Investing Product Design

As with any business trying to get ahead in the market, or showcase a company to prospective new clients, investors or even media, we strive to raise the stakes with our intuitive product design, here at KT Group. 

Being that the market for self-service kiosks is aggressively competitive to win new business and also to retain customers, it’s vital that the commercial enterprise showcases relevant products to its prospective buyers. But, to win new business, this entails grabbing the buyers’ attention and we all know from the likes of Apple, Mercedes and Gucci (to name a few), how much product development and design has pushed these brands to the pinnacle of market success. A measure of this can be a quick visit to the markets of China and Turkey, where we see fakes and copies by the dozen, but nothing replaces an original, and successful enterprises know their worth. They demand their designers bring new innovation each year, and here at KT Group it’s no different. 

 

Since the early days, back in 2005, its owner and acting CEO began one of his core beliefs, which was that KT had to shape itself into an innovator in product design. In 11 years, the company has focussed on the manufacture of self-service kiosks and terminals and we have collated over 100 new concepts and ideas that lie at heart of the company product line.   New ideas for shapes, innovations in design and, ultimately, new physical product launches such as the Beast and Whizz terminals, come from studying everyday architecture; taking ideas from structures of all kinds and using them to form physically user friendly terminals and, just as importantly, easy to access machine component integration for serviceability, not much different than how the automotive industry experts influence new cars each year with new shapes and technology.

Our growth to date certainly is directly influenced by our product designs that we launch each year, and notably some of the designs have had an enormous impact to our growth. One model that saw KT launch itself, a few years ago, into the sports betting industry was the Beast. It first launched at ICETECH Totally Gaming back in 2013, and since then we have sold well over 1500 of these, to several sports betting brands in Europe and Africa, and our clients themselves have seen profits grow as product designs, such as Beast, entice players to approach the terminal.

Terminals are, in short, a box of some sorts, but a box doesn’t necessarily have to be four-cornered and be made from one type of material. With an abundance of new material innovations within manufacturing and sourcing, the expansion of more interesting designs will increase as long as companies like KT Group are willing to invest its resources into producing box ideas into smarter design terminal technology.

Custom Self Service Kiosk Terminals Moroccoan Ministry Of Justice

KT Group a self service kiosk manufacturer based in Hong Kong known for its ability to manufacture custom self service kiosks from inception to completion providing the full spectrum of a solution terminal provider for those business that seek high capacity volume manufacturing successfully pitched back in 2010 for a local Moroccan based project in partnership with the local IT services project partner Finapaysystems that involved local Moroccan Ministry of Justice seeking 60 custom self service terminals.

The terminals were to be placed in local courts nationwide in Morocco as part of ministry of justices overall overhaul to digitize all documentation that the courts received and each terminal was fitted with a high speed scanner that was able to reach bar codes each bar code enacted a registration of a document submission.

Each terminal was further equiped with usual standard components as 22 inch wide screen touch monitors,  industrial metal keyboards that both offered Arabic and French language layouts,  trackball devices for finer precision interaction if required and numeric pin pad for inputing encrypted password verification by staff users.

The success of project that resulted in 80 terminals being manufactured in 4 weeks with full assembly,  pre test of each terminal and packaged for shipping by sea freight ensured that KT Group was proud to receive a commendation from its partner that anchored its recommendation that both Ministry and its appointed local IT services partner Finapaysystems approved KT Group as a effecient and reliable outsoucing manufacturer that understand how to approach requisites that RFP had outlined originally.

KT Group Ltd has built a decade of working in self service solutions industry as a reliable OEM manufacturer for elite IT solutions and services based clientele it works with and supports in manufacturing as well as all important after sales technical support.

 

Product Spotlght AMA Payment & Print Terminal

KT Group local Hong Kong based self service kiosk manufacture known for design and innovation in their kiosks they produce have several different designs for payment and one design that we like to present is AMA terminal.

The design centers around a wide screen touch monitor that is perfectly positioned for a normal adult height person to be able to easily glance down and browse through the touch interface. A optional top screen is a easy fit for being able to display informational or ad messages and this can be combined with integrated audio speakers if needed. 

Several options can be chosen for peripherals,  and integrated as always in our payment solution are properiatory cash and coin safe boxes that house securely stored notes and coins in a sealed locked safe.

Year End 2015 KT Group Kioskterminals best year results

2015 is a year that Hong Kong based KT Group will place above the rest as a milestone for its decade anniversary the team spread across several international time barriers succedded in breaking several new achievements,  in short the milestones we completed we 5 main important goals some we set and some we achieved with great product design.

• 10th anniversary since its original inception in January 2005 and still run by its owner and active CEO Kenneth Larsen.
• In 2015 we also had reached our highest number of full time employees of 10 
• The company also manufactured more than 1000 terminals in total,  total number was slightly over than 1000 units.
• Tenth year straight companies turnover and profit margins were again broken to be best year results and to keep in mind the company started back in January 2005 with a starting balance of $3,500 dollars then and now has surpassed two million dollars turnover.  Take into consideration that company has never been financed by loans and is still owned by its acting CEO
• We also manufactured our largest single production order to date of 385 kiosks in one time that again reinforced our claim that we are able to manufacture high volume to tightest and strictest control and quality assurance this order delivered to NCR in form of their new SS90 self service checkout kiosk.

In 10 years that company has operated in industry sector of kiosk manufacturing,  we have produced over hundred unique custom designs,  not all have seen light of day for whatever reason not each project gets greenlighted or goes from sample concept to mass production but it is testament to a small enterprise that we have worked with some of the largest organisations globally and cannot just claim but also show ability of taking a conceptualised idea to a mass produced machine that today sits in some location and provides a reliable service to its users.

