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Written by Stew
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
 You may not have heard of the name Tranax but there's a good chance you've used one of their products before. A leading designer, developer and manufacturer of self-service technology, Tranax has now sold and installed over 90,000 ATMs in North America. Their latest ATM, the TK1000, is a rather new idea known as a transactional kiosk and is powered by our very own VIA EPIA EK10000G Mini-ITX board. A transactional kiosk is essentially a non-cash kiosk that is designed to provide a range of transaction-based services including bill payments, ticketing and card dispensing.
Crucial to the selection of the EPIA EK10000G board was the fact that it's small (17cm x 17cm), versatile (dual LAN ports, 4 COM ports, 8 USB ports as well everything else you expect from a full PC) and also uses relatively less power than most mainboards. Less power means less heat, and less heat means greater stability. In a system that is almost always on it's essential to provide a stable platform, and stability is crucial to ATMs, even if they aren't handing out cash.
This is an excellent example of how EPIA boards can be found all around us. The migration to x86 (or regular PC architecture-based) computing in the embedded industry means that companies like Tranax can use a wealth of mature software and programing expertise when designing the machines that control not just ATMs but traffic lights, cash registers, cars and almost anything in any situation where computers are used.
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