Unattended Self Service Update July 2021

By | July 23, 2021

An update on unattended self service

July

Updated Vertical Coverage List

  • Digital Signage Blog — more accurately interactive digital displays but we are stuck with “digital signage” for now.
  • Menu Board — here we focus on digital menus, indoor and outdoor. Panasonic and LG are two of our members and contribute.
  • i-Telehealth — remote health monitoring and treatment by consumers themselves, sometimes with assistance
  • Touch Screens — touchscreens come in sizes from 5″ to 100″. You have LED fine pitch which are only displays
  • PatientKiosk — patient registration kiosks in healthcare along with EHRs like Epic with Welcome Kiosk are covered
  • Digital Business — looking for software like browser lockdown or commercial grade tablets and All-In-One computers?
  • Automated Retail — lockers and smart vending along with innovative drive thru and retail robotics
  • Thin Client Computing — Touchscreen Chromebooks, Zero Clients and your usual Wyse (oops I mean Dell) and HP thin client news
  • Point Of Sale RFPs — website for tracking and listing RFPs issued for POS primarily in SLED market
  • Smart City Design — we see growing interest in smart city especially in renovating downtowns for better pedestrian access longterm
  • Kiosk Industry

Perspective — Samsung announced that they are selling a kiosk now.  We knew they sold menu boards and digital menus, and digital signage for that matter.  We have two writeups. One here on Kiosk Industry and the other on LinkedIn with a bit more speculation.  Interesting decisions by Samsung.

They opted for a non-CAT credit card terminal. That can work for gorilla accounts like Home Depot or Mcdonald’s but that’s it. They call it “semi-attended” which doesn’t exist as a PCI class. An oldie goldie antibacterial coating zinc pyrithione is being used. You may remember from TV commercials for shampoo.
Kiosk Manufacturer Samsung
It certainly makes sense to expand your offering and portfolio to customers when they are considering huge spends for 75″ UHD monitors every 6 feet (and in the drive-thru lane). Maybe they will soon offer curbside and lockers.  Finally, we are a little concerned that they have named these kiosks the KMA Series. For the record, KMA has absolutely nothing to do with these units.

June 17

The latest iteration of the British Telecom internet kiosk aka Smart City DOOH Display. Looks like they gave up on transactions. What’s next for digital signage solution providers?  22Miles and Panasonic tell us. McDonalds McAI seems to be working 85% of the time.  Our big feature this month is on digital signage solutions (Go Big or Go Home). Ten different companies contributed. Pretty good crunchbase article on retail and restaurant automation.

We also now maintain a Legal News log with opinion. McDonalds and Wendys are big newsmakers this week. In addition we now have a dedicated page for Assistive Technology.

June 7

  • From Legal News
    • Apparently, we now have a fully functioning DOJ or Department of Justice.  Enforcing laws appears to be coming back into vogue.  We know of many cases the DOJ has “expressed interest”, unlike the former. The prosecution probability index (PPI) has definitely risen in the last 3 months.
    • The big mysteries at this point are how a large number of franchisees ALL violate ADA. We can understand this one or that one but 139? And then, given 50 states why would McDonald’s choose to trial biometrics in the one state that has extensive laws surrounding it. Sometimes “bad law” can be created by bringing suit in an unsympathetic district court. Winn-Dixie is a prime example of that.
    • One other trend that is noteworthy revolves around videos and specifically audio embedded. This can be an actual audio track or it could be a narration. Multiple languages. Media from Amazon, Netflix, Disney come into play. Any description of services with visuals.
  • The latest iteration of the British Telecom internet kiosk aka Smart City DOOH Display. Looks like they gave up on transactions. What’s next for digital signage solution providers?  22Miles and Panasonic tell us. McDonalds McAI seems to be working 85% of the time.  Our big feature this month is on digital signage solutions (Go Big or Go Home). Ten different companies contributed. Pretty good crunchbase article on retail and restaurant automation.

May 2021

Trade Show Events 

o October — CREATE October 2021 in Denver – Our landing page here
o Jan 2022 — NRF Big Show #1606

Public Service Announcements

PCI EMV Credit Card Reader Update – includes a preview of Ingenico v6 devices from Ingenico.
ADA Checklist 14 Point