Category Archives: Kiosk picks

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Kiosk Industry is the news engine for the Kiosk Manufacturer Association or KMA which is a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on better self-service for customers and employees through kiosks and information technology (IT). Kiosk Industry Association leads efforts to optimize self-service engagements and engagement outcomes using information technology such as kiosks.

Peerless-AV Announces SmartMount Line of Motorized Carts and Stands

Peerless-AV is excited to announce its family of new SmartMountยฎ Motorized Height Adjustable Carts and Stands. Ideal for education settings, these products were designed to aid educators in the classroom and enforce a collaborative environment for students.ย  SmartMountยฎย Motorized Height Adjustable Flat Panel Cart (SR598ML3E) Display height can be adjusted up to 25.6″ (650mm) with the touch of aโ€ฆ Read More »

EV Charging Stations Going Into Walgreens

EV Charging Station News Press release by Volta. Note that Peerless-AV makes these for Volta. For more information email [email protected] Volta Announces Collaboration Expansion with Walgreens SAN FRANCISCO, February 14, 2022 โ€“ย Volta Inc.ย (NYSE: VLTA), the industry leader in commerce and people-centric electric vehicle (“EV”) charging, today announced the expansion of its collaboration withย Walgreensย to target installing 1,000 DC (directโ€ฆ Read More »

Cashless Restaurants – Sweetgreen Taking Cash

Excerpt from Restaurant Business 4/1/2019 Washington, D.C.-based salad chain Sweetgreen will also start accepting cash again at all of its 94 locations by the end of the year following backlash cashless stores have faced for excluding people without credit cards or bank accounts, the company said last week. โ€˜Going cashless had positive results, but it also had theโ€ฆ Read More »

What accessibility looks like 30 years after the ADA passed

Posted on kma.global May 2019 from Denver Post Excerpt fromย The Denver Postย May 2019 It is also a reminder of why itโ€™s important to keep the pressure on government and private entities to make public places accessible to all. โ€œThe sort of run-of-the mill storefronts, restaurants, retail store, those really should be accessible now and a lot are butโ€ฆ Read More »

Regulatory Affairs – Medical imaging company will pay $3M HIPAA settlement

HIPAA Settlement Read full article at MedCity Touchstone Medical Imaging has agreed to pay $3 million to HHS’ Office for Civil Rights to settle a breach that exposed more than 300,000 patients’ protected health information. Touchstone Medical Imaging, a diagnostic imaging services company based in Franklin, Tennessee, hasย agreedย to pay $3 million to HHSโ€™ Office for Civil Rights toโ€ฆ Read More »

GLI-20 Gaming Standards for Kiosks V2.0 Technical Standard Release

Gaming Standards for Kiosks May 14, 2019 – Gaming Laboratories International, LLC (GLI),ย is pleased to announce the release of the final published version of the โ€œGLI-20 Standards for Kiosks V2.0โ€ for use by the gaming industry. During the past several months, GLI worked closely with various industry stakeholders including suppliers and regulators to ensure GLI-20 V2.0 represents theโ€ฆ Read More »

ZIVELO FreedomPay Partner On Solution

Zivelo Kiosks and FreedomPay By ZIVELO |ย May 13, 2019 This partnership ensures safe, secure, and efficient transactions for businesses leveraging kiosks as a self-service POS solution. SCOTTSDALE, AZ (May 14, 2019) โ€“ย World-class kiosk manufacturer ZIVELO (best known for successfully deploying tens of thousands of kiosks to some of the largest retail and fast-food chains across North America) hasโ€ฆ Read More »

Case Study – Hospital Wayfinding Kiosks Self-Service

Stanton Territorial Hospital and QwickMedia Hospital Self-Service Kiosks by Qwick Media are powerful communication tools. While fully customizable, these touchscreen kiosks offer significant benefits for the modern healthcare industry: Improve the bottom line by significantly saving staff hours, reducing administrative work, and relieving staff from answering common, repetitive questions Inform patients and visitors about your unique facility,programs, andโ€ฆ Read More »

Touchscreens – DSE 2019 and Mimo Monitors Displays

Mimo Monitors New Touchscreens and Displays at Digital Signage Expo 2019 Mimo Monitors will be in booth #3022, showcasing and introducing a myriad of new products into their stable, ideal for conference rooms, digital signage, kiosks, and retail CHICAGO, ILโ€”March 25, 2019โ€” Mimo Monitors , the experts in small touchscreen displays, will be at the 2019 Digital Signageโ€ฆ Read More »

