iPad, Software & Hardware – Why You Need All Three

iPad Kiosk – Hardware & Software

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Founder & CEO at Lilitab Kiosks

We’re living in a connected society. From point of sale machines to personal computers and mobile devices, tech is everywhere. One benefit of this ever-growing technological world has been the widespread adoption of tablets & the iPad Kiosk. They exist to inform, to sell, to reduce overhead costs and to allow customers more control and empowerment.

The standard in the kiosk world is becoming a product that not only integrates tablets into a secure enclosure, but it’s also about having proper software installed and the correct mounting system as soon as you install a kiosk into your business. Incorporating all these items can’t be an afterthought anymore. Here are a few good examples of why.

Scenario Number One – Sluggish Software
You are the owner of a small chain of grocery stores. For quite some time, you have had the idea to install a tablet kiosk checkout solution. You place an order for new tablets, source enclosures for each one and add counter mounts to your checkout area. After hiring a local developer to write your software you begin to test your tablet kiosk solution. Throughout the testing phase everything is performing well, items are scanning correctly and the payment system seems to be working just fine. On launch day your kiosks are set up and ready to go and your customers are loving the new self-service checkout system! More people are using the system than anticipated and because of this, the system is overloaded and crashes. This leaves your customers with a negative in-store experience. Getting software that will stand the high usage demand is crucial!

Scenario Number Two – Unsecure Tablet Enclosures
You operate a coffee shop and are trying to install a tablet kiosk payment system. You buy a couple iPad tablets because of their reputation and excellent software. Launch day rolls around and you couldn’t be more pleased with your mount set up and the functionality your tablets are providing. But at the end of the day, your tablets are missing! Upon reviewing the security tapes, it seems that your tablet enclosures are to blame. The locks didn’t quite do their job. If only you had known about this issue before going live you could have saved your business thousands of dollars.

Scenario Number Three – Out of Date Hardware
You manage a museum with many complicated exhibits. One day you place an order for several tablets to enhance each experience in your museum. You hire a developer to code software and on the test setup it runs great. Problems arise when you notice that the tablets aren’t able to keep up with your new implementation. They are sluggish and unresponsive to most commands. You have the right software,perfect enclosures and you’ve invested in floor mounts to sit at your key exhibits. The dated tablet hardware has unfortunately made the final product useless.

These three examples show us that the most important factor in adding a successful tablet kiosk solution to any business, isn’t about having just the hardware. It’s not even about having the most user-friendly software. The key to success in this industry is having the whole package. Combine a well-built enclosure and mount, with a modern tablet and reliable software and you hold the key to the best interactive experience for you and your customer.

Does your business have a tablet kiosk? Haven’t installed one yet but thinking about it? Contact us today for more info.

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iPad Kiosks – Kiosk Pro Enterprise Delivers the Goods:

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China Kiosk and Vending Show (CVS) 2016: April 2017 Shanghai

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Kiosk Security – How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes

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kiosk security With Russia already meddling in 2016, a ragtag group of obsessive tech experts is warning that stealing the ultimate prize—victory on Nov. 8—would be child’s play.

Source: www.politico.com

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When Princeton professor Andrew Appel decided to hack into a voting machine, he didn’t try to mimic the Russian attackers who hacked into the Democratic National Committee’s database last month. He didn’t write malicious code, or linger near a polling place where the machines can go unguarded for days.

Instead, he bought one online.

With a few cursory clicks of a mouse, Appel parted with $82 and became the owner of an ungainly metallic giant called the Sequoia AVC Advantage, one of the oldest and vulnerable, electronic voting machines in the United States (among other places it’s deployed in Louisiana, New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania). No sooner did a team of bewildered deliverymen roll the 250-pound device into a conference room near Appel’s cramped, third-floor office than the professor set to work. He summoned a graduate student named Alex Halderman, who could pick the machine’s lock in seven seconds. Clutching a screwdriver, he deftly wedged out the four ROM chips—they weren’t soldered into the circuit board, as sense might dictate—making it simple to replace them with one of his own: A version of modified firmware that could throw off the machine’s results, subtly altering the tally of votes, never to betray a hint to the voter. The attack was concluded in minutes. To mark the achievement, his student snapped a photo of Appel—oblong features, messy black locks and a salt-and-pepper beard—grinning for the camera, fists still on the circuit board, as if to look directly into the eyes of the American taxpayer: Don’t look at me—you’re the one who paid for this thing.

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Micro market Kiosk – Exchange And USA Technologies Partner

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First Responder Kiosk – Emergency Supply Lockers for “Stop the Bleed”

Two men wearing white and dark shirts each hold a medical vest with tourniquets. Between them stands a first responder kiosk labeled Learning to Save a Life. On the right, text reads Saving Lives When Every Second Counts against a blue and red background.

New use case aims to help ‘Stop the Bleed’ and provide emergency supplies for first responders.

