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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 [...]
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Emerging Trends in Self-Service Checkout
Self-service checkout can nowadays be considered a mature technology, especially in the hyper-accelerated terms of digitisation. One of the original use cases for kiosks, self-checkout is now a familiar point of sale option across retail, hospitality, leisure and entertainment, travel [...]
Why Interactive Kiosks Could Breathe New Life Into Bricks-and-Mortar Branches
How people interact with business is changing. These days, we’re just as likely to make a purchase online as we are to walk into a shop. If we want information or support, we’ll click on a live chat widget or [...]
Why Building Trust in Biometrics is the Last Hurdle to Adoption
By 2010, the hype around cloud computing in tech circles was already reaching fever pitch. Google CEO Eric Schmidt had coined the term ‘cloud’ four years earlier to talk about the ‘opportunity’ running IT architecture in remote servers presented. Amazon [...]
Kiosk Connectivity: Five Reasons to Consider Mobile
There’s a lot to marvel about modern digital technology. But perhaps the most amazing part of it all is also the part we take most for granted - connectivity. For all the clever things your smartphone can do, and the [...]
How Kiosks Can Support Sustainability
With the COP27 summit in November 2022, the increasingly urgent need to tackle climate change was once again been at the top of the news agenda. But the truth is, for individuals and businesses alike, this is no longer an [...]
Four Ways a Card Dispensing Kiosk Could Boost Your Business
Even as we transition to a digital society where it seems the whole world is stored in our smartphones, cards continue to play an important role in our day-to-day lives. The majority of people, of course, continue to carry bank [...]
Three Ways Kiosks Can Make Your Business More Efficient
Self-service kiosks represent a booming tech sector in their own right. Forecasts predict that the global market for kiosks will more than double in value by 2028, at which point it will be worth more than $50bn. There are many [...]
What Are Interactive Information Kiosks and What Can They Do For Your Organisation?
Digital kiosks are an increasingly familiar sight across a wide range of settings. But if you asked the average person on the street what kiosks are for, you can bet the most common answer would be making purchases without having [...]
Acante Awarded Kiosk Design and Build Company of the Year
Acante has been awarded Kiosk Design and Build Company of the Year 2022 at the Southern Enterprise Awards. Since its inception in 2018, the Southern Enterprise Awards aims to highlight and reward the businesses and individuals who have shown true [...]
It’s Official: Consumers LOVE Kiosks. Here Are Three Reasons Why
Self-service kiosks are popping up in more and more locations at a rapid rate. If you’ve ever wondered why, there’s one very good answer - people love them. The body of evidence backing up that claim is growing all the [...]
What Does the Future Hold for Identity Technology?
Have you ever sat and counted up how often you are asked to prove who you are as you go about your daily business? It’s a useful exercise just to get a grasp of just how important identification is in [...]
Kiosk Connectivity: Five Reasons to Consider Mobile
There’s a lot to marvel at about modern digital technology. But perhaps the most amazing part of it all is also the part we take most for granted - connectivity. For all the clever things your smartphone can do, and [...]