5G base station outdoor touch panel upgrade: combining weather resistance, anti-interference and user experience.

The client is a telecommunications equipment manufacturer developing a new generation of 5G base stations. They require an outdoor operating panel that can withstand long-term exposure to Taiwan's humid, rainy, and high-salt environment while maintaining accurate multi-touch functionality. Existing products suffer from decreased touch sensitivity and rapid aging under high temperature and humidity, and are susceptible to interference in complex electromagnetic environments, impacting maintenance efficiency and on-site user experience.

FKX 's outdoor touch panel solution:

  • Addressing the four major challenges of "outdoor weather resistance", "EMI immunity", "multi-touch", and "long-term electrical stability", a touch panel printing solution based on PET film integrates conductive silver paste circuits and sensing electrodes in a multi-layer structure, and applies a hardened and anti-UV coating to the outer layer to resist sun exposure, rain and scratches.
  • The structural design incorporates full lamination and edge sealing technology, supplemented by industrial-grade adhesive and waterproof and breathable membrane, which prevents water vapor from penetrating and balances the internal and external pressure difference, maintaining stability even after long-term outdoor use.
  • To suppress electromagnetic interference, we configured an EMI shielding layer and grounded copper foil on the back of the panel, and optimized the layout of the sensing electrodes to ensure that multi-touch can still respond accurately around the high-power RF module of the base station.
  • The surface features a matte anti-reflective finish and high-contrast printing, ensuring clear readability even under strong sunlight. The modular design allows for quick replacement of panel components during maintenance, reducing downtime.
5G base station outdoor touch panel

After rigorous outdoor environmental testing (high temperature and humidity, salt spray, day and night cycle, and cleaning and wiping tests), the panel maintained stable touch and electrical performance even under extreme conditions. Following actual deployment, customer feedback indicated a significant improvement in the ease of operation of base station equipment, an increase in on-site maintenance efficiency of over 30%, a simultaneous decrease in accidental touches and return rates, and a more competitive overall lifecycle cost. This project not only meets the core requirements of 5G base station "outdoor touch panels" for weather resistance, interference resistance, and reliability, but also demonstrates FKX mass production capabilities in PET touch panel printing, conductive silver paste circuit integration, low-volume high-speed digital printing, and packaging processes.

If you are looking for solutions such as "outdoor touch panels", "PET touch panel printing", "EMI shielding design", and "UV-resistant, waterproof and dustproof (IP65/IP67)", please contact FKX . We can provide complete solutions from material selection, electrical layout, packaging verification to mass production control, based on the installation site and specifications.