Archive 2021
City of Taunusstein - The new ID card terminal is on its way: collecting ID cards around the clock.
As of 13th January 2021, a new service is available at the Taunusstein citizens' registration office.
The new Kern identity card terminal is located in the town hall’s UG1 underground car park. This allows citizens to pick up their identity cards 24 hours a day.
Archive 2020
Surviving the Streets launches ‘digital foodbank’ to support community over Christmas and winter months
New self-service lockers provide 24/7 access to food, sleeping bags and Christmas gifts.
East Sussex charity Surviving the Streets UK, has today launched a new ‘digital foodbank’ at its headquarters in Hastings, using self-service automated lockers to provide contactless access to food and other items 24hrs a day.
Town of Langenhagen now has a collection terminal for documents in front of the town hall
Anyone who wants to be independent of the opening hours of the Langenhagen Citizens' Office can now have their documents deposited at the town hall pick-up station.
A fingerprint and a door opens like at a packing station. This service is so far unique in Lower Saxony. (Report from the newspaper "Neue Presse Hannover")
Kern is proud to be a part of the project Hamburg Box with the installation of 24/7 Smart Terminals.
Smart and digital: Deutsche Bahn and the City of Hamburg extend Smart-City partnership by five years.
The objective: attractive stations and efficient local transport. Digital S-Bahn, ioki shuttle service and Hamburg Box already on the way. Dammtor station as gateway to the ITS World Congress 2021.
City of Leonberg: Collecting identity documents around the clock
The city of Leonberg has installed an ID Terminal from Kern.
From now on, the requested identity card or passport can be picked up around the clock at a terminal next to the town hall on the market square.
Smart solutions for the networked city
Communities: Connection to the digital world.
Digitilisation is a challenge for cities and communities of all sizes. While large and medium-sized cities are increasingly becoming "smart cities", smaller municipalities must also become part of the ongoing digital structural change in rural areas. Because one thing is certain, digitalisation must not be allowed to pass small towns and communities by.
Klartext GmbH relies on a 24/7 Smart Terminal
Customers can pick up orders around the clock.
Klartext GmbH is offering a new service to its customers and business partners: a 24/7 Smart Terminal from Kern that enables secure and contact-free transfer of goods around the clock, seven days a week.
Optimised spare parts logistics with KoLibRi
Focus on the efficiency of delivery processes.
„Collaborative delivery system with mobile "rendezvous traffic" for time-critical deliveries“. KoLibRi is the name of a project led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML). A Kern 24/7 Smart Terminal is an essential component of this project, which involves the demand-oriented and contact-free delivery and transfer of spare parts.
Archive 2019
Living of the future
Hamburg housing cooperative relies on Kern 24/7 Smart Terminals.
Germany as a residential location is booming and modern living is fully in line with the trend. The Hamburg housing cooperative from 1904 has adopted this trend for its housing estate in Wandsbek and integrated numerous features as standard - a Kern 24/7 Smart Terminal is also part of the new living in Hamburg.
Kern at the PARCEL+POST EXPO 2019 in Amsterdam
PARCEL+POST EXPO is an international postal technology exhibition and one of the world's leading trade fairs for the postal-, express- and mail-order industries.
National and international exhibitors use the fair as a stage to present their new products and innovations to a professional audience.
Unique community service in Germany
24/7 Smart Terminals for communities: Handover of identification documents around the clock. A major nationwide media campaign has triggered the pilot project with a 24/7 Smart Terminal in Ludwigsburg: Citizens of Baden-Württemberg community can now pick up ID cards and passports from a Kern 24/7 Smart Terminal around the clock. This unique nationwide service makes good use of the impressive intelligent technology behind the terminals.
Picture: Julia Töpfer, director of the Ludwigsburger citizen office, shows how the smart terminal works. Photo: City of Ludwigsburg.
PUDO reaches an agreement with SEUR
PUDO reaches an agreement with SEUR to incorporate the smart terminals into its network of Pickup points.
PUDO incorporates its 150 smart terminals to SEUR Pickup points network. Customers can thus have more convenience in the collection and return of their orders.