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Minno Furniture Smart fridge vending machine VS Spiral machine

A smart fridge vending machine is a modern, unattended retail unit that allows consumers to unlock a refrigerated cooler using a payment card or app, pick items off open shelves, and be charged automatically upon closing the door. Using AI cameras, weight sensors, or RFID technology, these machines offer 24/7 access to fresh food, salads, meals, and beverages in offices, gyms, and hotels

Features of smart fridge vending machine

How They Work: Users scan a card/app to unlock the door, select products, and close the door. The machine detects what was taken and charges the user automatically.

· Technology: These machines leverage AI-based visual detection, computer vision, and weight-sensing technology to determine which item is removed, eliminating the need for traditional vending coils.

· Usage Examples & Locations:

· Workplaces/Offices: Providing fresh, healthy, and high-quality lunch options, snacks, or premium coffee.

· Gyms/Fitness Centres: Stocking healthy smoothies, meal preps, and supplements.

· Hospitals/Universities: Offering 24/7 access to meals for staff, students, or visitors.

· Residential Estates/Malls: Unmanned retail, convenient "grab-and-go" food options.

Minno Furniture Smart fridge vending machine  VS  spiral vending machine

What is the Advantage of Smart Fridge Vending Machine?

Should we use a smart fridge vending machine? Is a Smart fridge vending machine expensive?

To answer your question. You should use smart fridge vending machines for some secured locations such as offices, schools, hotels… Smart fridge vending machine is a cheaper vending option compared to the traditional vending machine.

1. Why choose smart fridge?

A. Better shopping experience, it's grab-and-go, faster shopping, and most of the time customers don't need to bend down to get the product. No waiting.

B. Product no dropping, the customer takes the product directly, no drop-down, no damage to the product.

C. Flexible for most kinds of products. If you use a spiral machine, when you want to change a product, you may need to change a spiral, change the motor, or even change the complete good tray. With a smart fridge, it's very easy, just change the product pictures and prices from our mobile server.

D. Faster refill, 50% less refill time compared to traditional vending machines.

2. Is a smart fridge expensive?  

No, we have now a weight-sensing smart fridge. The working logic is every basket has a weight sensor, the system compares the weight difference before opening the door and after closing the door. 

The price is 30% lower than traditional vending machines. 

We have also an AI smart fridge vending machine. The working logic is after opening the door, the camera will record the complete shopping process. Then the video will be sent to our server and the server will identify which product was token and charge the customer. As the process is done in software. The AI smart fridge hardware price is very affordable. 60% lower compared to traditional vending machines. 

Vending never be so affordable with AI smart fridge vending machine. 

What is traditional vending machine?

Smart combo vending machine with 21.5-inch touchscreen for selling snacks and drinks, 250~450 capacity, 3~20℃ cooling system. We use high-quality compressors to reduce energy costs, it only costs 3-kilowatt-hour electricity a day.

Customized cargo lanes: hanging slot, direct push, conveyor belt and spiral. It's suitable for selling various products and supports combining different cargo lanes in one machine.

Intelligent Shopping Cart offers features such as checking product details, making multiple purchases simultaneously, and obtaining discounts for multiple purchases.

This vending machine aims to motivate customers to purchase a greater number of products, ultimately increasing sales and revenue. According to the data obtained from our back-office system, operators who have invested in our machines have experienced a 30% rise in vending machine revenue.

Smart operating system makes it easy to manage your vending machines. Check out sales data, real-time inventory, and remotely control temperature or lighting from your mobile phone or PC. Get machine error alarms via e-mail.

Smart fridge vending machine and spiral vending machine, they have different shopping methods and experiences, all of which are intelligent and fast. Which you like?

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