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Accessibility on Demand: Could Kiosks Transform Access to Assistive Devices?
Accessibility is a hot current topic in the kiosk industry. As we discussed in this previous post, there’s widespread consensus that technology has an important role to play in making retail, hospitality and leisure environments more inclusive, and kiosks are [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
LED Walls: A Beginner’s Guide
Digital screens are not just taking over our children’s attention spans and personal interactions. They are also a rising force in business. From retail to restaurants, hospitals to hotels, events to education, the digital signage industry is booming. In retail [...]
Five Ways Kiosks Are Shaping the Future of Payments
It’s notoriously hard to track lines of cause and effect in the evolution of technology. For example, in the field of payments, NFC-based ‘contactless’ or ‘tap-and-pay’ cards first appeared at roughly the same time as chip-and-pin cards around the turn [...]
Kiosk Mode: Making the Most of Device Access Management
Flexibility is a much sought-after quality in modern business. Companies look for recruits with flexible skillsets (and mindsets) that will enable them to adapt to different roles and challenges. Those with an interest in systems, processes and operational organisation talk [...]
Four Ingredients for Seamless Self-Service Access Control
Regular readers of this blog will know that one of our favourite things to eulogise kiosks about is their flexibility. Just looking through the posts we’ve made in recent months, that agility leaps out in the different use cases we’ve [...]
Queue Busting: Rethinking How Kiosks Streamline the Traveller Experience in Airports
The great summer getaway is in full swing. Major international airports are teeming with holidaymakers, departure lounges are full, and the queues for baggage check-in, security and passport control are enough to make you wonder, if only temporarily, whether your [...]
Self-Service Survival Guide: How Kiosks Have Adapted to the Great Outdoors
You don’t have to be Bear Grylls to know that the outdoors can be a tough place to be. Rain, snow, ice, wind, temperature extremes, even bright sunshine all pose risks to survival. And that’s just to people. For electronic [...]
Four Questions to Ask About Your Next Kiosk Rollout (and How We’d Answer Them)
Regular readers of this blog will know that we like to wax lyrical about cutting-edge kiosk technology and all the varied and innovative ways it is used. As kiosk vendors, who can blame us? Being right in the middle of [...]
What Will Biometric Border Checks Mean for Travel to the EU?
If you’re planning a summer holiday to Spain, Greece, the south of France or any other EU destination this year, try to savour the experience at passport control (if such a thing is even possible). Because the next time you [...]