Calyraen
Calyraen
Searching the site...
No matches. Try another word.
Calyraen Kiosks

Self-service, built to order

A kiosk is a computer that does one job in public, all day, with nobody standing behind it. We build the whole thing for you. The metal, the screen, the software, and the way you watch over it from your desk. Powered by Calyraen Embedded OS.

The short version

You tell us the job. We build the machine that does it.

Most people meet a kiosk without thinking about it. The screen you tap to order food. The pillar that prints your boarding pass. The post by the door where you sign in. None of that is an accident. Each one is a small, sturdy computer that has been set up to do a single task safely, in front of strangers, without a keyboard or a person watching it. That is what we make. You bring the job. We handle the rest.

What you actually get

A kiosk is four things working together. We do all four, so there is one company to call when something needs attention.

The hardware

The case, the stand or wall mount, the touchscreen, and the parts inside. Picked to survive being touched thousands of times a day and left on around the clock.

The operating system

Calyraen Embedded OS runs the machine. It boots straight into your app, locks everything else away, and recovers on its own if power is cut.

Your app

The thing people see and touch. We can build it, or we can run the software you already have. Either way it fills the whole screen and nothing else gets in.

The way you watch it

A dashboard you open in a browser. See which kiosks are on, push an update to all of them at once, and get a message the moment one needs help.

A kiosk is a computer with one job and nobody minding it. That changes how you have to build it.

A laptop assumes a person is sitting there to close a pop up, restart it, or unplug it when it freezes. A kiosk has none of that. So it has to be harder to break, easier to fix from far away, and stubborn about getting back to its job. The rest of this page is how we make that true.

Where people meet our kiosks

Same idea, very different jobs. Here is the short tour. Each one has its own tab further down with the detail.

Shops and restaurants

Order and pay screens, price checkers, and the little machine that prints a ticket so the kitchen knows what you want.

Stations and airports

Buy a ticket, top up a card, print a pass, or find your platform. Built for crowds, weather, and very long days.

Clinics and hospitals

Sign in for your appointment without queuing at a desk, and let the front office know you have arrived.

Hotels and venues

Check in, collect a room key, print a badge, or find your way around a big building on a clear map.

First questions, answered plainly

No. You describe the job and where it will live. We choose the parts, build it, load the software, test it, and ship it ready to switch on. You are not expected to know hardware.

It is the software underneath that makes the machine a kiosk instead of a regular computer. It starts up straight into your app, hides everything else, keeps itself updated, and brings itself back if it loses power or crashes. You never see it, and neither does the public.

Often, yes. If your app runs in a web browser or as a normal Windows or Linux program, we can usually wrap it so it runs full screen and locked down. We will tell you honestly during the first conversation whether yours fits.

Most problems we fix from a distance through the dashboard, including restarting it or pushing a repair. For physical faults you get a clear alert telling you which kiosk and what is wrong, so a person only has to go out when a person is genuinely needed.

One, or a few thousand. The first conversation is the same either way. We size the parts, the price, and the support to match how many you need and where they are going.

Got a job for a kiosk?

Tell us what it needs to do and where it will stand. We will tell you what it would take to build, in plain terms, before you commit to anything.

Capabilities

Built to stand alone, all day, every day

A kiosk works in public without anyone looking after it. Four things make that possible. It has to take a beating, keep going when something goes wrong, work for everyone who walks up to it, and let you manage it without leaving your desk.

Durability, in plain terms

Public hardware gets touched, leaned on, spilled on, and left running. We build for that from the start.

A screen that takes a beating

Toughened glass that handles thousands of taps a day and shrugs off the odd knock or key scratch. The kind of screen you find on a cash machine, not a phone.

No moving parts to wear out

Storage with no spinning disk and cooling with no fan where we can manage it. Fewer parts that move means fewer parts that fail. It also means less dust gets pulled inside.

Sealed against the real world

For outdoor or dusty spots we seal the case against rain, grit, and prying fingers, and rate it so you know exactly what weather it can stand.

