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SureVideo
Signage on the screens you already own — looped, scheduled and self-healing — pushed to every location from one console, with kiosk DNA underneath.
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SureVideo is 42Gears' digital signage product: it turns the Android and Windows screens you already own — tablets, TVs with Android boxes, POS second screens — into managed signage running looped playlists of video, images and web content, pushed remotely at fleet scale via SureMDM. Kiosk-grade resilience (auto-relaunch, reboot survival, scheduled content) comes from the same lockdown DNA as SureLock. It sells standalone and is bundled free inside every SureMDM plan — which makes its per-screen economics very hard to beat.
The 42Gears product family
This page covers SureVideo — the signage product. The rest of the 42Gears lineup:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- SureVideo — digital signage from the Sure suite
- Vendor
- 42Gears Mobility Systems (Bengaluru-born, 2009 · founder-run)
- Category
- Digital signage software
- Platforms
- Android (tablets, TVs, boxes) · Windows
- Content
- Video loops, images, playlists and web pages
- Resilience
- Auto-relaunch, reboot survival — signage that heals itself
- Scheduling
- Content by time and day — breakfast menu to dinner menu, automatically
- Fleet control
- Content and config pushed remotely via SureMDM
- Buying paths
- Standalone licences OR bundled free in every SureMDM plan
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, trials, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand digital signage before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is digital signage software?
Digital signage software turns screens into managed displays: playlists of video, images and web content, scheduled centrally, playing reliably without a human at the site.
SureVideo’s twist: it runs on the Android and Windows hardware you already own, inherits kiosk-grade resilience from the SureLock lineage, and manages screens through the same console as the rest of your device fleet.
USB-stick signage vs managed screens — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Ad-hoc screens + USB sticks | Managed signage (SureVideo) |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | Proprietary players per screen | The Android/Windows screens you own |
| Content updates | USB sticks and store-manager favours | Fleet-wide push from one console |
| Dayparting | Someone remembers to swap the menu | Scheduled — breakfast to dinner automatically |
| Crashes & reboots | A screen showing a home screen all weekend | Auto-relaunch, reboot-surviving playback |
| Bad networks | Buffering in front of customers | Local caching — offline playback |
| Screen health | Discovered by customer complaint | Estate dashboard — up, playing, seen |
| After-hours | The kiosk sits dark | SureLock handoff — kiosk by day, signage by night |
| Cost shape | Player hardware + per-screen monthly SaaS | Standalone OR free inside SureMDM plans |
Rollout is incremental — pilot screens first, then location waves, and the courier era ends at each store it reaches.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Player Shell
SureVideo runs as a locked-down player on Android or Windows — playlists loop, content caches locally, and the screen never shows anything but the show.
Playlist Engine
Video, images and web pages sequenced into playlists with per-screen and per-group assignments — the menu board and the lobby loop from one console.
Scheduler
Content by daypart and calendar — breakfast menus swap to lunch automatically, promotions expire on their end date without a human.
Resilience Layer
Auto-relaunch on crashes, reboot-surviving playback and offline caching — the SureLock heritage applied to screens.
Fleet Remote
Content, playlists and player config pushed to hundreds of screens from the SureMDM console — the USB-stick era ends.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Play, manage, endure.
SureVideo replaces the player-hardware tax and the USB-stick logistics with resilient software on hardware you own.
Video & Image Loops
The core: playlists of video and images looping full-screen — menu boards, promotions, safety notices — with local caching so playback never buffers.
Web Page Display
Live dashboards, queue displays and web content in the rotation — the KPI screen and the promo loop share one player.
Playlist Management
Sequenced content with durations, transitions and per-group assignment — one console programmes the whole estate's screens.
Scheduled Content
Breakfast to lunch to dinner automatically; weekday vs weekend loops; promotions that expire on their end date without a reminder in anyone's calendar.
Runs on Screens You Own
Android tablets, TV boxes and Windows machines become signage — no proprietary players, no per-screen hardware tax.
