EdgeBox® — Edge AI for Public Screens | Sizzle Studios®
A young girl in a mall lobby raises her hand at a giant screen showing a friendly orange cat mirroring her wave — the screen watching back in real time
Sizzle Studios® · EdgeBox® · Edge AI for Public Screens

When the screen watches back, everything changes.

Edge AI that turns reach into revenue.

EdgeBox® inserts artificial intelligence into public-screen and digital-out-of-home environments. All EdgeBox inference happens on-device. The screen sees, understands, and responds at the moment of attention — and turns every interaction into measurable, monetizable, first-party intelligence the venue owns.

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40–90%
OPEX Reduction vs Cloud AI
2–6×
Engagement vs Static DOOH
Sub-50ms
Real-Time Response
70–95%
Uplink & Bandwidth Savings
01 — What EdgeBox® is

Intelligence inserted into public screens. Operating locally. Generating outcomes.

EdgeBox® is a self-contained edge-computing appliance with sensor, compute, and pre-installed Edge AI software. Connect a display surface — outdoor billboard, mall kiosk, airport panel, theme-park screen, lobby display, plush-toy module — and the venue is live. Zero cloud connectivity for the EdgeBox inference path. Anonymized audience insight. Real-time engagement. Measurable outcomes per screen.

A thinking surface

EdgeBox® makes any display a surface that observes, understands, and responds.

At the point of interaction

Inference happens where the person is standing, not in a datacenter on another continent.

No cloud round-trip

Sub-50ms gesture and presence response. The network can drop. The screen keeps working.

Sees who engaged

Dwell time, gesture rate, attention duration, completion, opt-in conversion — captured by observation, without identification.

First-party data you own

Every interaction is a measurable signal. The dataset stays with the venue — not the platform, not a cloud vendor.

Programmatic-ad ready

Anonymized signals stream to your ad server in real time. The screen prices itself by attention earned, not impressions guessed.

Per-screen analytics

Engagement by screen, by hour, by campaign, by cohort. The screen becomes a measurable revenue asset, not a poster.

Localized intelligence

Per-screen autonomy. Per-site customization. No platform lock-in.

Intelligent touchpoints

Scalable across the venue. Revenue-generating from day one. Measurable to the screen.

02 — Why it wins, structurally

Built for the screens the cloud was never designed for.

The first wave of intelligent screens shared one fatal architecture: they ran in the cloud. Latency broke the conversation. Privacy economics broke trust. Per-session inference fees broke the unit math. EdgeBox® is built on the opposite premise — the compute lives where the customer stands.

Zero latency issues

No internet required for the real-time loop. The response is part of the same moment, not the moment after.

Privacy-safe computer vision

No raw video leaves the device. Compliance is architectural, not a policy promise the partner has to defend.

Consistent performance

Predictable frame rate and response time. Stable in sunlight, weather, crowds. Keeps working when LTE drops.

Massive bandwidth savings

The uplink carries aggregate insights, not raw signals. Bandwidth costs drop dramatically vs cloud-streaming alternatives.

Local autonomy per screen

Every screen can be fully customized to its site, venue, and audience. No global rollout to ship a local change.

Scales linearly by screen

Every successful deployment improves the unit math instead of degrading it. No per-session inference invoice.

03 — When EdgeBox® joins a connected kiosk

Nine jobs around the conversation. The kind that compound.

A cloud-connected kiosk can run a Sizzle Synth Human®, a brand spot, a multi-player game, or simple attract content. EdgeBox® handles the venue intelligence around all of it — the sensing, the privacy filter, the analytics, the failsafe, the bandwidth math.

“The conversation can live in the cloud. The intelligence lives in the box.”

01

Walk-by funnel analytics

The cloud only sees the person who touched. EdgeBox® sees the full funnel — walk-bys, glances, approaches, abandonments — reported per kiosk, per hour, per zone.

Five-step funnel · no identification
02

Wake-on-approach

Camera detects gaze and proximity. EdgeBox® triggers an attract-mode invitation before the person has decided whether to engage.

30–60% engagement lift
03

Anonymized cohort signal

Local inference passes a one-line context token to the cloud Synth Human® — adult plus child, business attire, language hint — so the greeting tunes itself. Raw video never leaves the box.

Personalization without exposure
04

Camera-side privacy scrubbing

Faces blurred, bodies silhouetted, audio cleaned before any uplink. The procurement gate for healthcare, finance, education, and secure airport zones.

