My Coffee

Monitor has created a solution to allow users to pay for beverages at a coffee vending machine.

Monitor has developed a solution that allows organisations to offer cashfree unattended payment of their coffee vending machines. My Coffee uses the patron’s membership card, ID card or other types of identifiers to purchase beverages from a coffee vending machines. The My Coffee solution would be ideal for organisations such as a public library, higher educational institutions, hospitals, hotels and casinos.

Monitor’s first installation of their new application is at the Skycity Casino in Darwin, Australia. Below provides an outline of what the casino required and how our My Coffee solution responded to those requirements.

Requirements for Skycity Casino, Darwin

• To offer a cashfree and unattended environment for the payment of beverages from coffee vending machines on site
• Payment is made using the patrons existing gaming card
• Ensure that the gaming system database is checked in real time to ensure that the patron has sufficient points in their account to vend a beverage from the coffee vending machine
• The solution must not require any card holder or database maintenance
• The solution must be a pure Ethernet solution

Solution

• An Ethernet mag card reader was fitted to all vending machines
• My Coffee is used as the gateway to their gaming system
• Monitor developed the interface to the gaming system for card holder authentication
• An Ethernet based enabling mechanism to engage the credit on the vending machine

For more information about this solution please contact your local Monitor office or reseller.