Verticals

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Here are Vertical Markets We Serve

NEW! We just launched a couple of new targeted cloud portals — ai-computer.me, automation-ai.org, vending-retail.com, voiceorder.net and finally vending-ai.org

We have a couple of “primary” areas as well as supplemental properties.

Primary
- Kiosks — https://kioskindustry.org is primary
- Digital Signage — digital-signage.blog + AVIXA xchange
- Payment & POS — kioskindustry.org
- Retail automation and Vending – retailsystems.org
- Edge computing like thin client, miniPC and media players (hardware as rule)
- Patient Kiosk Healthcare — patientkiosk.io
- New AI focus portals
Supplemental
- Menu Boards — menu-board.net
- EV Charging — ev-charging-stations.org
- Asia Group — kioskasia.org
- Europe Group — kioskeurope.org
- Smart Cities — designsmartcity.com
- Telehealth and Telemedicine — i-telehealth.com

Here is our Big List of market verticals we cover:

These cover pedestal, stand-up, outdoor, countertop, smart city kiosks, and ev charging kiosks

Kiosk Industry Group — all things to do with kiosks, particularly members of KMA
Kiosks.io — all things to do with kiosks
retailing.io — all things to do with retail
selfservice.io — all things for selfservice
KMA – the association site for the Kiosk Manufacturer Association
Catareno Kiosk Consulting — included is AIOs and Touchscreens
Check In Kiosk – website for check-in and check-out
PatientKiosk — patient registration kiosks in healthcare along with EHRs like Epic with Welcome Kiosk are covered
Patient Kiosk Check-In magazine (emphasis on EPIC)
McDonalds Kiosks magazine and all the related to
Bitcoin ATM Kiosk magazine news
KMA Technology Corner
Retail Automation (drive-thru, lockers, robotics, etc)
Pinterest
Vimeo
YouTube
gokiosk.net — kiosk archives — 1998 to 2006
gokis.net – kiosk archives — 1998 to 2006
LinkedIn Group
Kiosk Association AVIXA
Craig Keefner AVIXA

Digital Signage Blog — more accurately interactive digital displays but we are stuck with “digital signage” for now.
Menu Board — here we focus on digital menus, indoor and outdoor. Panasonic and LG are two of our members and contribute.
Best Digital Signage Solution Provider News
Menu Board Technology and Digital Menus
AVIXA Exchange

Thin Client Computing — Touchscreen Chromebooks, Zero Clients and your usual Wyse (oops I mean Dell) and HP thin client news
Thin Client and Cloud Computing – flip feed
Smart City RFPs and Design (focus on US local and state)
Smart City Design — we see growing interest in smart city especially in renovating downtowns for better pedestrian access longterm

Automated Retail & POS

Retail Automation — lockers and smart vending along with innovative drive-thru and retail robotics
POS PCI and EMV
EV Charging Technology magazine
Point Of Sale RFPs — website for tracking and listing RFPs issued for POS primarily in SLED market
Check In Kiosk – website for check-in and check-out
Retailing.io
LinkedIn Group

i-Telehealth — remote health monitoring and treatment by consumers themselves, sometimes with assistance
Telemedicine News Telehealth magazine
PatientKiosk — patient registration kiosks in healthcare along with EHRs like Epic with Welcome Kiosk are covered
Patient Kiosk Check-In magazine (emphasis on EPIC)

Touch Screen Monitor News
AIOs and Media Players (like Brightsign)
Touch Screens — touchscreens come in sizes from 5″ to 100″. You have LED fine pitch which are only displays
Digital Business — looking for software like browser lockdown or commercial-grade tablets and All-In-One computers?
ADA and Accessibility in the news – magazine
The Industry Group – top level website for the group

EMV, PCI and POS
Menu Boards
AIO and Media Players
Patient Kiosk Check-In News
EV Charging News
Touch Monitor Technology Solutions
All Things Kiosks solution news
Interested in Telehealth and Telemedicine?
Thin Client solutions including Zero Clients and Cloud
CraigK Reading List – could be anything
Digital Signage solutions (the best ones we think)
Anything on ADA, Accessibility and Regulatory
Automated retail solution news – robots, lockers and more
Smart City rfps and solutions
McDonalds Kiosks aka QSR Kiosks or Fast Casual Kiosks
Bitcoin Kiosk and Crypto Kiosk in general
Exercising – generally over 50 or 60. FitNDelicious a favorite if only for the pep talks from Jack LaLanne
SEO – stuff I see and note
The Industry Group

Publisher
- CAKCEK Inc. founded the seminal Kiosk Association website in 1995 in Minnesota. The original news site was the comp.infosystems.kiosks newsgroup on Usenet. Back when there was Usenet…
Editor & Manager
- Craig Allen Keefner
Staff writers and contributors
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- Elliot Maras
- Evan Schuman
- Richard Slawsky
- Contributors
  - Oleg Logvinov with Iotecha
  - Karl Goodhew with BurgerFi
  - Laura Miller
  - Andrew Savala
  - Adam Aronson
  - Craig Keefner
Graphic & Logo Support
- Don Eastburn & Associates
- PixlePeople
- The Object Shop
- Rebecca Tolle Art
Additional Outlets
- Xchange AVIXA
- Flip It
- Food Institute
  - Cyber Security
  - Inaccessible Self-Checkouts
- Authority Magazine – Disability Inclusion Workplace
- LinkedIn —
  - Newsletter – Tech View
- Interactive Week ZDnet (1999)

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