It's the next text thing

​But early next year, visitors to the forces veterans' Royal Hospital home and its grounds could be getting guided tours by text in their own language, whether that be English, Japanese or a number of other mother tongues.

The hospital is among a range of clients already using streamtext to reliably deliver important messages to customers or key staff.

And now the company is getting a wider audience of its own as a nominee for the Mail's Business Awards in the Kingston Communications-sponsored Communications Technology in Business Award.

“StreamText is already being used by East Riding College to alert students to timetable changes, and to answer their queries,” said Streamline Media project manager Nick Holroyd-Doveton.

“Our product incorporates a multi-media messaging facility which we believe is currently unique and, so long as you have a mobile phone, you can take a picture and relay it anywhere you want to through our dashboard without any need for peripheral software.

“In one context, we have recently used the system to allow music fans at the TribFest to beam pictures and messages onto the big screens, and we will be doing that again at the Leeds Festival.

“Opportunities to utilise StreamText are almost limitless, for instance for proof of receipt of damaged goods or for motor insurance claims.”

A Hull shipping company is already using the system to record damage to freight containers and a trial programme is underway with an NHS trust on patient updating.

Established in Hull in 2000, Streamline Media offers a range of multi-media marketing solutions plus website design and development, and corporate branding.

StreamText comes from its line-up of modular framework systems which can be tailored to fit client needs and can, the company claims, easily be integrated into existing databases and website infrastructures, saving time and money over development from scratch.