Interactive Displays go Touchless in Post Covid-19 World

Interactive Displays have become part of every Business. Retail, Hospitality, Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Transport, Education, Sports, Corporate, and Government sectors. They all rely on interactive displays of one or the other form. Interactive Kiosks, Interactive Tables, Interactive Whiteboards, Video Walls, Interactive Monitors have become an integral part of our lives. Moreover, the sudden outbreak of pandemic Covid-19 definitely has an impact on the way consumers use public Interactive Screens. Using public touch screens has created fear amongst people due to the spread of viruses. Obviously, this has forced the industry to invent Predictive Touch Screens or Contactless or Air Touch or Touchless screens.

Interestingly, Automobile pioneers like Jaguar and Land Rover have joined hands with the University of Cambridge to develop Touch-less Interactive Panels. Importantly, these panels not only avoid virus infections but can also minimize road accidents as automobile drivers can concentrate more on driving instead of maneuvering the display panels.

Curious to Know How Touchless Screens Operate?

According to the University of Cambridge, Predictive Screens work using Machine Intelligence. As soon as a user shows the intent of selecting some icon on the screen and moves the finger in that direction it immediately senses the intent of the user based on gesture-tracker and radio-frequency-based sensors.

On the same lines two Samsung Engineers have come up with a technology called LIDAR- Light Detection and Ranging. LIDAR operates by sending a Laser light signal to target and measures the reflected beam from the target with help of sensors.

Market Scenario for Interactive Displays

According to Globenewswire Interactive displays have found huge demand in Gaming, Digital classrooms, and, Retail sectors. Also reduction in the cost of Interactive Displays has also fuelled increased adoption of this technology. Having said this, the onslaught of Pandemic covid-19 which resulted in a lockdown of manufacturing hubs across the globe due to the unavailability of manpower has disrupted the supply chain. But despite all setbacks, the market looks promising in the post-covid-19 world with applications such as learning, presentations, signage, wayfinding, and ticketing relying on Interactive Displays. Also, the Banking and Finance sectors are widely adopting Interactive Displays to convey financial information to customers. Overall market experts are predicting a growth of 13.2 Billion USD by 2025.

Get a glimpse of Contact-Free Touchscreen Applications

The applications of Contactless or Contact-free Touchscreens also called ‘Air-Button’ are abundant.

• Imagine your hands are dirty and you do not want to touch your smartphone screen or Laptop or Desktop Monitor. Definitely, Contactless Touchscreens come in handy.
• Assume you are in a Restaurant and want to place an order using an Interactive Table. Interactive Table enabled by Contactless Touchscreen ensures your personal safety as you needn’t have to touch the screen to operate.
• Public utilities like ATM, Self-Order Kiosks, Self-Checkout kiosks all can incorporate Touchless screens to ensure public hygiene.
• The Televisions of the future needn’t have a remote control. Just by using the technology of Air-Button, you can control Television operations.
• The Interactive Displays installed at Healthcare Centres, Banks, Museums, Educational Hubs all of them can get benefitted from the advancements in Contactless Touchscreen Technology.

Conclusion

Touchscreen Technology has come a long way since it was invented in 1965. Today not only Screens but any other surface can behave as Touchscreen. Most importantly the onslaught of pandemic Covid-19 has fueled the development of Predictive Touch or Touchless Screen technology. The Interactive Displays are definitely an integral part of our lives and they will reinvent to suit future demands. In nutshell, Interactive Displays go touchless to suit our emerging needs.

In this context, Aidio is contributing significantly to Interactive Display products in the Indian market. Aiddition Technologies one of the leading players in Interactive Displays and Signage has adopted the arising needs of the Post-Covid-19 world through its Air-Touch Interactive Displays. Aidio provides all its Touchscreen products like Aidio-ICX Suite, Self-Order Kiosks, Self-Checkout Kiosks with Air-Touch technology in addition to conventional touchscreens. The Face Terminal, Med-Aid Displays are the other products of Aidio that function in Contact-free mode.