Electronics manufacturer E.D.&A. has developed a custom-made electronic controller with capacitive colour touchscreen for fryers. This unit will be placed behind a glass cover plate. This is an advantage in a ‘greasy’ environment because in this way it is easy to clean.
The electronic controller will be used in a special frying system: pre-fried French fries or snacks are prepared without adding frying fat in a steam environment. This results in a healthier way of ‘frying’, moreover that fact is that frying fat is expensive.
Challenge in this development was the unfriendly environment for an electronic controller where fat and mechanical vibrations are present. The USB host interface allows easy software update in the field. The same interface also allows to exchange recipes and settings between multiple fryers. Furthermore, the control system equipped with an Ethernet interface. In this way, the controller is all set for an integration in a corporate network.
The development of this new custom-made controller was established by an intense cooperation with the engineers of the customer. E.D.&A. develops the hardware and also writes the low level drivers for the access to the hardware. In addition, E.D.&A. is also responsible for the implementation of the Real Time Operating System (RTOS). The customer takes care of the application software.
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