Smart Vending Solution

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / April 21, 2022 / Technology in the vending industry has skyrocketed in the past few years, vending machines are no longer rectangular boxes that merely function to sell products by throwing coins and paper notes into them. Vending machines have evolved into Smart Vending Machines equipped with new and modern hardware and software technologies. Touchscreen, cashless payment, artificial intelligence, cloud-based management, etc. are considered a standard of a smart vending machine.

Operating a smart vending machine is highly convenient for operators with the presence of the Internet of Things (IoT). They are able to access and control their vending machines remotely. Status of inventory, sales report, and machine status can be monitored remotely over the vending cloud as well. However, to support all of these features to function properly, good and powerful smart vending software is essential.

When we are defining good vending machine software, there are a few criteria that we evaluate. First and foremost, stability is one of the most important aspects of smart vending and automated retail. A stable vending software will not experience crashes easily, creating a hard time for operators to spend extra bucks and time repairing the vending machine instead of generating revenue from it.

Secondly, customizability is also one of the key measurements of good vending software, as different operators have different businesses and different needs. Highly customizable software allows operators to customize the software according to their needs and makes their further expansion easier, regardless of customizing existing features or adding new interesting features to their vending machines. Availability of vending API for 3rd-party integration and customization should be one of the key criteria too for a vending software platform of choice for the freedom of scalability and expandability by the vending operators and retailers in the long term.

Apart from product sales, a smart vending machine with great vending software is able to generate other streams of income for the operators through advertising. Operators can deploy posters or video advertisements to their fleet of vending machines for advertising purposes while earning extra advertising fees from third parties who wish to deploy their advertisements to the vending machines, bringing a multi-streams of income to the operators.

Last but not least, machine-agnostics is one of the key aspects to determine a good smart vending software. When the software is compatible and can be used in any type of vending machine by different manufacturers, it provides operators with a wider range of choices when choosing a suitable vending machine for their smart vending operation.

About Silkron

Silkron's smart vending platform has made possible all kinds of use cases and applications to serve the needs of various industries, such as industrial vending, coffee vending machine, marketing and promotion, regulated vending, healthcare, food ordering kiosk, unmanned store, self-service laundry & car wash. Silkron provides smart vending solutions to the worldwide operators from machine to backend telemetry and allows operators to integrate applications they need onto the platform easily.

For more on Silkron and their full range of products and services, visit www.silkron.com.

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Silkron Technology Sdn Bhd
Suite 12-03, Menara IJM Land,
1, Lebuh Tunku Kudin 3,
11700 Gelugor,
Penang, Malaysia.
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SOURCE: Silkron Technology Sdn Bhd