POS Machine, also known as IC Card POS Machine or IC Card Fee Collection Machine. The IC Card Meal Fee Collection POS Machine is a new generation of intelligent card equipment developed to meet the requirements of electronic, institutionalized, and convenient consumption. It can be widely applied in government, enterprise, factory canteens, restaurants for IC card fee collection, campus one-card system, enterprise one-card system, and member consumption one-card system.
The meal machine replaces the traditional cash consumption method, using the advanced MIFARE I type contactless IC card consumption method. Contactless IC cards have advantages such as safety, stability, and convenience in carrying. Users only need to swipe their card within the effective distance of the POS machine's induction area for the POS machine to recognize it and complete the consumption; there's no need for cash transactions, avoiding the inconvenience of giving change and hygiene issues caused by cross-infection from cash transactions. This not only makes it convenient for users to consume but also facilitates the statistics and management of consumption situations by the administrators, achieving the automation of data collection statistics and information processes. The IC card system is safe, stable, and reliable with excellent product performance.
Quality:
Quality depends on the selection of electronic components by the manufacturer. Polytech has a strict procurement management system, and all components are sourced from large factories. Some components are imported directly. Spending an extra penny on product procurement can save hundreds of dollars in repair, return, and service fees. Polytech people understand this clear account, so quality is always placed first. We do long-term business, good quality, and a stable system may yield thin profits but ensure steady income unlike some manufacturers who make one-time deals where poor quality leads to most cooperation being terminated after one attempt, even if they earn more, it’s not sustainable. Polytech believes: For a century plan, quality comes first.
Customers can judge the quality of the meal machine by looking at the keyboard. Keyboards come in mechanical keys, membrane keys, and silicone gel keys. Among them, mechanical keys have the highest cost and the best feel. Factories that prioritize quality and value customer usage effects generally use mechanical keys. Membrane keys are waterproof but have a poor feel. Silicone gel keys, if made well, also have good quality and a decent feel.
Among meal machine manufacturers, especially those in Henan and Zhengzhou, the craftsmanship is meticulous, component procurement is strict, and the quality is reliable and stable.
System Usage Introduction
Step 1: Input the charge machine number and group it (or run the charge machine test to automatically complete the number addition).
Step 2: Change the administrator password to ensure software security.
Step 3: Run the charge machine registration, change the system password, register all charge machines. The password is a 12-digit hexadecimal number, write it down and keep it properly, never lose it.
Step 4: Initialize all consumption cards so that the card password matches the system password.
Step 5: Register the consumption card, input the cardholder's information, etc.
Step 6: If multiple people operate the software, add administrators and authorize them according to their respective responsibilities.
Step 7: Carefully check the time of all charge machines, which can be automatically completed by the software.
System Features
Smart IC Card Canteen Meal Management uses a contactless IC card charging system. The system fully collects data in real-time or runs offline, improving the canteen environment, increasing meal efficiency, reducing human error, and preventing economic losses caused by fake cards or fake tickets. There's no circulation of tickets within the system, electronic settlement reduces management loopholes. The system management software operates under WINDOWS2000/WINDOWS XP environments, using a large database SQL2000 personal edition, with a good human-computer interface, easy to learn and use.
● User-specific card stores amount, card encryption function.
● One card per person, dedicated use, extremely fast operation speed. Cards can be expanded into attendance, access control, meal selling, water control all-in-one card.
● Computers automatically complete data statistics, summary, report printing, making query management convenient.
● No need to find balance when selling meals, directly saving the balance on the card, speeding up the process.
● Non-contact card, reliable performance, reusable, others' cancellation and return cards can be reused.
● Managers easily manage consumption situations; various professional reports facilitate financial accounting.
● Can pre-collect meal fees and card deposits, quickly recovering funds, bringing considerable benefits to operators.
● Comprehensive automation management of charges and statistics effectively blocks management loopholes, preventing corruption and fake tickets.
● Contactless IC cards are not easily damaged and can be used for a long time, one card per person avoids and reduces the opportunity for cross-infection of infectious diseases, protecting the health of diners.
● Can reduce canteen staff, saving management costs.
● Cards and machines are fully sealed, non-contact use, low failure rate, greatly reducing maintenance costs.
System Composition and System Advantages
1. System Composition
The smart IC card meal fee collection management system consists of the following parts:
Hardware part: Computer, reader, converter, meal machine, IC card, double-core shielded wire, etc.
Software part: Smart IC card meal management software.
2. System Operating Environment
The system adopts a bus-type + star-type network topology structure, with the client using windows9x/xp/2000. The server end uses Windows2000Server, SQL_SERVER2000 central database integrated way with common interconnected software technology.
3. Communication Protocol of IC Card Meal System
The system is based on the Ethernet client/server architecture, using Ethernet and TCP/IP network communication protocols, adhering to standard TCP/IP protocols for network data transmission. It interacts with other systems at the same network layer, where the data collection adopts the standard TCP/IP protocol, fully utilizing the wiring system for high-level, reliable data interaction and communication. Structurally, it ensures reliable and convenient data interfaces, system scalability, and the realization and stable operation of redundant systems.
