For easy entry and exit.

They've succeeded a million times over: EAO's door opening push buttons have proven themselves worldwide in electric and electronic door solutions – including extreme climatic conditions. The easy-to-operate and vandal-resistant buttons meet all relevant standards and are ideally suited for public and private passenger transport.

Advantages

• Excellent tactile feedback
• Dual ring illumination in Series 57 models
• Quick installation without tools
• Large operation area with diameter of 74 mm in Series 57 models
• Raised symbols for the visually impaired as per TSI PRM
• Integrated audible finding tone for the visually impaired
• Resistant to cleaning agents
• Very long service life for mechanical and electrical components
• Electronic switching output in Series 57 models
• IP69K front protection in Series 57 models and IP67 front protection in Series 56 models

Intuitive. Safe in hazardous situations.

Always on the safe side: Call for aid push button with raised bell symbol is used to activate emergency or assistance systems on public transport and on call for aid terminals.

Advantages

• Extra-large operating area for easy and safe use
• Robust, raised front bezel made of anodised aluminium prevents unintended activation
• Two individually controlled feedback rings
• High IP69K front protection
• Ideal for outdoor use

Keep hazards in view.

Warning indicators from EAO visually alert people to dangerous situations. They can also signal system faults in public facilities such as rail vehicles, buses, lifts, emergency call terminals or in building technology.

Advantages

• Wide-angle, all-round visibility
• Customisable parameters, e.g. flashing frequency, pulse duration/continuous light
• Full range of LED colours for illumination
• Resistant to cleaning agents
• High-luminosity warning flasher
• Easy to install

Flexible and highly visible status indication.

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Intuitive, flexible and easy to maintain: EAO's indicators are used worldwide where reliable visual feedback is required. Indicators can be used universally, and feature impressive, intuitive visualisation and a high quality of workmanship.

Typical functions

• Illumination in one or two colours
• Bright and homogenous illumination
• Wide range of standard symbols
• Customised symbols on request
• Optional lighting effects (flashing and dimming)

Advantages

• Large selection of lenses in different forms
• Wide range of colours for lenses and illumination
• Wide variety of symbols and markings, including customer-specific options
• Full-face, uniform and glare-free illumination
• Day/night design
• Multi-coloured illumination compatible
• Various lighting effects

Charged and connected whilst onboard.

EAO’s railway certified Charging Solutions help train operators to enhance the passenger experience by allowing passengers to charge their phones, tablets, and laptops, on the move.

EAO chargers can be fitted to tables, seatbacks, walls and even grab poles to provide a phone charging service to nearly every passenger. With the new multi-voltage Power Delivery / PPS USB-C sockets, EAO can also provide laptop and fast charging for phones through one connection.

Advantages

• Seatback holster, or embedded tabletop wireless chargers
• Wireless chargers have additional 5V USB for charging older phones
• New Multi-voltage USB-C socket charge both laptops and phones
• Replace 230V outlets with USB-C phone and laptop charging sockets
• Can be retrofitted to seats, tables and bulkheads during refurbishment
• Rugged, reliable design for rail, tram and bus applications

Access for authorised persons only.

EAO key-insert switches are particularly useful in public and private passenger transport worldwide. They prevent people from switching signal systems on or off without authorisation, and from using unauthorised compartments or toilets.

Advantages

• Suitable for indoor or outdoor use
• Customer-specific key-insert profiles
• Usable down to – 40 °C
• Key can be turned to various switch positions
• Very long service life for mechanical and electrical components
• Variety of combinations including maintained and momentary actions
• Supports all commonly used connection systems
• Locking mechanisms available with master key on request

Compact acoustic warning.

Multi-Tone Sound Modules (MTSM) acoustically warn people of hazards, especially in public facilities. Examples include closing automatic doors in trains and lifts, pedestrian crossings, security and access systems, vehicles and machines, as well as building technology.

Advantages

• Compact design
• Easy-to-customise tone sequences
• Standard tone sequences pre-programmed, e.g. as per TSI PRM
• Conventional activation of tone sequences via six wires, or binary activation via four wires
• Sound pressure can be configured externally or adjusted automatically based on the ambient noise level
• With maximum IP69K front protection

For safety on the railway.

A flexible, bright and reliable warning indicator with 8 mm back panel depth, making it the ideal tool for your driver’s cab. The modular HMI simplifies fault monitoring. This contributes to more safety in your railway applications.

Advantages

• Customisable panel size and symbols
• Quick adaptation to customer-specific requirements
• Additional functionality can be added
• Ultra-thin design (< 8 mm) to fit in driver’s cabs
• Bright, even illumination visible in all light conditions

Reliable with premium haptics.

