Systems and methods for providing integrated digital signage advertising to electronic shelf edge labels and systems thereof

A method of deploying and running containerized applications over a digital signage network, comprising:

• deploying from a digital signage content management system executed on the digital signage network, a plurality of packaged containerized applications to a digital signage player remotely located from and communicatively coupled to the digital signage content management system, the digital signage player having a processor and memory;
• using the digital signage player to install and initialize the plurality of packaged containerized applications into a plurality of running containerized applications on the digital signage player, each running containerized application configured to monitor an external computer system communicatively coupled to the running containerized application and to generate monitoring information,
• wherein a first group of the running containerized applications is configured to transmit digital signage content to, and to monitor at least one of the group selected from:
• an electronic shelf edge label system, a pricing system, an inventory system, or an external computer device,
• wherein a second group of the running containerized applications is configured to monitor at least a different one from the group selected from:
• an electronic shelf edge label system, a pricing system, an inventory system, or an external computer device,
• wherein monitoring information generated by the first group of running containerized applications comprises monitoring information that differs from monitoring information generated by the second group of running containerized applications,
• wherein the monitoring information is transmitted for use by the digital signage content management system.