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| Targeted Device Solutions The rise of graphics-rich, interactive embedded applications - such as digital signage, gaming, retail POS, transaction and educational terminals - is fueling demand for high-performance, energy-efficient embedded systems. These systems must behave much like a typical embedded platform while delivering features often expected from a rich desktop system. Examples of some of Phoenix’s BIOS implementations include: | |
| | Digital Signage | | POS | | Kiosk | | Gaming |
|  | Digital Signage applications require non-stop operation, often in harsh environments that make equipment prone to failure mechanically and electrically. Firmbase® Technology provides a high availability framework that supports detection and design of specific responses to hardware/mechanical and even operating system failures.
| Point-of-Sale (POS) devices include electronic cash registers, taxation terminals, and checkout systems. Today, POS offers more than cash register functionality—commonly these systems include applications with fully-integrated accounting, inventory, forecasting, and customer relationship management (CRM).
Because POS systems are so critical to servicing customers on the spot, they must always work and always be responsive. POS device manufacturers invest substantial resources into the design and testing of their products to meet reliability and usability requirements, and the lifetimes associated with POS equipment are long. Thus, BIOS support for silicon vendors’ embedded roadmaps is very important to ODMs, especially with many SKUs on their line card. Phoenix follows the embedded roadmaps of all the major X86 silicon vendors.
| Information kiosks are growing in popularity, because of their ability to augment human staff to perform functions that don’t require human intervention. Consumers are demanding more self–service options. They enjoy the convenience, ease-of-use, privacy, and speed enabled by kiosks and interactive digital signage that are springing up in a large number of industries. Airport check-in, postal purchases, and hospital patient tracking are just some of the services that no longer require customers to wait at full–service counters. Businesses are looking for self–service solutions that offer differentiation with respect to "look and feel" and provide the simple functionality demanded by customers.
However, kiosks are only effective when they are running. With Embedded Phoenix BIOS solutions, ODMs can build information kiosk board-level products from a wide range of silicon vendor platform. Additionally, our Firmbase® Technology's High Availability Monitor provides continuous OS fault protection needed to keep kiosks alive and responsive to users.
| From slot machines and network-based gaming to lottery terminals and arcade games, gaming platforms have graphics performance and security as the common requirements. Security is a key concern for the gaming industry, requiring certification by regional authorities to ensure that machines play fairly. The Firmbase Technology based Boot Security Application provides a level of surety that the system is not compromised, and also ensures that the hardware and the application are never separated without each knowing about it.
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