Retail Whitepaper – Floor Sensor Analytics for Traffic Footfall Analysis

Foot Traffic Sensors – Scanalytics SoleSensors

Floor Sensor

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Nice whitepaper by Scanalytics on traffic floor sensors.

The Scanalytics intelligent floor sensors effectively transform Click to see full image existing spaces into smart environments that track and analyze individual patterns. From boutique shops to international department store chains, Scanalytics provides anyone with a physical footprint the tools to discover actionable insights about their customers/visitors.

Floor Sensor Stats

  • 27 million counts to date
  • +99% Representation
  • Flexible durations
  • 4 hours to several years
  • Sensor lasts +7 years
  • Daisy-chain to cover any space

Description of Retail White Paper

38 pages complete with sample graphs and pictures of installations.

https://kioskindustry.org//wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Whitepaper-Retail-Showcase.pdf

For more information

Email [email protected] or you can Visit Scanalytics site

Justice Court installs DMV kiosk for MVD – Pima County

Enable users to have access to several MVD services such as obtaining copies of driving records and renewing vehicle registrations. The kiosk also allows customers to print vehicle registrations and plate tabs for renewals.

Source: webcms.pima.gov

DMV Kiosk New services for Arizonans with DMV kiosk

Services available through the AZDOT-MVD kiosk include:

  • Vehicle Registration Renewal
  • Motor Vehicle Record
  • Duplicate Driver License
  • Registration Tab Replacement
  • Duplicate Vehicle Registration
  • Driver License Reinstatement
  • Change of Address
  • Insurance Verification
  • 3 Day Permit
  • Plate Refund
  • 30 Day General Use
  • Voter Registration
  • Sold Notice
  • Plate Credit
  • Vehicle Fee Recap

Financial kiosk – The Value Added Tax refund kiosk

Financial Kiosk News

financial kiosk

A Star2 reader, who is a frequent traveller, shares her experiences on value added tax and the extremely tiring process of claiming it back.

Source: www.star2.com

In France, they have an automated kiosk called Pablo. Once Pablo approves your form, you don’t need to go to the customs counter at all; you can just line up and obtain your cash refund or put the form in the box and later get your refund credited into your nominated credit card.

 
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JetBlue redoes kiosk services at JFK hub

Airport Kiosk News

airport check-in kiosk

JetBlue has completely overhauled the T5 lobby first opened in 2008, making it more self-service focused.

Source: www.usatoday.com

Some pretty nice designs for airport check-in kiosks and baggage kiosks.

Analytical Design Solutions Inc. Celebrates 25th Anniversary

We are celebrating a big birthday! Analytical Design Solutions Inc is celebrating 25 years of business.  With our roots in Engineering Consulting and Software Development, ADSI is proud to be a fixture in the York Tech Community and is excited to continue to excel in the kiosk software, interactive digital signage, and mobile device management arena.

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President and Founder James Kruper started ADSI with wife and partner Gina Kruper in 1991.  Together, they have built a business focused on employee and customer satisfaction above all else.

ADSI is most often referred to as “KioWare”, the primary software product produced by the company.  KioWare is kiosk system software to lockdown your Android or Windows Device, with KioCloud, an online kiosk management subscription SAAS, to manage your kiosks. Continuing in the manner in which we started, ADSI (dba KioWare), also offers custom software kiosk app development – building custom applications to integrate and deploy with KioWare’s out of the box kiosk software.

Jim Kruper believes, “It is KioWare’s focus on people that has made our business grow and thrive. Our success can be measured in how genuinely we care about our employees, customers, and community.”

Our commitment to the York area extends beyond the business with both Jim & Gina Kruper serving on the Corporate Board of Directors at the York YMCA, as well as participating in a plethora of York community service activities like the YorIt Initiative.

KioWare has customers in over 110 countries, and has sold to over 8,000 organizations in every vertical market including government, banks, healthcare, education, retail, and more, since the product’s inception 13 years ago. With an international presence, and a satellite office in England, KioWare continues to build on the customer focused product development & technical support integral to our mission.

For more information visit KioWare page here on KioskIndustry

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TSI Partners With OTech On Patient Check-In Efficiency

Patient Check-In

Patient Check-In

TSI Healthcare, a national leader in the sales and support of customized NextGen® Practice Management and Electronic Health Record solutions, announced a partnership with OTech Group LLC. This partnership will deliver the next level of patient care to its providers with in-practice patient kiosks.

Source: www.prweb.com

TSI and OTech partner up in the medical kiosk for patient check-in kiosk running Nexgen.

