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Kiosk Computers for Self-Service, Retail and Hospitality
Where Kiosk Computers Are Deployed
Retail and self-service computing sits in four places: inside the kiosk enclosure, at the self-checkout and reverse vending machine, in the store's analytics and signage layer and in the back-of-house refrigeration and building systems. Each has its own mounting, touch, thermal and management demands, so the right platform differs from one to the next.
Open Frame Panel PCs Built into the Kiosk Enclosure
A ticketing, ordering, check-in or wayfinding kiosk is built around the screen, so the computer and display are specified as one open frame unit that bolts into the enclosure from behind. Open frame panel PCs from 7 to 23.8 inches with PCAP touch that works through the kiosk glass, VESA and rear-mount fixings and a fanless design run the kiosk application, the printer and the payment terminal, as our self-service kiosk computers for OEMs project shows across a manufacturer’s range.
Fanless Computers Driving Scanners, Scales and Payment
Self-checkout, smart vending and reverse vending machines need a computer with the serial, USB and display outputs to run a scanner, a scale, a bill validator, a printer and a customer screen at the same time, for years, inside a cabinet with no airflow. Fanless mini PCs and embedded box PCs with multiple COM ports and powered USB drive the peripherals, and a COM Express module with Intel Iris Xe graphics adds deep learning recognition to a reverse vending machine, as our RVM project shows.
Edge AI Gateways Counting Footfall and Watching the Shelf
Retail analytics moves from the cloud to the store when an edge AI gateway processes the camera feeds on site: footfall counting, queue length, dwell time and shelf availability without sending video off the premises. Compact fanless edge AI computers with PoE camera ports and an accelerator run the models in the back office or above the ceiling tiles, as our edge AI gateways in retail stores project shows.
HMI Gateways for Refrigeration, Energy and Food Safety
Behind the shop floor, refrigeration and building systems need monitoring as much as the tills do. A 10-inch HMI touch screen gateway on the plant room wall oversees the cooling equipment, logs cabinet temperatures for food safety records and trims energy use across the estate, as our supermarket refrigeration IIoT project shows for a national chain.
Built Around the Demands Kiosks and Stores Place on Hardware
Kiosk and retail hardware is specified against the enclosure it goes into, the glass the customer touches and the fleet it will be managed as, not just the processor inside. We select products whose mounting, touch, thermal design and management tools match the unit and the estate, and say clearly where a product is rated for an indoor cabinet rather than an outdoor one.
Kiosk-Ready Hardware
Open Frame Panel PCs
Fanless open frame panel PCs from 7 to 23.8 inches with PCAP touch and rear-mount fixings, for the computer and screen as one unit inside the kiosk enclosure.
Open Frame Monitors
Open frame touch monitors from 5.7 to 24 inches with resistive or PCAP touch and high-brightness options, for kiosks driven by a separate mini PC.
Industrial Mini PCs
Fanless mini PCs and industrial NUCs with serial, USB and dual display outputs, for driving the kiosk screen, printer, scanner and payment terminal from inside the cabinet.
Edge AI Computers
Compact fanless edge AI gateways with PoE camera ports and an accelerator, for footfall counting, queue analytics and shelf monitoring on site.
Ranges in Open Frame Panel PCs
IT7T Winmate Intel Core Open Frame Panel PCs
Winmate 15 to 23.8-inch open frame panel PCs on Intel Core i5 Tiger Lake with vPro options, for ticketing, ordering and check-in kiosks that run a full Windows application.
IE3S Winmate Celeron Open Frame HMIs
Winmate 7 and 10.1-inch open frame touch computers on Intel Celeron Elkhart Lake, for small kiosks, lockers and information points.
XPPC Nexcom Slim Multi-Touch Panel Computers
Nexcom 10.1 and 15.6-inch slim-bezel multi-touch panel computers on Intel Core, for retail counters and self-service points where a slim front matters.
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Ranges in Open Frame Monitors
OF Winmate Open Frame Touch Monitors
Winmate 5.7 to 21.5-inch open frame monitors with resistive or PCAP touch and VESA or rear-mount fixings, for kiosk, vending and ticket machine screens.
OF HB Winmate Sunlight-Readable Open Frame Displays
Winmate high-brightness open frame displays, for kiosks in windows, forecourts and station concourses where daylight falls on the glass.
PO Winmate USB-C Open Frame PCAP Displays
Winmate open frame PCAP displays with USB Type-C for video and touch on one cable, for compact kiosks driven by a mini PC.
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Ranges in Industrial Mini PCs
iBOX 1300 ASRock Industrial Fanless NUC PCs
ASRock Industrial fanless NUC PCs on Intel 13th Gen Core, for kiosks and self-checkout units that need a compact Windows computer with dual displays.
NUC BOX ASRock Industrial Mini PCs
ASRock Industrial mini PCs on Intel Core, for indoor kiosks and counters where a small, low-cost computer drives a single screen.
eBOX570 Axiomtek Compact Embedded Computers
Axiomtek fanless compact computers on Intel 13th Gen Core with multiple COM ports, for self-checkout and vending cabinets full of serial peripherals.
NISE Nexcom Slim Fanless Embedded Computers
Nexcom slim fanless computers on Intel Atom and Core, for signage and kiosk enclosures with little depth behind the screen.
Nuvo-2600 Neousys Compact Fanless Box PCs
Neousys compact fanless computers on Intel Atom x6000 with four Ethernet ports and serial, for vending and kiosk controllers that also network a camera.
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Ranges in Edge AI Computers
IBOX-60 Sintrones Compact Jetson Computers
Sintrones compact Jetson Orin Nano and Orin NX computers, for multi-camera shelf and aisle analytics in a larger store.
RSC101 Axiomtek Hailo-8 Edge AI Computers
Axiomtek fanless edge AI computers with a Hailo-8 accelerator and 5G, for camera analytics in stores without a wired network to the back office.
AIE100 Axiomtek Jetson Orin Nano Computers
Axiomtek palm-sized NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano computers with PoE, for a single-camera footfall or queue counter above the door.
Neu-X100 Nexcom Edge AI Gateways
Nexcom compact edge AI gateways with 4G options, the platform behind our retail store analytics project.
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Retail and Self-Service Case Studies and Guides
See how we supply kiosk OEMs, reverse vending and retail analytics projects, and read our guides to open frame displays, touch technology, optical bonding and managing a kiosk fleet.
An Extension of Your Engineering Team
Our engineers work as part of your team, not as a reseller. We check the enclosure, the glass, the peripherals and the thermal budget against the unit before you commit to a build.
Built, Imaged and Ready to Deploy
Memory, storage and modules are fitted and the locked-down OS image loaded before shipping, so each unit is tested as a complete build and arrives ready to bolt into the kiosk.
Supported for the Life of the Estate
Repeatable builds, revision control and last-time-buy planning keep later units matching the first across an estate's operating life, so unit two hundred is the same as unit one.
Hardware That Serves Every Customer.
Tell us what the kiosk or store system has to do, what it connects to and how many units the estate will run to, and we will recommend the right open frame, mini PC or edge AI platform, then configure, image and test it before it ships.