Hips U1

Telemetry & Payment Box

Brings payment acceptance and telemetry to vending machines and other self service machines.

  • Can activate simple vending machines by the built-in relay
  • Acts as cashless slave on complex vending machines via MDB-bus
  • Stand alone solution for Hips QR payments on vending machines
  • Stand alone solution for Hips card payment terminal for vending machines


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Iuc285 vending payment
These days fewer people carry and use cash while Generation Z is more comfortable using digital solutions to pay for services and products. Cashless payments are not the future, they’re the present.

Upgrade of classic vending machines to mobile payment

Hips provides a complete solution for cashless payments, telemetry systems and management software, disrupting the status quo of the vending machine businesses.
Monitoring and controlling of vending machines via a web interface
Looking at every angle of your business, Hips cashless payment systems for vending machines, and other unattended machines, enhances all aspects of your business.

Payments with QR codes

Hips offers a solution for static QR code payments. This means that you dont have to invest in card readers to accept electronic payments (Masterpass (MasterCard), V PAY (Visa), Apple Pay, G Pay, Alipay, WeChat Pay, PayPal etc.) in your vending machines. Hips QR code payments is as easy as a sticker on the machine together with our telemetry solution (MDB cashless) to be able to accept electronic payments in your vending machine.
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Hips vending solution

Telemetry Management Suite

A smarter way to manage your vending machine or other unattended automated machine to achieve more efficiency in your operations. Our management software for unattended machines will help you manage your business from afar, using our vending telemetry solution. This means that you don’t have to be onsite to make sure everything is running smoothly.
Card readers
Attach any of our supported unattended card readers to your vending machine together with our telemetry solution (MDB cashless) to accept contactless card payments.
  1. // Use websocket for two way communication with your terminals
  2. const c = new WebSocket(
  3.   'wss://websocket.hips.com/terminal/dkf74ud',['jsonrpc2.0']);
  4. c.send(JSON.stringify({jsonrpc:'2.0',
  5.   method:'Purchase',
  6.   amount:1250,
  7.   currency:'EUR',
  8.   receipt_id:'My ID 64222'
  9. }));
  1. // Use websocket for two way communication with your terminals
  2. const c = new WebSocket(
  3.   'wss://websocket.hips.com/terminal/dkf74ud',['jsonrpc2.0']);
  4. c.send(JSON.stringify({jsonrpc:'2.0',
  5.   method:'DisplayText',
  6.   positionX:1,
  7.   positionY:1,
  8.   text:'Welcome Back!'
  9. }));
  1. // Use websocket for two way communication with your terminals
  2. const c = new WebSocket(
  3.   'wss://websocket.hips.com/terminal/dkf74ud',['jsonrpc2.0']);
  4. c.send(JSON.stringify({jsonrpc:'2.0',
  5.   method:'PrinterPrint',
  6.   printerObjectData:[{ fontSize:1 text:'PRO FORMA...'}]
  7. }));

TERMINAL SOFTWARE BUILT WITH DEVELOPERS ❤️ IN MIND

We enable developers to easily script terminal connectivity.
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Technical specifications
Processor
  • CPU: 4× ARM Cortex-A53, 1.2GHz
  • GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV
Memory
  • RAM 1GB LPDDR2 (900 MHz)
Removable memory
  • 1x μSD Card
Connectivity
  • 10/100 Ethernet
  • 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless
  • 4G / LTE (opt)
  • Bluetooth 4.1 Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy
Ports
  • 2x Standard MDB Connector (slave cashless)
  • HDMI
  • 3.5mm analogue audio-video jack
  • 4× USB 2.0
  • Ethernet
Power Supply
  • 5V, 3A from MDB bus
  • 5V, via micro-USB
Physical Dimension
  • 85mm x 56mm x 14mm
Relay Connector
  • Wire-to-Board Terminal Block, Screw M2
Environmental Conditions
  • Storage temperature: -20°C to 65°C (-4°F to 149°F)
  • Operating temperature: -20°C to 65°C (-4°F to 149°F)
  • Humidity: 70% HR, non-condensing
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