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Retail Kiosks and their ROI

 

Retail kiosks

ticketing kiosk A good idea for retailers and a good idea for customers.  Providing self-service option is rapidly becoming not an option.

Source: www.olea.com

New writeup by Olea on rationale and ROI for Retail Kiosks. Some of the advantages discussed include:

 

  • Virtual sales assistance for customers
  • Expanding the footprint of the retailer
  • Reducing labor costs
  • Redeploy staff to increasing revenues
  • Eliminate standing in line (line busting)

Good examples of kiosks like this are the ones in REI where you can look up extended stock and sizes, same thing for Cabela’s and also Kohls.

For full article visit the The Lab at Olea – Source: www.olea.com

Automated Checkout – Retailers Rethinking self-service checkout lanes

 

automated checkout Walmart made April Hubbard’s day by replacing its perpetually backed up do-it-yourself checkout lanes this month with six express registers staffed by real people.

Source: www.tampabay.com

A negative story on self-checkout machines and Walmart, Winn Dixie and Albertsons. This story seems to come out like clockwork.  WD and Albertsons have always balked at self-service, same as Safeway. Meanwhile the growing chains do offer that option (Kroger for example).  I don’t think Walmart has pulled any machines though I am sure they are experimenting with express lines. I give this story content 3 out of 5 stars.

DEA Wins the Battle but is Losing the War on Marijuana

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With a number of states moving toward legalization, stubbornness at the federal level may have little impact.

Source: prospect.org

Just a matter of time for Marijuana now. By far the easiest tax to pass, and the greatest revenue. It’s almost perfect equation for local and state.

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BRIEF-Posiflex acquire KIS Acquisition at $105m

Kiosk Information Systems News

 

For full press release text with analysis see KIOSK Acquired by Posiflex posting. Below is original posting of headline on Reuters.

Posiflex Technology buys KIOSK (KIS) :

Source: www.reuters.com

Aug 12 Posiflex Technology :

* Says its subsidiary Posiflex Business Machines,Inc. will fully acquire KIS Acquisition Corp. at $105 million from KIS Group,LLC and The Peninsula Fund V Limited Partnership.

Source text in Chinese: goo.gl/mnLjNw

Further company coverage: (Beijing Headline News)

Marijuana Kiosks – Jane to fix big problem in marijuana industry

Cannabis Kiosk

Marijuana Kiosks - Jane

Jane uses Kiosk Association member Kiosk Innovations as its manufacturer.

Jane is looking to grow up the marijuana industry.

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Kiosks are not inexpensive — between $2,495 and $3,495 a month, depending on the services. Foster says the ROI is proven over and over again.

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Restaurant kiosks demographics

Restaurant kiosks

restaurant kiosk demographics

restaurant kiosk demographics

QSR kiosks are big these days and the poster child might be Paneras actually though for sure McDonalds “once again into the fray” efforts bring a lot of attention (ditto for Wendy’s and others). Good quote from Olea and good article.

Source: www.qsrweb.com

Here were the demographics

  • 18-24 year olds are more than 70 percent likely to visit a restaurant if it had a kiosk option;
  • 25-34 year olds are 65 percent more likely to visit;
  • 45-54 year olds are 60 percent more likely; and
  • 55+ year olds are 40 percent more likely.

Walgreens installs medication disposal kiosks at 14 Indiana locations

medication disposal kiosks

medication disposal kiosks

medication disposal kiosks

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.– A safe, easy way to get rid of your prescription drugs is now available at several Walgreens locations in the state. The medication disposal kiosks allow people to throw away unwanted, unused or expired medications.

Source: fox59.com

In 9-0 vote, Supreme Court makes it easier to get fees in patent cases

Top patent court almost never makes bad actors pay. Supremes see it differently.

Craig Keefner‘s insight:

This result will be good news to many tech companies that believe they are regularly attacked with meritless patent cases. A lower standard for fee-shifting would allow them to get some leverage against the non-practicing patent owners sometimes known as “patent trolls.”

