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When Should You Start Planning for Your Kiosk’s Retirement? Before You Buy It
Buying a new kiosk for your business requires you to weigh up plenty of things. One that might not be top of your checklist is what happens when a kiosk reaches its end of life several years down the line. [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Why Peripherals Should Be at the Centre of Your Kiosk Strategy
When most new customers approach us to talk about introducing kiosks to their business, there’s one particular part above all others they want to talk about. The touchscreen. What size touchscreens do you offer? What type are they, how responsive [...]
Why Wholesale Represents a Whole New Frontier of Opportunity for Kiosks
For a number of years now, it’s been an open secret that B2B customers have had a serious case of the green-eyed monsters. Business buyers have looked at their consumer counterparts, and at all the digital innovations in retail that [...]
Will Kiosks Make Dynamic Pricing More Common?
As much as we live in a world that enthusiastically embraces innovation in practically every area of our lives these days, there’s a streak in us that loves a good dose of controversy to accompany the new-fangled. If you’ve come [...]
Is Self-Service is Killing Off the Hotel Reception?
Holiday season is upon us. And as we all plan our big summer get away, amidst all the excitement, there will undoubtedly be parts of the holiday experience we don’t look forward to with as much enthusiasm. The stress of [...]
Putting the Camera in Focus for Facial Recognition Technology
Biometric technology is transforming security and personal identification. The use of physical traits - fingerprints, facial features, patterns of the iris in the eye - to authenticate a person’s identity is already widespread in things like border control and premises [...]
Insider Tips for Maximising Kiosk ROI
Things are tough out there for business owners. Just as you think that one disruptive influence or inflationary pressure is starting to ease, something else comes along to take its place. Consumer confidence is low, businesses are having to watch [...]
Next Generation Vending Tech is Here. What Are Its Benefits?
Everyone has probably heard of Amazon Go stores by now. Back when they were first launched in 2016, they were billed as trailblazers for a new era of ‘cashierless’ retail, utilising ‘just-walk-out’ technology that scans what customers take off a [...]
Out of Touch? Five Ways Kiosk Interfaces Are Evolving Beyond Touchscreens
As kiosk manufacturers, we won’t hear a bad word about touchscreens. Touchscreen technology has transformed the world we live in. By doing away with the need for a keypad interface, touchscreens have allowed digital tech to shrink down into the [...]














