The Convention Experience

At HOYLU, we integrate with Convention Centre infrastructure to enable smarter operations and high guest engagement.

Key Program Goals

Enable visitors to enjoy the convention centre at a deeper and more personal level.

Allow guests to get information faster, more effectively and where they want it.

Create more options for all types of service providers to serve guests and increase their revenue.

Enable a truly modern digital experience without losing the local site atmosphere or event theme.

Seamless interactions with guests' personal devices to reduce and eliminate tech barriers.

Allow staff greater control over the site's digital displays and the changing environment.

The growth of tourist and guest demands around the world has increased the need for smart sustainable infrastructure and technology.

Convention Centres benefit when they transform to reflect the digital revolution that allows for authentic connection, intelligent convenience and personalised services.

The Smart Convention Centres

We create immersive, inspiring locations within four walls and a roof. By bringing smart technology to visitors, guests and staff alike, we connect your space seamlessly and completely.

Capabilities Include

  • Communication: Everyday messaging and Crisis Management.

  • Presentaion & Collaboration: Cutting edge technology that "wows" the user and leaves a lasting impact.

  • Personal Connection Technologies: BLE and NFC based system to optimize coverage and functionality.

  • Beacon based Personalization: Enables service such as contactless payments, Real Time couponing, Marketing & Analytics.

  • Beacon based Interactions: Enables location based functions such as Wayfinding, Party member locating, etc.

Case Study: Carnival Ocean

In 2017 Carnival unveiled Ocean, a completely new way to experience cruising aimed at forever changing the guest experience through intuitive and engaging digital experiences. Using a combination of touch screens, personal devices and wearable technology, Ocean created a never before seen eco-system to provide highly personalized services and support for guests and crew members alike.

Carnival created digital portals that allow any Guest regardless of age, gender or nationality to simply and intuitively create, navigate and commemorate their dream vacation anywhere on any screen. Unlike any other digital solution, Ocean compass entices a new generation of cruisers while simultaneously reigniting veteran cruisers by easily and seamlessly allowing them to consume and experience what matters to them most.. bringing to life their dream vacation.

Case Study: Disney Magic Band and MyMagic+

In 2012, Walt Disney World unveiled MyMagic+ and the Disney Magic Band, a revolutionary way to interact with the park and resort experience as well as provide new operational tools for cast members.

The experience covers every aspect of the park experience from payments, hotel room access, ticketing, FastPass and tracking of guests location, into a digital architecture consisting primarily of radio systems, RFID-enabled wristbands known as MagicBands, and features accesible via online services and mobile applications.

The experience is highly visible and designed for all ages, requiring quick, global and easy to use services that render the technology invisible in favor of the experience. Utilizing the guest and cast mobile device, as well as a wearable band, MyMagic+ is the biggest digital transformation in the history of the park with plans to expand the technology and experiences worldwide.

Case Study: ERiC Control Room, Austria

In 2014, Project ERiC was formed to evelute a system that optimized crisis management and higher level of work efficiency in emergency control centers. The project was designed to streamline and enhance the communication between operators in the emergency control center and rescue squads in the field utilizing modern technology with an emphasis on an enhanced user experience.

Project ERiC created a multi-user, fully interactive and controllable situation map based on large interactive displays, and was able to quickly evaluate next generation user interfaces with parallel work and efficient interaction techniques on the map. It contained seamless integration of traditional analog media (e.g. Pen and Paper), which allows for traditional method of emergency response to fluidly work with new technology.

The sysytem was provided to the Austrian security and emergency response center, and was used to maintain high security levels and assist in crime reduction. It was developed and designed to provide the blueprint for future design of modern interactive emergency control centers.

Hoylu Inspiration Suite

  • Flow

    Plan, Assemble, Ideate, Invent, Collaborate. Flow is where you bring it all together. Packed with simple to learn and easy to use communication inputs process tools, Flow is where true sharing and delivery happens.

  • Sketch

    Go free-form. Sketch is a white board on steroids. Draw, paint, sketch, illustrate, design your ideas and share them with the world. There is no limit to the creative potential you can unleash upon the world.

  • Paper

    Go physical. Be analog. Connect with transformative collaboration tools with the simplicity of paper and pen. From the designer at his desk to the foreman in the field, Paper unlocks magic with the tools you've known since childhood.

  • Show

    Show off your ideas, educate thousands and entertain the world. Once you've created your masterpiece it's time to share it and that's where Show comes in. Create slideshows, present, VR experiences and interactive messages that can run on every device.

  • Central

    Say goodbye to being in the dark. Understand your environment like you've never been able to before with simple analytical tools, configuration utilities and user management. Central makes it easy to coordinate and control.

Hoylu Wall

Think big, work bigger. The Hoylu Wall is a flexible surface for collaboration with infinite space for large team to collaborate. Our interactive wall can be as much as 12.5 metres wide and each work session allows hundreds of work surfaces in the apps.

Your works takes on XXL proportions, as you create in high resolution with the special Hoylu precision pens.

Hoylu Pen and Paper

The Hoylu Pens are fantastic tools that are available in different versions, depending on how you use them. They quickly connect to the Hoylu walls and displays to allow you to write, sketch, draw and navigate. The user interface is incredibly easy to use.

You can choose your tools by pressing the tip to the screen, or using one of our ingenious paper palletes. The high resolution tracking captures every detail. Since it is fully vector based, even the smallest detail is saved.

And, if you prefer writing on paper, we have a pen for that too, allowing you to write on every surface, everywhere.

Hoylu advanced displays

Hoylu displays are premium, interactive displays that form part of a versatile solution for creative team collaboration, ideation and presentations. The large size and crisp colors make your work look its very best, whether you use it to design, run sales presentation, annotate CAD drawings, or work with PowerPoint. Use a single display as a standalone solution, or connect multiple displays to create a large collaboration wall where 5 or 6 people have all the room they need to work together.

Unlike other large touch screens, interacting with the Hoylu Displays feels just like working with a tablet or a smartphone. This is due to the superior technical specifications, such as the glass bonding and the premium surface coatings, that result in smooth, responsive touch / pen feel with high precision and no glare.

Standard Display

Hoylu supports all major display brands, and we take display options further by researching and recommending the best possible hardware for the situation. By supporting of the shelf display options as well as high-end projection systems and custom built hardware, Hoylu can offers the best of all worlds for unique environment.

From in cabin displays to full seamless panel video walls, theatre projection displays or on-deck outdoors screens, Hoylu perfectly tailors the screen experience to delight and amaze guests. We run natively with noadditional equipment on all supported displays, and leverage attached DMP / STB devices where required.

Mobility

Hoylu extends the user's experience to their mobile device and tablet by providing easy login services and allowing for content to move seamlessly and easily to their personal device. This provides more freedom than ever before, by untethering the user from a specific display while still providing a cohesive user experience.

The mobile device becomes a fully realized extension to the experience, allowing for remote functionality, personalized features and most importantly leverages contextual value to bring the user freedom and flexibility than ever before.

Leveraging industry standards, you never need to worry about proprietary technology.