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Baanto intros new touchscreen tech for digital signage, DOOH

July 26, 2013

Independent touchscreen technologies manufacturer Baanto International Ltd. has announced the full production release of its large-format ShadowSense based products targeting the interactive digital signage and digital out-of-home markets.

Available immediately, the ShadowSense products now support 32-, 42-, 46-, 55-, 65-, 70- and 85-inch panels. All of the products are designed to support the standard TFT LCD sizes currently available in the market and being used in commercial applications. Reacting to market demand, the company said, the 32-, 55-, 65-, 72- and 85-inch touch frames all support the Windows 8 "zero pixel" border area, allowing users to implement Windows 8 multitouch applications, either now or in the future, without having to replace or retrofit displays deployed at customer locations.

All of the large format touchscreens feature:

• Plug and Play with Windows 7, Windows 8, Linux, Mac OS and Android operating systems, with no drivers or touch applications complicating the system integration and slowing down the host CPU;
• Real-time tracking of up to six touchpoints and real-time touchpoint size calculation, allowing developers to create new use models as well as implement palm and spurious touch rejection
• Responds to almost every solid touch object and eliminates the need for bare finger touching, especially important in a public venue; and
• Provides ambient light immunity of up to 10,000 footcandles and eliminates erratic touch behavior caused by bright lights or filtered sunlight.

"Windows 8 appears to be an enabling technology for sophisticated signage and display applications," said Av Utukuri, Baanto CTO, in the announcement. "Baanto large format products using ShadowSense technology implement the zero pixel border and are compatible with the use of Windows 8 edge swipes. Beyond Windows 8, these products also support Windows 7, Mac OS, Linux and Android operating systems. In all of these operating systems, Baanto continues to offer one of the few large format multitouch products that don't require drivers or touch detection applications running on the host CPU. This allows the use of thin clients, media servers and low-power CPUs without compromising the application performance."

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