Photo courtesy Sunshine Electronic Display Corporation
Sunshine Electronic Display Corporation located in St. Joseph announced Monday it has expanded electronic signage to allow gas companies to electronically change signs as prices fall and rise.
According to a news release Sunshine has created super-bright LED electronic signs for around 30 gas stations in St. Joseph and 20 in the Kansas City metro area.
Sunshine’s chairman and CEO Kendall Randolph said that Sunshine creates the bright bold LED numbers on the signs for the fuel and lottery industries.
“The company that owns the signs controls the changes directly from their computers,” Randolph said. “They can manage one sign or multiple signs anywhere in the country. The changes are uplinked to Sunshine’s data centers that remotely make the changes within one minute using cellular modems. With falling gas prices, we’ve seen a lot of price changes go through our data centers.”
Sunshine also manufactures lottery billboard signs in 34 of the 42 states that have state lotteries, including Missouri and Kansas.
The company said all of the electronic signs are fabricated in St. Joseph; most of the components are American made. The few components that are not American made are not available in the United States.
The 43-year-old Sunshine Electronics Display Corporation employees 120 people. It has two data centers in St. Joseph and one located at 1102 Grand in Kansas City, Mo.
The company said it has more than 14,000 displays installed in the United States.