Because in a self-service kiosk almost everything except the panel is a USB device. The 14 ports on the UPC-302F — ten USB 2.0 and four USB 3.0 — are enough for a passport or document reader, a boarding-pass printer, a receipt printer, a camera, a signature pad, a card reader, an RFID reader, a barcode scanner, a status display and a service keyboard, with the USB 3.0 pair left for the camera or an external archive drive. When a kiosk needs one more reader, the box does not need to be replaced.

Three things the terminal environment asks for. Fanless construction, so there is no filter to clean and no fan to seize in an unattended public unit. 14 USB ports and dual HDMI + VGA outputs, which is the device count a self-service check-in, bag-drop or boarding unit actually carries. And dual Intel I210 Gigabit LAN, so the terminal network and a separate service or management network stay separate.

Yes — 1× HDMI and 1× VGA run simultaneously. In kiosk work that usually means one screen for the passenger and one for maintenance or staff, or a main display plus a status or advertising panel. The VGA output also matters in terminal buildings where older panels, long analogue cable runs and existing KVMs are still VGA: the output is on the chassis, so no adapter hangs off the machine.

Readers and legacy peripherals that never moved to USB. The {model} carries 3× RS232 and 1× RS485 on DB9: the RS232 channels take document or card readers, scales, printers and older controllers, and the single RS485 channel drives a multi-drop bus — for example a chain of status displays or meters along one counter run — without an external converter.

For normal kiosk loads, no. The ports are fed from the chassis and the device mix — readers, printers, a camera and a signature pad — sits inside what a standard USB port supplies. Devices with their own high current demand, such as a large external disk, should keep their own power supply, which is standard practice on any industrial PC. Send us the device list with the kiosk order and we will confirm the configuration and the port assignment.

Three, all on the Intel® Core™ 12th Gen platform and all with 8GB standard memory: i3-1215U at 1.2–4.4 GHz, i5-1235U at 1.3–4.4 GHz and i7-1255U at 1.7–4.7 GHz. Part numbers are C10.03.16.001, C10.03.16.002 and C10.03.16.003. The fourteen ports, the display outputs, the chassis and the mounting are identical across all three.

8–32GB DDR5 with a 1× mSATA SSD. A kiosk application plus a reader stack plus a local log fits comfortably in 8GB; move to 16GB or 32GB when the unit also holds images, a local database or a browser-based interface that keeps several sessions open. The mSATA SSD is the standard build storage, and the single board layout keeps it serviceable.

The chassis is 337 × 160 × 47.5 mm and weighs 3.7 kg, milled from high-strength aluminium alloy and mounted on a wall bracket or a VESA plate — which is how kiosk enclosures normally carry the PC. Power is 12V DC on a 3-pin pluggable terminal block with 9–36V DC optional, and startup can be set to AT so the unit comes back by itself when terminal power is restored.

It is completely fanless, so there is no filter to clean and no air path pulling dust through the electronics — the most common cause of a kiosk PC needing attention. Operating temperature is 0–50 ℃ as standard with −40–70 ℃ optional, storage is −10–60 ℃, humidity is 10%–90% non-condensing. Certifications are CE, FCC and BIS to EN 55032 and EN 55035, with ODM support for custom BIOS, boot-on-LOGO and OEM branding for fleet deployments.