Category Archives: Members KMA

Member of The Kiosk Industry Group which acts as the professional news and marketing website for the kiosk and self-service industry. We are funded by those companies for the benefit of developers, resources and client companies interested in self-service, kiosks, thin or internet terminals and POS systems.

Immersive Technology – Kiosk Association and NRF 2021 Chapter One

See Immersive Technology at NRF 2021 Press Release PR Newswire Jan 08ย  DENVER,ย Jan. 8, 2021ย /PRNewswire/ — Visit NRF 2021 Chapter 1 next week and meet with Kiosk Association. Dates areย January 12, 13, 14, 19, 21 and 22 beginning next week.ย  Our online page isย https://virtualbigshow.nrf.com/company/kiosk-association-kma Our portal page with helpful links, research, predictions, brochures and videos for NRF 2021โ€ฆ Read More »

ADA Kiosk Accessibility and Self-Service

Touchscreen-based self-service technology is changing the way we do business, but one of the key challenges to widespread adoption is finding a way to make that technology useable by everyone. ADA Kiosk –ย Self-Service For All By Richard Slawsky contributor Interactive touchscreens are quickly becoming a key player in the kiosk world. Businesses ranging from fast-casual restaurants to healthโ€ฆ Read More »

Retail kiosk Providing Endless Aisles & Happier Customers!

Success in retail is often measured by revenue-per-square-foot and customer satisfaction. Find out how retail kiosks can bring you more of both!

Source: www.olea.com

Some good points. Recommended read

 

  • 72% find them to be more convenient alternative
  • 55% use them when there is a line at the cashiers
  • 13% wanted to keep their transaction private
  • 12% did not want to interact with cashiers, and as a caveat, 20% of Millennials did not want to interact with cashiers

 

Peerless-AV Launches New Health Protocol Solutions

Peerless-AV has announcedย todayย the launch of its newest health protocol solutions to assist businesses with public health and safety needs. The new products include an Occupancy Control Kiosk, three variations of Temperature Sensing Digital Signage Kiosks, as well as Temperature Sensor Tabletop and Floor Stand Mounts, that will allow businesses to communicate and implement proper health standards in realโ€ฆ Read More »

Tablet Kiosk News – Kiosk Group New VP – Adds Guarino

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kiosk Group Taps 25-Year Industry Veteran Karla Guarino to Lead Sales & Marketing Team Responding to strong, accelerating market growth with fresh leadership, new products and long-range marketing and manufacturing strategies FREDERICK, Md., June 4, 2019 โ€“ย Kiosk Group Inc. (KGI) has announced the appointment of Karla Guarino as Director, Sales & Marketing.ย Ms. Guarinoโ€™s assignment isโ€ฆ Read More »

Opinion – The Self Service Kiosk Surge

The self-service kiosk surge: step forward OEMs Zebra April 2020 – The coronavirus is having a devastating financial impact across the globe. However, for OEMs building kiosks there may be a ray of light; through providing communities and companies with kiosk facilities to allow people to make transactions without any human contact. While many businesses are suffering financiallyโ€ฆ Read More »

Self-Service Kiosk Association Board of Directors 2018

Self-Service Kiosk Manufacturer Association Board of Directors 2018 The Kiosk Manufacturer Association for Self-Service leads efforts to optimize self-service engagements & outcomes with retail technology such as self-serve order kiosks. PR Newswire link. Kiosk Industry Group Associationย  EASTLAKE, Colo.,ย Feb. 20, 2018ย /PRNewswire/ —ย Theย Kiosk Industry Association announces its Board of Directors for 2018. 17 companies serve in this capacity andโ€ฆ Read More »

digital signage solution – Olea Kiosks DSE Next Week in Vegas

Digital Signage Expo 2018 and Olea Kiosks March 17, 2018 Step into the world of Self-Service with Olea Kiosks at booth #1457. Interact with our lineup of kiosk solutions and learn why kiosks are being deployed worldwide at record-pace. Olea will also be showcasing part of our BRAND-NEW kiosk line, the Austin Series. Primed for QSR/Fast-Food, the modularโ€ฆ Read More »

Conversational AI Kiosk – Valyant AI & KIOSK Information Systems

Conversational AI Kiosk KIOSK and Valyant AI announce a partnership to enable contactless self-service experiences. Read the press release to learn how Conversational AI and digital kiosk technology provide personalized, touchless customer experiences for hospitality, retail, and healthcare. From MIT Tech Review – Building customer relationships with conversational AI is a big deal for sure. Insights associated withโ€ฆ Read More »

