All-in-One Computer Touch Screen: Technological Breakthrough and Ecological Restructuring in the Context of Global Competition
As the number of global IoT connections surpasses 24.6 billion by 2025, all-in-one computer touch screens, as core terminals for human-machine interaction, are evolving from mere display devices into "industrial intelligences" equipped with edge computing, AI decision-making, and multi-protocol integration capabilities. In this transformation, Chinese manufacturers have established unique competitive advantages in the global market through their rapid technological iteration and scene-specific implementation capabilities.

1. Global Market Landscape: A Dual Game of Technological Generational Gaps and Ecological Barriers
1.1 European and U.S. Markets: Technological Barriers Under Industrial Protocol Monopoly
Industrial giants like Siemens and Schneider Electric have constructed ecological barriers through proprietary protocols such as Modbus and Profinet. Their all-in-one computer touch screen products, like Siemens' SIMATIC HMI, which deeply integrates with PLC control systems, command a 42% share of the global high-end industrial display market. However, these products suffer from two major pain points: the closed nature of the protocols leads to high device compatibility costs, and insufficient AI computing power makes it difficult to support emerging needs like predictive maintenance.
Schneider Electric's 2024 launch of the EcoStruxure HMI, although integrating edge computing modules, only supports access to its own brand devices. This "technology island" model is being disrupted by the open ecosystems of Chinese manufacturers.
1.2 Japanese and South Korean Markets: Dual Advantages in Precision Manufacturing and Display Technology
Japanese companies like Yokogawa Electric and South Korean companies like LG Electronics leverage their precision manufacturing capabilities to dominate high-end sectors such as semiconductors and automotive electronics. LG's OLED all-in-one computer touch screens, with 0.1mm-level touch accuracy and million-level contrast ratios, have become the preferred choice for high-end cleanroom display equipment worldwide. However, Japanese and South Korean manufacturers generally suffer from weak software ecosystems, with 80% of the functionality of their all-in-one computer touch screen products relying on third-party development. This provides Chinese manufacturers with an opportunity to break through with integrated "hardware + software" solutions.
1.3 Chinese Market: Scene-Driven Technological Explosion
The Chinese all-in-one computer touch screen market exhibits a "duopoly" landscape: security-focused manufacturers like Hikvision and Dahua dominate the security monitoring sector with a 65% share, thanks to their video processing technology advantages; industrial manufacturers like USR IOT and Advantech have caught up in fields like smart manufacturing and energy management through edge computing and protocol integration technologies.
USR IOT's USR-SH800 series all-in-one computer touch screen, by integrating over 100 industrial protocol libraries, successfully penetrated the production line renovation project at Schneider Electric's Chinese factory. This marked the first time a Chinese all-in-one computer touch screen entered the core production环节 of a multinational enterprise.
2. Technological Breakthroughs: A Paradigm Shift from Display Terminals to Intelligent Nodes
2.1 Protocol Integration: Breaking Down the "Babel Tower" of Industrial Communication
Traditional all-in-one computer touch screens require protocol converters for device interconnection, leading to system latency increases of over 30%. The WukongEdge edge application platform equipped on the USR-SH800, through its hardware-level protocol acceleration engine, achieves lossless conversion from Modbus to OPC UA. In a project at an automotive parts factory, this reduced production line data collection latency from 120ms to 8ms.
More critically, its dynamic protocol learning capability automatically identifies unknown device protocol characteristics through machine learning. In a project at a chemical park in Qingdao, it successfully parsed the proprietary protocols of three German-imported valves, reducing the device integration cycle from two weeks to three days.
2.2 Edge Intelligence: Enabling Decision-Making at the Data Source
Schneider Electric's 2025 release of the EcoStruxure HMI 2.0, although integrating an AI chip, only offers 0.5TOPS of computing power, insufficient for complex model inference. The USR-SH800, equipped with 1.0TOPS NPU computing power, can run the YOLOv8 object detection model in real-time. In a 3C electronics factory in Shenzhen, it achieved a 99.7% accuracy rate in product defect identification, improving efficiency by 40% compared to cloud-based processing solutions.
Its innovative "dual-brain architecture" is even more noteworthy: the ARM Cortex-A55 core handles deterministic control tasks, while the NPU core runs AI inference tasks, with both cores achieving microsecond-level collaboration through shared memory. In a wafer inspection scenario at a semiconductor factory in Hangzhou, this architecture reduced inspection time per wafer from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.
