In this article we're looking at another of Winmate's seemingly endless number of industrial touchscreen monitor. Most industrial touchscreen monitor are work horses — displays mounted into a panel in a factory somewhere, serving as the human touch interface to programs and machines. It's important work, but industrial touchscreen monitor aren't particularly exciting. You've seen one, you've seen them all. But that's not the case with many of Winmate's industrial touchscreen monitor. Sure, they may have very technical names, like the R19IB7T-CHA1 that's the subject of this review. But Winmate, again and again, manages to make industrial touchscreen monitor special. They might add big colorful pushbutton controls, or give them a slender stainless steel housing, make one for use on boats, and so on. Almost all mobile computing technology is now made by a small number of Taiwanese, Chinese and Korean companies and contract manufacturers that then mostly sell their products under customer or distributor labels. Interestingly, Winmate of Taiwan goes back about as far as we do. Ever since its founding in 1994, they've been doing industrial display technologies and solutions. The company has also branched out into digital signage, marine grade displays and computers and, most recently, rugged mobile PCs, Tablet PCs, embedded automation controllers, and rugged Panel PCs such as the Winmate industrial touchscreen monitor Series reviewed here. Winmate may not have the name recognition of some of the major players in the rugged field, but that is often the case with Taiwanese OEMs who either make products for name brands or work through resellers, system integrators and distributors. In fact, Winmate is the OEM of many highly regarded brand-name systems. The industrial touchscreen monitor we had in our lab is a rugged vehicle or stationary-mount panel computer that's part of Winmate's expansive roster of Panel PCs available in an almost dizzying variety of configurations. Depending on the intended application, industrial touchscreen monitor can be equipped with either a small 10.4-inch display or the larger 19-inch display in our eval unit. Resolutions range from VGA (640 x 480) to SVGA (800 x 600) to XGA (1024 x 768). A 5 wire resistive touch screen is standard, but Winmate offers an optional infrared touch screen as well as anti-reflective protective glass. All of Winmate's rugged Panel PCs are sealed to at least IP65 standards, with some available with IP67 sealing. This review covers the industrial touchscreen monitor model that comes with a 15-inch XGA (1024 x 768 pixel) display with a resistive touchscreen and a very strong backlight that can provide about high nits of backlight brightness (commercial notebooks usually have less than 200 nits). Onboard connectivity consists of four waterproof grade I/O ports that are highly configurable. Standard configurations offer LAN, two USB, one serial connection and DC power via waterproof IP68-rated Chogori connectors. The industrial touchscreen monitor measures and weighs about 12 pounds as tested. It's only 2.3 inches thick, which means it can be mounted almost anywhere. The surface of its metal case is smooth and there are no indents or openings of any kind. This industrial touchscreen monitor can be mounted in a wall panel, an instrument panel, or on any kind of free-standing mounting system. The reason why this industrial touchscreen monitor needs no fan or cooling vents is its low-power Intel Atom processor. Winmate chose the 1.6GHz Intel, the same chip that reliably powers tens of millions of netbook computers. This chip is no powerhouse for high-end computing, but it is more than adequate for virtually all panel applications. Winmate designer and also maker of Human Machine Interface (HMI) Touch Panels, Operator Interface Terminals, Industrial Box PCs, Web Thin Clients, and also Industrial Monitors introduces their Compact and Compact Plus HMI Panels come criterion from the manufacturing facility pre-installed with Windows Embedded Compact 7 and also Windows 10 IoT Enterprise for Open Platform Communications (OPC) for automation and IoT applications. Open Up Platform Communications (OPC) is a collection of standards and also specifications for industrial telecommunication. OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is an industrial M2M communication protocol for interoperability established by the OPC Foundation. It is the follower to Open Platform Communications (OPC). WINMATE once again shows its management as a premier supplier of Smart and also Rugged HMI Touch Panels for the commercial automation industry now supplying their smart series of Compact and also Compact Plus HMI touch panels and touchscreen user interfaces with the most recent Windows os, communications and also networking capabilities as typical to assist in IoT applications. Greater Performance as well as Enhanced Security with Windows 10 IoT and also Embedded Compact 7 Makes WINMATE Compact and also Compact Plus