Infographic: What Type of Portable/Handheld Devices Have You Used to Interact With or Monitor Individual or Multiple Machines?

An electronic survey of Control Design readers was conducted in April 2013 in order to identify usage and application trends of HMI & industrial PCs among the industrial machine builders that comprise Control Design's readership.

The types of devices preferred by those respondents who do use handheld/portable devices are as follows:

1. Plug-in-handheld 17.2%
2. Smart phone/tablet 12.6%
3. Remote pager/phone/email notification 8.1%
4. Wireless handheld 5.8%

56.3% of respondents do not use these devices.

Read all results from the survey.