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The Practical Challenges of Bringing Identity Verification into Self-Service
Here at Acante, it’s a source of pride that we’ve long been ahead of the curve on what we like to call ident kiosks - self-service kiosks used primarily for identification purposes. While other manufacturers and vendors concentrated on self-service [...]
Plugging the Justice Gap With Self-Service Kiosks
In this previous post, we discussed using self-service kiosks to help ease the chronic backlog of cases that have been hampering the UK court system for a number of years now. Since we wrote that article, the situation has gotten [...]
How Retail Self-Service is Growing Beyond the Checkout
A recent survey of large retail chains in the US produced a remarkable stat about self-service technology adoption. It found that retailers classified as being at a mature stage of self-service adoption were now running, on average, 3.5 distinct self-service [...]
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Unpicking the EES Travel Kiosk Chaos: What Went Wrong?
We’re getting to that time of year when people’s thoughts start to turn to summer holiday plans. But this year, a lot of Brits might be thinking twice about heading to Europe after some horror-story headlines surrounding the launch of [...]
LED Wall Buying Guide: How to Supersize Your Display Game
From events to retail, sports and leisure venues to public amenities, LED video walls are supersizing digital signage and graphic displays across many different locations. As we discussed in this previous post, LED walls are ideal when you want to [...]
How Kiosks are Stepping in to Speed Up Vision Screening
If you are one of the 59% of people in the UK who wear glasses, you will be familiar with the routine around accessing eye tests and wider vision care. Most of the time, you are dealing with high street [...]
How Kiosk Tech Can Counter the Decline of In-Person Banking Services
The decline in the number of bank branches in the UK has been the source of much debate in recent years. When you look at the statistics, it’s easy to see why. The number of bank and building society branches [...]
Three Ways Kiosks Improve Safety and Security in Schools
Safeguarding students is a sacred duty that tops the list of priorities for every school. It’s enshrined in law. It’s what every parent expects. As part of this duty, schools take monitoring the personnel on school premises very seriously. This [...]
Kiosk or Robot? How AI is Changing the Dynamics of Self-Service
There’s no shortage of theories explaining why self-service technology has become such a phenomenal success. They cover the obvious benefits to businesses of offloading core operational aspects of service and transactions to customers and end users, reducing workloads and labour [...]
What Does Sustainability Mean for Self-Service Kiosks?
It’s a good time to be a kiosk vendor. Demand continues to rise, and the overall value of the market is forecast to grow by close to 11% year-on-year to 2030. That will see millions of new kiosks purchased and [...]
More Dough, Less ‘Doh!’ How to Avoid the Financial Frights When Buying a Kiosk
Splashing the cash is something few of us can afford to do without a considerable amount of care and attention at present. As a business owner, this can leave you feeling conflicted. On the one hand, you want to invest [...]
Kiosk, ATM, Vending Machine? Defining Terms in an Increasingly Self-Service World
We live in a world where hard and fast categories are increasingly being challenged. Concrete definitions might be attractive for their simplicity and clarity. But they remove much of the nuance, and colour and texture that is our actual lived [...]
New Year’s Resolutions for Better Kiosk Care
Just like you, your kiosks have had a busy year. And if you happen to be a retailer, a restaurant owner, a hotel operator or a leisure venue, your kiosks and your staff will be ending the year working harder [...]
Four Things Driving Kiosks Towards a $10bn Market
Self-service kiosks are hardly the new kids on the business tech block anymore. But you wouldn’t know that by looking at the market growth forecasts. There’s definitely a new kid energy about the latest projection that global kiosk sales are [...]
In Good Health: How Kiosks are Bridging Gaps in Healthcare
Anyone who has tried to get an appointment with their GP recently knows that health services aren’t always running at their smoothest right now. The reasons are many and complex, and certainly far beyond the scope of this blog. But [...]