Ebani Tech 2026 Platform Roadmap: What We're Building This Year
Released: May 2026
We're expanding our platform across eleven feature areas this year — each designed to make digital signage smarter, more measurable, and more valuable for every business running screens. From real-time audience intelligence to AI-driven campaign tools, from seamless integrations to proactive device monitoring, here's everything you can expect.
Eleven Feature Areas
Our 2026 roadmap is organized into eleven capabilities, each addressing a distinct dimension of the platform, together forming a clear picture of where Ebani Tech is headed.
- Real-Time Face Tracking. Continuous audience analysis that understands who is watching and for how long.
- Dashboard Reporting & Metrics. A faster reporting engine, a redesigned dashboard, and AI-powered recommendations.
- Heatmap Analytics. Spatial audience data mapped directly onto your venue floor plan.
- Playback Telemetry. A real-time, verifiable log of every campaign impression delivered.
- Remote Diagnostics. Continuous device health monitoring with instant WhatsApp alerts.
- Exposure Frequency Analytics. Tracking how often the same viewer encounters your campaign.
- Emotion Detection. Understanding not just who saw your content, but how it made them feel.
- Google Calendar & Sheet Sync. Campaign scheduling connected to the tools you already use.
- Zoho CRM Integration. Bringing campaign data into your CRM workflows and lead pipelines.
- AI Campaign Optimization. Platform-generated recommendations for campaign improvement.
- Time-Based Content Variations. The right message at the right time, switching automatically.
Real-Time Face Tracking
Why Real-Time Face Tracking?
Most screens display content without any awareness of who is actually watching. Audience measurement has relied on estimates or a single captured snapshot — producing data that is imprecise and increasingly hard for advertisers to trust. The expectations of modern advertising demand better.
What We're Building
- Continuous audience analysis. The camera analyses who is in front of the screen throughout the full duration of content playback.
- Unique viewer identification. Each person is counted once, giving you accurate reach data rather than inflated counts.
- Dwell time measurement. How long each viewer engages with your content is tracked and reported.
- Seamless reporting sync. All audience data flows automatically into your campaign analytics.
What This Means for You
Your screens will know who is watching. Advertisers get real reach and real attention metrics — not estimates.
Dashboard Reporting & Metrics
Why Dashboard Reporting?
Our current analytics infrastructure is showing the strain of scale — reports are slower than they should be and insights require more effort to extract than they deserve. Beyond that, most advertisers don't live inside a dashboard. Insights need to reach them automatically, in a format they can act on immediately.
What We're Building
- A faster, more powerful reporting engine. Analytics load quickly and scale with your installation size.
- Redesigned analytics dashboard. One clear view of audience, engagement, and campaign performance inside your CMS.
- Automated WhatsApp reports. Timely performance summaries delivered directly to advertisers — no login required.
- Recommendation Engine v1. AI-generated suggestions that tell you how to improve creative performance.
What This Means for You
Faster reports, smarter insights, and recommendations that reach advertisers without them having to ask.
Heatmap Analytics
Why Heatmap Analytics?
Knowing how many people saw a screen is a starting point. Understanding where they were and how they moved through a venue is where real placement and content strategy decisions get made. That level of spatial intelligence has been missing from digital signage — until now.
What We're Building
- Visual venue floor map. Upload your venue layout and see audience traffic overlaid directly on it.
- Time-based traffic analysis. Understand when and where footfall peaks throughout the day.
- Screen placement intelligence. See exactly which screens are delivering the most audience exposure.
What This Means for You
Venue operators can prove the value of every placement. Advertisers can see exactly where their campaign is reaching people.
Playback Telemetry System
Why Playback Telemetry?
Advertisers are told their content ran — but verifying exactly when, on which screen, and whether it completed correctly has been difficult. As investment in the channel grows, that ambiguity becomes a real problem for both operators and the advertisers they serve.
What We're Building
- Complete impression logging. Every content play is recorded with screen, creative, timestamp, and delivery status.
- Live status across all screens. Your CMS always reflects what is actually happening in the field, in real time.
- Per-campaign delivery records. A clean, auditable history of exactly what ran, where, and when.
What This Means for You
Full proof of delivery for every campaign. No ambiguity about what ran, where, and when.