Are All Touchscreens Created Equal? – Best Practice Kiosk Touchscreen Monitor

Are All Touchscreen Monitors Created Equal? Reprinted from TheLab by Olea Interactive touchscreens come in several varieties. Hereโ€™s a quick overview of the types and the applications to which each is best suited. Although interactive touchscreens have been around in one form or another since the late 1970s, over the past 10 years or so theyโ€™ve become anโ€ฆ Read More »

JAWS Kioskยฎ awarded Judgeโ€™s Choice Award Improving Travel Experience

JAWS Kiosk Screen Reader Software Recognized by Travel Industry From TPGi Blog Apr2021 — JAWS Kiosk awarded Judgeโ€™s Choice Award (first place) at this yearโ€™s TravelAbility Summit Launchpad event held on April 1, 2021. The JAWS Kiosk screen reader solution earned high praise for criteria such as articulation of a problem and solution, enhancing the travel experience forโ€ฆ Read More »

MIMO Monitors Newsletter January 2020

Mimo Monitors: January 2020 We’re kicking off the new year with many excitingย  things ahead! With new product launches on the horizon, and Integrated Systems Europe around the corner we can’t wait to see what 2020 has in store. Catch Up With Mimo Monitors Make An Appointment to Stop by Our Booth (#8-E450)ย At Integrated Systems Europe (ISE)ย  Thisโ€ฆ Read More »

Large Format Display Touchscreens Gain Market Share

Where Do Large-Format Displays Work – aka Go Big or Go Home! Writer: Richard Slawsky – Adjunct Professor, University of Louisville Contributing Members: Keyser, AcquireDigital, LG Business Solutions, Panasonic Other Contributors: Barco,ย Sharp NEC Display Solutions of America, Azumo, Dave Haynes/SixteenNine In Brief No longer the realm of outdoor or indoor mass display, moving into corporate, banking and retailโ€ฆ Read More »

RFID Readers for EV Chargers: Six Questions to Ask

EV Charging Station Technology News By Sean Houchin, ELATEC Intro The electric vehicle (EV) charging market is growing at lightning speed, both in the U.S. and globally. As both consumers and government and commercial fleets transition to electric, membership-based charging stations are popping up in employee parking lots, tenant parking garages and public areas. Many of these EVโ€ฆ Read More »

Digital Menu Boards — Panasonic ClearConnect™ Restaurant Solutions

Digital Menu Boards for Drive-Thru Restaurants Editors note: Drive-thru is becoming the new norm given the effect of the pandemic. McDonald’s already gets 75% of their sales from Drive Thru.ย  Historically restaurants have drawn from a diverse set of providers for all the various components that comprise a drive-thru solution. Get the screens from A, the software fromโ€ฆ Read More »

McDonalds Kiosks – ZIVELO and Dell Technologies Partner

ZIVELO STRENGTHENS ITS FULL-SERVICE TURN-KEY KIOSK SOLUTIONS WITH INDUSTRY COLLABORATION ย ZIVELO collaborates with Dell Technologies OEM Solutions to revolutionize self-service kiosks SCOTTSDALE, AZ (May 2, 2019) โ€“ย World-class kiosk manufacturer ZIVELO (best known for providing kiosks to the largest fast-food chains across North America) joins theย Dell Technologies OEMย to allow its clients to purchase ZIVELOโ€™s digital solutions through their existingโ€ฆ Read More »

Inclusive Kiosks – McDonalds Kiosks Incorporating Vispero

Updated – McDonald’s Kiosks Adds Accessibility More information on McDonalds incorporating screen reader software from Vispero. JAWS Kiosk will allow blind and low vision users the ability to interact with a self order kiosk by inserting headphones into the headphone jack, located on the navigation pad, which will then navigate the kiosk screen, reading the content as theyโ€ฆ Read More »

Self-Service Kiosk Market Research Report To Be Formally Released in Feb 2021 – Sign Up

Introduction Self-Service Kiosk Research Report 2021 The Kiosk Association has been working with a major research firm on putting together a comprehensive and vetted self-service kiosk market research reportย  and the release of the report is due in February. We are in final review with the data firm providing our input. Over 50 companies participated. There have beenโ€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 »

Self-Checkout Kiosks by FEC

We welcome our latest Gold sponsor, FEC. Four sizes & resolutions to fulfill different needs Standalone, Desktop or Wall-mount Expand your in-store aisles or your menu board to expand sales Device flexibility to expand kiosk capabilities Windows or Android Contact information โ€‹Mark Buenaventura FEC USA 41668 Christy St. Fremont, CA 94538 Tel: 510-683-9188 www.fecpos.com www.youtube.com/user/FECPOS About FEC FECโ€ฆ Read More »