OptConnect Launches IoT Smart Embedded Modem™ for IoT Managed Services

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. (PRWEB)ย MAY 13, 2019 OptConnect, a longtime leader in managed wireless services, today announced its formal launch into the Internet of Things (IoT) market with the creation of a patent-pending smart embedded modem™ for IoT, OptConnect ema™. OptConnectโ€™s combination of a smart embedded modem™ plus fully managed services is the first โ€œConnectivity-as-a-Serviceโ€ offering in the IoTโ€ฆ Read More »

PCI EMV Kiosk 2019? EMV Compliance Kiosk

PCI EMV Compliance Kiosk Update – Unattended The deadline for merchants to bring payment devices into compliance with EMV standards passed more than three years ago, but there are still non-compliant devices in the marketplace. A year ago, KioskIndustry.org published a piece looking at the state of adoption of Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV) requirements among kiosk deployersโ€ฆ Read More »

Wayfinding Digital Signage – Inpixon Acquires Indoor Mapping Leader Jibestream

Wayfinding Digital Signage Business News – Mapping From GlobalNewsWire July 10, 2019 PALO ALTO, Calif., July 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Inpixon (Nasdaq: INPX) (the โ€œCompanyโ€ or โ€œInpixonโ€), a leading indoor positioning and data analytics company, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Jibestream Inc. (“Jibestream”), a premier provider of indoor mapping and locationโ€ฆ Read More »

Unlock ATMs in Minutes – ATM Security and Kaba Lock Security

Unlock ATMs in Minutes at Defcon27 Story by Wired 8/9/2019 on presentation at Defcon27 Excerpt: SAFECRACKERS OF THEย past put a stethoscope to a safe’s panelย while turning its dial, listening for the telltale murmurs of the interlocking components inside. It turns out that modern safecracking, despite all its electronic upgrades, isn’t always so different. But now those involuntary murmursโ€ฆ Read More »

Gold Sponsor News – Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc.

FRANK MAYER AND ASSOCIATES, INC. NEW GOLD SPONSOR OF KIOSK MANUFACTURER ASSOCIATION Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc. will experience added benefits as new Kiosk Manufacturer Association gold member. GRAFTON, WI โ€“ A longstanding member of the Kiosk Manufacturer Association (KMA), Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc. recently upgraded to gold membership status. The new sponsorship level includes participation inโ€ฆ Read More »

UBER Kiosks at Pearson International

On Twitter, Uber interface designer for airports and travel Jon Kantrowitz shared images of the kiosks and provided some details on how they work. Read more atย MobileSyrup.com:ย Uber launches kiosks at Toronto Pearson Airport for phone-less ride-hailing Jon Kantrowitz @jkantro Designed and launched a thing: Uber rider kiosks at Toronto Pearson Airport! Shout out to our first riders, aโ€ฆ Read More »

Biometric Kiosks – Casinos Testing Facial Recognition Technologies

Noted on GGB News Excerpt: Itโ€™s called โ€œbiometricsโ€โ€”a type of artificial intelligence that maps the features of the face with such accuracy, it not only can identify that person but detect their sexual orientation and, in the most advanced versions, even gauge their emotional state. Casinos in Macau and elsewhere are now testing the technology as a wayโ€ฆ Read More »

Contactless Card Double Tap – EMV Kiosk

Noted on DailyMail A security loophole is allowing fraudsters to break the ยฃ30 spending limit for contactless bank cards. Banks and retailers are allowing customers to cover a single bill of more than ยฃ60 by making several โ€˜tap-and-goโ€™ payments of ยฃ30 each. Experts have warned this is making it easy for criminals to make more expensive purchases onโ€ฆ Read More »

Parabit Kiosk Update

New updated page for Parabit, one of our Charter Sponsors. Notable updates — Charging Kiosks and Digital Signage Kiosks and FID Kiosk PARABIT KIOSK SYSTEMS Parabit designs, fabricates, and integrates enclosures and software that allow you to efficiently and effectively authenticate physical identities and manage facilities. Custom kiosk solutions provide comprehensive, enterprise level visitor registration, notifications, tracking, reporting,โ€ฆ Read More »

