Daktronics, Inc. is an American company based in Brookings, South Dakota, that designs, manufactures, sells, and services video displays, scoreboards, digital billboards, dynamic message signs, sound systems, and related products. It was founded in 1968 by two South Dakota State University professors.
History
Daktronics was founded in 1968 by Al Kurtenbach and Duane Sander, professors of electrical engineering at South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota.[4] The name is a portmanteau of "Dakota" and "electronics".[5] The company wanted to get into the medical instrument field, but the company's founders found that field too large for them, so they changed their focus to providing electronic voting systems for state legislatures;[6] their first client was for the State of Utah's legislature.[7]