Venue kiosk, signage and hardware apps.The building is part of the software.
There is a decoder under the track, a light tower over the grid, receipt printers on the office network and half a dozen screens on the walls. A browser tab cannot reach any of them, so these are the apps that do.
How it all connects
Where each piece sits in the building.
Hardware, on the venue machine
Venubridge
One small app on a PC in the office, talking to the timing decoder, the printers, the light tower and the switches. Laps are written there before they go anywhere else, which is why a race carries on when the line drops.
Screens around the building
Venucast
The heat that just finished, the fastest lap of the day, who is called next, and your own promotion in between. Any screen with a browser will run it, including the Android, Samsung and LG televisions you can buy off a shelf.
Self serve at the door
Venukiosk
Walk ins pick an activity, sign the waiver and pay without queueing at the counter, and the booking lands on the same board as everything else. The counter can also send a waiver to a named tablet: it covers its screen with that guest's name and hands over a part filled form when they tap start, so nobody has to work out whose turn it is. A station paired as a kitchen screen shows the ticket rail instead, so the same tablet does either job.
Staff terminals
Venuboost Desktop
The manager and the counter in their own window, so a terminal at the front desk is a terminal rather than a browser with fifteen other tabs open behind it.
Stations
The screen knows where it is standing.
A station is a physical spot in your centre and the gear that sits on it. The front counter has a receipt printer, a drawer and a card terminal. The second counter has its own. A waiver tablet by the door has none of that. The track control PC prints results on the big sheet.
Each one names its own hardware once, in settings, so the software never has to ask which printer at the moment of a sale. Press print at the front counter and the docket comes out at the front counter.
This is why there is nothing to install on a till. No agent, no print service, no driver bundle, nothing sitting in a tray that has to come up before the shift can start and quietly does not. The screen is a browser, the station record says what is attached, and one computer in the building does the driving.
A device never guesses who it is
A manager issues a six digit claim code, the screen types it once, and the server hands back a token. The code dies the moment it is used and expires after fifteen minutes anyway. We keep only a hash of the token, never the token. No MAC addresses and no browser fingerprints, because both can be copied.
Revoke it from the office
A tablet left in a taxi stops working on its next request. Nothing about a station is trusted from the browser's own storage: every screen asks who it is and is told, every time.
Screens differ because stations do
Point of sale appears in the menu only where a station sells. The briefing transport appears in the top bar only where somebody runs briefings. A station can stand beside one track or serve the whole floor.
Counter
A receipt printer, a label printer for wristbands, a cash drawer, a barcode reader over USB or the network, and the card terminal standing beside it. Print a receipt by default, open the drawer on cash, or neither.
Kiosk
Self serve at the door. A walk in picks an activity, signs and pays without queueing, and the booking lands on the same board as everything else.
Waiver tablet
No hardware, just its own link. Every signature is stamped with the station it was signed at, so the counter queue shows where each one came from, and the screen returns to the start on its own after a few seconds.
Track control
The PC at race control, with the printer the sealed result comes out of and whether that is the big sheet or the small one.
Office
A desk that needs the manager and the reporting but has no counter hardware on it at all.
A QR poster
Not a screen at all. A printed code on the wall gets its own station, so waivers signed off a poster in the foyer are told apart from waivers signed on the tablet.
Two identities, kept apart on purpose. The bridge is the one always on computer that physically drives hardware. A device is a screen standing at a station. Pairing one has nothing to do with pairing the other, so replacing a broken counter PC is a claim code and two minutes, not an engineer.
Venubridge
Install it once and leave it alone.
It finds the printers on the network, connects to the timing decoder, drives the light tower and cuts kart speed under a caution flag. There is a switch on every device and a master switch over all of them, so a printer away for service does not take the rest of the night with it.
- Receipt printing straight to LAN printers, no dialog boxes
- Transponder decoders over TCP, with a scan to find them
- Light tower and kart speed driven by the race flag
- Runs on start up, sits in the tray, keeps a local log of every lap
- Counter printerconnected
- Timing decoderconnected
- Light towergreen
Venucast
Every screen earns its keep.
Point a television at Venucast and it shows the heat that just finished, the fastest lap of the day and who is called next, with your own party package in between. There is no media player to buy and no memory stick to walk around with.
- Result and fastest lap slides straight from race control
- Next up so groups know when to move
- Your own promotion slides between the live ones
- Any screen with a browser, no extra box
Next up, 2:15pm
Grand prix heat, grid two
Fastest lap today
30.914
Engage
Write to the people who actually drove.
Build an audience out of what people did at your venue: the drivers within a second of the track record, the parents who booked a party last winter, the league regulars who have not been in since March. Then email or text them with your venue's name on the message.
- Segments built from bookings, activities and spend
- Email and SMS templates in your venue brand
- Guest language respected on every outbound message
- Unsubscribes and suppression handled properly
- Karting, visited twice, not seen in 90 days
- Party bookers, last 12 months
- Waiver signed, never booked
Bring us your busiest Saturday and we will build it on the screen.
Half an hour, your own activities and your own prices on the board. You will see where the day has gaps in it before we say a word about what this costs.