How Coffee Machines, Ovens, and HVAC Systems Benefit from EVE’s Graphics & Touch Features
Introduction
Smart appliances are no longer just about functionality — they’re about experience. From brewing the perfect cup of coffee to managing the home climate, consumers expect intuitive controls, sleek interfaces, and responsive feedback. Bridgetek’s Embedded Video Engine (EVE) technology makes this possible by combining graphics, touch, and audio in a single chip solution.
Coffee Machines: Brewing Made Simple
- Interactive Menus: EVE enables colourful, touch-based menus where users can select coffee strength, size, or specialty drinks with a tap on the screen.
- Guided Instructions: Animated graphics guide users through cleaning cycles or maintenance steps, enhancing the user experience even further compared to traditional displays.
- Personalization: Save favourite recipes with icons and touch shortcuts, making the machine feel tailored to each user, which is ideal for commercial coffee machine applications. Custom fonts enable User Interface styling and multi-language support.
Ovens: Precision Cooking with Ease
- Visual Timers & Recipes: Instead of knobs and small displays, ovens with EVE-powered displays show clear countdowns, recipe steps, and temperature settings.
- Alerts: Bright, intuitive graphics inform the user of actual oven temperature and cooking time remaining. EVE can also generate audio alerts easily via built-in sound effects.
- Multi-Function Control: Graphical touch interfaces allow more user-friendly controls with presets for each food type to be heated for example and can be customised for different oven models easily (for example controls for bake, grill and convection modes).
️ HVAC Systems: Comfort at Your Fingertips
- Smart Dashboards: EVE enables sleek interfaces showing parameters such as temperature, humidity, and airflow in real time via customised gauges, charts and numerical readouts.
- Energy Efficiency: Flexible user interface layout and full-colour graphical indications allow key parameters such as energy usage to be displayed clearly, compared to technologies such as monochrome fixed-segment LCDs.
- Remote Control Ready: With EVE’s graphics engine, HVAC panels can present a common interface style to IoT apps, offering consistent visuals across devices.
Why EVE Technology Stands Out
- All‑in‑One Solution: Graphics, touch, and audio handled by a single chip.
- Low Power Consumption: Ideal for appliances that need to run efficiently, with low-power modes and PWM backlight dimming for the display.
- Rapid Development: Developers can prototype quickly using Bridgetek’s evaluation boards and tools. Bridgetek’s range of TFT display panels are also ideal for the final product and are available in a range of sizes and resolutions and with resistive or capacitive touch.
- Flexible: Designers can add a graphical touch HMI to their preferred or existing MCU. The touch engine, with its touch tagging and tracking, makes it easy to add buttons, sliders and rotary controls to your user interface.
- Scalable: The EVE family support a wide range of display sizes, from below 3.5” up to 15.6”, at resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 depending on the EVE model. Combined with the ability to drive displays in various shapes and form-factors, this makes it well-suited for different applications from HVAC controllers to coffee machines and many more. Migrating between different EVE devices is straightforward too to support different product models or versions with different display sizes.
Conclusion
Bridgetek’s EVE technology allows designers to transform everyday appliances into smart, user‑friendly systems. Whether it’s brewing coffee, baking dinner, or managing home comfort, EVE delivers the intuitive interfaces consumers expect — helping manufacturers stay ahead in the connected appliance market.
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