PicoAmbient Vision

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PicoAmbient Vision

Overview

The PicoAmbient Vision is an AI‑powered ambient smart cabinet that provides a secure and convenient, self‑service shopping experience for offices, hospitality areas, fitness centers, educational spaces, and other high‑traffic locations. 

The smart cabinet, by 365 Retail Markets, features spacious shelving, making it simple to display a wide range of ambient items, including snacks, packaged foods, and everyday essentials. This flexibility allows operators to stock a diverse assortment tailored to each location’s needs, increasing customer engagement and supporting stronger sales. 

The high security cabinet remains locked until a cashless payment method is pre‑authorized. Powered by advanced computer vision and AI‑driven product recognition, the PicoAmbient Vision automatically identifies items as customers remove them. This eliminates the need for scanning, creating a smooth, fast grab‑and‑go experience that leads to more impulse purchases and higher sales volume. 

With its reliable hardware, smart technology, and easy front panel servicing, the PicoAmbient Vision is easy to deploy and simple to manage. With advanced AI‑driven product recognition, generous capacity, smart security features, and a modern, intuitive user experience, it delivers a seamless grab‑and‑go shopping experience that drives higher sales and repeat engagement. 

Standard Features

Product Merchandising
Soft Elevator Delivery
Eliminate drop damage with the soft elevator delivery of food and beverages. The elevator lift for the soft delivery of products allows you to vend salads, bottled and canned beverages, yogurt parfaits, and other fragile items from trays that would not be possible from a traditional gravity drop machine.
Product Merchandising
Versatile Steel Beverage Tray
Adds extra versatility to your Alpine merchandisers to vend a wide variety of beverage packages not normally accomodated with stack vendors including boxed and pouch or Tetra style containers.
Product Merchandising
Flex Shelf Technology
USI vendors feature the most versatile trays on the market with features that make a difference in your bottom line.
  • Tilting shelves for easy loading
  • Quick change motors and dividers for in-field reconfiguration
  • Adjustable snack and candy selections
Product Merchandising
LED Showcase Lighting
Enhances product presentation and promotes sales 10% or more.
Payment Systems
Extra Peripheral Opening and MDB Support
Standard secondary peripheral opening lets you add your payment or ID system of choice with MDB communication to control system.
Accessibility
Controls and Payment Systems at ADA Levels
All customer interfaces and payment systems are at or below 2012 Americans with Disabilities Act mandated side access height of 46” from the floor.
Accessibility
Delivery Assist
Product is delivered at 15" via lift mechanism. Operates with one hand.
Consumer Interfaces
Braille Identified Keypad
All equipment comes standard with Braille identified keypads for sight impaired use and operator programming.
Safety and Security
iVend® Delivery Sensor System
Infrared sensor system virtually eliminates misvends and ensures that your customers receive their products or their money back.
Safety and Security
Door Switch
Option on non-refrigerated models for use with controller features and add-on telemetry logging door opening events and homing of product coils.
Safety and Security
Health Safety Feature
USI refrigerated and frozen merchandisers feature health safety temperature sensing technology to prevent the sale of perishable food if the air temperature inside the food vendor compartment rises above the Health Safety temperature limit for more than 15 minutes.
Quality and Service
2 Year Limited Parts Warranty
U-Select-It warrants each of its vending machines to the original purchaser for indoor use under the following provisions: VendNet, U-Select-It’s warranty and service administrator, will replace or repair any part covered by the warranty which fails due to a defect in material or workmanship for two years*
Quality and Service
Manufactured in the USA
USI prides itself on manufacturing the highest quality automated dispensing equipment right in the heart of the midwest with quality components, assembled by skilled technicians dedicated to your success.
Quality and Service
Lifetime Toll-Free Technical Assistance
Each USI product is backed by toll-free technical assistance for the life of the product. Should you have questions on technical, parts or service issues help is only a phone call away.
Sustainability
Eco-friendly Insulation Process
BASF Autofroth® foaming process features superior insulating properties and zero-ozone-depleting technology, utilizing blowing agents approved by the EPA’s SNAP program.
Control Systems
DEX Capable
Use DEX capable upload/download devices for sales and machine service information.
Control Systems
Full Sales and Accounting Features
U-Select-It vending equipment features control systems designed for easy and flexible pricing, payment system control and monitoring, accountability and service.
  • Price setting by selection, row or machine
  • Free vend and Combo vend modes
  • Flexible space to selection setting
  • Time of day discounting
  • Time of day shutdown modes for energy savings and controlled vend times
  • Programmable point of sale messages
  • Programmable coupon and token values
  • Coin and bill rejection rate counts
  • Accountability display by selection, row or machine
  • Audio support for sight impaired operators (Talker not included)
Control Systems
USB Software Upgrades and DEX Downloads

