An Xinda SSD Industrial Solid-State Drive Application Solution on POS
I. Product introduction
Industrial SSDs have low power consumption, no noise, vibration resistance, and low heat compared with conventional hard disks. These features not only enable data to be stored more securely, but also extend the continuous operation of battery-powered devices. Time has obvious advantages in terms of performance, safety, energy consumption, and adaptability. Secondly, the use of non-standard customization, compared with the traditional size (2.5-inch, 1.8-inch) on the market, solid-state hard drive is easy to install, simple and reliable fixed, also has considerable advantages in reading and writing, and the system can automatically perform bad block management, It has a great role in the construction of POS machines.
Second, the development prospects of POS machines
With the development of the market economy and the challenges faced by information technology, each operator wants to improve the efficiency of commodity circulation, reduce operating costs, and bring into play the effect of scale integration. Consumers' demand for goods is increasingly diversified, and the types of goods are diversified. The business model is more of a chain and scale, as well as information data in the course of commodity behavior. In order to meet the needs of consumers, properly handle information data and grasp market dynamics. A new concept of POS machines came into being at the call of the market.
The POS cash register has evolved from a first-generation cash register to a second-generation cash register (ECR cash register) to now fully functional third-generation cash registers. The third-generation cash register has an open system that can be applied to a variety of platforms and application software, and can also be connected to a variety of peripherals. It can also use IC cards, bank cards** terminals, stand-alone or networking, and can also connect to the Internet. With the continuous and rapid development of the POS industry, the prices of various POS with high performance have been more easily accepted by merchants, coupled with fierce competition. For these malls, the role of information systems in competition has been significantly improved. The demand has also increased significantly. The use of POS cash register system has greatly reduced the strength of cashiers and improved the efficiency of cashiering. It also provides consumers with more speed and convenience. Industrial solid-state drives have played a powerful role in POS machines.
Third, POS machines have several major features in their applications:
1, long time, many times, high frequency, which requires the cash register stability is high, can not often fail;
2, poor environment, dust pollution, requiring good dust performance;
3, a lot of people, prone to collision and vibration. Some shopping malls do not have air conditioning, summer temperatures are high, and sometimes there may be tea on the cash register, so the cash registers must have dust-proof, shock-proof, high-temperature resistant, and waterproof functions.
These are all irreplaceable by the average PC. With the rapid development of information technology, the stable and powerful industrial POS machines have become more competitive in the market and more popular.
For these requirements, ordinary hard drives are not satisfied, and commercial-grade electronic hard drives are not fully satisfied. Only industrial grade electronic discs have features such as dust-proof, waterproof, shockproof and high-temperature resistance.
IV. Commercial Retail System Solutions
1. Applicable objects: large and medium-sized retail or wholesale and retail merchandise companies, such as shopping malls, specialty stores, supermarkets, and chain stores.
2. Purpose of Use: To improve overall work efficiency, save labor costs, strengthen internal control, and quickly obtain correct decision-making information in order to achieve the ultimate goal of accelerating cash flow and improving business efficiency.
3, software structure: background invoicing system, cash register monitoring system, front desk management, front desk sales (1) background invoicing system: make full use of the characteristics of large-scale, high-efficiency SQL large-scale database, to provide users with powerful features Support, management of the company's purchase business, warehouse business, and processing front-end sales data and back-end wholesale business, to facilitate the commercial circulation company's commodity management, merchant management and customer management, provide business managers with the necessary analysis and decision-making data and information. The backstage provides the front desk with the required product information, customer data and other data, and handles the sales data uploaded by the front desk.
(2) Cash register monitoring system: Responsible for the connection between the back office and the front desk, and can manage the front-end POS and the lower-level monitoring system through multi-level settings. The main functions include obtaining the system data necessary for the front desk from the background, summarizing the front desk sales data into orders sent to the back office, and the sales data query and statistics.
The cash register monitoring system can realize remote connection according to the user's choice, which facilitates unified management of subordinate chain stores or sales branches. Through the different combinations of the cashier monitoring program and the front office management system, a multi-level management method such as complex chains and cascades in a commercial chain organization is realized. Another advantage of using a cash register monitoring system is that it relieves the burden on the network and saves the storage space of the server database, ensuring the speed of the network.
