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Net Display Systems (NDS) explains that its PADS Professional digital signage software enables its users to design, schedule and distribute content and have it displayed wherever and whenever needed. The company adds that the database connectivity features make it possible for users of all levels to include real-time data from any source.

PADS Professional features an advanced scheduling tool, NDS states, alongside automatic content distribution and smooth playback. The package, which has an open system based around standard technologies, also enables operators to monitor and manage their systems remotely.

The company was chosen for special commendation in 2009 for a SkyTrain project which it undertook with the British Columbia Rapid Transit Company. NDS was recognised in the category of Best Deployment in Transportation at a New York ceremony.

The British Columbia Rapid Transit Company notes: "We used the PADS software package for our deployment and have been very satisfied with the quality and functionality that this software provides."

In 2007, PADS Professional won a Digital Signage Best Practice Award, which was presented at the International Trade Fair for Visual Communication (Viscom) in Düsseldorf, Germany. The package was recognised for its BASF Today global employee information system. Viscom states that the competition aims to honour innovative and successful digital signage projects which have been efficiently planned and creatively implemented.

NDS explains that PADS Professional also includes a software development kit that can be used for custom solutions. The software, which enables the design of presentations with a wide variety of content types, also offers unlimited connectivity features to external systems.

The PADS Professional software is a bundle of applications suitable to drive the smallest digital signage installation of one single screen to the largest, mission-critical installations with thousands of displays, NDS concludes.

Recent uses of the software include a digital signage implementation in Milan-based store Paul and Shark, which was completed with hardware from both Magenta Research and NEC, and at London City Airport (pictured).