With an invention of interactive kiosk in late 70s changed the queue system across the globe to certain extent. Earlier there were public kiosk that were installed in the corners of street slowly started getting interactive to attract more and more people to make use of the facility. The interactive kiosks were mostly used for commercial purpose.

Kiosks these days are extensively used by the people to pay up bills, read the information, and find ways and vending machines. The common key features make the public kiosks more users friendly. There are different types of kiosks used across the world, of which, categorized as Government run public and interactive kiosks within the industry.

Some of the public Kiosk that have been installed and running successfully are:

Bank-in-a-box financial service, which helps one to, withdraws the cash and pay in cash as well. It allows one to do different kind of transactions with respect to one’s account.

Photo Kiosks are the ones, which allow people to get the photo clicked and collect the prints later. These interactive kiosks are mostly installed in retail malls, airports etc. The payment can be done at the time of collecting the prints.

Internet Kiosks are the most popular interactive kiosks not made entirely public, as it is available at star hotels, major organizations or some upscale apartment complex. This provides internet services to the public to send in emails or access website etc.

Ticketing Kiosks at amusement parks or movie theater works as public kiosks as they help people to be picking up tickets without waiting in a queue.

Way finding kiosks mostly offer help in gated community, hospitals where one need to find a particular house, or the rooms located within the premises can get a help from this interactive kiosk.

ATMs are the most widely used kiosk all around the world, and successfully running. There are touch screens and buttons that will help to withdraw money and allow one to check the balance.

All these interactive kiosk work on a contract basis for the maintenance, they need a constant upgrade of software and applications. The reliability factor is the most important aspect of public kiosk as people are depending on the kiosks for the actions. The security of an kiosk is also a big question one has to think when it comes to the public kiosks. There are levels of security as if physical security for the entire box is important. Then there is a system level security and network lever security to be in place.