Connected Vending Machine
India’s largest beverage chain wanted a solution for the coffee bean pilferage and hence compromise of coffee quality at their numerous vending machines. VeCrear designed and manufactured prototypes of connected coffee vending machine, that not only enabled quality control and health monitoring, but also enabled several centralised functions like ad streaming, flavour change and personalisation of vending experience. The touch screen enabled brush steel frontage added a whole new look and experience to the coffee vending machine. All this was achieved in a very cost-effective way by redoing the control cards and adding a tablet as a user interface
The VeCrear team of hardware experts designed and fabricated control card along with an Arduino based master controller, power controllers and interfaces to the mechanicals of the vending machine. The embedded team designed and developed the software for tablet to act as master controller in taking user inputs as well as capturing the health, inventory and diagnostics data from the vending machine. The Cloud/mobile experts put together the Android User Interface as well as a private cloud infrastructure for data collection & a centralised command/control