Main Functional Features of the Product
1. Simple and quick operation, dual-sided LED display, allowing both operators and consumers to simultaneously view transaction content;
2. High-key computer keypresses, with a lifespan reaching 1,000,000 times; the entire keyboard is protected by a silicon gel keyboard cover to prevent oil stains and soup water from entering;
3. Convenient amount input, with functions like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and shortcut amounts; F1-F7 can represent common amount values;
4. Flexible consumption methods: Consumption by number, direct input of amount consumption, fixed amount consumption (fixed deduction of a fixed amount upon swiping), etc., freely switchable consumption modes;
5. Dual backup design, large system capacity, accommodating 4 billion (2^32) user cards, simultaneously reporting the loss of 7,000 cards, recycling storage space, data can be re-collected after collection, meal machines maintain at least the last 1,000 historical records without being overwritten, preventing data loss;
6. Practical novel patent, passed 3C mandatory certification, energy-saving design, automatically enters energy-saving mode when there is no external power;
7. Built-in backup battery system, works for 5 hours during power outages, can be used normally even in places with sudden power cuts or no electricity;
8. Different card types can be set, temporary card function, automatic lock card upon expiration, daily and each maximum consumption limit can be set, excess consumption requires password input, good confidentiality, high reliability; specific card personnel can be designated to consume on specific machines.
9. Built-in standard TCP/IP Ethernet, RS485, and various other communication networking methods. Direct connection to LAN, more stable system, safer data transmission. SQL database C/S version IC card meal fee management software, multi-owner management, comprehensive detailed management reports, direct query statistics summary, print output. Back-end system software for issuing cards, opening accounts, recharging deposits, cash withdrawals, card loss reporting, card replacement, cancellation, recharge detail reports, recharge summary reports, consumption detail reports, consumption summary report statistical queries. Different owners and different devices can be managed separately.
10. Single-machine can query the number of consumption transactions and the consumption amount, can query recent transaction streams. Machines can freely switch between manual input of amount and fixed deduction card brushing modes. Real-time online transactions and offline work are automatically recognized, real-time TCP/IP data transmission, can store offline 16,000 transaction data.
Working Environment
1. Working temperature: 0℃ ~ +40℃;
2. Storage temperature: -30℃ ~ +70℃;
3. Working humidity: 10%~95%;
4. Working voltage: DC12V~24V/300mA;
AC200~240V/50Hz (adapter use)
5. Backup power: 6V700mAh nickel-hydrogen battery pack;
6. Power consumption: less than or equal to 3W.
Scope of Application
This product can be widely applied in factory, enterprise unit, government agency, hospital, school canteen IC card fee collection, hotel catering consumption, club membership consumption, chain stores, teahouses, restaurants, coffee shops, hotels, food courts, department store membership consumption management, and other application scenarios.
Solution for Canteen Meal Fee Collection System
1. System Overview: The non-contact induction card microcomputer system mainly consists of a computer, printer, network communicator (with software), card issuance machine, cash register, network communication line (with power line), and non-contact induction card. The main technical content of this system is reflected in the stability and reliability of the read/write technology of non-contact induction cards and terminal devices (card issuance machine, cash register, deposit/withdrawal machine, subsidy machine, etc.), thanks to the original RFID card technology from the popular Philips company in Europe and America. These advantages are mainly reflected in the following specific product performances:
1. Cash Register Technical Performance and Exterior Features: The cash register has excellent off-network performance, not only capable of timely data transmission in real-time networks but also able to independently operate under conditions of interrupted communication or even host damage, completing single-machine card reading/writing up to 10,000 times. Built-in uninterruptible power supply guarantees 8-10 hours of single-machine off-network operation during power outages, intuitively displaying operational information via a large LED screen and buzzer. Its simple appearance and soft-membrane keyboard maximally ensure operational stability in highly greasy, humid environments.
2. Non-Contact Induction Card Technical Performance: The company uses readable/writable induction cards in this system, independently storing data on the card, fundamentally eliminating overdrawn consumption. The card core guarantees a 100,000 read/write lifespan, with information stored for ten years.
3. System Software: Based on the WIN98/2000 platform, it is intuitive and convenient, providing comprehensive and accurate data statistics, adapting to the actual needs of readable/writable induction card cash register management.
4. Communication Network: Network lines use four-strand twisted pairs combined with multi-strand power lines enclosed in PVC groove boards throughout, adopting full-duplex data communication.
2. Implementation Plan Introduction
This system plan is designed according to the characteristics of the user unit and to meet management requirements, consisting of a system management center and a canteen restaurant induction card cash register system connected via RS485 network cables. The system composition is concise and clear, reasonably matched, easy to operate, economical, and practical.
1. System Management Center
● Task
Mainly responsible for selling cards, recharging, reporting lost cards externally, and managing system operations internally, including data collection, parameter download, information inquiry, consumption statistics, account summaries, and report printing.
● Equipment Composition
The system management center consists of a computer (with dual hard drives) equipped with management software, a printer, and a card issuance machine. One of the hard drives serves as a backup.
● Location Setting and Operation
Set up the system management center (commonly known as the "computer management center") in the canteen restaurant management office (or a dedicated room), managed by a dedicated system operator. Multiple operators can be established (logging in through individual passwords) and permissions can be set to restrict certain functions. To prevent computer viruses and software conflicts, no software unrelated to this system should be installed on the computer, otherwise, consequences will be borne by the user!
2. Induction Card Cash Register System
● Task
The induction card cash register primarily handles accepting meal card swipes and can also query the remaining balance on the card.
● Equipment Composition
Composed of several wall-mounted induction card cash registers and desktop induction card cash registers (can be used offline and moved around).
● Installation
Install the switch power supply in a dry, bright, and easily accessible location in the canteen restaurant selling area. Wall-mounted induction card cash registers are fixedly installed on the selling windows in the canteen restaurant. Desktop induction card cash registers are installed on the selling counters, not fixedly installed, facilitating temporary movement, but the selling counter must be equipped with a network cable connection port and a power socket.
● Operation
The induction card cash register is operated by the selling staff in the canteen restaurant. Operators must strictly follow the operating instructions and avoid using sharp objects or rough handling. In case of machine problems, notify the manager immediately and do not handle it yourself.