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“Hey Siri, it’s coffee time!” Scanomat takes touchless coffee experience to a level on its own with Siri-enabled voice control for TopBrewer Scanomat, the innovating Danish manufacturer of premium coffee experiences who brought us the world’s first appcontrolled professional coffee machine, TopBrewer, almost 10 years ago, has taken its user experience to a whole new level with the launch of TopBrewerVoice - a Siri enabled shortcut that will allow users to seamlessly order their favourite premium coffee using just their voice through their iPhone, AppleWatch and AirPod devices. The original touchless coffee machine, and now widely acknowledged as the world’s smartest coffee experience, the TopBrewer eco-system is the only truly vertically integrated, IoT platform for coffee machines, combining hardware, software and coffee supply to deliver a uniquely dynamic, and highly sustainable, premium coffee experience for today’s experience-driven consumer, whether that be in workplace, hospitality or retail environments. Frederik Vibe-Petersen, who led the TopBrewerVoice project for Scanomat, said: “The introduction of voice 30
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control for TopBrewer was always part of the plan, but in light of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, was quickly moved to the top of our development priorities as an opportunity to further expand our range of user-friendly, touchless coffee capabilities, such as app control, which is already widely available to TopBrewer consumers worldwide.” “Due to the vertically integrated nature of the TopBrewer eco-system and the technological advancements we have developed over many years, we are uniquely positioned to deliver rapid deployment of new
features to our existing clients remotely over the air - introducing new features and updates would just not be possible with conventional platforms, or would create significant upgrade costs for the client. We have enabled TopBrewerVoice in a matter of weeks, free to our customers, so that they can deliver an enhanced and reassuring experience to their users at a difficult time.” Moving beyond the ground-breaking release of TopBrewerVoice, Scanomat has a suite of features and innovations in its product development roadmap that it will be able to deliver to its
Building & Facilities Management – September 2020
