The Highlights: What questions should you ask a kiosk manufacturer? A successful kiosk deployment depends on more than the kiosk itself. The organization deploying the kiosks has to make key decisions early, get its sites and staff ready, plan for how customers will actually use the kiosks, and set up maintenance after launch. Teams that plan for their share of the work usually…
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Most organizations think self-service technology sells itself. Install the kiosk, and they will come. People will use it. That’s the assumption behind most rollout budgets. It’s wrong. You can buy the best kiosk on the market, put it in a great location, and still watch it sit mostly empty. And then a similar operation can hit 80% adoption or higher. The difference might…
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What Is Virtual Reception? Virtual reception is a digital front desk system. It combines several tools into one setup: a check-in kiosk, video calling, phone routing, text messages, email, and visitor records. Unlike an older self-service kiosk, virtual reception gives visitors a way to talk to a real person when they need one. This two-way connection, not the touchscreen, is what makes it…
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Self-service kiosks have taught users a strange little routine for years: look at the camera, blink twice, turn your head to the left. This routine is called active liveness detection. It has been the industry’s main defense against someone holding up a photo or mask to fool a facial recognition camera. In 2026, this routine is disappearing. Passive liveness detection is the biggest…
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Facial recognition has quietly become part of everyday life. Travelers use it to check in at airport kiosks in seconds. Hotel guests use it to skip the front desk. Patients use it to register for appointments with just a glance, instead of filling out a clipboard. For IT and operations teams making kiosk decisions, this technology is changing fast. Those changes already affect…
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Quick Summary A global shortage of computer memory (RAM) is raising prices and slowing down hardware supply chains in 2026. The shortage is caused by AI data centers, which now use a huge share of the world’s memory chips. This is not just a problem for laptops and phones. It also affects self-service kiosks used in healthcare, transportation, government, and banking. These industries…
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