American Green's AGM beverage vending machine, which was launched in April 2019, ensures the buyer of an age-restricted drink is of age. Operators can vend age-restricted products responsibly, knowing that age verification was done before the vend.
With the AGM, buyers sign up for a membership and register their finger vein pattern with the location by using a biometric vein reader located on the machine or at the sign-up station. Then they simply walk up to machine and log in through the vein reader. The system then locates the member's record in the secure database and determines whether to vend based on what restrictions may be placed on that member, such as age limit or quantity limits per a given time frame.
