Brief (coffeeyo.com): Building a fully automatic coffee machine is not hard in assembling the hardware — the hard part is delivering the same cup after thousands of open-close cycles at a convenience store at 3 a.m., an office tower at lunch peak, or an airport lounge. Jienuo has spent over a decade in this field, pulling key links of the chain — from whole-machine control to cloud management — back into its own hands.
The difficulty of a fully automatic coffee machine is not assembling a unit, but having it still stably deliver the same cup after being switched on and off thousands of times at a convenience store at 3 a.m., an office tower at lunch peak, and an airport lounge. Jienuo has worked in this field for over a decade, gradually taking the key links of the chain — from whole-machine control to cloud management — back into its own hands.
Looking further, whether a machine can make good coffee comes back to a few core systems.
The drip-filter system is quite interesting. Swap in a filter, and the same machine switches from making coffee to brewing tea, with the chamber adapting to 6–14 g of coffee powder or tea powder. Spray rinsing plus pre-wetting makes extraction more even, high-density filter holes block waste residue, and the drink is less likely to mix in grounds. The chamber can simply be rinsed under water, leaving no hard-to-clean hygiene dead corners.
Milk foam is the part most prone to going wrong in fresh drinks. Jienuo’s fully automatic coffee machine splits into two systems — the FM (cold-hot dual-use) and the FV (fresh hot milk). The dryness/wetness and temperature of the foam for each drink can be adjusted separately. A built-in remaining-volume detector watches the milk level and reminds when it runs low or is missing, so operators need not check repeatedly. The fresh-milk line is cleaned automatically on a schedule, eliminating residue, and also uses modular quick-release, disassembling in five seconds for deep cleaning.
The water circuit is the skeleton that strings all functions together. The boiler, pump group and valve group are selected from quality parts of the international supply chain, ensuring water-circuit stability. Extraction, brewing, powder mixing, milk foam, ice making and self-cleaning sometimes need to run simultaneously; the water circuit still maintains stable fluid control, which is the key to the whole machine not falling into chaos.
The self-cleaning system guards the hygiene bottom line. Coffee brewing, tea-powder drip-filter, powder, milk foam, plus the milk line — all core components are covered. One-touch quick rinse and deep-clean modes, plus customizable scheduled and metered cleaning plans, keep the machine interior clean at all times.
Cup and lid dispensing looks trivial but actually heavily affects operations. Jienuo’s self-developed cup-and-lid system fits only its Vending and Coffee-to-Go product lines, monitoring lid stock in real time and reminding when short; paper cups and lids in three diameters — 70, 80 and 90 mm — are all supported.
Finally, what connects all of this is the coffee-machine IoT platform. On the consumer front end, users can customize taste, scan to pay and verify pickup codes; on the management back end, it watches device running status and tallies operational data, using the cloud to link the whole chain, completing the buying and remote management of self-service coffee equipment on one network.
Working through this, you find that what Jienuo wants to do is not to be excellent at one single point, but to be able to manage, control and repair every process — from a bean entering the machine to a drink leaving it. This is precisely the most valuable and the hardest part of a fully automatic coffee machine.
(This article represents the author’s independent views and does not represent the position of iResearch.)
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