Soofa, a company specializing in solar-powered neighborhood news feed signs, recently expanded to Summit County after rollouts in California and the eastern United States.

The digital world is coming into the real world for Eastvale and San Jacinto residents. Digital kiosks have sprouted up in both cities, sharing news and allowing residents to vote in community feedback surveys.

After expanding across the Eastern seaboard, Soofa (Cambridge, MA), a provider of solar-powered digital signage, has entered a new market in California, the company recently announced.

The cities of Eastvale, San Jacinto and Fair Oaks are the first cities in California and on the West Coast to install the solar-powered smart city Soofa Signs. The Golden State expansion builds off the company’s success throughout the Northeast, Georgia, and Florida.

Soofa, a provider of a solar-powered digital signage, has expanded to the West Coast with solar-powered Soofa kiosk installations in the Greater Los Angeles and Sacramento metro areas, according to a press release. The cities of Eastvale, San Jacinto and Fair Oaks are the first cities in California and on the West Coast to have Soofa kiosks.

Electronic signs that will point people to recreation trails, businesses and cultural amenities in Lebanon made their first appearance this week as part of a two-year pilot program city officials hope will improve outreach to visitors.

Two new digital “smart” signs have been installed downtown that provide a variety of information for residents, from news about local art venues to details about community meetings, directions to summer concerts, and other city news, such as updates on mask mandates. The signs, located along Main Street outside of Pulaski Park and in front of the Hampshire County Courthouse, are solar powered and wire-free. They were developed by Soofa, a Cambridge company started from an innovation lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

FAST COMPANY - Participants of the Accessible Streets Studio, a collaboration between Ford’s Michigan Central and Newlab, will be designing and launching pilots in Detroit to address specific mobility challenges related to bridging transportation gaps, fostering safe and welcoming streets, improving access to mobility information, and access to essential resources. Soofa’s pilot program will use information from the city department of transportation to provide live updates on transit and navigation.

METRO WEST DAILY - With more and more people becoming vaccinated against COVID-19 and the summer travel season looking like a more realistic possibility, the Baker administration awarded $1.6 million in local tourism grants Tuesday and rolled out a new $2 million grant program to enhance tourist destinations across the state. Downtown Framingham Inc. received a grant to install a smart display Soofa sign that features community content and advertising opportunities for local businesses.

GOOD E-READER - Soofa has made its way to Manchester, with the first Soofa Sign already installed at 848 Elm Street. This is a result of a partnership between Soofa Signs and Liz and Jeremy Hitchcock of Orbit Group and the City of Manchester. With this, Manchester has become the first city in the state of New Hampshire to have the Soofa Sign installed.

Soofa Signs have made its way to Manchester, with the first sign already installed at 848 Elm Street. This happens to be the result of a partnership between Soofa Signs and Liz and Jeremy Hitchcock of Orbit Group and the City of Manchester. With this, Manchester has become the first city in the state of New Hampshire to have the Soofa Sign installed.

SMART CITIES WORLD - Miami-Dade County has announced it is upgrading its smart city infrastructure with new interactive informational signs for public transit systems. Soofa was named a winner of Ford Mobility’s City:One Challenge Miami-Dade (formerly known as the City of Tomorrow Challenge), a crowdsourcing platform for residents, businesses and community groups to propose and pilot solutions that improve mobility in Miami-Dade County.

NORTH GWINNETT VOICE - New signage coming to Sugar Hill makes it the first city outside the perimeter and the second city in the state to boast the new technology. The signs will offer local businesses the opportunity to communicate hyper-local messages to people walking by the signs by sharing seasonal deals, adjusted hours of operation, special offerings and more.

PATCH - Watertown is using smart technology to keep residents updated on town events and meetings. The town partnered with Soofa, a Cambridge-based company that builds and installs solar-powered digital signs with an e-ink display. Watertown will have three signs in town that will display town updates, a town meeting and events calendar, a live feed of Watertown's Twitter account, and local business offerings.