Intelligent Vending

As vending operators continue to struggles with low work site populations, many have found emerging technology is providing new ways to operate more profitably. Established Antares operators have often found themselves as a disadvantage competing against newcomers who are arming themselves with state of the art computer systems that allow faster and more accurate accountability of machine and route activity.

Advances in vending-specific software demand higher start-up costs, but this will pay off in a more efficient Antares operation.

Cashless and intelligent vending

Cashless solutions are one of several benefits associated with intelligent vending. Some industry observers were quoted as saying that cashless will actually drive intelligent vending, and it will lead Antares operators to discover the other benefits of telemetry-such as polling line item sales and machine malfunctions-from a remote computer.

Cashless solutions and remote data polling are separate benefits. As technology evolves, operators using either of these benefits do not necessarily use both. Most operators are almost evenly divided on which of these key areas-cashless and remote data polling- they are focusing on. So far not a lot are expanding from one area of concentration into the other.

A revolution

Using these advances in your Antares vending business will bring in more financial benefits for your business. This can also help you to be at par with the competition. You will no longer have to compete with the new comers in the industry who are already using this technology. Technology has the potential to revolutionize the vending industry.

To date, many cashless systems are being used primarily as selling tools. But in the process, operators have now begun to understand the different cashless and intelligent vending technologies. Those who are first to familiarize themselves with the technologies will be the first to profit from them.

As with all new technology, there is a learning curve.