PAGITA - The platform digitizing the world of vending machines

Project Information

PAGITA

Grant agreement ID: 808720

DOI 10.3030/808720

Project closed

EC signature date 31 January 2018

Start date 1 February 2018

End date 31 July 2018

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 71 429,00

EU contribution € 50 000,00

Coordinated by

PAGITA S.R.L.
Italy

Objective

The main objective of PAGITA is to let European customers paying purchases on vending machines by using a virtual wallet, without need of cash.
The European Vending Market had a total revenue in 2015 of €14.6 billion Euros , in Europe, vending machines sell over 90 million food and drink items every day. Over 80% of machines are located in the workplace. The automatic vending market has high operating costs due to cash management and theft. A large portion of vending machines are “unintelligent”, they do not communicate any info on current stock and they do not enable optimization for logistics. Vending operators cannot
collect any information on their customers and their purchasing patterns. The increasing consumer preference toward cashless payments is a favourable trend observed in the market. The acceptance of payments through technologies, such as Near-field Communication (NFC), is instrumental in driving public interest owing to the easier, faster, and contactless modes of payment
Pagita is a mobile commerce platform which allows customers to make quick and easy purchases from vending machines with an user friendly App. The platform is composed of an hardware module to be installed on the existing vending machines, a mobile app for consumers, and a cloud application for service management.
After having tested its solution in Italian market (the main European market as per number of Vending machines), PAGITA is now addressing the European market, and it is targeting 23.000.000 turnover by 2020. The SME instrument Phase 1 will have the purpose to provide PAGITA with the knowledge needed to assess the technical and market feasibility of the project and to design a business and marketing plan that may support successful distribution of the service in the addressed markets

Fields of science

• natural sciences › chemical sciences › organic chemistry › hydrocarbons
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › radio technology › radar
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › data science › business intelligence
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › mobile phones
• social sciences › economics and business › business and management › commerce

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Main Programme
• H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument

Topic(s)

• SMEInst-01-2016-2017 - Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme

Call for proposal

H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017

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Sub call

H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017

Funding Scheme

SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1

Coordinator

PAGITA S.R.L.

• Net EU contribution: € 50 000,00
• Address: CORSO VITTORIO VENETO 54 ; 83040 ANDRETTA ; Italy
• SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes:
  Region
  Sud › Campania › Avellino
• Region: Sud › Campania › Avellino
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Total cost: € 71 429,00