The Mercedes F 015 Luxury-in-Motion is still a domain of the imagination of the car, but the prototype that the German brand presented earlier this year incorporates a real technology that was created and is produced in a bucolic area of the left bank of the River Cávado. It’s called Displax and their presence stands out throughout the interior of the “car of the future” Mercedes.
With a simple touch screens placed on the doors or front panel, passengers of this autonomous driving car can browse maps, watch movies, access to web pages or to all that today one can find on a smartphone. Among the few suppliers of “projected capacitive technology” existing in the world, Mercedes chose Displax Edigma a Braga company that in 2014 celebrated its tenth anniversary. Being of the few companies in the world capable of producing large format touch technology. And be flexible and reliable, ensures its CEO, Miguel Fonseca.
At first glance, the product that Edigma exports from the industrial area of Adaúfe, near Braga, amazes by its vulgarity. It comes down to a huge rectangle of clear plastic with a brown stripe, also plastic at its lower band. But who look in detail for this transparent piece there-but notice something strange inside. Small copper cables, with a much lower than the thickness of a hair, fill its entire surface, drawing rectangles, solid lines, some square tight. Then who notice the brown strip in more detail there-to see that looks like a small central communication that connects the tiny wires of the rectangle to a computer board that gathers all the information they capture, processes it and sends it to the operating system of a computer.
These films with sensors that react to electrical discharges at the touch of a finger are under the glass of electronic devices and are not very different from those in the new generation mobile phones. What makes the product Edigma rare worldwide is its ability to produce films for large displays at odd shapes. “There are two or three companies to make large format, in England or Japan, but we are more flexible,” explains Miguel Fonseca. The drive installed in Adaúfe industrial park can either leave rectangles with short sides and half-ball representing the Earth, such as the Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich commissioned especially for your luxury yacht.
With the consolidation its technology, the products Edigma they began to make frequent daily. Are interactive screens in shopping centers as the Shopping Sea or the Shopping Amoreiras at Lisbon or Faro or in various museums. The world premiere of Windows 8 in London did in touch screens with Braga technology. And very soon, the BBC news will have the support of interactive screens for which Edigma provided their films with sensors. The increase in international demand has led the company to grow on average 50% every year. In 2014 the turnover amounted to six million euros this year and this figure is expected to rise to 10 million. By 2020 the company expects turnover 100 million.
The main advantage to this confidence lies in the latest advance of Displax technology. Presented at the end of last year, the Displax Skin Ultra lets you combine 100 simultaneous touches on a screen, with a response capability in five milliseconds. For the company, this is the opportunity to anticipate the arrival of touch screens to the world of television, Miguel Fonseca believes it soon. Your new formats of the films are already adjusted to the size of the screens of the world’s leading manufacturers of LCD, the technology that dominates the industry of television sets. When televisions enter the world of touch interactivity, Edigma will be at the forefront of providing solutions. “It will not take long until that happens. Soon, teachers will have access to the interactive displays for children to do their homework, for example, “says Miguel Fonseca. Anticipating this day, the Braga company has multiplied in contact with Korean and Chinese giants that dominate the industry of LCD.
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