FEATURE
Windows Embedded Platform for HMI An Excerpt from a Windows Embedded White Paper Human-machine interface (HMI) solutions are among the largest market opportunities for device manufacturers. The HMI market is more than $1.5 billion and growing at a healthy rate. Windows Embedded provides one trusted platform to build sustainable, converged industrial solutions with state-of-the-art HMI elements.
Windows Embedded powered solutions connect diverse systems and devices while maintaining compatibility with industry standards. And Windows Embedded enables provision of remote management and diagnostic services, which generate business insight that would otherwise remain out of reach.
These solutions meet the expectations of a diverse workforce set by increasingly intuitive consumer devices in personal use. They also offer your customers familiar tools and design solutions, a high degree of security at reduced cost, and reduced time-to-market. Windows Embedded powered solutions connect diverse technologies while maintaining compatibility with industry standards. The customized solution you offer will be compatible with your customers’ existing systems.
Today’s industrial settings face a unique mix of trends and challenges:
Today’s industrial environments are made smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable by pervasive computing power. Connected, intelligent systems can have a transformative effect. The costs of computing power, performance, network connectivity, and bandwidth are all constantly improving. Cloud computing options are maturing. Information technology is entering a new era of intelligent systems and business models, lending a competitive edge for organizations that take advantage.
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Sustainability – Energy concerns influence product and operational planning. Windows Embedded enables “green” industrial solutions to help save energy costs and reduce environmental impact.
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Device Convergence – Workers want access to information via a broad range of device types regardless of location. Windows Embedded delivers smart, connected industrial solutions.
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Security – Corporate data and transaction information must be protected in a highly networked environment. Windows Embedded helps to protect connected devices and safeguard enterprise networks.
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Falling Barriers to Capital & Resource Movement – Today’s industrial company can connect more easily and cheaply with global supply chains, but local markets differ. Windows Embedded solutions connect widely dispersed plants and supply chain networks.
Systems inDesign | September 2013