Series HMIs Ideal for Complex IoT and Automation Applications Using a familiar experience for consumers with an open systems environment via WINMATE's Compact as well as Compact Plus HMIs, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise delivers all the power as well as dependability of the Windows 10 os, but with greater system efficiency and also improved safety. IoT Enterprise runs on 32-bit and also 64-bit x86 chipsets. Now WINMATE's Compact HMI as well as Compact Plus HMIs Touchscreens power even a greater variety of commercial IoT applications, Web HMI, SCADA and Enterprise applications. Along with regulate, keeping track of as well as visualization, WINMATE's intelligent Compact Series with Windows 10 IoT will certainly execute much more customized features in a secure, reputable and streamlined means to satisfy mission-critical needs of the venture as well as plant operations. WINMATE's Compact HMI Panels with Preinstalled Windows Embedded Compact 7 OS and also Equipped Intel ® Celeron ® Processor N2930, Support OPC UA and SOAP based Protocols for Web HMI Applications WINMATE Compact HMI panels are part of WINMATE's smart family of effective Touch Panel PCs, which additionally consists of the Premium and also Standard Series HMIs. Like all WINMATE's Smart HMIs, the Compact Series HMI Panels are open machine user interfaces made from a rugged light weight aluminum die-cast real estate powered by the Intel Celeron N2930 processor engine. Running Windows ® Embedded Compact 7, the Compact HMI panels from WINMATE are high resolution touchscreen screens, offered in a wide variety of interface sizes including: 7.0", 10.1", 12.1", 15.0", 17.0", 18.5" and 21" touchscreen screens. The Compact Series touchscreen display supplies a host of equipment includes not normally readily available in this cost array consisting of quick reaction times thanks to its processor tons. WINMATE Compact HMI Panels likewise sustain several TCP/IP procedures including: OPC UA and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) based Protocols for Web HMI applications. SOAP is a messaging procedure that enables programs on disparate os such as Windows as well as Linux to connect using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and also its Extensible Markup Language (XML). Leveraging SOAP with WINMATE Compact HMI touch panels uses a couple of main advantages consisting of: a platform and also language independent protocol, streamlined communications with proxies and also firewall softwares as well as the capability to utilize different protocols such as HTTP as well as SMTP. WINMATE's Compact Plus HMI Panels with Preinstalled Windows 10 IoT Enterprise OS as well as Intel ® Core ™ i3-4010U Processor Supports OPC UA and also TCP/IP-based Protocols for HMI, SCADA as well as MES Applications WINMATE Compact Plus HMI system supplies a compact, all-in-one panel based upon embedded technology. The Comact Plus features an Intel ® Core ™ i3-4010U cpu, DDR3L-1600 SDRAM of as much as 8 GB, typical SD card port, and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Windows 7 Ultimate MUI/ Windows Embedded 7 32/64-little bit/ Windows Embedded. Available in 12.1", 15.0", 15.6", 17.0", 18.5" as well as 21.5" display sizes, the Compact Plus features consist of extremely versatile interfaces and developments typical to the Smart family of HMIs from WINMATE, which also consist of the Premium as well as Standard Series. In addition, as an ingrained, PC-based HMI system sustaining TCP/IP based Protocols, the Comact Plus smoothly offers all HMI, SCADA as well as MES application requirements also. WINMATE's Compact as well as Compact Plus HMI Panels also support Distributed Control Object Model (DCOM-based) methods as well as user interfaces and OPC UA APIs, OPC DA (OPC Historical Data Access Protocol), OPC HDA (OPC Historical Data Access Protocol), OPC AE (OPC Alarm & Event Protocols), and also OPC Commands (OPC Commands Protocol) for Automation, Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. Winmate developer and manufacturer of Human Machine Interface (HMI) Touch Panels, Operator Interface Terminals, Industrial Box PCs, Web Thin Clients, and also Industrial Monitors introduces their Compact and also Compact Plus HMI Panels come standard from the manufacturing facility pre-installed with Windows Embedded Compact 7 as well as Windows 10 IoT Enterprise for Open Platform Communications (OPC) for automation and also IoT applications. Currently WINMATE's Compact HMI and Compact Plus HMIs Touchscreens power even a higher variety of industrial IoT applications, Web HMI, SCADA and also Enterprise applications. Running Windows ® Embedded Compact 7, the Compact HMI panels from WINMATE are high resolution touchscreen displays, offered in a broad array of user interface dimensions consisting of: 7.0", 10.1", 12.1", 15.0", 17.0", 18.5" and also 21" touchscreen screens. WINMATE Compact Plus HMI system provides a compact, all-in-one panel based on ingrained technology.
