A new vending-style machine in Sackville is aiming to make it safer for people in the community who use drugs. Ensemble Greater Moncton has installed a harm reduction dispensing machine inside the…
bradMarch 25, 2021
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UpMeals, the leading white-label, prepared-meal solution, launched its first SmartVending machine at a residential property– Devonshire Properties’ Larch Tower (Beach Towers) location in Vancouver, B.C. The newly installed machine will give the 1,000+ residents…
bradMarch 9, 2021
A smart vending machine is where a machine that stores and delivers the product is also connected to the Internet cloud. The marriage of traditional vending with technology allows products and services…
SMRT1January 27, 2021
A harm reduction group in southeastern New Brunswick has introduced a vending machine, or an “interactive dispensing service,” allowing people to access meth pipes, hygiene products, naloxone and sanitizer. Those are some…
bradDecember 11, 2020
This video from ANKORS produced by Watershed Productions features the harm reduction vending machine invented by Brad Pommen, Founder and Owner of Smart1 Technologies. Funded by Community Action Initiative, this video was…
bradApril 21, 2020
Brad Pommen believes vending machines can offer more than candy and chips. Pommen, the president of Nelson’s SMRT1 Technologies, introduced a machine last week that carries a mix of paid and free…
bradMarch 17, 2020
Over the last five years Canada has been a high-tech job creation machine. Year after year, the Toronto area alone has generated more technology jobs than San Francisco, Seattle or any other U.S.…
bradMarch 4, 2019
