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Digital signage for construction sites

Digital signage for construction puts today’s toolbox talk, the current days-since-last-incident count, the shift rota and the weather on screens crews actually walk past — then lets you update every active site from head office, without driving anywhere. Fugo is the software layer: you bring the screens, we handle what goes on them.

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Manage every site from head office
Hardware-agnostic software
Role-based publishing
Site operations screen showing live output and downtime figures, with a worker in hi-vis alongside

What contractors put on site screens

Your site noticeboard is a sheet of laminated A4 taped to a cabin wall. It is out of date the day after it was printed, and nobody stops to read it. Screens fix that, and they update themselves.

Toolbox talk of the day

Schedule the week’s talks in advance and let each one appear on the morning it is due. Day-parting shows the talk through the pre-start window, then switches the board to production and delivery info for the rest of the shift. No one has to remember to swap it, and the days-since-last-incident count sits alongside it.

Scheduled talksDay-partingDays since incident
Site cabin screen showing the shift handover board with the day’s toolbox talk and targets

Run digital signage for construction from one head office

Contractors do not have one building. They have eleven sites at different stages, three of which will be gone by spring. Fugo is built to run all of them from a single account — organise, schedule and monitor every cabin screen without leaving the office.

Fugo dashboard showing construction job sites organised into screen groups with live online status

Organise every site into screen groups

Group displays by project, region or contractor. Role-based publishing lets a site supervisor update their own cabin board while the group safety message stays locked to head office. Per-screen pricing means when a project completes, you move the player to the next site rather than buying a licence per building.

  • Screen groups by project or region
  • Role-based publishing by site
  • Uptime monitoring and remote recovery
  • Move players between sites, per-screen pricing
Fugo playlist scheduling screen setting start and end dates for a weekly toolbox talk rota

Schedule the week’s toolbox talks in advance

Build the rota once and set start and end dates so each talk appears on the morning it is due. Design Studio and templates let a safety manager build a legible board without a designer: big type, high contrast, readable through a dusty cabin window at four metres.

  • Start and end dates per talk
  • Recurring, day-parted playlists
  • Templates for non-designers
  • Multilingual rotation for mixed crews
Fugo dashboards page displaying live project status data ready to send to construction site screens

Put live project dashboards on the wall

If you already report on programme progress in Power BI, Grafana or Looker, Fugo can put those dashboards straight on a screen in the site office. Feed a days-since-last-incident counter from a Google Sheet or your own system by API. Fugo displays the number your systems produce; it does not calculate, record or verify it.

  • Power BI, Grafana and Looker on a TV
  • Feed counters from a Sheet or API
  • Progress and milestone boards
  • Refreshes live while online

Pull site data from the tools you already use

Fugo connects to the spreadsheets, calendars and dashboards your project teams already rely on, so rotas, delivery windows, weather and safety counters reach every site screen automatically.

PowerBI Dashboards

PowerBI dashboards

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Display your Power BI dashboards to your Digital Signage screens

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Display Grafana dashboards

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Google Sheets

Google sheets

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Google Calendar

Google calendar

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Display your Google Calendar in style

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World Weather

World weather

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Live weather forecast for your screen

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Countdown

Countdown

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Count down live and in style

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World Clock

World clock

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A world clock dashboard for your screen

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Construction digital signage FAQs

Straight answers on hardware, connectivity and what Fugo does, and does not, do on a job site.

Can I manage screens across several active sites from one account?

Yes. Organise screens into groups by project, region or contractor, and publish to one group or all of them at once. When a project finishes you can move the player and reassign it to the next site. You pay per screen, so you add sites as they open and remove them as projects close.

Does Fugo make us OSHA, CDM or HSE compliant?

No. Fugo is a digital signage platform, not a compliance, safety-management or permit-to-work system. It makes safety information easier to keep current and visible — but the compliance obligation, the records and the processes remain yours. It is useful reinforcement, not a substitute for your induction process or its records.

Can Fugo send emergency alerts to site screens?

Fugo can take over screens with priority content, triggered manually, on a schedule, or by an API call from another system — see content triggers. Treat it as a visual reinforcement channel alongside your existing site alarms and muster procedures, not a life-safety system.

What hardware do we need on a construction site?

Fugo runs on the Amazon Signage Stick, Google TV Streamer, NVIDIA Shield, Android, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Windows and ChromeOS. Fugo does not sell hardware. For a covered cabin or welfare unit, a standard commercial display plus a small player is usually fine. For anything exposed to weather, dust or vibration, you need rugged or outdoor-rated displays, sourced from a display manufacturer or AV integrator — see the supported players and displays.

What happens if the site loses internet?

Site broadband is often a 4G router or nothing. Fugo caches scheduled playlist content on the player, so a screen keeps playing through a dropout and syncs when the connection returns. Live dashboards and API-driven panels need a working connection to refresh, so plan for that rather than assume it.

Can Fugo show the same safety message in more than one language?

Yes. Rotate the same safety message through several languages on a timed playlist, or assign a language per screen group so the Polish-speaking crew’s welfare unit shows Polish and the main gate shows English. See multilingual signage for deskless teams for the approach.

Do we need IT to run this, and how is it priced?

No IT required. Design Studio is built for non-designers, and role-based publishing lets a safety manager or site administrator update boards without touching anything technical. Fugo is priced per screen, so you add screens as sites open and remove them as projects close. If you also run fixed facilities like a precast yard or fabrication shop, those look more like manufacturing digital signage, and any Power BI, Grafana or Looker reporting can go straight on a TV. Ready to see it? Book a demo.