TES TEC (represented here by Rachel Malford from TES America) builds touch display hardware that can scale from a bare projected-capacitive touch sensor + LCD module up to fully integrated self-checkout and kiosk-style systems, including deployments in Japanese retail. The point is flexibility: OEMs can buy just the front-end touch stack, or get a more complete HMI assembly depending on where they are in their product cycle and certification path. https://www.tes-tec.com/News_details/TESTECDebutsatEmbeddedWorldNorthAmerica2025.html
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The demo focus is semi-outdoor HMI: a 21.5-inch APM-22 class unit targeting IP65 sealing and IK08 impact resistance, aimed at environments like EV charging, access control panels, and other outdoor terminals where wash-down, dust ingress, and vandal risk are real design inputs. In the same family, smaller formats (around 10.1-inch) lean into very high brightness for sunlight readability, while keeping the same “rugged-first” constraints that drive enclosure design and glass selection for field use.
A practical detail is how these displays fit into a full system architecture. TES TEC can pair the touch monitor with an embedded compute module (often in collaboration with industrial PC partners such as GIGAIPC / Gigabyte), or the customer can bring their own x86/ARM box PC and treat the display as a hardened peripheral. That split matters for lifecycle control: you can keep the mechanical + optical stack stable while iterating compute, I/O (USB-HID touch, serial, GPIO), and OS images across SKUs without redoing the whole front panel stack.
The broader takeaway is that “touch display” is really a reliability problem wearing a UI badge: brightness vs power budget, sealing vs thermal dissipation, glove-compatible PCAP tuning, anti-glare/anti-fingerprint coatings, and operating temperature planning all show up fast once you move from indoor POS to semi-outdoor and industrial embedded. This short interview is filmed at Embedded World North America 2025, and it’s a good snapshot of what vendors mean when they say they can meet customers anywhere on the path from component to complete HMI route.
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