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Universally applicable actuators and indicators: push buttons from EAO are the right choice if reliability and first-class haptics are what counts for you.

Push buttons are ideal for mechanical engineering, control engineering, public and private passenger transport, lifting and conveying systems, heavy duty and special vehicles, and the automotive industry.

Advantages

• Intuitive to use
• Excellent haptic feedback
• Large selection of operation areas
• Wide range of colours for lenses
• Wide variety of symbols and markings, including customer-specific options
• Very long service life for mechanical and electrical components
• Wide range of minimum and maximum switching ratings

Worldwide standard from the pioneer.

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The unrivalled original: EAO is the pioneer of illuminated push buttons. Since their development in 1958, these modular actuators and indicators are found in many applications and have been in rigorous use all over the world, thanks to their reliable visual feedback.

Advantages

• Intuitive to use
• Excellent haptic feedback
• Large selection of operation areas
• Wide range of colours for lenses and illumination
• Wide variety of symbols and markings, including customer-specific options
• Full-face, uniform, and glare-free illumination
• Very long service life for mechanical and electrical components
• Wide range of minimum and maximum switching ratings

Driving made easy.

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EAO's lever switches are robust and versatile. They have up to five switching positions and various maintained and momentary actions. They have proven themselves worldwide, especially in driver's cabs in road and rail vehicles and ships.

Advantages  

• Very robust design
• Visible switching positions
• Can be switched in 2, 4 or 8 directions
• Large selection of levers
• Very long service life for mechanical and electrical components
• Also suitable for switching larger switch ratings

Flexible and clearly visible status display.

EAO’s intuitive indicators for public transport offer quickly identifiable and clearly recognisable symbols. This means that passengers can quickly see from a distance whether a toilet is available, occupied or out of service. This avoids unnecessary waiting and long periods spent searching for toilets. In the event of a fire, rapid recognisability of the alarm pictogram is particularly important, and passengers benefit from this as well as many other notification applications.

Typical applications

• Toilet facilities in trains, on coaches and in public environments
• Various functions for informing and alerting passengers
• Passenger access status indicators

The Series 57 Multi-Legend Display fulfils all requirements for public transport in terms of intuitive operation, flexibility, ease of maintenance, and relevant standards.

Advantages

• Up to 18 customisable symbols per display
• Excellent visibility and wide viewing angle
• Environmentally adaptive sensor for display brightness
• Modern design with low back panel depth
• Complies with relevant standards

Programmer kit

Display symbols with a resolution of 432 x 432 pixels are possible and can be configured on the device using the programming kit.

The Series 57 Multi-Legend Display is the ideal choice for manufacturers of trains, train doors, and toilet systems in public spaces, because the intuitive indicator is flexible and clearly visible at all times.

Protecting people and machines.

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EAO's emergency stop switches are designed to reliably protect people from injury and prevent damage to machines, systems or vehicles, even in harsh environments and in tight installation conditions. Emergency stop switches with positive opening function (in accordance with DIN EN ISO 13850 and EN 60204-1) primarily serve to protect people. Emergency stop switches are always foolproof. They are easily recognisable by the red lens with yellow actuator or yellow protective shroud.

Advantages

• 100% switching reliability and foolproof, even in harsh environments
• Low back panel depth
• Large range of minimum and maximum switch ratings
• Illuminated
• Resistant to impact, vibration and shock
• Usable down to – 40 °C
• Very long service life for mechanical and electrical components
• Available with standards-compliant protective shroud

A turn for the better.

Mechanical turning for success. With our user-friendly potentiometers, you can continuously regulate different resistance values for machines – and over a rotation range of up to 300 degrees.

Advantages

• IP69K protection
• Long service life
• Easy mounting
• Rotational range of up to 300°
• Resistance from 1 k to 470 kΩ

For effective security.

With EAO's keylock switches, you can effectively prevent erroneous or unauthorised operations. You can also use them to implement access authorisations for user groups.

Advantages

• Selection of different lock systems
• Different switching angles
• Very long service life for mechanical and electrical components
• Variety of combinations of momentary and maintained actions 
• Supports all commonly used connection systems

Versatile and durable.

EAO's selector switches are ideal for worldwide use, whether in operating systems for mechanical engineering, in dashboard supports, or in driver’s cabs and the cockpits of rail and road vehicles. You can equip the selector switches with up to 12 switching positions and up to 16 contacts.

Advantages

• Intuitive to use
• Excellent haptic feedback
• Switch position easily visible
• Variety of combinations including maintained and momentary action
• Very long service life for mechanical and electrical components

Robust. Tactile and long-lasting.

