The vending industry saw a 7-year high in revenues in 2016, coming in at $21.6 Billion.

Are your machines enabling new revenue streams and tackling increased costs and competition?

How to leverage the latest in vending technology

+ Whether you are a vending machine maker or a vending operator, adopting state-of-the-art technology can help you tackle rising costs with improved operations and visibility.

+ Create new streams of revenue by leveraging display ads, app discoverability, loyalty programs, and more.

+ Kii has an industry-leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform and provides a wide spectrum of IoT solutions to Tier 1 Enterprises and Carriers worldwide.

+ As a member of NAMA, we’re bringing the power of IoT to vending, with our next generation Smart Vending solution.

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Solutions

Built on Kii’s enterprise-grade IoT platform, our solution enables both Vending Machine Makers and Vending Operators to optimize their products and services.

For Manufacturers

  • Create smart vending machines, powered by IoT, with cloud-based remote monitoring and control for your customers.
  • Optimize machines with remote diagnostics and automatic updates for improved customer satisfaction.
  • Visibility & analytics for machine operations across all customers.

For Vending Operators

  • Automate, visualize and optimize your vending operations with the best of IoT, Mobility, and Cloud technologies.
  • Kii Smart Vending supports multiple stakeholders including Operators, Refill Attendants and Technicians.
  • Customizable by anyone - even non-technical operators can customize the solution specifically for their business environment.

For Smart Venues

  • Location Based Discovery - Discovery of vending machines and other devices (like cameras, billboards) at the venue
  • Interactivity - Once discovered, interact with vending machines (and other devices) based on the services they expose
  • Visibility - Real-time visibility into the contents, availability and pricing of products in the vending machine, thru the app

Features

Cloud Enablement

Easy cloud enablement of vending machines for smart vending. Smart ‘agents’ enable high integration at vending controller board level as well as light integration at payment device/gateway level.

Remote Monitoring

Machine health and diagnostics for machine makers or service technicians and inventory status for refillers.

Analytics

Trends and metrics to help improve machine performance as well as product sales.

Dashboards & Apps

Role-based visibility into machine health and inventory in easy to use portal and mobile apps for both machine makers as well as for operators.

Multi-tenancy

Native support for multiple ‘tenants’ allows machine makers and operators get visibility across customers/franchisees while each customer/franchisee gets visibility of their own operations/machines.

Dynamic Rules

Business rules amenable to non-technical stakeholder to help them customize and manage the smart vending solution suited for their unique needs.

Dynamic Pricing

Enable operators to update pricing remotely, for specific machine, group of machines or machines in geographical zones.

Dynamic Configuration

Enable vending machine makers tweak machine configuration to improve performance, fix issues etc.

Pre-kitting Support

Enabling warehouse personnel and delivery personnel to pre-kit refill items for each vending machine based on their route.

Zones

Organize vending machines by geography, type or any other attribute for easier organization.

Product Catalog Integration

Easy to define products or to integrate with backend product/inventory management service.

Interoperability

Extensible data model and business rules along with platform features like APIs, message bus etc. enable integrating with other solutions, platforms, devices etc. easy.

Multi-stakeholder

Supports multiple types of stakeholders – from machine makers to operators to refillers to service technicians and beyond, with each having information at their finger tips – thru portal and mobile apps.

SDKs & APIs

Enhance your existing apps and services with smart vending SDKs and APIs. Integrate with third party apps. Enable smart venues to auto discover your vending machines and their contents.