(3) Front office management: The main function is to obtain the data of the cash register monitoring system and send the sales data of the front desk, as well as the query of the local sales data. Distributing front desk management and front desk sales separately facilitates front desk sales to run at the fastest possible speed, free from the impact of network data transmission speeds, and facilitates mall administrators to perform inquiries and management at any time without affecting the operation of front desk sales personnel. The advantage of separating the front desk from invoicing is that it does not need to rely on the network during normal sales, and can still guarantee sales in the event of network or server failure.
(4) Sales at the front desk: The front desk includes only the functions necessary and necessary for the sale of goods, and it is possible to simplify the operating procedures as much as possible so as to facilitate cashiers to collect payments quickly and accurately. Functions include reception transaction receipts, returns and loyalty cards, discounts and offers, product inquiries and sales inquiries, the completion of front-end transactions in the scanning bar code or enter the product code, receipts, print receipts, pop-up cashbox and a series of operations.
Fifth, suitable mode
1, chain operations:
Headquarters (distribution center): One or more back-office invoicing systems can be installed in the headquarters LAN. Through the data entry and maintenance of the operation personnel of each department, the entire company's merchandise purchase and sales process can be brought into a healthy operating state. Complete the maintenance of goods, merchants, customers and other information, purchase, inventory and sales of business management, to provide accurate system data to each branch.
Branches (Sales Branch): Install a cash register monitoring system in each branch, and set up multiple POS machines. The cashier monitoring program connects to the headquarters server through the remote dial-up network. It is responsible for receiving data from the headquarters system and collecting subordinate POS. The sales data of the machine is collected into a sales order and sent back to the head office server. If the scale is small, the cash register monitoring and front-end system can be installed on the same computer.
General manager or mobile office: When on a business trip, you can use a laptop (laptop) outside the LAN to connect to the headquarters server through a remote dial-up network for information query and remote operation.
Telecommunication network
2. Single store operation:
Background invoicing business: Install background invoicing system in each department, set department and personnel and corresponding authority, through the collaborative operation of various departments, complete the background of Invoicing business.
Front-end sales system: install a cash register monitoring, data connection between the background and the front desk, and unified management of the front desk.
General manager or mobile office: When on a business trip, you can use a laptop (laptop) outside the LAN to connect to the headquarters server through a remote dial-up network for information query and remote operation.
Cash register monitoring long-distance communication network background Invoicing (sub-departments and personnel) Front-end POS cash register system Remote In today's society, as the size of the company continues to expand, business managers often use more scientific in order to improve work efficiency and economic efficiency. Management ideas and methods. In a large number of cost investments, the status of information technology becomes more and more important. The timeliness and correctness of information determines the decision-making basis of a company. How to quickly obtain correct and effective use becomes the most important for business managers. problem.
Sixth, the main product introduction
POS machine introduction:
Functions and Specifications Ø embedded Windows CE 4.2 operating system and RDP 5.2& ICA 7.0 communication protocol Ø support 24-bit color mode, high resolution mode Ø can connect to Microsoft Windows 2000 server through RDP or ICA,
Ø Windows 2003 server, Citrix MetaFrame server Ø Support printer, modem and other external devices Ø Support DHCP, WINS, DNS
Ø Built-in IE6.0 browser (support FLASH/VBS/JVS/multi-window management)
Ø Built-in Media Player 9.0 player Ø Support Wake-On-LAN
Ø One serial port, one parallel port, two USB ports, two PS2 ports Ø one VGA port, one network port Ø support full 16-bit stereo playback function Ø support touch screen Ø support diskless boot mode such as PXE/Rpl
Advantages Ø Low power consumption, easy maintenance, good management Ø Easy installation, centralized data management and high security Ø Effectively reduce the overall maintenance cost of the enterprise Ø Embedded high-performance CPU, industrial-grade motherboard, fanless design Ø Low power consumption, no Any noise Ø High reliability, high stability, can be turned off at any time, switch machine
Operating system: Windows CE.net 4.2 operating system, soon upgraded to Windows CE.5.0
Power Supply: Input: 220-240 Volts, Output: 40 Watt Microprocessor: VIA EDEN 533Mhz Embedded Low-Power Processor, Fanless Memory: 64MB
Solid State Drive: 2GB SSD
Weight: 2.5 kg Ambient temperature: In use: 0°C ~+40°C
General condition: -20°C ~+60°C
Humidity: In Use: 10%~90%
General condition:: 10%~95%