Vending System

Abstract

An embodiment includes a system comprising a first vending machine (VM), the first VM comprising: an exterior chassis having a top, bottom, backside, front side, and first and second sides that couple the front side to the backside; a wireless short range communications node included in the chassis; and an actuator coupled to a compartment included in the chassis; wherein (a) the actuator provides a vended good to an aperture in the front side upon actuation, and (b) each of the front side and first and second sides includes no physically manipulatable consumer interface with which the consumer can control the first VM via direct physical manipulation of the first VM. Other embodiments are described herein.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system comprising:
 at least one non-transitory, physical, machine-readable medium;   at least one processor coupled to the non-transitory, physical, machine-readable medium;   wherein (a) in response to communications between at least one telemetry module coupled to at least one of first or second vending machines (VMs), at least one remote computing user node, and the at least one processor, (b) the at least one processor is to: (b)(i) access first inventory data corresponding to the first VM and second inventory data corresponding to the second VM; (b)(ii) determine a first actuation command, which corresponds to the first VM, to actuate an actuator of the first VM to provide a first vended good to an aperture included in the first VM, (b)(iii) determine a second actuation command, which corresponds to the second VM, to actuate an actuator of the second VM to provide a second vended good to an aperture included in the second VM;   wherein in response to determining the first actuation command the at least one processor is to store the first actuation command in the at least one non-transitory, physical, machine-readable medium;   wherein in response to determining the second actuation command the at least one processor is to store the second actuation command in the at least one non-transitory, physical, machine-readable medium;   wherein neither of the first and second VMs include memory storing inventory data related to either of the first and second inventory data.