Optional Features

Consumer Interfaces
iCart 7″ Touchscreen Interface Option
Enhances consumer purchase experience. Available on Mercato and Alpine Series snack and food merchandisers. Communicates purchase information & messages to consumer with Shopping Cart and Product Info Browse Mode.
Product Merchandising
High Capacity Split Coils for Candy, Gum and Mint
Splitting coils for thin products lets you double the capacity of a selection supply fast selling products like gum and mint,roll candies, candy bars and other thin items. Each coil holds 30 items.
Product Merchandising
High Capacity Can / Bottle Tray
This patented gravity fed design lets you supply fast moving 12 oz. canned beverages and lower your trips to your machine for restock. Each selection holds 25 cans. Alpine ST or VT5000 (6 Selections - 150 can total capacity) Alpine ST or VT3000 (4 Selections - 100 can total capacity)
Product Merchandising
Single Motors for Motor Pairing
Enables pairing two motors together for dispensing wide products.
Product Merchandising
Custom Tray and Coil Configurations
USI is able to custom configure your tray configuration to meet your specific merchandising needs. Consult your distributor.
Payment Systems
Greenlite Cashless Payment System
Greenlite Cashless accepts credit, debit & mobile payments with valuable telemetry and machine management tools.
Payment Systems
Coin Mech and Bill Validators
All USI equipment comes standard with a coin mech and bill validator from a leading brand. USI offers a full range of cash and credit payment system options including payment system options for use internationally.
Accessibility
Audio Interface for Sight Impaired Operators
On-board audio output of programming systems with 3.5mm connection for external headphones or speaker (not included). - FLEX controlled with 10.1" iCart touch screen interface. Add-on self-contained voice synthesizer for GVC2 and FLEX 3.5" controlled models.
Branded Storefront
Custom Graphic Wrap
Make your brand, product and marketing initiatives stand out with billboard graphics applied to your equipment.
Branded Storefront
Custom Paint Colors
Available for high volume orders. Contact USI distributor for details.
Branded Storefront
Front Kick Panel Option
Removable bottom panel provides aesthetically pleasing continuous presentation.
Branded Storefront
Standard Changeable LED Backlighted POS Window
Replace with product advertising, location branding or customer focused information. Available on Mercato, Alpine and Summit Series models.
Consumer Interfaces
inDEX Management Utility
The iCart interface comes standard with our inDEX product planogram and information management utility. This webware is designed to simply manage the content on your smart vending machine. inDEX lets you create and manage individual planograms for each machine or standardized planograms for a whole route complete with product information, ad, promotion and messaging content. (Features vary by machine model).
Sustainability
Power Managment Programming
Many models feature programmable shut down modes for off-peak or low use energy savings.

Product Specs

Specifications PicoAmbient Vision
Style Full-height door
Cabinet color (interior/exterior) Black/Black
Gross capacity (cubic feet/liters) 23.41 ft3 / 663 L
Height (in/cm) 78.75” / 200 cm
Width (in/cm) 30” / 76.2 cm
Depth, less handle (in/cm) 32.62” / 82.9 cm
Interior LED strips 2
Adjustable shelves 4
Bottom shelf 1
Casters Yes
Electrical 115 Volts / 60 Hz / 1 Phase and NEMA 5-15P plug configuration
Net weight (lbs/kg) 285 lbs / 129.3 kg