Made to run nonstop

The parts inside are rated for being on around the clock, not the eight hours an office computer expects. Heat is planned for, not hoped against.

Unattended operation

This is the part people forget. There is no one there to fix it. So the machine has to fix itself.

Starts into your app, nothing else

Switch it on and it goes straight to your screen. No desktop, no login, no Windows logo to poke at. If someone unplugs it, it comes back to exactly where it was.

The public cannot escape the app

No way out to the operating system. No menus, no settings, no web browsing off to somewhere else. Even the special key combinations that would normally break out are switched off.

It heals itself

If the app freezes, the system notices and restarts it on its own, usually before anyone walks up. If a bad update ever caused trouble, it can roll back to the last version that worked.

It survives a power cut

Lose power mid task and it does not get confused. It boots clean, returns to the start screen, and is ready for the next person. No half finished states left behind.

If a kiosk needs a person to babysit it, it has already failed. Ours are built to be left alone.

The whole point of self-service is that staff get their time back. A machine that keeps freezing, or that the public can poke their way out of, costs more attention than the desk it replaced. So we design for the machine to handle itself, and for you to only hear about it when something truly needs a human.

Made for everyone who walks up

A kiosk in public has to work for a wheelchair user, someone who cannot see the screen, and someone in a hurry. Accessibility is built in, not bolted on.

Reachable from a seat

We place the screen and any card reader or printer at heights a seated person can reach, following the public access rules for the country it ships to.

Works without sight

A headphone socket and a spoken mode let someone who cannot see the screen use the kiosk by listening and by touch, with private audio nobody else hears.

Readable and clear

Big text, strong contrast, and a high contrast mode for people with low vision. Plain layouts so the next step is always obvious, even in a rush.

More than one way in

Touch is the default, but we can add physical buttons, a keypad, or voice prompts so people who struggle with a touchscreen still get through.

Remote management

One kiosk or a thousand, you run them all from one screen in your web browser. No trips to site for the everyday stuff.

See everything at a glance

A live map and list of every kiosk. Which are on, which are busy, which need attention. Green means fine, and you learn to trust that.

Update them all at once

Push a new version of your app to every kiosk from your desk. Schedule it for the quiet hours so nobody is mid order when it lands.

Reach in when you need to

Restart a kiosk, see what is on its screen, or read its recent activity, all without standing in front of it. Most support calls end before anyone leaves the building.

It tells you before you ask

Low printer paper, a reader that stopped responding, a kiosk that went offline. You get a message naming the exact machine and the exact problem, so the right fix goes out the first time.

What is inside, group by group

A typical build. The actual parts get chosen to fit your job during the first conversation, so treat this as the shape of things, not a fixed menu.

The screen
Size
From 10 inches for a small counter unit up to 32 inches and beyond for a floor stand
Touch
Multi touch glass, rated for heavy daily public use
Brightness
Standard for indoors, high brightness option for sunny windows and outdoor spots
Glass
Toughened and bonded so it resists scratches and knocks
The computer inside
Processor
Low power chip sized to the app, from light menu screens to heavier video work
Storage
Solid state, no moving disk, with the operating system protected from tampering
Cooling
Fanless where the design allows, for quiet running and less dust inside
On time
Rated for around the clock running, not an eight hour office day
Add on parts
Payments
Card reader and contactless, certified to the payment security rules for your region
Printing
Receipt, ticket, label, or badge printer with low paper alerts
Scanning
Barcode and QR reader, plus document or ID scanning where the job needs it
Other
Camera, keypad, speaker, headphone socket, RFID for cards and wristbands
How it connects
Network
Wired ethernet, wifi, or a mobile data option for sites with no fixed line
Management
Talks home to the dashboard over an encrypted connection
Offline
Keeps working on its core job if the network drops, then catches up when it returns
The case
Mounting
Floor stand, wall mount, counter top, or pedestal
Weather
Sealed and rated for outdoor builds against rain and dust
Security
Locked service panel, cable management hidden away, anti theft fixings
Look
Colour, finish, and your branding on the case and the start screen

That is the toolbox

Capabilities only matter once they are pointed at a real job. The next tab walks through the places these kiosks actually live.

