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.


 

Digital Advertising integrated self service kiosks

Self Service Kiosk Terminals can take many shapes and sizes,  are designed to entice users to interact in all kinds of mannerisms whether for purpose of providing information, vending, payment, directional way finding, providing health statistics, ordering, retail check out the list expands each year as new concepts launch but one primary factor that we see more and more is the importance of adverstising digital monitors that are integrated above or on sides of enclosures.

At KT (www.kioskterminals.eu) our designers have worked on hundrends of projects all requiring addittional monitors of all varying sizes, the above image of a ref model we designed for a UK client we labelled X10 had in fact 10 monitors of which 6 were purely for purpose of advertising displays.

More basic versions as the one above shown labelled Aura could purely be a touch monitor with a slightly larger monitor above providing information on services the kiosk itself offer in this case for cinema ticketing dispensing.  It can for example display movies being shown or coming,  short promo clips of the movies at cinema and special offers on tickets or snacks. But there are also those as shown below

which are designed for outdoor public use, in this case at bus stops that provide a touch monitor for user to source relevant information on his journey and the main monitor displaying advertising which are managed by large outdoor firms such as JCDecaux, ClearChannel, Capital as some examples that manage brand elites of retail worlds advertising forey into public space ads.

Other versions can include health kiosks such as KT model i5,  being currently deployed in the Middle East in pharmacies and hospitals have simple advertising monitors installed that display latest pharmaceutical products that big brand medical companies wish to promote while the terminal itself provides vital health stats to consumers instore or in waiting rooms in hospitals. 

In fact according to sources at pqmedia revenues in 2012 were at $7.88 billion for advertising out of home a label they call DOOH.  Now that may not seem a high figure but if you cast yourselves back to turn of century their was very literally no digital signage advertising in market so in past 12 years to grow from a nurturing business to a multi billion dollar industry shows immense growth and the markets are expanding by each year as is deployment of self service kiosks.

Height Adjustable Kiosk Terminals

Self service in a word is for everyone,  and that includes persons or individuals who may find it difficult to interact with a free standing kiosk terminal due to a disability that prevents them from being able to reach surface of the touch monitor which typically is preferred mechanism to interact between person and machine.
In fact many countries nowadays employ governing bodies and regulations that are embodied to ensure that everyone must be allowed to access the information provided and this is no more prevalent than in government and public money expenditures related to self service.   A useful tool when a body is researching into the set of requirements laid out could be sourced from following the kind information provided by ADA-Kiosks.

The picture below which was kindly provided by KioskIndustry 

Illustrates the general guidelines for fulfilling most criteria s set out by governing bodies,  and in this case the solution is based on designing the terminal from need of fixed position.  But at KT Group we discovered that by implementing a motorized arm,  these are similar to the type of motorized arms being used by for example table top manufacturers we can in fact create a versatile machine that will adjust its height to the users needs.  This terminal is based on our unique designed model M1.