Sector · Estate agencies and networks

Real estate digital signage: your listings update themselves

Your window keeps pace with your listings.

Your properties change every week. Your printed cards do not. Connect your screens to the software your team already uses and the window keeps itself current — on a Sunday, on one branch or on thirty.

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The experiences involved

Five EMITY experiences, one platform for the whole agency.

01The starting point

A window that never changes stops being read

A branch window is the first conversation an estate agent has with a seller or a buyer — often the only one before the door opens. The weak point is not the printed card. It is the gap between the moment a property moves and the moment the window finds out. The property software we connect to is listed on the integrations page.

01Sold on Tuesday, still displayed on SaturdayA buyer calls about a property that is already under offer, and quietly files your branch under « not up to date ». The card was printed four days too early.
02Sun bleaches paper, glass traps heatBehind south-facing glass a print loses its colour within weeks. Replacing it costs paper, ink and half an hour of someone’s morning, branch by branch.
03Thirty branches, thirty different windowsAcross a network or a franchise, every office lays out its own cards. Brand consistency then depends on whoever happens to be free that week.

02Placements

Each zone of a branch calls for a different screen

A window is not driven like a reception display, and a touch totem serves a different moment of the visit. These four placements come up most often.

Floor plan of an estate agency seen from above: a client's journey across four screens, from the window on the pavement to the entrance, reception and seating corner

Couple stopping at an estate agency window: the screen shows a flat with a balcony for sale and a free valuation in branch1 · WindowBefore the doorThe window, facing the streetThe most demanding position: daylight arrives behind the screen. Brightness decides here, not resolution.
In the evening, a passer-by searches for a property on the touch kiosk in the entrance of a closed agency: buy, rent or get a valuation2 · EntranceEven after hoursA touch kiosk, to browse aloneVisitors filter by budget and by area themselves — see interactive terminals. Usable even when the branch is shut, if the kiosk sits in a lobby.
Client in an estate agency waiting area reading a portrait screen that presents a loft with a roof terrace3 · ReceptionWhile waitingReception and the waiting areaA wall screen or a tablet to fill five minutes of waiting: local instructions, free valuations, open house dates.
Client seated in an agency's seating corner, facing a totem that presents this week's favourite: a townhouse with a terrace4 · Seating cornerBetween two appointmentsA totem in the seating cornerA portrait screen that needs no wall and moves with the season or the campaign of the moment.

03What changes

Listings come from your software,
not from a USB stick.

Agency reception: the wall screen shows a stone cottage with a garden, new this week, and viewings by appointment

A listing entered once, shown across the whole branch.

The screen reads the portfolio your negotiators already maintain. Nobody exports anything, nobody walks a memory stick to the window, and the team carries on working in the system it knows.

  • ✓Passers-by stop: Movement catches the eye where a static card blends into the street. Large photographs, price, floor area, town, and a QR code so the details leave with the viewer.
  • ✓The visit continues indoors: The property spotted in the window reappears at reception, on a screen or a tablet, while the visitor waits for a negotiator. Part of the conversation has already happened.
  • ✓The portfolio stays alive: A property is instructed, it appears. It completes, it disappears. No handling in branch, weekends included, across every window at once.

04The connection

Three settings, then you stop thinking about it

How the connection works

Everything is driven from E-MANAGER, the EMITY web dashboard. For property professionals it carries a dedicated widget, E-IMMO, which reads the listings where your team already keys them in — so the window is never a second place to update.

About integrations, plainly: E-IMMO already connects to the main platforms of the French market — AC3, Adaptimmo, Hektor, Netty. If your agency runs something else, send us the name of your system and we will tell you what an integration involves before you commit to anything. We would rather say « not yet » than sell you a connector that does not exist.

  • ✓Enable the E-IMMO widget inside E-MANAGER.
  • ✓Enter the security code our team sends you.
  • ✓Choose what goes out: property type, price bracket, area, sole agency instructions.
  • ✓From then on the window follows your portfolio, with nothing left to do.
Worth knowing5 yearson battery

A shopfront with no cabling, readable in direct sunlight.

EMITY is the first French vendor to support electronic paper (e-paper). For a window of listings it is an unusually good fit: the image draws no power between updates, stays readable in direct sunlight, and a panel runs for around five years on battery. No cabling to pull through the shopfront.

05Choosing the hardware

What decides is brightness, ahead of resolution

Placement Brightness to aim for Common size Why
Window in direct sun 2,500 to 5,000 cd/m² 43 to 75 in. A living-room television (300 to 400 cd/m²) turns grey behind exposed glass.
Shaded window, narrow street 1,500 to 2,500 cd/m² 43 to 65 in. Reflection on the glass matters as much as direct light; an anti-glare treatment is sometimes enough.
Reception, waiting area 350 to 700 cd/m² 43 to 55 in. A commercial panel is built for 12 to 16 hours a day, where a consumer model is rated for 4 to 6.
E-paper window (prices, instructions) No backlight 13 to 32 in. Readable in full sun, no power draw between updates, and it mounts without a supply.