NRF Best Payment Kiosk Innovation Finalist – PopID Pay By Face – Facial Payment

Facial Payment Kiosk Technology NRF 2022ย  NRFย and the Vendor In Partnership (VIP)ย Awards have forged a partnership for VIP Awards for NRF 2022.ย  Solutions will be recognized and celebrated by hundreds of retail professionals at NRF 2022 taking place on January 15th, 2022 Datacap in conjunction with the Kiosk Association has enteredย PopID in the Best Payment Innovation. It isโ€ฆ Read More »

New Kiosk Model From Evoke Creative Supplier for McDonalds

New Standard Kiosk from Evoke Creative Introducing the most modular and customizable kiosks weโ€™ve ever created here at Evoke. This versatile unit allows you to choose how it looks, feels, and operates, creating a true representation of your brand. The EV SERVE is our brand-new standalone kiosk for the hospitality sector. Its adaptable design permits the option forโ€ฆ Read More »

Facial Payment – PopID and SoftBank to Launch PopPay In Japan – Wendy’s

Wendys and Pay by Face Seen on BusinessWire and Yahoo Finance PASADENA, Calif. & TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PopID, Japan Computer Vision (“JCV”, a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp), and Wendy’s First Kitchen (“WFK”) announced today the launch of PopPay – PopID’s face-recognition-based ordering and payment system – in Tokyo, Japan. As a first step in the launch, Wendy’s First Kitchen locationsโ€ฆ Read More »

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

New use case aims to help โ€˜Stop the Bleedโ€™ and provide emergency supplies for first responders. 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 lossโ€ฆ Read More »

November Kiosk News

Kiosk Manufacturer News November DENVER, Colo., Nov. 23, 2021ย  โ€” November news from the Industry Group and Kiosk Association. Events and Features This Month: First Responder Lockers and Kiosk; Bill Payment Kiosk Review; and McDonalds Deploys Accessibility to self-order kiosks. PRNewswire and APnews Events and Features This Month *ย First Responder Lockers and Kioskย โ€” Our feature story on innovativeโ€ฆ Read More »

The Industry Group Website Announced

From The Industry Group Nov2021 The Industry Group Announces Self-Service Technology Coverage The Industry Group is a network of news dedicated to technology in the self-service market. This includes websites, magazines and social sites such as LinkedIn Here is a list of news we cover: Kiosk Industry Groupย โ€” all things to do with kiosks, particularly members of KMAโ€ฆ Read More »

Public Safety Kiosk Includes Locker Solution – CR+M

First Responder Kiosk Doubles as Lockers and Advertising Point Writeup on Sixteen:Nine by Dave Haynes We are doing an in-depth article on CR+M but not surprisingly Sixteen:Nine published an insightful post on new public safety kiosk from CR+M. In Brief LA-area manufacturerย Olea working with Community Response + Mitigation โ€“ on an outdoor-rated dual-sided 55-inch display totem that hasโ€ฆ Read More »

Best Kiosk Software – Intuiface Next Generation interactive experience creation

Next Generation interactive experience creation with Intuiface We welcome Geoffrey andย  Intuiface as a 2 Year Bronze Sponsor.ย  Very robust authoring environment coupled with rapid application development (aka no coding required — all drag and drop templates).ย  Complete portfolio of project videos to see end results.ย  The extremely wide ecosystem for full-service provider partners is unparalleled in ourโ€ฆ Read More »

PSA Kiosk – FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology

Kiosks Public Service Announcement – POS Terminals and PAX Originally from Krebs Oct 26 Updates: Statement from PAX Oct 27th (see below) PAX Security Executive Resigns a Day After FBI Raids on Offices American Banker “The Bloomberg Article” –Worldpay Switches to Verifone and Ingenico due to “unsatisfactory answers”. Worth noting fewer than 5% of Worldpay clients currently useโ€ฆ Read More »

Payment Kiosk News – Updating Pulse Machines with Modern Card Reader

Solution for Coin-Operating Machines with the OTI Trio Blog entry on UCP Inc. Coin-operated pulse machines were introduced in the early 1880s and have been an integral part of our lives in a variety of ways since that time. The application following their creation was considered significantly diverse, being used for car washes, laundromats, kiddie rides, arcade games,โ€ฆ Read More »