See on arstechnica.com

Kiosk News – What’s happening in kiosk world

Kiosk News this month is Panera’s 42M upgrade of facilities for self-service, the resurrection of Rubi Coffee Kiosk, and DaaS ala Chromebooks and Dell Lightning. Trivia this month is picture of old Bay Hill Bunch

 

Craig Keefner‘s insight:

News this month is Panera’s 42M upgrade of facilities for self-service, the resurrection of Rubi Coffee Kiosk, and DaaS ala Chromebooks and Dell Lightning. Trivia this month is picture of old Bay Hill Bunch

See on www.digitalscreenmedia.org

Hong Kong Interactive Multi-Touch Tables

Possible Worldwide Debuts World’s Most Advanced, Multi-Touch Racing Experience with Introduction of IBU Interactive Table for Hong Kong Jockey Club

 

Craig Keefner‘s insight:

Nice video for multitouch gaming table in Hong Kong

See on www.youtube.com

Paper Ink Touchscreen and Plays Music in This Food Poster

Paper Ink Touchscreen

Paper Ink Touchscreen

Who says print is dead? If anything, it’s alive and sounds delicious! This unique poster, created by Grey London and print production and software developer Novalia, is essentially an app made of paper promoting British food brand Schwartz’s Flavour Shots.

 

Craig Keefner‘s insight:

Pretty cool touchscreen using ink

See on www.adweek.com

NYC to Turn Pay-Phone Kiosks Into Free Wi-Fi Hotspots

WIFI Kiosks NYC

Atlanta Black Star
NYC to Turn Pay-Phone Kiosks Into Free Wi-Fi Hotspots
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Creating one of the largest free public Wi-Fi networks in the country, of course.

 

Craig Keefner‘s insight:

Great idea for the payphones and that realestate!

See on atlantablackstar.com

DFI New Digital Signage and Interactive Kiosk Solution

New Product Leverages Intel Ivy Bridge Processor for Superior Processing Power in Smaller Package DFI TECH today announced the availability of its latest

Craig Keefner‘s insight:

Even with the smaller form factor and reduced footprint, DFI TECH also added several expansion slots to cater to environments that might require multiple monitors, keyboards, POS, bar coding, touch screen and other requirements.

See on www.dfitech.com

Self Service Technology touches it all: Self-service

Self Service Technology

Technology touches it all: Self-service and other innovations are changing …

Source: www.filmjournal.com

The technology behind self-service, self-payment and choice has begun to infiltrate the food and beverage world in a way that is irreversible and all-encompassing, saving labor, time and money for the operator. Having iPads on the table to pick up, browse, and enter your order means you no longer have a waiter. You simply have a delivery to your table.

M Lhuillier partners with Genkiosk | Kiosk Software

Source: www.genkiosk.com

M. Lhuillier Financial Services, Inc. is teaming up with kiosk software specialists Genkiosk to develop a self-service kiosk option in each of their branches. The kiosk provided by Genkiosk will enable customers to do everything from completing money transfers to paying bills and topping up mobile phones.

Higi and Stayhealthy team up in kiosk consolidation

Health kiosk startup higi has merged with Stayhealthy, another mobile health company that also has a health kiosk business. The two announced the merger last week.

Source: mobihealthnews.com

What is unique in the Stayhealthy HealthCenter approach goes beyond the kiosk hardware,” Collins said at the time. “Anyone can make a blood pressure machine or health station. It’s the science and research behind the solution, and our bundling of both the hardware and software technologies into a HIPAA and ADA-compliant, Web-enabled and user friendly total wellness management system that is unique. This is what the average consumer is looking for in today’s consumer-driven healthcare environment.”


The newly merged company will have 6,000 kiosks, with contracts for 10,000 by the beginning of 2015.

High-tech customs kiosks installed at Mineta San José

The latest airport and airline news. In this section General News, everything about B2B aviation news

Source: www.airport-world.com

PIctures included.  Travellers proceed to Global Entry kiosks, present their machine-readable passport or US permanent resident card, place their fingertips on the scanner for fingerprint verification, and make a customs declaration.

The kiosks then issue them a transaction receipt and directs the passenger to the baggage claim and the exit, and is open to US citizens, nationals, lawful permanent residents, and citizens of certain other countries.

BitOcean Releases Two-Way Kiosks to Compete with Bitcoin ATM

CoinDesk BitOcean Releases Two-Way Kiosks to Compete with Bitcoin ATM Market Leaders CoinDesk The new machines – the second generation developed by the Beijing-based company – are two-way kiosks, meaning they enable users to buy and sell bitcoins,…

Source: www.coindesk.com

BitOcean has priced its machine at $10,000 per unit, placing it mid-way between the popular Lamassu ($5,000) and Robocoin ($15,000) offerings. There are extra fees for local or international delivery.

Beauty Cosmetic Kiosk – The rise of the humble kiosk

As consumers continue to spend money on affordable luxuries like nail care; start-ups and big players alike are looking to kiosks rather than retail stores to cash in on these opportunities.  

Source: www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com

And then you have Sephora and Benefit deploying interactive terminals and vending machines ala Zoom to target customers after hours and off-site