These are the orders of magnitude of the commercial display market, not an EMITY price list: EMITY publishes the software and works through a network of certified resellers who quote and install the hardware suited to your shopfront. On the software side, E-MANAGER works with screens from every manufacturer — including the ones already on your walls.

06Getting started

From the order to the first listing on screen

Technician surveying the position of a screen in an agency window, tablet in handStep 1A look at your windowOrientation, sun exposure, wall space, power and network. Your EMITY reseller takes those measurements and proposes the panel that matches.
Back of a window screen: the E-BOX player fixed to the mount, a hand plugging in the HDMI cableStep 2The screen, with or without a playerA screen running Android, Tizen (Samsung) or webOS (LG) takes the E-SOFT application directly. Otherwise an E-BOX player sits behind any screen.
Widget catalogue in E-MANAGER, where the E-IMMO widget is switched onStep 3Linking your property softwareEnable the E-IMMO widget, enter the security code, choose which listings go out. Minutes, not days.
Agency team around a laptop scheduling the window contentStep 4Control stays with your teamEvery member of staff gets their own access: schedule a campaign, drop in a local news item, push a sole agency instruction, from any desk in the branch.

07The wider picture

An established platform, and a network to fit it

EMITY equips independent agencies and branded networks alike, with the same E-MANAGER and the same E-IMMO widget. The interface is web-based: it opens from any desk, with nothing to install.

+7,000

screens connected worldwide

+1,000

customer accounts

+130

certified resellers

+20

countries

Already running a competitor’s screens? They can often be taken over (our Replay scheme) rather than replaced while still in good order. Worth raising with your reseller, or see our offers and our subscriptions.

08Common questions

What agencies ask before they fit anything

Brightness is the first criterion, ahead of resolution. For a window in direct sun the commercial display market sits between 2,500 and 5,000 cd/m²; for a shaded shopfront or a narrow street, 1,500 to 2,500 cd/m² is enough. For comparison, a consumer television peaks around 300 to 400 cd/m² and turns grey behind glass. Your EMITY reseller measures the position on site, because the orientation of the shopfront changes the answer.

The budget splits in two. The hardware — high-brightness screen, mount or totem, installation — is quoted by a certified reseller and depends on size, brightness and how many windows you are fitting. The software is an E-MANAGER subscription; the plans are set out on our subscriptions, and the E-IMMO widget requires a plan that includes widgets. A single window and a thirty-branch network are not the same project, so a quote on your own case is the only useful number.

Usually, yes. E-MANAGER is built to work with screens from every manufacturer: if the panel is sound and bright enough for where it sits, it can be connected. Two routes — the E-SOFT application installs straight onto an Android, Tizen (Samsung) or webOS (LG) screen; otherwise an E-BOX player goes behind it. A fleet currently driven by another platform can often be taken over under our Replay scheme.

The E-IMMO widget is connected to the platforms commonly used in the French market: AC3, Adaptimmo, Hektor, Netty. Activation happens inside E-MANAGER with a security code from our team. If your agency runs a different system — and outside France that is likely — send us its name: we will tell you what an integration involves before you commit to anything, rather than promise a connector that does not exist yet.

No. Two cases. If the screen runs Android, Tizen (Samsung) or webOS (LG), the E-SOFT application installs on the screen itself and there is nothing else to plug in. Otherwise an E-BOX player — a box about the size of a paperback, in HD, 4K or 8K — mounts behind the screen. Either way the day-to-day driving happens in a browser, not on a dedicated machine.

Commercial panels are generally rated between 50,000 and 70,000 hours of operation, roughly 7 to 10 years at 12 hours a day. In a window, what really separates models is thermal management: behind south-facing glass, a consumer set without ventilation ages quickly. Exact warranty terms depend on the manufacturer and the model, and your reseller should give them to you in writing before you order.

Listings first, pulled automatically from your property software: photographs, price, floor area, town, with a QR code so the details leave with the viewer. Around them, whatever earns a step through the door: video tours, seller testimonials, valuation days, neighbourhood news, and your sole agency instructions. The right balance depends on your street — a pedestrianised high street and a retail park do not draw the same audience. Content is composed in EMITY’s built-in editor and, if your team already works in them, in Canva or Adobe Express.

09Nearby

Three pages that go further

Window screens, all retail

The same subject from a shopkeeper’s point of view: digital window displays.

Digital signage across property

The wider sector, developers and property managers included: the real estate sector.

The platform in detail

What E-MANAGER does beyond the window: the E-MANAGER.

Let’s make it concrete

Try the window before you order a screen

The trial opens a full E-MANAGER account: build your branch’s listing loop, look at it on a screen, time how long it actually takes. If something is missing for your property software, we will say so before you commit to anything.