Zytronic will show at ISE 2017 touch force sensors for large format screens

The developer of projected touch sensors and projected capacitive technology (PCT y MPCT) will bring its new innovation to this event: Force detection for large interactive touch screens.

Size is important when it comes to large format display systems, large touch tables and video walls refers, with significant growth in this sense during the last year, as observed by the touch sensor supplier Zytronic.

With this concept, The company has developed new force detection sensor technology for large format interactive touch screens, which he will show for the first time during his participation in WHEREAS 2017, of the 7 al 10 February in Amsterdam, with model Z1130zy.

As Ian Crosby explains, Zytronic sales and marketing director, “force or pressure sensing is a completely new way to interact with a touch screen and we are pioneers in bringing it to the touch screen for retail environments, commercial, industrial, leisure and other sectors, offering developers a fantastic opportunity to innovate, a complete technology that exceeds what is possible in advanced tablet and smartphone screens, but that did not exist in large systems until now”.

Zytronic will demonstrate its PCT and MPCT touch sensors with the new force sensors in ATMs, digital kiosks, video walls and screens for casinos so that visitors can clearly differentiate between a soft and hard touch. The company's approach with this development is based on a measurement of the surface area of ​​an applied touch that changes capacitive signal levels depending on the relative contact position on the sensor..

Thanks to these new touch force sensors, the need to integrate an electrical part or other layers in the touch screen glass to measure applied force or pressure is eliminated., since it is based on a firmware modification that can also be installed on existing Zytronic touch screens.