Detroit Smart City Kiosks

Smart City Kiosks NO Cameras Excerpt from Detroit News – Oct 8, 2019 Detroitย โ€”ย Dozens of interactive booths with free Wi-Fi, suggestions for dining and shopping or finding an open shelter bed for the homeless might soon beย sprouting up downtown. The Downtown Detroit Partnership has entered into a 15-year agreement with Ohio-basedย IKE Smart City that calls for theย installation ofโ€ฆ Read More »

Kiosk Company – Evoke Creative

New Sponsor Evoke Creative Kiosks We welcome Evoke as our latest KMA sponsor. Evoke works in all types of complete kiosk solutions as well as OEM standard models for people such as McDonalds. WHO WE ARE Evoke have been at the forefront of interactive digital technology since 2003 and work with some of the worldโ€™s biggest brands designingโ€ฆ Read More »

Credit Cards – PCI P2PE Validation – UCP

Unattended Card Payments Inc. KIF Now PCI P2PE Validation PRESS RELEASEย ย UPDATED: NOV 6, 2019 07:00 PST LAS VEGAS, November 6, 2019 (Newswire.com) –ย Unattended Card Payments Inc. (UCP), a leading Value Added Reseller of payment devices for self-service kiosks, announced today that its Key Injection Facility (KIF) located in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been validated for Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE)โ€ฆ Read More »

ADA and Accessibility Quiz and MCR Guidelines for ADA

Self Service ADA Accessibility Requirements and Quiz Kiosk Industry and KMA are offering a free consultation for ADA and Accessibility for your self-service project.ย  Also to assist, a downloadable PDF with current ADA, Section 508 and ACA regulations that are currently mandated. Excerpt below — Are your kiosks ADA-compliant? Typically prospects and customers will include a stipulation thatโ€ฆ Read More »

Why some shoppers steal at self-checkout

Self-Checkout Theft Article excerpt originally posted on CBC 11/17/2019 and referred to us by QwickMedia Self-checkout theft isย an acknowledged problem, but what’s less talked about is who’s committing the crime. Turns out, it may be someone you know โ€”ย even you. Perhaps an item you tried to scan didn’t have a barcode, so โ€” pressedย for time โ€”ย you slipped itโ€ฆ Read More »

Self Order Kiosk for QSR – Broncos Technology – Mashgin, Aramark, Appetize

Read full article by Paul Kapustka Can technology finally help improve one of the biggest pain points in the game-day experience, namely waiting in line for concessions? At the Denver Broncosโ€™ Empower Field at Mile High, a number of new technology initiatives debuted this year, all designed to improve the fan experience around concession purchases by providing moreโ€ฆ Read More »

Retail Cannabis Store Need Cannabis Self-Order?

Marijuana Kiosk News FrankMayer and Paywana will be at the MJBizCon in Las Vegas Dec 11-13 Have a retail cannabis store in need of a self-ordering kiosk? Look no further. Watch how easy Paywana, our cannabis self-ordering kiosk software, is to use! Our Paywana kiosk software pairs perfectly with a Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc.interactive kiosk. Frank Mayerโ€ฆ Read More »

Mass Notification System (MNS) & Emergency Alert Systems

Dec 14 2019 (Westminster) by Craig Keefner and Kiosk Industry Manufacturer Association Mass Notification Systems We see more and more of RFPS for Mass Notification Systems (MNS) and Emergency Alert Systems.ย  These include Crisis Alerts and Alert Systems.ย  Many schools. As far as Free Mass Notification Systems there are very inexpensive CMS systems that can utilized in thatโ€ฆ Read More »

Drive Thru Kiosk Presentation – Intel

Drive Thru Kiosks Nice presentation video by Intel on next technology for Drive Thru Self-Order.ย  There have been other interations with AI assist on the drive-thru with several companies including Zivelo. Presentation includes a number of new terms including Digital Natives. Strategic Objectives 40% of restaurants want to improve business insights 38% want to improve digital customer engagementโ€ฆ Read More »

KIOSK Expanding To Europe Kiosk Market – Here Come The Americans

KIOSK Expands to Europe Press Release by Kiosk Information Systemsย January 30, 2020 KIOSK Information Systemsโ€™ new European sales and service organization provides innovative kiosk platforms with sophisticated service and AI capabilities in conjunction with partner ecosystem to support implementation in retail, hospitality, transportation and other sectors. Dรผsseldorf, Germany, January 30, 2020ย โ€“ Posiflex Group, a global leader in Pointโ€ฆ Read More »