System

How a VeMatics installation fits together.

Payment, control, machines and software are separate layers. A site uses the ones it needs.

There is no standard VeMatics installation.

A laundromat with a central payment station and a car wash running mobile payment on its own are both complete systems. The architecture is selected per installation, from what the site already has and what it needs to do.

  • Not every site has a central payment station.
  • Not every site uses mobile payment or cards.
  • Not every site has a machine controller in the chain.
  • Not every site is connected for remote management.

Five layers

A way to read an installation, not a product range. Most sites use some of these; few use all of them.

  1. 01

    Customer interaction and payment

    How someone starts a machine and pays for it. A site can offer one of these or several side by side.

    • A central payment station

      One VeMatics station where a customer selects and pays for the whole site.

    • A payment terminal in the equipment

      A payment terminal integrated directly into the machine, for installations where no central kiosk is needed.

    • Mobile payment

      TikWash on the customer’s own phone, with or without a central station on site.

    • Card and account payment

      VemaCard, used on a Payter payment terminal where one is fitted.

  2. 02

    Payment and control hardware

    The VeMatics unit on the site, where there is one. The range runs from a compact cashless system to a station that handles cash, and the choice follows the site rather than the other way round.

    • Payment stations

      CP110, CP200, CP460, CP510 and CP600 — a compact cashless system through to cash handling and car wash control.

    • Direct payment-terminal integration

      Where a central station is not wanted, the payment terminal goes into the equipment instead.

    • Specialised units

      Token dispensing with the TK310, and cabin control with Easy SunManager, where the application calls for it.

  3. 03

    Machine and PLC integration

    A payment has to end in a machine that actually starts. That step is an engineering question, and the answer depends on the equipment on the floor.

    • Machine control

      Releasing a machine, a programme or a cabin once payment is confirmed.

    • Programme selection

      Where the equipment offers several programmes, the choice is carried through from the payment step.

    • The interface depends on the machine

      What a given machine or controller needs is established with the site. It is not assumed, and it is not the same everywhere.

  4. 04

    Software and connected services

    What a customer taps, what an operator manages and what runs inside the terminal come from the same team. How much of this layer a site uses varies.

    • Customer-facing software

      The TikWash app, and the screen of the station itself.

    • Operator-facing software

      Accounts, cards and settings, through the tools the installation supports.

    • Remote management where supported

      Not every installation is connected. Where it is, the system can be reached without a site visit.

  5. 05

    Installation, commissioning and support

    The system is installed and commissioned on site, not handed over in a box. Afterwards it is supported by the people who built it.

    • Installation and commissioning

      Put in place, connected to the machines and brought into service on the site itself.

    • Support

      Questions and faults go to the team that engineered the system rather than through a supplier chain.

    • Further integration

      Sites change. Machines are added, programmes change, and the system can be extended where required.

06

Which layers your site uses is decided with you.

We start from the machines you have and the way your customers pay, not from a model number. What stays the same in every project is who does the work.

  • Designed in Belgium
  • Product and enclosure design
  • Hardware assembly
  • Own electronics
  • Own software
  • PLC and machine integration
  • Installation and commissioning
  • Remote support and service
Next step

Let us look at your site.

Tell us what the machines are and how payment works today. We will say what a system for it would look like.