Analysis: The market prospects for medium and large size multi-touch screens are attractive

The world-leading supplier of medium and large size infrared touch screen technology, Jage Technology, recently expressed its confidence in the future development prospects of the market in a report. “It is estimated that the medium and large size multi-touch screen market will maintain over 20% in the next five years. Compound growth rate, although the traditional application market of touch screens will still dominate, but we estimate that new touch-control computer equipment will also become a force to promote the growth of touch screen demand,” commented Qi Yang, general manager of Jage Technology.

With the continuous improvement of the level of informatization in various industries around the world, touch screen technology has been widely used in finance, telecommunications, public media, entertainment, news display, conference systems, traffic monitoring, hotels, hospitals and education, becoming a fixed device. One of the main directions of human-computer interaction technology. However, these areas require the use of large and medium-sized touch screens of 10.4 feet or more, which poses a higher challenge to touch screen technology.

There is a lot of competition between touch technologies in the touch screen market. There is no single technology that can meet all application requirements in various situations. In the era of multi-touch, the ability of a touch technology to support multi-touch and multi-touch support will be a decisive factor in capturing market opportunities.

"In the prior art, projected capacitance technology, infrared technology, and optical imaging technology can provide optimal support for the application of multi-touch technology. Due to cost factors, projected capacitance technology will dominate the small-size touch screen market, optical imaging. The technology will dominate the ultra-large touch screen market, and infrared technology will dominate the large touch screen market and the mid-size touch screen market that has not yet demonstrated a clear advantage in the era of single touch,” added Qi Yang. "For example, about 20 percent of 20-inch touch screens use infrared screens in 2009, and about 50 percent of touch screens with 50-inch screens or more use optical screens. In addition, whether touch technology can support multi-touch and support levels will become a decision. Whether the touch screen business can win the key factor in the market competition, and regardless of the scalability of the size, operational stability, light transmittance, or cost-effective, infrared multi-touch screen technology is undoubtedly the best choice."

For the power of growth, Qi Yang said that the traditional industry applications and professional equipment such as self-service equipment (KIOSK all-in-one), POS machines, ATM machines and other demand for touch screen will maintain a relatively stable growth, while the rapid development of new touch computer equipment Development, as well as strong demand for interactive whiteboards in the education and training field, will drive the rapid growth in demand for touch screens.