Fleet-Scale Content Push
New campaign to 400 stores from one console — content distribution as a push, not a courier run of USB sticks.
Auto-Relaunch & Reboot Survival
The player restarts itself after crashes and power cuts — the SureLock kiosk DNA that keeps screens showing the show, not the home screen.
Offline Playback
Content caches locally — the highway billboard on patchy 4G and the basement food court both keep playing when the network doesn't.
Kiosk-Locked Player
The screen IS the signage — no settings access, no notifications over the content, no curious fingers changing the channel.
Portrait, Landscape & Zones
Menu boards portrait, lobby walls landscape — orientation and layout per screen from the same console.
Screen Health Visibility
Which screens are up, playing what, seen when — the estate's health on a dashboard instead of a store manager's phone call.
SureLock & SureFox Handoffs
Kiosk by day, signage after close — scheduled handoffs between the Sure products turn one device into two roles.
Watch SureVideo in action
Official demos — the setup, the retail-device context and the console behind it.
How to Set Up SureVideo Digital Signage
From blank Android screen to looping signage in minutes.
Remotely Manage Toast POS Devices Using SureMDM
The retail-device world SureVideo lives in — POS and screens managed together.
SureMDM by 42Gears — Unified Endpoint Management
The console that pushes SureVideo content fleet-wide.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough on your own fleet?
Book a guided demo →Every signage tool plays videos. One inherited kiosk survival instincts.
Here’s what genuinely sets SureVideo apart from the alternatives.
Your hardware is the signage network
Dedicated signage stacks charge per proprietary player plus per screen per month. SureVideo runs on the Android and Windows hardware you already own — the economics argument usually ends there.
Kiosk DNA means screens that endure
Signage fails in boring ways: crashes, reboots, notifications over the menu. SureVideo inherits SureLock's lockdown and watchdog heritage — the screen shows the show, through power cuts and OS updates.
The USB-stick era ends
Content pushes from the SureMDM console to every store overnight — the campaign launch that used to be a courier logistics project becomes a Tuesday afternoon.
Dayparts without diary reminders
Menus swap by schedule, promotions expire on their end date, weekend loops differ from weekdays — the content calendar runs itself.
Bundled with the family
Free inside every SureMDM plan alongside SureLock and SureFox — if you manage frontline devices already, your signage software is already paid for.
One vendor for the whole frontline
The scanner, the POS, the kiosk and the menu board — one console, one agent family, one renewal. Signage stops being a separate operational island.
The numbers behind the platform
What your SureVideo journey looks like
Screen census
TechBag advisors map screens, hardware on hand, content roles and dayparts — and confirm what's already covered by your SureMDM plan.
Pilot screens live
SureVideo on real hardware with your real content — including the flaky site with the power cuts. Resilience-testing encouraged.
Estate rollout in waves
Playlists, dayparts and orientations pushed from SureMDM location by location; store managers stop being content couriers.
Self-running signage
Campaigns push overnight, menus swap on schedule, and screens heal themselves. TechBag handles renewals.
Trusted across frontline industries in 170+ countries
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Menu boards across 60 outlets swap breakfast to lunch automatically. The franchisee WhatsApp group used to coordinate this manually — genuinely.”
“We repurposed the Android TVs we already had. The dedicated-signage quote we'd received included proprietary players at 4x the total cost.”
“Campaign content pushes overnight from SureMDM to every store. Our old process involved couriering USB sticks. I wish I was joking.”
“Power cuts are a daily reality at some sites — screens come back playing the loop, not showing a launcher. That's the whole product for us.”
“The lobby screen shows a live dashboard in the rotation with the promo videos. One player, both jobs.”
“Advanced multi-zone layouts are more basic than dedicated signage CMSes — fair trade at this price, but design-heavy brands should check.”
“It came free in the SureMDM plan we already had for the POS fleet. The signage project's software budget went to better screens.”