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Did you know that uncontrolled bleeding was the leading cause of potentially preventable death among trauma patients? Or that it only takes five minutes for a person the die from traumatic blood loss? How about that 60,000 Americans die from blood loss each year? Traumatic injuries can happen anywhere. And considering that it takes an average of eight minutes for emergency medical services to arrive (14 minutes in rural areas), the difference between a saved life and a tragic death can hinge on bystanders and their access to the supplies they need to provide first aid.

And now, digital kiosks are contributing to the effort to provide access to those supplies and improve the odds of someone surviving a traumatic injury.

From bystander to first responder

East Rutherford, N.J.-based Community Response and Mitigation (CR+M), a privately owned company that specializes in the manufacture, delivery, and implementation of crisis management solutions designed to help save lives during critical incidents, is behind the effort, leveraging a partnership with the national STOP THE BLEED® campaign. STOP THE BLEED® is the result of a collaborative effort led by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) and the U.S. Department of Defense to bring knowledge of bleeding control to the public.

Driven in part by mass casualty events including the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, where 20 children and six adults were killed, STOP THE BLEED® was launched as a national public awareness campaign in October 2015 by the White House.

The campaign’s call to action was to train people to become immediate responders until professional help arrives. The ACS Committee on Trauma first publicly introduced bleeding control training courses for its members the following year, and since then thousands of other medical professionals have trained to become course instructors.

New Jersey law enforcement officers Jason Innella and Sean McKinney founded CR+M in 2016 to help mitigate the loss of life in incidents such as the Sandy Hook shooting. The company’s contribution to the STOP THE BLEED® effort centers around a digital kiosk designed as a “forward operating post” providing first responders with the tools and supplies needed during a mass casualty event to help save lives.

The digital kiosk stores five CR+M belts, each containing five STOP THE BLEED® kits as well as a breaching tool and a ballistic shield. Each kit includes a C-A-T tourniquet, QuikClot® Bleeding Control Dressing™, protective gloves, compression bandages, a pair of protective gloves, a Mini Sharpie marker and two three-ply masks. The belts provide First Responders with the ability to rapidly distribute hemorrhage control to a large number of injured patients in a mass casualty situation.

Olea Kiosks helped design and manufacture the units. The kiosks also include two 55” high-bright outdoor displays, LED lightbox and a customized safety locker designed by CR+M. In the absence of an emergency, the units are a highly valuable real-time digital bulletin board and advertising tool. The facility can publish its own information and can generate revenue from brands and local businesses that have a desire to reach the audiences who frequent their locations. The kiosk is available for both outdoor and indoor applications.

Along with the kiosks, CR+M also offers digital post-mounted units and storage cabinets for applications where a kiosk may not be feasible. The CR+M Post offers the same capabilities as the digital kiosk but without the displays and can fit into pre-existing installations such as light poles or updating old blue-light systems. The cabinets offer “grab and go” access to two CR+M Belts with a total of 10 STOP THE BLEED kits. The lightweight metal cabinet can be mounted to a wall and includes a bottom shelf for a first aid kit or defibrillator provided by the end-user. CR+M’s safety solutions are built upon three critical first responder needs and strategies, the company says:

  • Command & Control: Establish command and control providing a quicker, more prepared and better-coordinated response for first responders.
  • Hemorrhage Control: Deliver immediate hemorrhage control products to stop the bleed for the wounded and minimize loss of life.
  • Tools & Technologies: Provide essential tools to better prepare first responders with on-premise equipment to better mitigate the event.
  • As an educational licensee of STOP THE BLEED, CR+M is working with the American College of Surgeons to train, prepare and equip its customers with critical life-saving skills.

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Medical Kiosk – Doc-in-a-box Hygeia for employers

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Dexter Goodwin (left) and Ricardo Ibarria (right) are cofounders of Hygenia, one of the nine teams competing at The Iron Yard’s digital health accelerator in downtown Spartanburg. The duo work with telehealth devices to increase the speed and efficiency of on-site health care.

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Two digital health entrepreneurs are hoping a cutting-edge device can improve the speed, accessibility and affordability of health care in the workplace.

Ricardo Ibarria and Dexter Goodwin III are cofounders of Hygeia, a digital health program. Using a unique kiosk-like device, the company hopes to improve the volume of patients who can be treated remotely where they work while cutting down the amount of time required for each patient. The company is one of nine teams from across the country participating in The Iron Yard’s third digital health accelerator in downtown Spartanburg.

“We’re hoping to improve access and convenience to health care,” said Ibarria, founder and CEO of the company.

The device the company uses is similar to some seen in retail and grocery stores. But Hygeia’s device allows for more customization than those, Ibarria said. Patients can take a seat and have their vital signs measured. The device can record a person’s blood pressure, body temperature and heart rate, among other functions.

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