The KIOSK is a 15.6-inch self-service terminal that replaces four things on a counter: a touch screen, a receipt printer, a barcode scanner, and the computer that drove all three. Everything sits in one aluminium-alloy body on a weighted metal base — thermal printer on the left with its paper door on the front, 2D scanner on the right behind a glass window, and a Core i5 board with 8 GB of RAM and a 128 GB SSD inside the stand.
Every cable leaves through a recess under the base: HDMI and VGA for a second or legacy display, one Gigabit port, two USB ports for a scanner gun, a scale or a flash drive, two RS232 ports for a cash drawer or a peripheral card, and the DC 12 V input. The screen is a 15.6-inch portrait IPS panel at 1080 × 1920 with ten-point capacitive touch rated for five million touches, and the whole unit is a desktop stand — no pole, no VESA arm, no wall bracket.
A conventional counter needs a monitor, a boxed PC, a standalone receipt printer, a scanner gun and a cash drawer — five devices, five power leads, and a cable run that someone has to tidy. The KIOSK keeps the two modules that customers physically touch and puts them in the same body as the computer. The printer is on the left with its release button, feed button and three status LEDs on the front; the scanner is on the right behind a glass window, angled so a phone held at reading height lands in the scan zone.
Paper loads from the front: open the door, drop the roll in, close it. The cutter is automatic, so the receipt comes out detached rather than torn. The scanner is a CMOS engine with an omnidirectional read pattern, which is what makes it work with a phone screen showing Alipay, WeChat Pay or Apple Pay as well as a printed 1D barcode — retro-reflective laser scanners read paper well and screens badly, and most counter failures come from exactly that difference. Tell us which wallets and which barcode formats your customers use and we will confirm the engine.
The panel is 15.6 inches on the diagonal, mounted in portrait at 1080 × 1920 — the same aspect ratio as the phone in the customer's hand, which is why a menu list or a checkout basket reads naturally on it instead of looking like a cropped desktop. Ten-point capacitive touch means two hands, a pinch to zoom on a product photo, or a signature at the end of a transaction. The glass is rated for five million touches and the viewing angle is 89 degrees on all four sides, so a second person standing beside the customer can read the total.
Brightness is 250 cd/m², which is honest rather than heroic: it is comfortable under indoor retail lighting and it is not a sunlight-readable panel. If the unit will stand in a shop window facing the street, tell us — the answer is a sun hood or a higher-brightness model, not a brighter setting in the menu. Send us the installation position and the ambient light and we will advise before the order rather than after the complaint.
Every port is in a recessed compartment under the base: HDMI, VGA, one Gigabit RJ45, two USB, two RS232 and the DC 12 V input, with the cables routed down through the base plate. That is a deliberate design choice rather than a cost saving — ports on the back of a counter-top terminal are the first thing a customer sees and the first thing a cleaner unplugs.
Two of those ports matter more than the rest. The RS232 pair drives a cash drawer, a scale or a peripheral card, so the terminal can run a full checkout without a USB adaptor chain. The HDMI and VGA outputs work independently, which allows a customer-facing display on HDMI while a legacy monitor or a second panel runs on VGA. If the store cannot pull a network cable, the optional dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 module removes the last wire — tell us the site layout and we will say whether cabled or wireless is the better answer.
The comparison that matters to a store owner is not the specification sheet, it is the counter. A traditional setup spreads a monitor, a PC box, a printer and a scanner across the till area, and each device adds a power socket, a data cable and a thing that can fail separately. The KIOSK occupies the footprint of its base plate and needs one power outlet.
In a typical two-device deployment that is roughly half the counter area freed and fewer steps per transaction, because scanning, payment and printing happen at one position instead of three. We quote those figures as typical deployment experience rather than a measured guarantee for your store — the honest way to size it is to send us your counter drawing and your peak-hour transaction count, and we will tell you how many terminals the queue actually needs.
