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AT A GLANCE

Elo TouchSystems, the global leader in touch technology, develops, manufactures and markets a complete line of touch screen and touch monitor products. Elo offers the largest selection of touchscreen technologies and LCD touch monitors and carefully designs each product for the demanding requirements of diverse applications, such as industrial, medical, POS, kiosks, retail, hospitality, transportation, office automation, and gaming.

Elo founders invented the touchscreen nearly 40 years ago. Since then, customers have used Elo touchscreens with one common, powerful result—advanced computer technology simplified for all users.

Acoustic Pulse Recognition Touch Technology

Elo Acoustic Pulse Recognition (APR) touchscreens use a completely new and unique way of sensing touches on a display. Consisting only of a glass overlay mounted in front of the display, together with a small electronic controller board, APR technology provides a new set of benefits that have only been partially achieved before by other touch technologies.

APR combines the ultimate in optical qualities, durability, and stability, with excellent dragging properties. By combining stylus, glove, bare finger and fingernail activation, with low-cost advantages, APR is well-suited for many diverse applications including kiosk, point-of-sale and medical instrumentation. In addition, its pure-glass surface is resistant to scratches, water and other contaminants on the screen, and can be scaled from 2.5-inch to 42-inch displays.

APR works in a simple and elegant way—by recognizing the sound created when the glass is touched at a given position.

NOTE: The Acoustic Pulse Recognition touch technology is not supported by all operating systems. See the Technology notes for each driver on the Driver and File Downloads page to verify support for your touchscreen technology.

Benefits

• Optics and durability of pure glass
• Works with finger, glove, pen, credit card, fingernail
• Resistant to water, dust, grease
• No wear-out mechanism
• Works even with scratches
• Excellent drag performance
• Sealable to NEMA 4/IP65 standards
• One time factory calibration, no drift
• Thin borders—only 5mm
• True flat surface
• Small and large sizes
• Palm rejection

Applications

• Restaurant and hospitality automation
• Retail
• Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals
• Pharmacy automation
• Industrial automation
• Office automation

Touch Products

Acoustic Pulse Recognition products from Elo include LCD touchmonitors and LCD touchcomputers.

SecureTouch Surface Wave Touch Technology

Flat-screen SecureTouch products are made of extra-tough glass substrates that resist vandalism. These touchscreens incorporate the solid-glass and coating-free construction of proven Elo IntelliTouch products.

Benefits

• No coatings or overlays to wear, scratch, or tear
• High impact resistance — about 2.5 times stronger than normal IntelliTouch
• Meets UL-60950 and CSA 22.2 No. 60950 ball drop test (0.5 kg, 50 mm diameter ball dropped from height of 1.3 m)
• Tempered, heat or chemically strengthened glass
• Safe break pattern (tempered only)
• Sizes from 10.4 inches to 32.0 inches
• Thickness ranging from 0.125 inch (3 mm) to 0.50 inch (12 mm)
• Antiglare glass option (0.25-inch thickness only)
• Sealable against dust, splashing liquids, and other contaminants
• Privacy filter option for applications involving sensitive information (e.g., ATM transactions)

Applications

Specify SecureTouch products for a variety of demanding public-access applications:

• Bank ATMs
• Ticketing machines
• Kiosks

Touch Products

SecureTouch component products from Elo include LCD touchmonitors, 12mm touchscreens, 6mm touchscreens, and touchscreen controllers.

iTouch "Touch-on-Tube" Surface Wave Touch Technology

Using surface wave technology as its foundation, Elo has created a breakthrough in touch technology—iTouch. In iTouch touch-on-tube technology, surface waves (also known as surface acoustic waves) are directed onto the cathode ray tube (CRT) surface itself for unhindered touch sensing—eliminating any glass overlay on the CRT and delivering the highest quality image possible.

iTouch also provides unmatched durability—a critical feature for the public access environment—because the CRT faceplate is several times stronger than a touchscreen overlay, even a bonded one. iTouch technology leaves the original brightness and clarity intact while providing the same, no-drift, stable performance and proven reliability of surface wave technology.

Benefits

• Touch directly on tube—no touchscreen overlay
• Preserves 100 percent of CRT brightness, clarity, antireflection and color properties
• More durable and safer than even bonded touchscreen overlays
• Same fast, accurate and stable performance as surface wave

Self-Service Applications

• Point-of-information (POI) kiosks
• Point-of-purchase (POP) promotion
• Electronic catalogs
• In-store e-commerce
• Gaming, lottery and amusement
• Multimedia marketing
• Banking/financial transactions
• Ticket sales
• Industrial control rooms
• Computer-based training
• Education