IKE Smart City

IKE Smart City develops and operates interactive digital kiosks that serve as smart-city infrastructure with integrated digital out-of-home advertising. Spun out of national OOH media company Orange Barrel Media, IKE positions itself as pioneering smart-city technology to improve lives in cities, deploying double-sided touchscreen kiosks in urban public spaces. Its kiosks provide services grouped around discovery (business directories, restaurant and activity listings), mobility (multi-modal wayfinding with real-time transit information for buses, rail, streetcars and bike/car share) and equity (free Wi-Fi and social-services information such as shelter, job and recovery resources), alongside ADA-compliant interfaces, multilingual support and emergency call features.

According to its site, IKE operates in 23-plus markets nationwide, including Denver, Atlanta, Houston, Miami, San Antonio, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Tampa, Phoenix, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Minneapolis and Oakland. The hardware features high-definition screens, kinetic lighting and weather-durable fabrication, running proprietary in-house software with ongoing feature updates.

IKE's business model is self-sustaining: it generates revenue through media sales on the kiosk screens while providing the kiosks and civic services to municipal partners at no cost. This makes IKE simultaneously a smart-city technology provider and a DOOH media owner, monetizing a street-furniture network of interactive kiosks embedded in city centers across the United States.