To keep their leading position on the market and the trust of their numerous customers as an OEM, Evoca needs to permanently innovate and propose solutions that are at the same time at the forefront of technology as well as robust and scalable.
Witekio software experts accompany the brand’s R&D and product development for 6 years now.
It all started from re-building a complete software system for one of the product lines, including an immersive user experience and Cloud connectivity for telemetry and update. It then expanded to finding and implementing technical solutions to handle multiple payment solutions.
One of the key outcomes of this long-term collaboration is a software platform to ease and accelerate innovation. The first machine has been out on the market for 5 years now and there is a whole product range that now works with the same common code base.
As a first step in the collaboration, Witekio provided a complete system integration service, including both low and high level software development and support.
The first vending machine range we collaborated on is called “9100” and is based on NPX i.MX 6DualLite design.
Our objective was to build one generic and modular software architecture and to develop our code with code re-use in mind, all this to minimize development for the next product ranges.
Our choice of technological stacks Linux + Qt as well as our experience at developing industrial code. Our code is tested, and we anticipate unknown to develop code that is resistant to corner-cases.
We customized a Linux Yocto1.6 BSP to run on the new Evoca vending machine. In addition to BSP customization, we also enabled Wifi, Bluetooth and multimedia and video decoding on Evoca reference design.
Our engineers used Qt to create the intuitive interface featuring a user-friendly 10’’ HD touch screen. The application is architected as a set of libraries enabling its simple implementation on future Evoca Group products.
Having this common software platform allows:
Evoca wanted to have a full system to administrate and monitor the machine fleet. The Witekio engineering team helped develop the cloud solution, integrating some third party solution related to specifics for the vending machine vertical.
Payment is a significant chunk of smart vending machines use cases. It often involves different solutions and their associated specificities and challenges.
Evoca wanted to address different scenarios. Cashless (online/offline), change giver, credit card, we master all the different payment solutions, their implementation and their challenges.
Our engineers are familiar with complex smart vending machines user scenarios like contactless payment badges that are rechargeable with credit card.
We helped identify the different use cases, find the right solutions and integrate them into the software system.
A team of 5 to 6 expert engineers has been working on the Evoca projects for 6 years now. This helped build strong long-term collaboration with a deep knowledge of the software platform and high skills on the different software layers. It allows to gain time and efficiency on successive innovative projects.
Over the years our team also played an active role in Evoca’s own team growth and gain in technical knowledge. On every project our team anticipates the knowledge transfer. Evoca team are not locked. Our code is clean, tested, documented and our team organizes trainings for a progressive hand-over.
Evoca, like any other company that is cutting-edge in its field needs constant inspiration and investigation of new trends, new materials, new techs. Witekio teams regularly investigate new technologies to check how they could apply to vending machines and what added-value they could bring to Evoca, to Evoca’s customers and to the end-user.