Some of those organisations include names like

• United Nations
• NASA
• Chevron
• NHS (UK)
• Skoda
• Tesco
• Muji
• Nordisk Film
• US Army
• GE
• BOSE
• Metropolitan Police
• Siemens
• SNCF
• French Fire Brigade
• Shell
• Red Cross

Many others not so well known but equally important have sculptued company into whom we have become,  we have altered business practice to go from a standard kiosk manufacture to excel and focus on custom concepts and medium to high volume manufacturing and the whole company backs our dreams to extend our goals to expand this company both in success for each project we complete to excel in creating new innovations that assist our friends the humans with their daily mundane tasks.
 

New Model Selfie Payment Terminal

KTGroup latest innovation borne from a decade of experience in design and requirements for self-service machines the Selfie Pay brings several unique characteristics to its design that makes the overall machine the overall winner of KT Group best achievement design in 2015.

Selfie Pay features a head unit that offers cashless payment by card or contactless modules, a printed receipt and scanning of bar codes which make up core basis in any self-service transaction terminal.  Its powered by a mini ITX pc and interaction is via the 19-inch touch monitor installed that also comes with toughened glass for additional safety.            Selfie Pay offers to those retailers requiring to accept cash a pedestal base that offers integration of a host of different cash options from note accepters, coin validator to note and coin recyclers which all our inbuilt into its prefabricated UL certified safe for accredited security. 

Robust safe is manufactured from 12mm gage steel plate, and incorporates a UL electronic safe lock meeting banking and retail security features.  Selfie safe is housed within the free standing pedestal and is hidden by pedestal exterior enclosure and front door access makes for ease of accessing into the terminal.

The Selfie Pay is available upon request contact KT Group for more information on product and pricing. 

Self Service Print Kiosks

Nowadays it is both green environment issues and fashionable that our technology sectors are moving away from use of paper but unlike other tech savvy industries the self-service kiosk industry still has a large requirement for printing paper from a self-service solution in an array of sizes.

Large format printers
We have today three means to offer a large format print solution in size of A4 which is either by ink, laser or thermos heat transfer print solutions.  The latter two are definitively the most popular as they are both quickest to complete print task when ordered and speed of print is very important in field of self-service printing.

Digital Photo printers
Kiosks have been sinuous with photo printers since the first dry lab dye sublimation printers launched on market. Industrial giants such as Kodak, Fuji have launched ten of thousands of these into retail space globally and KT Group launched its OEM version the K4.

Receipt printers
Receipts have been synonymous since launch of very first cash registers into retailers stores,  and there are certainly no stranger in a standard configuration of payment kiosks and ATM,  KT Group has a broad spectrum of payment kiosk designs such as APP, AMA and CUSB1 available all equipped with receipt printers.

Betting printers
Betting requires in most setups a print of receipt as well as a paper copy of the physical bet placed on a betting terminal,  KT Group range of betting terminals such as Beast, Whizz and Apollo all come equipped with a receipt printer. 

Health printers
Health kiosks that have seen recent exponential growth in numbers in self-service kiosks for medical and health purposes on most occasions come with a form of print function that allows patients and medical staff to print out diagnosis, prescriptions or analysis’s of medical reports.  KT Group recently launched a health kiosk that prints out results for blood pressure, fat content, height and weight measurements.

Printer company
There are several large established printer manufacturers who specialise in area of kiosk printing,  such brands as Citizen, EPSON being most likely some of the largest but notable others include Zebra, SNBC, Custom engineering are all very popular brands for kiosk deployment.

Bill Payment Kiosks Cash & Contactless Kioskterminals

Self service is a broad sector were we as citizens of world can interact with machines for a purpose,  one sector that creates immediate satisfication and interest is ability to pay for a service or a product and KT Group has been for past 6 years since we launched our very first foray into payment terminals created a full range of terminals that are designed for payment,  a quick reference link to some of the latest models. 

SFI was the very first terminal we entered into market for payment kiosks,  designed by award winning kiosk designer Jerry Sweikart and since sold to several private commercial enterprises both in Europe and North America the unit shown below was created for a German enterpise back in 2010.

The following machine design KT manufactured labelled VFS was a slightly less bold design due to clients requirement for a cheap inexpensive box but none the less many hundreds were shipped in period of 2011 to the client based in Vietnam.

The VFS model proved a successful design for many other business engagements throughout 2011, 2012 and 2013 with further clients having invested in Malaysia, Mexico, Czech Republic, UK.  

In 2013 KT Group changed its designer to a new fresh talent based in Slovenia our new designer began with changing our stance on design to bring fresh new ideas to the design portfolio of KT Group.  We have in past 3 years launched our current range of payment kiosks which you will see on our product page linked here and also a few custom designs we have prepared for special one off projects such as D8TB terminal shown below and are installed into airports.

Other noteable designs include latest machine designs CUSP1 and CUSB1 which are launching 2015 and are exclusive to KT Group customers.

The expansion of payment kiosks into all types of different retail locations and accepting both cash, coin and cashless or contactless payments all have to pass several processes for security, userability, safety and conformity all of which KT Group provid as a full turnkey service provider for kiosk hardware.

Our references include many well known brands and corporations globally stretching from Asia, Europe, Middle East & Africa and North America.  Our 10 years in the business of specializing have given development in product industrial design on par with leading companies worldwide and nowadays we manufacture for companies as well known as NCR and who see us the rapid manufacturing partner they require to launch new solutions into marketplace with speed and carftmanship for quality and fast customer service response.