Kiosk barcode reader, scan to pay instead of coin-operated machines

The overall market trend of self-service laundries

It’s not difficult to find a self-service laundry near your home, Japan, Korea, Taiwan or even America, the laundry industry is undergoing an earthshaking change. In the past 6 years, the sales of household washing machines have dropped by 16%, and about 35% of traditional laundries closed. However, self-service laundries have tripled against the trend. Today, there are about 3,000 self-service laundries in Taiwan, and Japan and Korea are even more intensive than Taiwan a lot. A well-known convenient store group “FamilyMart”, is planning to combine the self-service laundry and convenient store together as a multi-functional convenient store.

In Taiwan, the laundry output value is about 20 billion, which is divided among household, commercial washing machines, self-service laundries and traditional laundries. And the total output value of self-service laundries is about 10 billion among them, which is rapidly eroding the other three major items. That’s why the self-service laundry is obviously a lucrative and potential market.

Goodbye, the coin-operated washing machine of self-service laundries

As the continued boom in self-service laundry industry in the past few years, we found that the old type of traditional coin-operated self-service washing machine has 4 main issues, which as follows.

• Forgot to prepare the coins before going out? physical paper money or coins sometimes is annoyed, and we have to change the coins somewhere if forget to go out with enough coins. Have you had the same experience?
• No receipt to track and management.
• Regular to retrieve coins from each washing machine respectively? It’s time-costing and not a smart way for those merchants of self-service laundries to schedule a time to retrieve coins from each laundry shop.
• Increase the risk of washing machines being destroyed to rob coins.

Scan to pay instead of all the coin-operated (washing) machines

The laundry industry now is planning to launch a brand-new payment method that through integrates a 2D barcode scanner module into self-service washing machine to replace the traditional coin-operated one. It’s not only to solve 4 main issues above, but to provide users a better experience and service. Besides, it is also suitable to integrate into all kinds of coin-operated machines, not restricted for washing machines.

FX-30D, kiosk barcode reader, the best solution for self-service washing machines

NUMA FX-30D is a best solution to meet the market trend of new payment method of self-service laundry. NUMA 2D scan engine is engineered to decode most of 1D, PDF and 2D codes. It’s excellent for reading smart phone QR codes and barcodes and easy to integrate into POS or Kiosk self-service system. It provides wide range of applications, such as retail stores connect to POS terminals to use mobile coupons, mobile loyalty cards promoting sales. Factory can integrate on conveyor for production tracking or integrate into Kiosks for payment usage.

Must know features of the model FX-30D, kiosk barcode reader

• 640 (H) x 480 (V) pixels
• Supports most of 1D, PDF and 2D barcodes
• Resolution: 3 mil 1D, 6.67mil 2D
• Field of View: Horizontal: 28°; Vertical: 36°
• Frame Rate: 120 FPS
• Multiple interfaces supported
• Excellent reading performance for barcodes displayed on mobile devices and printed paper

NUMA Kiosk barcode scanner suitable for most self-service Kiosk systems

• Product
• Food Self-service Kiosks
• Beverage Self-service Kiosks
• Retail Self-service Kiosks
• Parking Self-service Kiosks
• Electric Vehicle Charging Self-service Kiosks
• Patient Interactive Self-service Kiosks
• Information Self-service Kiosks
• Employment Self-service Kiosks
• Check-in Self-service Kiosks
• Automated Teller Machines 
• Payment Method
• Cash Payment Self-service Kiosks
• Non-cash Payment Self-service Kiosks 
• End User
• Self-service Kiosks for Banking & Financial Services
• Self-service Kiosks for Healthcare
• Self-service Kiosks for Retail
• Self-service Kiosks for Hospitality
• Self-service Kiosks for Transportation 

Programmable 2D barcode scanner to satisfy what you need

NUMA 2D barcode scanner can be programmed without difficulty or effort. It comes with a complete configuration code to fit all the different requirements accordingly. Users can simply scan the barcodes provided and configure the scanner as needed.

Connect to different interfaces

No matter user’s system requires USB-COM, RS-232 and HID-USB interface, NUMA kiosk barcode reader only needs to change cable and configure to the right interface if they want to change the interface. USB-COM is also available if the system does not have enough serial port. Users can install driver to use USB simulate serial data transmission.

Find out more information of NUMA barcode scanner, please go to https://www.numa-tech.com/ or https://www.numa-tech.com/en/product/detail/FX-30D. Or please send your inquiry to sales@numa-tech.com for proposal and quote.