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May is Restaurant Tech Month — May 20th visit the huge National Restaurant Association show in Chicago, booth 6576 in Tech Pavilion next to Epson and SpotOn (North Building). See the banner above? Look for it at the show. Here is our local NRA synopsis post. Outdoor digital drive thru technology from Keyser. The new Clover Kiosk from Nanonation (using Samsung kiosk) will be out front. If any questions send an email to [email protected] — Thanks!

June will be Digital Signage Solution month with InfoComm 2022 trade show in Las Vegas June 8-10. Here is our synopsis with exhibitors, speaking sessions and happy hour meet & greets.

May – ISE Europe in Barcelona — see LG video and review of show
May – NRA in Chicago
June – InfoComm 2022 – MimoMonitors, Peerless-AV .

PSA — ADA Kiosk Checklist – 20 Questions To Ask Yourself. Kiosk market research is currently v10.

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Excerpt #1 — Raspberry Pi 400 Kiosk

Editors note: light and small format clients such as the Dell SFF standard have since graduated to super-light and micro-clients (often an AIO). The base CPU and graphics are now secondary to the most important criteria — how fast is your internet connection? You still need a lockdown and secure desktop but instead of a $700 computer, 90% of that function can be addressed just fine with a $70 computer.

Full test and reviews with charts and numbers on Thinclient

We unboxed it and set it up in 10 minutesRaspberry Pi was very nice and sent us one of their Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kits. Featuring a quad-core 64-bit processor, 4GB of RAM, wireless networking, dual-display output, and 4K video playback, as well as a 40-pin GPIO header, Raspberry Pi 400 is a powerful, easy-to-use computer built into a neat and portable keyboard. Available on Amazon for $99 (just add a monitor).

plugged in mouse
hooked up internet
plugged in HDMI to the 32″ monitor
connected power

We ran two sets of tests. The first was just 10 minutes of “typical usage” to see if any “slowness”. The kind of lag you might experience with one of the old Celeron or J1900 (or lord forbid an Atom) compared to the typical Windows i5 desktop with Intel graphics.

Typical baseline for us is a Linux laptop with 4Ghz i7-8750H with Intel 630. 16GB RAM. (We recommend System76!)
Typical monitor is BenQ EW3270L.
The linux desktop ran at 1920 resolution.
The Raspberry PI ran at 2560 just to make it tougher

Excerpt #2 — From Market Research 2022

Predicting 2022 trends begins with reviewing 2021 predictions. How many were right and how many were wrong?

The consensus from many respected organizations comes down to one word: contactless. We think 2022 will be a breakout year for QR codes and other contactless tokens (facial, biometric, SMS) ourselves. Some new re-invigorated drivers include social networks like TikTok and their videos. How POS and CMS systems can communicate effectively with customers and generate loyalty. Gift cards, giveaways and incentives will abound.

Tech Angles

IP Cameras now come with AI raising the intelligence and programmability of those cameras and mitigating the usual USB hooked to a PC solution
Livestreaming (the pandemic trained us on that).
Story on Chick-Fil-A and virtual order takers in the drive-thru (TikTok video) — link

This is the first iteration post and we will be adding more in the coming days.

Excerpt #3 mPOS

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This product is a list of over 175 top POS ISVs (independent software vendors) in the North American POS and mPOS markets for merchants and retailers. It is inclusive of those that make their own POS equipment like NCR, Oracle, Oracle/MICROS, Fujitsu and others, as well as pure software players like Aptos, OneView Commerce, and others. This list also includes the mPOS players such as Square, Toast, Clover, etc.

The format is in Excel and provides custom graphing opportunities. This is offered in an Enterprise License for $3,995. Kioskindustry has arranged a discounted license which is 20% off for KMA members. Non-members can get the report with 10% discount.

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