The head of the unit hides a standard x86 platform: an Intel Core i5 3rd Gen processor, 8 GB of RAM (16 GB optional) and a 128 GB SSD, expandable to 256 or 512 GB. That is more compute than a cash register needs and roughly what a self-ordering application with product images, a browser engine and a background sync actually wants — the failure mode of cheap POS hardware is not a slow processor, it is 2 GB of RAM and a spinning disk trying to render a photo menu.
The aluminium housing is part of the heat path, and the platform is rated by the supplier for 7 × 24 operation with an MTBF of 50,000 hours. Treat that number as a design target rather than a warranty promise: what we actually control is the burn-in and the functional test before packing, and what you control is the ambient temperature — the rated range is 10 °C to 60 °C. If the unit will sit on a hot kitchen line or beside an oven, tell us where, and we will check the mounting position against that range instead of assuming the datasheet covers it. Ask us for the test report on your batch if the project needs one.
Four deployments account for most of the units we ship, and each asks something different of the same hardware:
· Quick-service restaurants and cafés — self-ordering and combo upgrades at the counter, with the kitchen ticket printed by the same unit
· Smart retail and supermarkets — scan, pay, print; membership QR redemption at the same window
· Hospitality and public service — hotel check-in, clinic registration, queue ticketing and visitor credential printing
· Food courts and bakeries — queue ticket printing at peak, no separate numbering terminal
The front bezel takes a laser-engraved or silkscreened logo, the BIOS carries your boot screen, and the operating system ships pre-installed with your application and the shell locked to kiosk mode — so a unit that arrives at a franchise does not boot to a desktop that anyone can browse.
Hardware is modular rather than fixed: memory and storage capacity, the NFC/RFID card reader, and the CPU within the platform's supported range. Packaging can be a neutral export carton or a branded colour box. Certification for the standard configuration is CE, FCC and RoHS; if your market needs another mark, tell us at quotation, because the test scope depends on the radio module and the power supply that go into the build, not on the chassis alone.
The image below is the specification summary we send with quotations, and it is worth reading the open items as carefully as the fixed ones, because four of them are configuration choices rather than facts: the paper width (58 or 80 mm), the number of network ports (one standard, two optional), the amount of external USB (two standard, up to four internal) and the wireless module (fitted or not). Everything else — the panel, the touch layer, the processor class, the operating temperature — is the same on every unit.
Two numbers we deliberately do not publish here are the overall dimensions and the net weight, because the source documents do not state them and a guess would be worse than a gap: they decide whether the terminal fits your counter and what the freight costs. Ask us for the drawing and we will send the measured values with the quotation.
The carton contains the terminal, a DC 12 V adapter, a power cord matched to the destination and a printed manual. Everything else in a checkout is a peripheral, and it is worth deciding those at the same time as the terminal so the port map and the driver image are right: a cash drawer on RS232, a weighing scale on USB, a handheld scanner for large items, a kitchen ticket printer on the network, and a customer-facing pole display on HDMI or VGA.
Send us the peripheral list with the model numbers and we will return a port allocation and a test plan — which device on which port, which driver, which settings. That document is what makes the difference between a terminal that works on the bench and a terminal that works on the counter, and it costs nothing at the quotation stage.
Standard warranty is one year on the complete unit and three years on hardware. The two parts that wear are the printer mechanism and the touch glass, and both are field-replaceable assemblies rather than soldered components. For franchise and chain projects we hold spare units and advance-replacement stock so a failed terminal is swapped rather than repaired on site.
Every unit is assembled, burned in and function-tested before packing — printer feed and cut, scanner read on both a phone screen and a paper barcode, all ten touch points, both display outputs, both serial ports and the network port. Tell us the deployment country, the annual volume and whether you need a dead-on-arrival replacement commitment, and we will put all three into the quotation.
