Carmanah Technologies Corporation has released another interesting product aimed at the transit industry: the i-PANEL illuminated advertising panel.

Transit shelter advertising panels, with their high visibility to both vehicle traffic and pedestrians, are one of the most popular forms of outdoor advertising and a key revenue source for outdoor advertising firms as well as transit agency partners. In North America alone, the ad panel market currently generates approximately $300M in annual revenues and is growing at a rate of 8% per year.

Illuminated advertising panels provide advertisers with market access 24 hours per day. Until now, one of the primary issues of an illuminated ad panel program was access to power, and the number of ad panels in a program that would be lighted was influenced by the possibility and/or cost effectiveness of a grid connection. Currently, less than 30% of the bus shelters in North America are fitted with illuminated ad panels.

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