2.3 Multi-Screen Interaction: Reconstructing the Collaboration Logic of Industrial Vision
Traditional all-in-one computer touch screens suffer from "information silos," requiring operators to frequently switch between monitoring screens, local terminals, and mobile devices. The USR-SH800, through its multi-screen interaction protocol, achieves real-time data synchronization between the main screen (production line 3D digital twin), secondary screen (quality inspection data), and mobile terminal (alarm information).
In a project at a photovoltaic enterprise in Suzhou, this solution reduced production line changeover time from 45 minutes to 28 minutes, primarily due to the 76% reduction in parameter adjustment error rates enabled by multi-screen collaborative display. More notably, its AR expansion capability, through a USB-C connection to Microsoft HoloLens 2, enables holographic projections of device internal structures. In an aviation engine maintenance project, this tripled training efficiency.
3. Ecological Restructuring: Transitioning from Device Suppliers to Scene Solution Providers
3.1 Breaking Through the Developer Ecosystem
Traditional industrial device manufacturers rely on closed SDK development models, resulting in application innovation cycles of 6-12 months. The Node-RED low-code platform adopted by the USR-SH800 compresses the development cycle to within 72 hours through drag-and-drop programming. In a project at a mold factory in Dongguan, engineers utilized this platform to develop a mold temperature prediction system within two weeks, reducing the product defect rate from 12% to 3%.
More critically, its open-source community building: the GitHub repository established by USR IOT has collected 237 industrial scene application templates, attracting 12,000 developers worldwide to contribute. This "hardware + community" model has enabled the USR-SH800 to expand its applications at five times the speed of traditional solutions.
3.2 Deep Customization of Industry Solutions
In the energy management sector, the USR-SH800, by integrating power demand response algorithms, achieved an 18% increase in renewable energy consumption in a provincial power grid project. Its innovation lies in expanding the traditional SCADA system's monitoring functions into an intelligent decision-making system that includes energy storage optimization and load forecasting.
In the smart agriculture sector, the product achieves real-time monitoring of crop nitrogen content through multi-spectral sensor fusion technology. In a vegetable base project in Shouguang, Shandong, the system automatically adjusted the water-fertilizer ratio based on crop needs, reducing fertilizer usage by 35% and increasing yield by 12%.
3.3 Localized Deployment of Global Service Networks
Chinese manufacturers are breaking through geographical limitations through a "cloud-edge-end" collaborative architecture. The remote management platform of the USR-SH800 supports device monitoring across 23 global time zones. Its innovative "edge container" technology reduces firmware update package sizes by 80%, enabling the software upgrade of 12,000 devices worldwide within 24 hours in a cross-border deployment at an automotive factory in India.
More notably, its compliance adaptation capabilities: the system can automatically generate data processing procedures that comply with local requirements for different regulations such as the EU's GDPR and China's Personal Information Protection Law. In a mining project in Brazil, this feature reduced data compliance costs by 60%.
4. Future Trends: Evolution from Tools to Ecosystems
4.1 Spatial Computing Integration
With the proliferation of spatial computing devices like Apple's Vision Pro, all-in-one computer touch screens are evolving from two-dimensional planar displays to three-dimensional spatial interactions. The AR expansion interface of the USR-SH800 already supports Unity engine development. In an automotive design project, designers could directly modify 3D models through gesture operations, reducing the design review cycle from three days to four hours.
4.2 Digital Twin Integration
Digital twin technology requires all-in-one computer touch screens to possess real-time data mapping and simulation capabilities. The USR-SH800, by integrating the MATLAB Simulink interface, achieved millisecond-level digital mapping of wind turbine states in a wind farm project, improving predictive maintenance accuracy to 92%.
4.3 Sustainable Computing
Facing global carbon neutrality goals, the energy efficiency ratio of all-in-one computer touch screens has become a critical indicator. The dynamic voltage regulation technology adopted by the USR-SH800 automatically adjusts backlight power based on display content, reducing overall device power consumption by 28% in a data center monitoring project.
While Germany's Industry 4.0 is still discussing the concept of the "digital thread," Chinese manufacturers have already implemented 137 digital twin application scenarios across 20 industries through products like the USR-SH800. The essence of this competition lies in the dual contest of technological iteration speed and scene understanding depth. Over the next three years, manufacturers with composite capabilities in "hardware innovation + software ecosystem + industry know-how" will dominate the next golden decade of the global all-in-one computer touch screen market.