Intuitive operation and increased safety: modern actuators and indicators in public transport must be easy to use above all else. EAO offers tactile and durable illuminated selector switches for use in rail vehicles.

Typical applications

• Driver’s cab
• Operator panels
• Control cabinets 

With single- or dual-colour illumination, selector switches from EAO optimise safety in driver’s cabs and operator panels in an intuitive and immediately visually recognisable manner. The devices boast a tactile feedback combined with fantastic acoustic feedback – as well as offering a user-friendly and highly ergonomic design.

The robust and modular design enables a long service life of up to 2.5 million switch cycles, opening up many possible applications. 

The bright LED illumination offers fantastic visibility even in strong sunlight and in poor light conditions. The clearly recognisable switch position is also safe and intuitive. Together with EAO Value Added Services, easy installation and intuitive operation are possible.

Advantages

• Bright, single or bi-colour LED illumination 
• Modern design with ergonomic, rounded edges (conforms to DIN 5566-1)
• IP65 front protection
• Variety of combinations including maintained and momentary action
• Short and long levers
• Long service life

Compact, intuitive and safe.

Acoustic warning and LED status display combined in one compact device: EAO offers another innovative product with the new Series 57 Multi-Tone Warning Indicator (MTWI).

When opening and closing doors in public transport, safety comes first. This also includes accessible applications, whether for passenger access on trains, trams, bus or public emergency call and help points (call for aid). Users can rely on Series 57 acoustic and visual warning at all times and wherever they are.

Typical applications

• Passenger access to trains, trams and buses
• Emergency call and help points (call for aid)
• Access control systems

The MTWI brings together in one device two HMI Functions already well-established in the rail industry: the Series 56 multi-tone sound module and Series 57 visual warning indicators. The result offers increased safety on public transport, particularly for people with impaired vision.

Advantages

• Audible and visual warning in a single device
• A single cable for space and cost savings in mounting
• Modern, timeless design of Series 57
• Long service life and attractive total cost of ownership
• Intense 180° illumination

When opening the train door, (externally triggered) green LEDs light up or flash. At the same time the door opening signal sounds to provide acoustic signalisation. As soon as the door closes, the red LEDs light up (or flash) and the door closer signals can be clearly heard. Various LED colours and combinations are available in this regard. For emergency-call voice announcements, there is a version with a passive speaker module that you can connect to an external signal source with an amplifier.

The wide range of technical and economic advantages makes the MTWI the optimum device for users, systems providers for train doors, and operators in public transport.

Clever acoustic alarms.

EAO buzzers generate sound at a predefined volume and tone frequency. The compact dimensions mean you can use them worldwide in machines, medical equipment, lifting and conveying systems, driver's cabs and building technology.

Advantages

• Large selection of designs
• High sound pressure
• Very long service life for electrical and audio components
• Models with wide voltage range

Innovative, flexible and efficient – for an optimized passenger flow.

Megatrends of the future, such as mobility and urbanisation, pose new challenges for railway transport. It is becoming increasingly important to optimise the flow of passengers so that they are routed efficiently in the increasingly connected and dynamic world of rail transport.

EAO supports this need with the latest generation of seat reservation system with a standardised platform, that offers maximum flexibility in terms of customer-specific design and system adaptations. Not only can the system be easily and seamlessly integrated into the passenger information system but thanks to the innovative display technology and bright, clear, seat status indicators; passengers can easily locate a free seat, or find their prebooked seat reservation.

The EAO seat reservation system includes a modern, CAN bus-based, high-resolution display (SRD) and a matching gateway (SRG), which enables connection to the passenger information system (PIS) via Ethernet.

Advantages

• Early recognition of seat reservations thanks to bright LED indicators
• Increased passenger flow efficiency
• Energy-efficient, cost-effective and high-contrast display technology
• One display solution for flexible installation situations
• Seamless integration thanks to versatile customisation options

EAO’s seat reservation system was developed for the rail market and fulfils the specific norms and standards. Overall, the EAO seat reservation system represents a comprehen¬sive solution for the requirements of rail transport. From straightforward installation to flexible adaptation to different seating arrangements and design requirements and with a focus on efficiency, we are setting new standards for the future railway travel experience.

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Reliable and efficient.

EAO can develop custom-tailored HMI Solutions for you. These solutions impress through innovative technology, intuitive operation, and reliable functions. You can gain from our expertise in mixed technological solutions of this type, as we deliver benefits from our innovative design concepts through to efficient production and logistics.

Your measurable benefit

• Combinable system-based solutions and expertise
• Global expert knowledge and global service
• Flexible and modular design
• Advantages in terms of cost and time
• Sustainability – including through retrofitting and modernisation