Remote Diagnostics
Why Remote Diagnostics?
A screen that goes offline silently means lost revenue and interrupted campaigns — often discovered only when a client notices. Manually monitoring device health across multiple venues is not scalable, and reactive fixes always cost more than prevention.
What We're Building
- Continuous installation health monitoring. Every screen in every venue is watched around the clock.
- Instant WhatsApp alerts. When a screen needs attention, the right person is notified immediately.
What This Means for You
Issues are caught before they become client problems. Every installation stays watched even when you're not looking.
Exposure Frequency Analytics
Why Exposure Frequency?
Reach tells you how many people saw your campaign. Frequency tells you how many times each person saw it — and that distinction has always been missing from out-of-home advertising. With unique viewer detection in place, we can now measure it properly for the first time.
What We're Building
- Repeat viewer tracking. The same person is identified across multiple exposures throughout the day.
- Frequency reporting. See exactly how many viewers saw your campaign once, twice, three times or more.
What This Means for You
Out-of-home frequency is measurable for the first time. Advertisers can optimize creative rotation and report on frequency with real data.
Emotion Detection
Why Emotion Detection?
Impression data tells you a campaign was seen. Demographic data tells you who saw it. Neither tells you whether the content actually landed — whether it captured attention or fell flat. That gap between exposure and impact is what emotion detection closes.
What We're Building
- Real-time mood inference. Emotional response to content is detected and recorded during playback.
- Emotion data in your dashboard. Responses surface alongside reach, dwell time, and demographics in your analytics.
- Campaign-level emotional insight. Understand how different creatives perform emotionally across audiences.
What This Means for You
A signal no other advertising channel can provide. Understand how your content makes people feel — and use it to build better campaigns.
Google Calendar & Sheet Sync
Why Google Integration?
Advertisers plan campaigns in spreadsheets long before they think about a CMS. Requiring them to manually re-enter that plan into a separate system creates duplication and friction that shouldn't exist. The platform should connect to where planning already happens.
What We're Building
- Google account connection. Link your Google account directly from the dashboard in a few clicks.
- Sheet-driven campaign scheduling. Your connected Google Sheet becomes the live source for your campaign plan.
- Automatic campaign sync. Updates in your sheet are reflected in the platform automatically — no manual entry needed.
What This Means for You
Plan in the tools you already use. Your campaigns stay in sync with your sheet automatically — no manual CMS entry required.
Zoho CRM Integration
Why Zoho CRM?
Campaign data and sales data currently live in separate systems. That disconnect means audience intelligence captured by the platform never makes it into the workflows where sales decisions are actually made — leaving valuable signals unused.
What We're Building
- Campaign and audience data in your CRM. Engagement signals from your screens flow directly into Zoho workflows and lead pipelines.
What This Means for You
Your screen intelligence works inside your sales process — bridging the gap between campaign exposure and pipeline activity.
AI Campaign Optimization
Why AI Campaign Optimization?
Every campaign generates data. But most advertisers don't have the time to turn that data into action — the gap between insight and decision is where optimization stalls. The platform already has everything it needs to bridge that gap.
What We're Building
- Automated performance analysis. The platform identifies what is working and what isn't across your campaigns.
- Plain-language recommendations. Clear, actionable guidance on what to improve — surfaced directly in your CMS.
What This Means for You
Advertisers don't need to interpret data themselves. The platform tells them exactly what to improve next.
Time-Based Content Variations
Why Time-Based Variations?
The right message at the right time is a basic principle of advertising — but executing it has always meant managing multiple campaigns and manual scheduling overhead. We're making it as simple as demographic targeting already is on our platform.
What We're Building
- Time-slot variation builder. Add time-based content variations to a campaign the same way you add demographic ones.
- Automatic daily switching. The platform switches between variations at the right time throughout the day — no manual work needed.
What This Means for You
The right message at the right time of day — inside a single campaign, with zero manual switching.
Looking Ahead
2026 is a defining year for Ebani Tech. Every feature in this roadmap is built around one conviction: that digital signage should be as measurable, intelligent, and connected as any other advertising channel — and that the businesses using it deserve a platform that works as hard as they do.
We'll share updates as each feature approaches launch. To learn more or join our early access program, reach out at ebanitech.com.