Transportation

Glory to provide food vending for Deutsche Bahn in Germany

Image courtesy of Glory Inc.

September 13, 2021

Glory, a provider of self-service technology, has introduced an Internet-of-Things enabled vending solution with Germany's largest railway operator Deutsche Bahn, according to a press release.

Passengers at two stations in the Munich area will now be able to select fresh, locally sourced produce, either in advance via a web app accessible through their smartphone or directly at the machine.

The first of its kind at any railway station in Germany and branded "Zugvogel" by Deutsche Bahn, the Glory solution combines IoT-enabled hardware with cloud-based software. The connected nature of the solution allows not just convenient consumer ordering through the app, but remote monitoring of the temperature within the refrigerated unit and sell-by dates of the individual items to ensure freshness, together with detailed stock levels to maximize availability of products while avoiding waste.

"With this service, we want to make the stations more attractive for our guests and thus win more people for the environmentally friendly railway," Deutsche Bahn's Mareike Schoppe, station manager for the stations in Munich and the surrounding area, said in the press release.

Following the initial two installations, Deutsche Bahn is planning to deploy further units at stations in Munich City and potentially across Germany.