Use Cases
Digital Signage
Digital signage web rendering players have many advantages and are a trend nowadays. They feature use of HTML for composing the user interface, simple and effortless provisioning and scheduling new contents to the screen from the cloud, a robust environment with an automatic crash recovery system, and more.
Point of Sale
Just as the web helps billions of online users make purchases every day, embedded browsers can serve as the basis for building the point of sale systems used by brick and mortar merchants.
Infotainment Systems
The web’s ability to create interactive interfaces and stream media make embedded browsers an excellent choice for building the infotainment systems in automobiles, airplanes and trains.
Smart TVs and set-top-boxes
Television has long used embedded browsers in many ways, from video playback to creating the guides and interactive menus. The Web, with its natural multimedia-related capabilities, is a natural fit for consuming both traditional TV-based content as well as on demand content from industry-leading streaming services.
Home appliances
Embedded browsers are increasingly used in home appliances of all kinds: From providing temperature information and settings for climate control systems, to browsing recipes and engaging programs on your favorite cooking machine, to controlling the distribution of sound across smart speakers around your home.
Professional video and broadcasting
Graphics overlays are everywhere nowadays in the live video broadcasting industry. Embedded browsers can be used to deliver low-latency, web-augmented video broadcasts which provides with expands the capabilities of traditional systems with and added value.
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