HIPAA & GDPR-defensible by architecture
05

Engagement telemetry

Gaze direction, posture lean, micro-expressions, drop-off signals streamed back as a real-time score. The Synth Human® can shorten, escalate, or close out before frustration sets in.

Conversation that adapts mid-flight
06

Multi-person disambiguation

Two people at the kiosk — parent and child, tourist and local, two coworkers. Local vision identifies who is speaking and tells the conversational layer who to address.

Cloud audio alone can't do this
07

Connectivity failsafe

Stadiums, airports, festivals, malls — the internet will drop. EdgeBox® keeps the screen alive with cached attract content, a holding message, or a touch FAQ until the uplink returns.

The kiosk never goes black
08

Venue heatmap & attribution

Multi-kiosk deployments roll up into a per-screen ROI report — which screen earns, which dies, when, where. Operator-grade venue analytics without identifying any individual.

ROI per screen, per week
09

Bandwidth economics

Local sensing compressed to structured signals. Only the conversation audio and text travel to the cloud. At a fifty-screen venue, full-video uplink would be unaffordable.

70–95% bandwidth reduction
Riyadh Boulevard retail activation — luxury footwear floating around 'HELLO RIYADH!' on a massive outdoor screen with live crowd-insight overlays
Riyadh Boulevard · Fashion & Retail Activation

One outdoor screen. Luxury inventory on display, audience reading the screen, the screen reading the audience. Live insights, anonymized signal, measurable conversion — no cloud in the conversation path.

04 — Where EdgeBox® ships

Eight environments. One architecture.

Each deployment is a real pattern from the EdgeBox® field manual — not a thought experiment. Same box, same software, different display surface.

Interactive outdoor billboard: two people dance-battling in a plaza, the screen mirroring their poses with live vote counts
Outdoor · Large-Format DOOH

Interactive Digital Billboards

Multi-player billboard games, live polling, gesture-controlled ad selection, audience dwell measurement, real-time crowd-type personalization — all on-device.

Edge AI Features

  • Sub-50ms gesture response
  • Real-time skeletal tracking
  • Adult / child / group classification
  • Time-of-day adaptive creatives

Results

  • 2–6× engagement vs static DOOH
  • Premium CPM justification
  • New sponsorship & gamification revenue
  • 70–95% lower uplink costs
OutdoorQR-lessSponsored
Stadium billboard: 'Who's Gonna Win?' live fan vote — Raiders vs Rams — presented by Coca-Cola, with a tailgate crowd cheering
Sports · Stadium · Live Events

Live Fans. Live Impact.

Real-time fan voting, prediction games, sponsored fan-powered moments. The screen amplifies the crowd that is already there.

Edge AI Features

  • On-device crowd-energy sensing
  • Zero-latency vote tallying
  • Noise-level reactive content
  • Per-section personalization

Results

  • Higher engagement per fan
  • Sponsor-attributable interactions
  • Predict & win revenue
  • First-party fan data
StadiumLive EventsSponsored
Mall kiosk: a woman interacting with a touchless guess-the-price brand activation
Retail · Wayfinding · Brand

Retail & Mall Kiosks

Touchless navigation, store discovery by interest, product recommendations, brand-specific activations, loyalty sign-ups. Vision plus voice without cloud lag.

Edge AI Features

  • Vision + voice without cloud lag
  • Touchless UX (hygiene)
  • Multilingual response instantly
  • Heatmap of intent

Results

  • Eliminates cloud CV + NLP per-session costs
  • Reduces info-desk staffing
  • Increased tenant value
  • Higher conversion at point of curiosity
RetailHospitalityMultilingual
Airport kiosk with EdgeBox sensing alongside Ava, the Sizzle Synth Human, while a traveler continues via Experience Pass on her phone
Aviation · Transit · Secure Networks

Airports & Transportation Hubs

Cloud-connected kiosks where the Sizzle Synth Human® holds the conversation through the uplink and EdgeBox® handles the venue intelligence around it — funnel analytics, wake-on-approach, anonymized cohort hints, camera-side privacy scrubbing, and a holding screen if the uplink drops.

EdgeBox Adds

  • Walk-by funnel analytics
  • Wake-on-approach attract
  • Privacy-scrubbed camera uplink
  • Connectivity failsafe content

Results

  • Reduced missed flights
  • Higher concession revenue
  • Only structured signals uplink
  • Lower info-desk staffing demand
AviationTransitSecure
Las Vegas Strip curved billboard running a live match game with two matching sneakers and a 'YOU WON!' headline
Casinos · Attractions · Resort Entertainment

Theme Parks & Attractions

Live match games, gamified queues, sponsor-branded prize moments, crowd-aware entertainment. Players win on-screen, claim with a phone scan, and the venue captures every interaction along the way.

