Durable interface solutions for kiosks and self-service equipment.
Kiosk interfaces take more abuse than almost any other public surface - gloved hands, wet fingers, deliberate force, and continuous outdoor exposure. A mechanical button that jams or a keypad that fills with dirt generates service calls that erode the economics of the entire deployment.
What kiosk and self-service interfaces face.
Outdoor weather, continuous public use, deliberate abuse, and the expectation of 24/7 availability. Hundreds of transactions per day in rain, snow, and direct sun. Users interact with gloves, wet hands, and varying levels of patience.
Vandalism is constant: screens get scratched, buttons get pried, surfaces get damaged. Every hour of downtime is lost revenue. The interface is simultaneously the most used and most abused component in the system.
Why solid-state piezo for kiosks and self-service equipment.
Ready for solar-powered kiosks.
Self-service kiosks increasingly run on solar or limited power sources. The interface must never dictate battery sizing. Under 10 microamps standby current, below your battery's self-discharge rate. Hardware-triggered wake with zero polling. The HMI contributes effectively nothing to the power budget.
RNC solid-state panels are deployed in outdoor self-service kiosks and EV charging stations across North America, where the separation of metal input panel and display window has eliminated touchscreen-related downtime and reduced interface maintenance to zero across multi-year field deployments.