For clients in Northern Hemisphere, while you are pleased and comfy with the warm weather in May, it is time to think of your monitors and devices with touchscreen: whether they are ready to embrace the upcoming heat in June-Aug as you do.
There are plenty of touchscreen applications that are related to or be as outdoor and extra lighted up, for instance, restaurants on streets and restaurants kitchens, What are the specific challenges that indoor touchscreen monitors face in the summer, and how to take action?
Let us start by considering the facts in summer.
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Temperatures.
Most indoor touchscreen monitors are designed to work in a temperature range between 0-40 ℃, but there are a lot of cases that the temperature can go much higher than that even if it is indoors:
A, if you installed open frame touchscreens inside the kiosks, the temperature can frequently climb higher than 40℃ if the room gets hotter than 30℃, Which is common and perhaps happening every day in the summer of the south of Europe, Africa and the East, south of Asia and tropical areas, it could even hotter, given kiosks are semi opening environment and there are a lot of electronics devices such as PC and printers could generate and increase the heat to the touchscreens and LCDs.
Do this:
Turn on the air conditioner and set the temperature below 27℃ when the temperature exceeds 35 ℃ or better if 30℃, to ensure the touchscreen monitor is operating in a cool environment.
If there is no AC available, Install and turn on the fan inside the kiosk to activate the circulation of airflow and venting for cooling.
Contact your touchscreen monitor supplier or designer, if they could improve the cooling of the monitor from the structures and materials.
Hire a new outdoor touchscreen, which is an industrial touchscreen monitor, to endure the high temperature such as 50. Or even 60℃, make sure that you are operating them at their standard operating temperature.
Sunshine
Summers usually come with longer daylight, The temperature is accumulating and reaching higher than expected when exposed to the sunlight, it could be much higher than 40℃ which could damage the indoor touchscreen and LCDs.
Do this:
If you are in Northern Hemisphere, turn the direction of the touchscreen monitor facing to the North and install 3-side shelters to avoid sunlight exposure, otherwise, long time exposure to sunlight could bring permanent and serious damage to the monitor LCDs. This situation and application can be wide, such as an outdoor information kiosk, providing information about touchscreen monitors. Or a touchscreen device in an outdoor workshop...
Reflections
Even if you are setting your monitor indoors, the room can be extra brighter if you are closed to the window without a curtain, or you are on a balcony, and it could be hard to identify the content on the touchscreen than operating them, the situation could be worse in summer.
Do this:
Use an anti-glare touchscreen monitor. Horsent uses a chemical etching touchscreen panel with a foggy anti-glare function, which will not influence the touchscreen function and form a permanent and durable function of anti-glare that enables sunlight reading.
Increase the brightness or use high-brightness touchscreens
Adjust the brightness of your screen by OSD. If you still find it hard to see the screen clearly, you need to relocate your device to a darker place or change the directions. Or you could upgrade to high-brightness touchscreen monitors with at least 1000 nits brightness, and make sure the new touchscreen is in its working temperature range.
Don’t you worry
Do you have a lot of deja vus when reading the above content and start to get worried about your touchscreen monitor getting damaged? Well, the good news is we are still in May, there is still at least one month for you to face the problems, so take action now to ensure your touchscreen devices are not disregarded and get ready for the summer months.
Horsent, a major touchscreen monitor supplier and designer, is rich with hundreds of touchscreen applications and works with thousands of clients in different industries and various solutions. Horsent is fully capable of delivering durable, still cost-competitive touchscreens for commercials and major industries.
Post time: May-08-2023