Edge AI Features

  • Multi-player recognition & tracking
  • Real-time game state on-device
  • Live winner display & leaderboard
  • QR-to-prize-claim from the moment

Results

  • Higher merch & upsell conversion
  • Sponsor-attributable participation
  • Crowd dwell-time lift
  • Recent-winner social proof on the spot
CasinosAttractionsActivation
Pastel plush bear collection: cuddly toy modules with on-device intelligence
Consumer · Character IP · Education

Plush Toys & Education Modules

Plush-toy modules with on-device presence detection, character animation, and scripted educational interaction. Built for kid-friendly environments where cloud uplinks can't be assumed and privacy is non-negotiable.

Edge AI Features

  • Presence & touch response
  • Privacy-first for kids
  • Branded character IP
  • Works without internet

Results

  • Works on the plane, hotel, or home
  • No parental cloud-data concerns
  • Character IP licensing tie-ins
  • Pre-loaded multilingual packs
ConsumerEducationCharacter IP
Executive in an elevator with a small in-cabin display running a luxury automotive scan-to-win activation
Real Estate · Corporate · OOH

Elevators, Lobbies, Office Towers

Hyper-localized advertising, building announcements, tenant-specific messaging, touchless navigation, executive concierge content. Person-presence detection without identification.

Edge AI Features

  • Person-presence detection
  • Floor-aware content
  • Quiet, instant interaction
  • Deterministic in constrained spaces

Results

  • Premium ad inventory
  • Tenant satisfaction lift
  • Building monetization
  • No network dependency in shafts
Real EstateCorporateOOH
Tall vertical interactive billboard inviting passersby to jump in front of the camera, athletes leaping on the screen
Activation · Brand · Plaza

Brand & Plaza Activations

Tall-format and large-canvas brand activations where the screen prompts the body to move and the body moves the brand. Built for plazas, boulevards, and event campuses.

Edge AI Features

  • Vertical-format skeletal tracking
  • Jump / pose detection
  • Sponsored content overlays
  • Live leaderboard mechanics

Results

  • Earned social shares
  • Brand-activation ROI
  • Live event metric capture
  • Plaza dwell-time lift
SponsoredEventPlaza
EdgeBox WNBA activation at Gainbridge Fieldhouse — live fan vote 'Who Do You Love Tonight?' Fever vs Aces, crowd holding phones up
Gainbridge Fieldhouse · WNBA Fever Activation

The crowd becomes the interface. Live fan vote, real-time tally, featured-fan moments, sponsor-attributable participation — captured at the peak of fan energy and tied directly to Sizzle® Experience Pass®.

05 — Optional bridge

QR on the screen. Pass on the phone.

EdgeBox®-powered signs can surface a QR code at the moment of engagement. The guest scans it. Their phone opens Sizzle® Experience Pass® — the venue's loyalty layer, perks, partner offers, and live-event activations.

  • The screen earns the attention — through gesture, dwell, or interaction.
  • The QR closes the loop — surfaced at the right moment, on the right screen.
  • The Pass opens on the phone — no app download, no friction, no handoff.
  • The venue owns the relationship — the Pass is the loyalty layer; the screen was the introduction.
EdgeBox World Cup stadium activation — Fan-Powered Moment overlay with live player vote, crowd energy, and noise level, FIFA crowd in foreground
World Cup Deployment Mock

Same architecture. Bigger stage. The screen is not showing the game — the screen is part of it. Real-time fan vote, real-time engagement, real-time value, in the largest live audience the planet produces.

06 — Why these use cases sell

Financial impact + strategic advantage.

EdgeBox® replaces continuous cloud inference cost with one-time hardware plus per-site service. It generates first-party intelligence from venues that previously produced none. And it scales linearly per screen — not by cloud cost.

OPEX Reduction
40–90% vs cloud AI.
New Revenue Streams
Games, sponsorships, data.
Higher CPMs
Interactive beats static DOOH.
Latency
Eliminated.
Privacy
First by design.
Edge Autonomy
Per screen, per site.
Asset Intelligence
Screens become intelligent assets, not displays.
Data Ownership
Stays local — your venue, your dataset.
Future-Proof
Against network volatility and cloud cost inflation.
Ready when you are

Put one in your venue.

EdgeBox® deployments start with a conversation about your venue, your vertical, and the screens that earn their place at your site. Bring the technical team. Bring the operator. We walk through the architecture and the rollout in the same meeting.

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