Problem:
Vending Machine companies or operators need to routinely fill their vending machines with merchandise, keep track of inventory of the machine. This tasks is proven to be costly in both labor and other costs.
Think of it this way:
Saturday afternoon the route driver fills the candy or soda machine. He’ll do the same next week. Monday night the tourist bus from Dubai makes an unscheduled stop. Your machine will sit, nearly empty, until next week. How could you know?
in the last 3 months, the vending machine in the football stadium has needed restocking 5 times. Eventhough, it’s part of the weekly route like all the others because who knows when the next five times might be?
Customers expect vending machines to be ready with fresh snacks, cold drinks, or hot coffee. But there’s a problem. If you don’t commit time, resources, and labor to continually “making the rounds,” the machines could sit empty, broken down, or jammed, losing money and making your customers feel like you don’t run a reliable operation.
On the other hand, if your service personnel must constantly check machinery that seldom needs service, your fuel and maintenance bills add up and your profits fall.
Solution:
A solution to the above problem is to remotely monitor the status of the vending machine, fault codes, alarm triggers, inventory status via a secure data channel between the vending machine and the monitoring center server.
This can be done by integrating our 3G/4G industrial router F3x34
Why Choose our Solution?
Safety:
F3X34 industrial wirless router supports APN/VDPN, IPSEC, PPTP, L2TP, GRE, OPENVPN. Powerful VPN encryption to efficiently protect financial and other data.
Stability and Reliability:
Aim of stability of wireless network from operators, includes auto detect online network, If the network goes offline it will perform automatic redialing. Watchdog and Reliability.
Remote Control:
Remotely control the vending machine, perform maintenance tasks such us updating firmwares and driver files remotely, check status of stock, check any faults or problems.
Advertising (Optional):
Excellent 3G to Wifi Function, can make an excellent marketing information platform to push new products, discounts, promotions and even news to the clients
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