# What are the main typical challenges in “digital signage”?

> Well - the main typical challenges are normally The selection of the right display or device Solved: WPITCOM Signage Manager 3 can use a variety of professional or customer electronic (CE) screens or TV systems,…

Source: https://www.wpitcom.com/en/qna/what-are-the-main-typical-challenges-in-digital-signage
Last updated: 2025-12-29

Well – the main typical challenges are normally

- The selection of the right display or device

Solved: WPITCOM Signage Manager 3 can use a variety of professional or customer electronic (CE) screens or TV systems, that’s makes it even possible to start small and get to the next level step by step.

- The correct positioning of the display to gain best attention in the customer journey

Tutorial: Correct and secure positioning is crucial of operation success, based on experience and neuro marketing, please feel free to contact us for recommendations.

- To select the correct Content-Management-System

Solved: WPITCOM Signage Manager 3 is a user-centric ease to manage and operate cloud solution focussing to provide powerful functions with ease of use

- To have durable devices that do not need much maintenance

Solved: WPITCOM hardware player are designed for durability – as mainly read-only & self cleaning systems, we focus on maintenace reduction and reduction in cost of oiperations – based on lot of years of field experience – in retail.

- To know if something is not working accordingly – before store management or customers call

Solved: WPITCOM Signage Manager 3 has an optional built-in proactive health monitoring of the local players – you get informed if necessary to check the local device – probably before someone calls in.

- To provide precise & emotional sales driving content

Hint: WPITCOM Signage Manager 3 supports various video & image formats, and even HTML5 contents – unlimited creativity – in the AI age. By using our WPITMEDIACLOUD Platform a variety of conent like original brand images, backgrounds, stoppers and so on can be integrated on the fly.

- Knowing real energy cost & opertaion cost

Solved: If players or screens are not switched of during off-duty times, energy cost often adds up, that might not be a big issue for only one installation, but talking about 100’s or even 1.000’s of players & screens, that not rarely is a major topic in the budget – so, energy efficency is an important decision factor as well, besides maintenance frequency, in digital signage installations – nearly always.

**And … Efficiency is the name of game – this often makes the real difference:**

[WPITCOM Signage Manager 3](https://www.wpitcom.com/en/wpitcom-signage-manager-3-en) and [WPITCOM Signage Suite 3](https://www.wpitcom.com/en/wpitcom-signage-suite-3-en) include out of the box function to set operation times centrally and then automatically to turn off supported hardware players during off-duty time (S5 level), turn the screens to standby and turn everything on just in time – so that energy consumption is kept at the necessary level only – avoid wasting budget and profit.