5.3 Closed location vending machines

Many offices have local vending machines, to sell hot, cold beverages, and pre-packaged items: the machine are operated by the office manager, which handles machine filling, product selection.

If the office manager is also the employer, many times, the sold product can be directly accounted to the employee's payroll, or can be part of the company benefit plan.

The machine is bought based on type of product to sell, and the employer can use the machine graphical UI possibly as a company notice board.

Having the machines built by easy integrated component from different sources will enable more freedom in the selection and composition of the final device: the notice-board application must be able to be used on devices providing delivering different product.

Standardized way to connect to the machines, and a known format for the provided data make easy the integration with the company back-end.