“Portrait menu boards, landscape lobby walls, one console. Orientation per screen just works.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the digital signage market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Digital Signage Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
BYO-hardware economics with kiosk-grade resilience — the value corner of signage. This page's subject.
Capability × Operational Lightness
The grid nobody publishes — signage capability vs the stack you must run to get it.
Practical depth at near-zero operational weight — plays, schedules, heals, reports.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
SureVideo vs the signage field
Deliberately cross-shaped: SaaS CMSes, hardware royalty and open source — with honest lanes for each.
| Dimension | SureVideo | ScreenCloud | Yodeck | BrightSign | Xibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage & focus | Sure-suite signage | Modern signage SaaS | Value signage SaaS | Signage hardware royalty | Open-source CMS |
| Hardware model | BYO Android/Windows | BYO + players | Pi + players | Proprietary players | BYO |
| Resilience (crash/reboot/offline) | Kiosk-grade | Good | Good | Excellent | DIY-dependent |
| CMS & design depth | Practical | Rich | Good | Deep | Capable |
| Fleet management | Via SureMDM | Own console | Own console | BSN.cloud | Self-managed |
| Dual-role devices (kiosk+signage) | Native handoffs | Signage only | Signage only | Signage only | Signage only |
| Licensing economics | Free in SureMDM / cheap alone | Per screen / month | Value per screen | Hardware + licences | Free (self-host) |
| Best fit | Frontline estates & SureMDM shops | Design-led brands | Budget SaaS signage | Broadcast-grade venues | Self-host enthusiasts |
Which signage approach is right for you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose SureVideo if…
- ✓You own the screens/boxes already — no player hardware tax
- ✓You're on SureMDM — signage software is already in the plan
- ✓Resilience (power cuts, reboots, offline) matters more than design flourish
- ✓Devices should double as kiosk by day, signage by night
Choose ScreenCloud if…
- ✓Marketing owns signage and wants the richest CMS/apps
Choose Yodeck if…
- ✓A small estate on the tightest SaaS budget
Choose BrightSign if…
- ✓Broadcast-grade video walls and venues
- ✓Hardware budget is not the constraint
Choose Xibo if…
- ✓Self-hosting appeals and IT time is available
What does unmanaged signage cost you?
Drag the sliders. Estimates assume ~4 hours per screen per year on content couriering, manual updates, dead-screen discoveries and site visits, with ~75% removed by remote pushes, scheduling and self-healing playback — illustrative and conservative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
SureVideo prices standalone per device — or arrives free inside SureMDM plans. TechBag models both paths in one GST-compliant quote.
Standalone SureVideo
Best for signage-only projects
- Per-device licences, no UEM required
- Android and Windows players
- Playlists, dayparts, offline caching
Inside SureMDM
Best for managed estates
- Included free in every plan
- Screens managed with the device fleet
- Content pushes from one console
With SureLock & SureFox
Best for dual-role devices
- Kiosk by day, signage by night
- All three bundled in SureMDM plans
- TechBag models the combined estate
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your device counts and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every signage vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Pull the power mid-loop, wait, restore — does the screen come back playing content or showing a launcher?
Test YOUR actual assets — the 4K video, the vertical menu, the live dashboard URL — not the vendor's demo loop.
Kill the network for a day. Cached playback should be indistinguishable from online.
Programme a real week — breakfast/lunch swaps, weekend loops, a promo with an end date — and verify it runs itself.
Price your BYO screens vs a dedicated-player quote for the same estate. Bring both numbers.
On (or considering) SureMDM? SureVideo is included — check before paying any per-screen SaaS.
Any kiosks that should become signage after hours? Test the SureLock handoff.
Can you see every screen's status without calling a store manager? Verify the dashboard.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate SureVideo?
Get a quote, scope a resilience-drill pilot on your real screens, or bring your screen count and let a TechBag advisor run the BYO-vs-players math.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.