subscription



Each copy of POET Server software is subject to subscription fee which includes the following features:

Software license

Software updates

POET cloud platform

Client monitor & preset selection

Full remote management access

Live Data inputs

Online Technical support



POET Remote Content Management Subscription



​POET content stream updates. Exact content requirements and the associated management service packages to be refined based on Client wishes and requirements.



REGISTER AS USER





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Ambient Communication is where the Internet of Things meets the experience economy.





It is led by site owners, developers, operators and designers willing to create narrative environments, experiential branding, and non-invasive techniques to influence crowd behaviour.


It is a hybrid form of spatial interaction that is simultaneously digital and physical, made possible with technology and concepts rooted in human biology.



RESEARCH



The POET system was born from a two year research program into topic of Ambient Communication and the role of “nearables” in the hyperconnected society.





In the late 2016 Skandal Technologies joined a Finnish research consortium on a project titled "Towards Digital Paradise” a continuation of the “The Naked Approach” research. The focus was in the possibilities of digitalisation and Internet of Things to improve human capabilities and create a more resource smart world. The project studied and developed solutions for dynamic, interactive, connected surfaces - i.e. “nearables” and localised communication and service platforms.


The project was supported by Business Finland and Partners included VTT, Skandal Technologies, Nokia, Streamr, Nextfloor, Barrabes Napapiiri Hub, Premix, Lapland University, Technical University of Tampere, Oulu University, Aalto University and Demos Helsinki.











“The new means of ambient communication let us feel intuitively what’s happening in the digital domain, with no need to constantly check the gadgets we wear and carry. This is the idea of “Nearables”: make us the active subjects of our life and of the hyperconnected world.”


- Vesa Pentikäinen VTT, The Nordic Digital Promise - Four Thesis on Hyperconnected Society



ABOUT US



Skandal Technologies is software and solution integration services company with a multi-disciplinary team of designers, engineers, and operations specialists united by our experience in delivering narrative environments and using new technology to shape human experience. Registered in Helsinki, Finland with operational base in Madrid, Spain, we provide technology and services to projects worldwide.
Skandal has received R&D support from Business Finland and funding from Mundi Ventures.





TAPIO ROSENIUS



CEO



Award-winning Finnish designer and innovator. He is a pioneer in the use of biomimetic and responsive lighting control in built environment.



ANDREW BEDDARD



COO



Strategist and consultant with a background spanning government, industry, and new technology. Co-founded Crowd Vision, now a leader in smart infrastructure.



MIGUEL JOSE ALVAREZ



CTO



20+ years of experience on software development, specialised on audio and video processing. Track record of innovation and industry success.



CARMEN MORENO



CFO



Executive with 20+ years’ success driving financial strategies to stimulate business growth on an international scale for start-ups and established corporations.





For all enquiries contact us on the email below.




INFO@SKANDAL.TECH


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