Every lecture theatre, on time.
Lecture-theatre door timetables, campus-wide wayfinding, research showcases and academic-event signage across every building on campus.
A university campus is a town. Its signage decides whether students feel at home or lost.
A UK or US university campus runs as a small town — academic buildings, student unions, halls of residence, sports centres, libraries, cafes, research labs, visitor centres. First-year students arrive unfamiliar with the geography; international students arrive unfamiliar with both geography and language; open-day visitors arrive with 45 minutes to form an impression. Hangar.Media puts lecture-theatre timetables on the door, campus wayfinding on lift-lobby totems, research showcases in faculty foyers, and open-day signage on every common route. Integrates with 25Live, EMS, Celcat and Unit4 for academic scheduling, plus custom university information systems.
Built for how universities actually run.
The capabilities that matter in this sector — concrete, specific, and backed by the integrations your team already uses.
Theatre B2-02, PHIL101 until 11. Then free until 2.
Lecture-theatre door screens surface current-lecture, module-code, academic, running-on-time status and next-booking. Lecturers arriving at a 10am theatre see when the 9am finishes. Students arriving late see the theatre they're meant to be in. Sub-minute sync with the academic timetabling system means room-changes (maintenance, AV-failure, overbooked-theatre) reflect immediately.
Lecturers never walk into a theatre mid-teaching. Students never enter the wrong PHIL101.
- 25Live, EMS, Celcat, Unit4, Scientia Syllabus Plus integration
- Current-lecture, module-code, academic and until-when on every theatre door
- Running-on-time / running-behind status with automatic thresholds
- Room-change and AV-failure-relocation instant propagation
A 40-building campus. A one-tap route.
Interactive wayfinding totems at every campus entrance, lift lobby and main concourse guide visitors to any building, theatre, department office or student service. Turn-by-turn directions with accessibility-routing (step-free, elevator-only, BSL-interpreter-route). Multi-language support covers the 12 most-spoken languages on UK and US university campuses. International-student orientation queries drop noticeably.
International students find the engineering block on day one, not day three.
- Touch-kiosk wayfinding totems with turn-by-turn campus directions
- Accessibility-routing (step-free, elevator-only, BSL-route variants)
- 12-language support (EN, ES, FR, DE, IT, ZH, JA, KO, AR, HI, UR, PL)
- Emergency-evacuation routing with bridge-level override
Faculty walls that tell the department's story.
Research-showcase walls in faculty-building foyers surface current research, recent publications, researcher profiles and department-news highlights. Departments with research-rating ambitions (REF / RAE) use showcase content to signal impact to visitors, prospective students and funders. Integrates with PURE (Elsevier), Symplectic Elements and custom research-information systems.
Every visitor to the faculty sees the research. Not just the department logo.
- PURE (Elsevier), Symplectic Elements research-information-system integration
- Publication-highlight walls with DOI-overlay QR
- Researcher-profile rotation with opt-in photography
- Department-news and event-promotion rotation
Open-day mode. One click. Campus transformed.
Open-day campus takeover is a core annual event. Hangar.Media ships a one-click open-day mode that transforms every screen across campus — wayfinding to open-day sessions, faculty showcases dialled up, student-ambassador information, orientation-style content for prospective students. Content reverts to standard post-event. For university groups running 6+ open days per year, this turns a 2-week prep cycle into a 1-hour config.
Open-day rollout used to take two weeks. Now it takes an hour.
- One-click open-day takeover with per-event profile
- Orientation-week mode for arrival-week overload reduction
- Clearing-week mode for confirmed-places registration signage
- Graduation-week mode with family-visitor welcome content
Societies, sports, events — the whole campus knows.
Student-union and common-area screens surface society events, sports fixtures, guest-lecture countdowns, well-being content and careers-fair promotion. Content flows from student-union booking systems (Unitu, Student Union platforms) and academic events-calendars. Societies with active promotion see attendance climb measurably. Universities with visible mental-health support content correlate with higher service uptake.