Use cases

The same idea, four very different jobs

A kiosk is shaped entirely by what it has to do and where it has to stand. Here are four worlds we build for, what the kiosk handles in each, and the parts that matter most.

Retail and food

Shops and restaurants. The kiosk takes orders and payments so staff can spend their time on the things only people can do.

Order and pay

The customer browses the menu, builds their order, and pays at the screen. The kitchen gets a clean ticket. Lines move faster and orders come out right because nobody mis-heard anything.

Price and stock checker

A wall mounted screen where a shopper scans a barcode and sees the price and whether it is in stock. Saves a trip to the till and a question to a staff member.

Click and collect

Scan the code from your order, a locker opens or a light shows which shelf, and you walk out. The kiosk handles the handover with no queue at the counter.

What matters here

A fast card reader, a reliable receipt and kitchen printer, a bright clear screen, and a build that survives a busy lunch rush every single day.

Transit

Stations, bus stops, and airports. Big crowds, hard weather, and very long days. The kiosk has to be the toughest of the lot.

Tickets and top ups

Buy a journey, add money to a travel card, or renew a pass. People are often in a rush and sometimes in the rain, so the screen and the flow have to be quick and obvious.

Print your pass

Check in and print a boarding pass or a bag tag at the airport. The printer has to be reliable, because a jam here means a missed flight and a long queue.

Find your way

A big map screen that shows where you are, where your platform or gate is, and how to get there. Often outdoors, so high brightness and a sealed case earn their keep.

What matters here

High brightness for daylight, a sealed weatherproof case, a sturdy printer, and self healing so a frozen kiosk fixes itself before a crowd builds up behind it.

Healthcare check in

Clinics and hospitals. The kiosk lets patients sign in for an appointment without queuing, and quietly tells the front office they have arrived.

Sign in for your appointment

The patient confirms who they are, the kiosk checks them in, and the desk sees they are here. The waiting room queue shrinks and reception gets to focus on the people who need real help.

Update your details

Confirm a phone number or address has not changed, on screen, in private, rather than reading it out loud at a busy desk.

Clear, calm, private

People here may be unwell, anxious, or in pain. The screens are simple and reassuring, the text is large, and the audio mode is private through a headphone socket.

What matters here

Easy to clean surfaces, a layout a seated or older patient can manage, strong privacy on screen, and accessibility taken seriously rather than treated as an extra.

Hospitality

Hotels, conferences, and venues. The kiosk handles the welcome so the front desk can give a proper one to the people who want it.

Check in and key collection

A guest checks in at the screen and the kiosk hands over a room key card. Late arrivals get into their room without waiting for a member of staff to be free.

Print a badge

At a conference, a guest types their name or scans their booking and the kiosk prints a badge on the spot. No more pre printed table of names to hunt through.

Find your way around

A directory and map for a large hotel or venue, showing rooms, restaurants, and the way to the event you are looking for.

What matters here

A reliable card and badge printer, a look that fits a smart lobby, and a finish on the case that matches the brand rather than shouting machine.

There is no such thing as a general kiosk. There is only the kiosk for your job.

An outdoor ticket machine and a clinic check in screen share an idea but almost nothing else. Different parts, different weatherproofing, different software, different tone on screen. We do not sell you a box off a shelf and hope. We work out the job first, then build the machine that fits it.

Recognise your job in there?

Or have something none of these quite covers? That is normal. The next tab is how we turn your job into a finished kiosk.

Built for you

We design and build it. You receive it ready to switch on.

This is the part that sets us apart. We are not a shop full of fixed models. We are the team that designs the kiosk around your job, builds it, and looks after it. In the trade that is called OEM and ODM work. In plain words, we make the thing for you and put your name on it.

