The VendingMiser

USA Technologies is a company that created the line of EnergyMiser devices for vending, soda, and drink coolers. BilJax has four of the VendingMiser devices installed on its beverage machines to help curb energy consumption. The VendingMiser uses an external passive infered sensor to detect whether or not potential buyers are in the area. If the area around the machines is vacant for 15 minutes, the machine’s cooling system powers down. The cooling system will periodically kick back on to keep beverages cold. The savings attributable to these devices can vary, but the average energy savings is about 46% or $150 per year per machine. Furthermore, all of our beverage machines were replaced with Energy Star rated beverage machines to help us achieve additional energy savings. From now on, BilJax will see savings of more than 20,000 kilowatt hours annually, as a direct result of these energy saving initiatives.