Societies grow when the campus sees their events. Not just the WhatsApp group.
- Student-union event calendar with society-specific content
- Sports-fixture rotation for university teams and inter-campus events
- Well-being and mental-health support content (Student Minds, Nightline, local NHS)
- Careers-service promotion and employer-fair countdowns
Every screen in the building.
From customer-facing walls to operational dashboards — the scenarios that make the platform worth running day-to-day.
Per-door timetable boards
Door-side screens with current-lecture, module, academic and until-when from 25Live / EMS / Celcat with sub-minute propagation.
Wayfinding totems with accessibility routing
Touch-kiosk wayfinding totems at every main entrance and lift lobby with turn-by-turn campus directions and 12-language support.
Research showcase walls
Faculty-foyer large-format screens with research publications, researcher profiles and department-news rotation.
Events, societies and sports fixtures
Student-union common-area screens with society events, sports fixtures, guest-lecture countdowns and campus-event promotion.
Study-room availability and collection content
Library-entrance and study-area screens with live study-room availability, silent-study hours and new-acquisition rotation.
Welfare, events and safety content
Hall-of-residence common-area screens with welfare-check reminders, residents-association events, safety notices and well-being support content.
The integrations that actually matter here.
Every integration is included in every plan. These are the ones universities operators reach for first.
25Live
Higher-ed timetabling with sub-minute sync to lecture-theatre doors.
Learn More →EMS
Campus event and classroom scheduling with academic-calendar integration.
Learn More →Building Directory
Multi-building campus wayfinding with accessibility routing.
Learn More →Multi-Language News
Language-diverse content for international-student populations.
Learn More →Campus-life and societies social feeds for student-union areas.
Learn More →Common questions. Straight answers.
Which higher-ed timetabling systems do you integrate with?
25Live (CollegeNET), EMS Software, Celcat, Unit4 Student Management, Scientia Syllabus Plus, Ad Astra, TimeEdit and custom university-scheduling systems via REST / iCal. Sub-minute timetable propagation means room-changes from 9am Monday morning chaos reflect on every door within 60 seconds. Integration is included in the flat per-screen price.
How do you handle international-student orientation?
Orientation-week takeover mode transforms wayfinding, information and welcome screens across campus for the arrival window. Multi-language defaults activate — 12+ languages with community-demographic-matched selection per building (engineering block might default to EN+ZH+KO, humanities might default to EN+FR+IT). International-student-specific content (visa services, language support, community groups) surfaces on entrance totems and hall-of-residence screens.
Can departments run their own research-showcase content?
Yes. Role-based permissions scope editing per department, so the Physics department manages their own foyer-wall content while central comms handles campus-wide messaging. Brand-template enforcement keeps visual consistency across faculties while giving departments autonomy over their research story. Integration with PURE (Elsevier) and Symplectic Elements pulls publication data automatically.
What does a university campus actually cost?
£5 per screen per month, flat. A mid-size university with 150 lecture-theatre door signs + 30 wayfinding totems + 40 faculty / student-union screens (220 total) pays £1,100 per month. A global research university with 400 screens across three campuses pays £2,000 per month. Every integration, every language-pack, accessibility-mode, emergency-override, open-day takeover included. No higher-education sector premium.
Adjacent sectors.
Operators in universities frequently borrow patterns and playbooks from these neighbouring verticals.
Libraries
Academic-library study-room availability and research-showcase content.
SchoolsSchools
Primary and secondary timetable boards, safeguarding and academy trusts.
Training & VocationalTraining & Vocational
Vocational course schedules, exam-centre signage and CPD tracking.
Offices & HeadquartersOffices & Headquarters
Meeting-room signage, all-hands broadcast and visitor welcome.
One price. The whole platform.
That's how we think signage should work. Content editor, screen management, and 200+ app integrations — all included from day one.