• They will always have insight in the actual sales per machine as a result of which locations can better be evaluated and sales can be optimised.
• They can remotely adjust prices and follow the stock – including the sell-by dates.  
• They can timely take care of replenished machines and offer prices.  
• They can more quickly track (imminent) failures and therefore deploy their service apparatus more efficiently.  

All these advantages combined lead to considerably higher proceeds.

Reusable

Companies like Unilever, Friesche Vlag, Johma, Schiphol Airport and Maas Automaten daily profit from these advantages. They selected the UComServ concept which Sioux has especially developed for the vending line of business on the basis of Machine2World®. By means hereof all sorts of data of the machine can remotely be collected and read by means of a wireless connection such as GPRS and by means of the Internet protocol. As 80% of the software is reusable new types can also be rendered suitable for remote management at a high pace and against low costs. The system of Sioux is based on licences as a result of which the return on investment period is much shorter and the principal will not be required to finance a lot in advance. These are significant advantages on the vending market as the latter is highly competitive.

In practice

Jan Verkade, manager new business development at Fri-Jado:

“We were working, under the authority of American Continental Technologies, on the development and production of food vending machines that serve hot snacks like spring rolls and hamburgers. During the preparation advertisement and entertainment is presented to the customers on the touch screen.”

“The machines are controlled by a PC, without Windows because this system gets locked too often. Therefore Sioux Embedded Systems developed new software which runs under Linux and almost never crashes. Sioux Remote Solutions subsequently realised a system by means of which we can remotely follow and manage the machines.”

“Along the way our position developed into such of a system integrator. That was new to us but Sioux supported us in an excellent manner. Conjointly we prepared the specifications for the software but also for the hardware. Thanks to Sioux’s experience and empathy with regard to our market we now have a fantastic, highly intelligent vending machine on the market.”