Climate change is on everyone’s mind these days and businesses around the world are starting to look at ways to reduce their carbon footprints and do their part in solving one of today’s most important issues.

Visix solutions not only help in the ongoing effort to reverse the effects of 150 years of rapid industrialization, but also are cheaper over time than traditional print mediums when communicating with a large, diverse audience. The larger your audience, the more cost effective Visix technologies are:


  • The purchase price of a visual communications system is a one-time cost, whereas printed communications are a continuing revenue drain that seriously adds up over time.
  • You have a potentially unlimited audience for your digital communications versus a set number based on pre-determined print runs.
  • Visual communications are dynamic, not static like their paper counterparts – you can display video, streaming and cable feeds, Flash animations, tickers and PowerPoint with transitions to grab attention and keep audiences interested.
  • Visix technologies can deliver hundreds or thousands of messages in a set period of time, as opposed to the limited space you have to communicate ideas and information in printed materials.
  • Digital messaging allows real-time corrections and retirement of messages, versus lingering newsletters and printed retractions or apologies.


Paper Savings

Communicating with audiences using a digital signage system requires less paper than traditional methods like bulletin boards, posters, banners, printed newsletters, mail, flyers and so on. Digital messages do not use paper – no trees are cut down; no water, inks or solvents are used; and when the message is no longer relevant, it doesn’t go to a landfill to decompose and emit methane, but is simply deleted.



Energy Savings

Saving paper is one thing, but digital signage systems still use electricity generated by power plants that pollute and emit greenhouse gases. Displays that are left on consume power and we often would rather not walk around shutting them off when they aren’t being used. Visix has integrated Extron’s IP Link with their AxisTV software, which allows users to access IP Link devices from a browser interface to manually control display functions and schedule on/off cycles - you can schedule displays to turn on when your audience is likely to be around and turn them off when they aren’t.

Depending on the size of the deployment, users can annually recognize hundreds or even thousands of dollars in potential energy savings by turning displays off when not in use, reducing carbon emissions, extending the life of their displays and reducing the likelihood of image retention. Device control also reduces the demand for electricity.



Carbon Offset

Visix has joined the CarbonFree program at Carbonfund.org, contributing to renewable energy and reforestation projects for every PC sold. CarbonFund is the country’s leading non-profit carbon reduction and offset organization whose goal is to make carbon offsets and climate protection an affordable, normal part of life for every individual and business. They promote cost-effective carbon reductions and support renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects globally that reduce and offset carbon dioxide emissions. Learn more here.