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Smart Vending Cloud + Edge Solution

Applications and Cases

Illustration of smart vending machine technology showing cloud-edge solution integrated within vending equipment.

Key Takeaways

Smart Vending Machine Cloud+Edge Solution InHand provides a comprehensive cloud with edge solution for vending machine sector, delivering a more user-friendly human-machine interaction and expanded payment options to traditional vending machines.

Background

Our customer, a large vending machine operation enterprise, has been operating more than a dozen different brands and types of vending machines for many years. As the number of machines in operation has increased, the customer urgently needs solutions to address challenges such as vending machine management, transaction tracking, delayed machine fault reporting, and limited payment methods.

Customer Requirements

One System for Remote
Management and Data...
The customer looks for one system to view all machines of different brands and types remotely at any time to check inventory, sales data, and device status, enabling timely adjustments and optimization of operational strategies.

Solution

InHand cloud with edge solution diagram for smart vending machines enhancing payment and interaction

InHand provides this operating enterprise with a comprehensive cloud + terminal solution, devices can be deployed and managed in batches through InVending Cloud,ensuring its customers can monitor and analyze their devices anytime, anywhere. This helps customers find the sales trends, take the data to adjust product placements and price timely to meet the consumers’ demands, then to increase sales revenue and profits. This solution aims to simplify the management and operational processes, improving efficiency and reducing labor costs.

The hardware is equipped with a high-performance CPU, abundant interface configurations, supports the expansion of multiple payment methods to meet consumer payment habits, reduces payment barriers. It can also expand more peripheral possibilities for vending machines to address more complex application scenarios.

Benefits

Increased Management
Efficiency with Red
The InVending Cloud helps customers monitor vending machine operational status, sales data, and inventory anytime, anywhere.
Enhanced User
Experience and Greater...
InHand's products support HD video output, come pre-installed with industry-specific UI, providing a user-friendly shopping experience.
Diverse Payment
Options, Infinite...
InHand's products support various payment methods to cater to different consumer preferences, encouraging purchase behavior. They also feature a rich array of interfaces, offering customers limitless expansion possibilities.
Industrial Standard
Design, Long-term Op
Industrial-grade design with optimized Android system ensures reliable operation in harsh environments, reducing downtime and enhancing vending machine value.

Futured Products

InBOX710

4G ARM industrial computer with RK3399 six-core CPU, Android/Linux support, and rich interfaces for industrial data integration.

RK3399 Six-Core

1.8 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM / 16 GB storage

Multi-OS Support

Android or Linux Debian, deeply optimized

Rich Interfaces

RS232/485, USB 2.0/3.0, HDMI 2.0 4K, BT4.2

Industrial Grade

IP40 fanless, -20~70°C, EMC Level 3

InBOX710

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