Simplify your kiosk decision with PFU’s Kiosk Integration Platform™.  The Kiosk Integration Platform combines tightly integrated hardware, intelligent middleware, and a software development platform, the KIOSK SERVICE PLATFORM.

BENEFITS

The PFU integrated platform approach

• Reduces costs
  • Reduces cost of kiosk deployment
  • Reduces cost of application development
  • Reduces costs of maintenance
• Increases revenue / customer satisfaction
  • Increases uptime of kiosk
  • Increases speed to market
  • Hardware innovations improve end-user usability
• Provides easy strategy alignment
  • Provides easy integration with Internet strategy
  • Easy integration with existing enterprise back office system
  • Integration of new, advanced technologies, e.g. Contactless IC card

Tight Hardware Integration

• Improved reliability
• Longevity

Intelligent Middleware

• Improved reliability through proactive monitoring
• Easier application development
• Ease of maintenance

KIOSK SERVICE PLATFORM

• Lowers kiosk application development costs by over 50%
• Accelerates speed-to-market by 50%
• Significantly lowers maintenance and servicing costs

Kiosk Integration Platform combines

1. Extensively tested, market validated industrial quality hardware
2. An intelligent, more comprehensive middleware
3. KIOSK SERVICE PLATFORM™ – software platform handles all exception condition locally and thus allows for easy development of web-based applications for kiosks.
   

When you choose a PFU kiosk you choose a tightly integrated hardware solution that has been extensively tested and works seamlessly as a single unit.  The PFU kiosk is super reliable, easy to maintain, and long lasting.

PFU’s intelligent middleware manages and controls the hardware and peripherals, and provides proactive monitoring capability for easier maintenance.

PFU provides you with a software development platform, KIOSK SERVICE PLATFORM™ that takes care of the difficult and technical aspects of application developing.

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Tight hardware integration delivers:

• Improved reliability
• Longevity

PFU designs and manufactures its own motherboard.  PFU carefully chooses only industrial grade parts to assure reliability and longevity, rigorously tests all components, and performs thermal analysis that allows for a fanless design.   PFU carefully chooses the peripherals it offers in its kiosks and subjects them to dozens of quality tests.

Intelligent middleware provides:

• Improved reliability through proactive monitoring
• Easier application development
• Ease of maintenance

PFU has developed an intelligent middleware that integrates all the device drivers and provides a single interface for both developers and maintenance.  In addition, the PFU intelligent middleware carefully monitors more hardware states, such as how many times the magnetic card reader has been swiped over a set period of time, the temperature of various components in the motherboard, and other states.  Due to this additional monitoring and subsequent information, troubleshooting of a hardware malfunction is faster and maintenance easier.

PFU's KIOSK SERVICE PLATFORM™

• Lowers kiosk application development costs by over 50%
• Accelerates speed-to-market by 50%
• Significantly lowers maintenance and servicing costs

PFU has developed a unique KIOSK SERVICE PLATFORM.  The KIOSK SERVICE PLATFORM software platform handles all exception conditions locally and thus allows for easy development of web-based applications for PFU kiosks.

Applications for the PFU kiosk with KIOSK SERVICE PLATFORM can be easily developed using html and jscript and allow use of all web based tools.  No longer do application developers need to learn and code for low-level I/O control – I/O device specifications, ensure correct timing of operations.  No longer do application developers need to build the logic flow for all out-of-bounds conditions.  And, no longer do application developers need to code for maintenance and support.
   
The KIOSK SERVICE PLATFORM simplifies application development and thus accelerates time to market of a new application.  Corporate kiosk buyers can hire web application developers – typically less expensive than kiosk developers – to create a new kiosk application that can easily reflect their web site look and feel.

Studies indicate developers using KIOSK SERVICE PLATFORM can shorten development time by over 50%.

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With decades of experience as a hardware designer and manufacturer, PFU delivers only super reliable hardware housed in a kiosk body that is easy to access for maintenance.

Key considerations for hardware design are:

• Reliability
• Easy maintenance and servicing
• End user usability
• Security
• Efficiency