At the 2017 APTA Expo NEC Display debuted its latest in OPS-compliant computers along with large format displays and a new desktop operating system.
“NEC has recently released its most powerful OPS to date. It is an Intel Skylake i7 with dual channel DDR4 8GB RAM, 128GB M.2 SSD, vPro, TPM, with Windows 10 Pro,” said Chris Feldman, product manager, NEC Display.
These developments will continue to help end users in the transit agency by increasing user speed and includes a number of built in functions.
“Combining the power of the Intel i7 with 8GB dual channel memory makes this new OPS powerful enough to run some of the most demanding applications. The updated hard drive to the M.2 design makes this the fastest and most reliable hard drive NEC has offered. Utilizing Intel’s vPro technology lets uses take advantage of a number of built in functions such as rebooting an OPS remotely even if the OPS has been turned off or there is an issue with the operating system. The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) helps make this OPS one of the most secure NEC has ever built and will make this a first choice computing solution for financial, gaming, and any customer with higher security concerns,” said Feldman.
NEC also had a number of other technologies on display at Expo including a few V series large format displays and the EA223WM desktop.
"The large screen displays being used are perfect for information and advertising displays typically found in the transportation market. The desktop display could be used for informational applications, but could also be found at ticketing counters, on buses or trains as smaller information displays, and even in the control rooms monitoring transportation networks.” Keith Yanke, senior director of product marketing, NEC Display.
“One interesting trend that is emerging in the digital signage market is in how users are buying computing solutions. In the past, if the volume of the most popular computing solutions were to be plotted on a graph, a bell curve would be the result. With the most powerful and least powerful devices selling the fewest and the mid-level devices being sold the most. Recently, there has been a significant shift in how computing solutions are being used," said Feldman. "That bell curve has started to become inverted with low power and SoC devices along with high power CPU’s like Intel’s i7 becoming the most popular devices and sales starting to fade with the mid-level devices. This is most likely due to the fact that while computing power has been steadily improving, a lot of software requirements have not increased at the same rate. So software that used to run on mid-level devices can now run on these lower cost options."
