Rugged Smart Displays
GMS’ RuggedView™ Smart Displays are the most advanced smart displays on the market. They provide exceptional ruggedness, functionality, and performance at a price point that has never before been reached. GMS Smart Displays utilize GMS SBC technology, unlike other smart display manufacturers who incorporate low-end PC SBC modules, such as COMExpress and PC-104.
The unique advantage of owning the core SBC technology allows GMS to fully integrate the display interface with the SBC to significantly lower cost, and provide an extremely low profile system (many of our smart displays are less than 2 inches thick), while allowing maximum flexibility for selection of CPU performance.
GMS' Smart Display Technology is not limited to a few sizes or formats. A full range of display sizes from 10” to 65” diagonal are offered. Options include 4:3 and 16:9 formats, resistive and capacitive touch screens, special coatings, such as anti-reflection (AR) and anti-glare (AG), and optional “boot kick” protective glass for extreme rugged applications.
RuggedView™ SD19 undergoing MIL-S-901D shock test
In addition, GMS’ RuggedView™ displays are fully configurable, allowing the selection of display size, display features/enhancements, and ruggedization levels. With GMS’ proprietary Flex I/O™, the customer may select what SBC I/O is provided on the display and fully customize the bezel with function keys. In short, GMS develops custom Smart Display solutions to customer specifications, making the options virtually unlimited!
Another unique feature of GMS’ RuggedView™ displays is the upgradable CPU subsystem. GMS RuggedView™ utilizes GMS’ core Blue Engines for Standard Definition and High Definition displays and Blue or Orange Engines for Ultra-High Definition (UHD) systems. Every Smart Display we offer can be upgraded to the latest CPU and I/O technology to allow improved CPU functionality after several years without replacing the display. This is the same approach GMS has been employing as a proven technology on its VME SBCs and system products for the last 19 years. This practice has provided our customers with significant cost savings during “ tech- refresh” cycles.
RuggedView™ displays may be ordered without the CPU subsystem, allowing them to function as slaves to another Smart Display (which then acts as a host for multi-display configurations). Unique display expansion interfaces are also available from GMS, such as SDI (SMPTE 259/292), which allows slave displays to operate over 100 meters away from the host, and for ultra-high resolution displays, the DisplayPort, which can be repeated as many times as needed.