Item | Specification |
Model | KIOSK (X86 series) |
Product type | 15.6" smart desktop self-service POS terminal |
Processor | Intel Core i5 3rd Gen (i5-3xxx) |
Memory | 8 GB standard — 16 GB optional |
Storage | 128 GB SSD standard — 256 GB / 512 GB optional |
Operating system | Windows 7 / 10, Linux (Ubuntu / Debian) |
Screen | 15.6" portrait IPS panel, Grade A+ |
Resolution | 1080 × 1920 FHD |
Brightness | 250 cd/m² |
Touch technology | 10-point projected capacitive, ≥ 5,000,000 touches |
Viewing angle | 89° / 89° / 89° / 89° |
Thermal printer | Built-in high-speed, 58/80 mm paper, front drop-in loading, auto cutter |
Barcode scanner | Built-in 2D CMOS, omnidirectional; phone QR and 1D paper barcode |
Card reader | NFC / RFID contactless module — optional |
Display output | 1 × HDMI + 1 × VGA, independent dual display |
Network | 1 × Gigabit RJ45 — dual LAN optional |
USB | 2 × USB 2.0 external — up to 4 ports internally |
Serial | 2 × RS232 (cash drawer / scale / POS peripheral) |
Wireless | Dual-band WiFi 2.4/5 GHz + Bluetooth 5.0 — optional |
Audio | Built-in speaker |
Power input | DC 12 V industrial adapter |
Mounting | Desktop stand with weighted base plate |
Operating temperature | 10 °C to 60 °C |
Storage temperature | −20 °C to 70 °C |
Humidity | 5 %–95 % RH, non-condensing |
Housing | Aluminium alloy, silver finish |
Reliability | Rated for 7 × 24 operation, MTBF ≥ 50,000 h (supplier rating) |
Certification | CE, FCC, RoHS |
Package contents | Terminal, DC 12 V adapter, power cord, user manual |
About Meetneng
Meetneng traces its manufacturing back to 2008, and designs and builds in Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong — the district that supplies much of China's appliance and electronics industry. The plant covers 5,000 m², and the work is not assembled from someone else's boxes: sheet-metal fabrication, board-level integration, system assembly, burn-in and software imaging all happen on the same site. That is why a change to a port layout, a housing or a nameplate can be answered with a date rather than an introduction to a third party.
The product range covers industrial panel PCs, fanless industrial PCs, embedded computers, rugged tablets, industrial displays and commercial self-service terminals — panel-mount, VESA, DIN-rail, desktop and floor-standing formats from one factory. Quality control runs to ISO 9001 with twelve inspection points from incoming components to the final functional test, and the field repair rate is held under 0.5 % — a number that matters more than any single specification on any one of those pages.
Thirty-plus patents are held by the engineering team, covering thermal design, structural details and the interface between the electronics and the enclosure. Units are issued with CE, FCC, LVD and RoHS documentation against the exact bill of materials of the build you order, because changing a radio module or a power supply changes the test scope.
More than 15,000 customers in over 100 countries have bought from us, across industrial automation, energy, medical equipment, security, retail and logistics. Reference accounts include Haier, Gree, BYD, Hikvision, Foxconn and CRRC. Most of those relationships began with a single unit on a single line, which is the pattern we plan for: the first sample has to be right, because the second conversation depends on it.
Trade happens in person as well as over email. We take our own stands at international industrial and electronics fairs — the collage below is our booths across several shows — and the engineers who answer an enquiry are often the ones standing there, so a specification question tends to get an answer on the spot rather than a promise to check. Between shows, buyers come to Shunde to walk the line, sign off a sample and agree packaging. Tell us when you are travelling and we will hold a slot and a sample build for the same week.
OEM and ODM are the default way we work rather than an exception. The engineering team takes a requirement list — CPU or SoC, memory, port count, enclosure, logo, packaging, software image — and returns a configuration and a lead time. The nameplate, boot logo, gift box and manual are the parts most buyers start with, and the SDK or driver documents are released to the account that orders the sample.
Units ship by express and air freight with export documentation and industrial protective packaging; stocked configurations leave within 72 hours and built-to-order units follow the lead time on the quotation. Tell us the application, the destination country and the annual volume, and we will come back with a configuration, a landed-cost estimate and a sample plan.
