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Ricoh Smart Lockers

Smart lockers are becoming more common in the workplace. It is estimated that by 2025 90% of workplaces in the UK will be using smart technology to help streamline their workflows and improve efficiency. Smart lockers can bring a whole host of benefits to your business.

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Smart lockers are taking the world by storm. You will have seen them everywhere, from petrol stations to train stations and in city centres. Smart lockers are helping to streamline and automate storage and access solutions.

What Are Smart Lockers?

Ricoh smart lockers are a configuration of storage lockers securely managed and accessed by integrated computers. They are what you commonly see being used by the likes of Amazon to collect your parcels. More and more workplaces are now starting to adopt this technology to offer click-and-collect lockers that are accessible 24/7. The smart lockers allow authenticated access whether you require it for employee storage or to streamline pick-ups of IT equipment.

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Uses
Who Uses Smart Lockers?

The Ricoh Smart lockers have a wide variety of uses for a whole host of industries:

Retail

Ricoh Smart Lockers for the retail sector are primarily used for click-and-collect and return services. These can help enhance the customer experience by speeding up and making it more convenient for customers to collect and return their goods.

Warehousing

Ricoh smart lockers can help businesses within the logistics and warehousing sector to improve efficiency, reduce cost and automate manual tasks. They remove the need to manually distribute terminals to employees.

Logistics

Ricoh smart lockers are helping delivery providers with delivery and pick-up points that are helping to streamline the delivery process and reduce time. you will have seen the likes of DPD and Amazon utilising these smart lockers in car parks, shops and garages.

Education

Schools, colleges and universities can all use Ricoh smart lockers to securely store private belongings, equipment for staff and students or check in or out, return books or other educational material or distribute teaching aids such as electronic equipment such as projectors, laptops.

Offices

Ricoh smart lockers can be used within offices to safely secure equipment like laptops, phones, employee belongings and other expensive or sensitive equipment. Smart lockers help keep track of who is removing and returning the goods within the lockers.

Manufacturing

The manufacturing industry can use Ricohs smart lockers to manage inventory and safely store tools or equipment. Helping to speed up inventory checks while providing an electronic trail reducing equipment being lost, stolen or damaged.

Public Spaces

Ricohs smart lockers are appearing in more public places such as airports and train and bus stations. They provide a safe space place for the general public to store personal belongings temporarily.

Public Sector

Smart lockers can help to provide fast and easy pick up of high value documents such as passports or other identity documentation. They can also provide a safe place to swap out expensive IT equipment.

Ricoh Smart Locker Options

The Ricoh range of smart lockers are available with four key applications, all have been designed to suit your business needs and will help futureproof your office space.

The four options available are:

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Same Day Lockers

With remote working and hot desking becoming more popular, smart same day lockers are proving invaluable. With 24/7 keyless access to your items and belongings for a short time. These lockers can also be reserved in advance via your mobile device or on demand via the touchscreen.

Smart Mail & Parcel Lockers

Offering end to end accountability smart mail and lockers increases convenience for your employees saving time and the workload of your mailroom staff. This solution is suited to busy work environments enhancing security and simplifying your productivity chain.

Smart Inventory Lockers

Smart lockers are the new go-to solution for businesses needing to safely and securely store business assets such as laptops, monitors or stationery. The storage lockers provide an easy-to-use self-service storage that users can select and access the equipment needed. The smart security allows easy tracking and reporting.

Smart Asset Management Lockers

Using the latest in cloud-based systems and security these lockers are usually found in warehouse environments. They allow you to control the checkout and check-in of handheld devices, meaning your business always knows who has used each device.

Benefits
Benefits of Ricoh Smart Lockers
Cost Savings

Streamlining processes with smart lockers will help your business save time and resources while reducing the need for manual intervention.

Enhanced Security

Lockers have secure storage for valuable items or documents, with access control and monitoring systems to reduce theft or loss.

Convenience

Users or employees can access smart lockers 24/7 allowing retrieval of stored items at any time, saving your business time and money.

Scalability

Being equipped with Open API the Ricoh smart lockers can be integrated with third party systems, allowing you to tailor your smart lockers to your current or future business needs.

How Do Ricoh Smart Lockers Work?

Smart lockers provide a secure location to store valuable items with traceable access control. Smart lockers can vary depending on your business requirements. We work with your business to ascertain your requirements for the amount of smart lockers you require. We can provide smart lockers with different configurations such as:

  • Different sizes and numbers of smart lockers
  • A mixture of small, medium or large lockers
  • Lockers with solid or glass doors
  • Branding that is specific to your business

Our team are on hand to discuss your smart locker business requirements with a tailor made locker solutions available. You can find out more about smart lockers in our FAQ.

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Ready to adopt a smart locker solution for your business? We’ll provide you with the best tailor-made smart locker solution to suit your business or work environment.

Simply fill in our enquiry form and a member of our expert team will be in touch to discuss your smart locker solution.