What OEM and ODM mean, without the jargon

You do not need a hardware team. That is what we are for.

OEM and ODM are industry words for a simple idea. You have a job that needs a machine. We have the people who design machines, build them, load the software, and stand behind them. So instead of you hiring engineers and finding factories, you tell us the job and we hand you a finished kiosk with your branding on it. You stay focused on your business. The hardware is our problem.

How a build works, step by step

No surprises. You know what happens at each stage and what we need from you.

1. We listen

You tell us the job, where the kiosk will stand, how many you need, and roughly when. We ask the questions you might not have thought of, like daylight, weather, and who will use it.

2. We design

We come back with a plan. The parts, the look of the case, how it mounts, and what the software will do. You see it and shape it before anything is built.

3. We build a first one

We make a single working kiosk so you can hold it, use it, and put it in front of real people. Better to find the rough edges on one than on a thousand.

4. We build the rest

Once you are happy with the first, we make the full order. Same machine, every time, tested before it leaves us, with your branding on the case and the screen.

5. We ship and set up

They arrive ready to switch on, already talking to your dashboard. We can help with the rollout to each site, or hand you a guide if you would rather do it yourself.

6. We stay on the line

After they are out, we are still here. Updates, support, alerts, and spare parts. One company built it, so one company answers when you call.

Where you fit in

Three ways to work with us

From the lightest touch to the full bespoke build. Most people start in the middle and move as they grow. There is no wrong door.

Run yours on ours
Lightest touch
Most chosen
Configured build
Most common
Fully bespoke
Your own machine
You bring the software
Yes, your app
Yours or ours
Yours or ours
We pick the hardware
From our standard units
Standard parts, your options
Designed for your job
Your branding on the case
Start screen only
Case and screen
Case shape and screen
Custom shape and parts
No
Some
Yes, anything reasonable
Runs Calyraen Embedded OS
Yes
Yes
Yes
Managed from the dashboard
Yes
Yes
Yes
Good when you need
A quick start
A clear fit, your look
A machine that is truly yours

One company built the metal, the system, and the software. So one company answers the phone.

When the hardware is from one supplier, the operating system from another, and the app from a third, a problem becomes an argument about whose fault it is. We make all three. There is no finger pointing, because there is no one else to point at. You call us, and we fix it.

The questions people ask before they commit

We will talk to you about one kiosk or about thousands. The first conversation costs nothing and carries no obligation. Smaller orders lean on our standard parts to keep them sensible on price, and we will be straight with you about that.

It depends on how custom it is. Running your software on our standard units is quick. A fully bespoke machine with a custom case takes longer because we design and test it properly. We give you a real timeline at the design stage, not a guess at the start.

We can. If you have an app already we will run it. If you do not, our team will build the screens your customers see. Plenty of people come to us with only an idea of the job and leave with the whole thing made.

That is part of the deal, not an afterthought. You get the dashboard, the alerts, and a real person to call. We can hold spare parts and arrange repairs, and most issues we sort from a distance before anyone needs to visit.

Yes. Where a kiosk takes card payments we use readers certified to the payment security rules for your region and build the machine to keep that side locked down. We will walk you through what that means for your setup.

Because a normal computer assumes someone is sitting at it. Embedded OS is built for the opposite. It boots into your app, locks the public out of everything else, heals itself, and updates from your dashboard. It can still run Windows or Linux software underneath where your app needs it. You get the lockdown without losing the apps.

Tell us about the job

Bring us what the kiosk needs to do and where it will stand. We will come back with what it would take to build it, in plain language, before you commit to a single thing. The first conversation is free and there is no obligation.

We value your privacy

We use cookies to run this site and, with your consent, to analyse traffic and improve your experience. You can accept all, reject non-essential, or choose by category. Learn more

Strictly necessary
Required for the site to work, covering security, sessions, and remembering this choice. Always on.
Preferences
Functional cookies that remember your language, region and interface choices.
Analytics
Help us understand how the site is used so we can improve it.