The paper describes development of an embedded vending machine equipped with an Internet connection. The machine could be monitored and controlled remotely via Internet to perform temperature montoring and selling transaction monitoring. This embedded vending machine system consist of two parts, which are an vending machine connected to Rabbitcore module and an administrator/main computer. The software deployed at Rabbitcore module was written in Dynamic C. The administrator computer was running an Apache Web Server, PHP and MySQL database server. The experiment was conducted by connecting the system to the local area network which is connected to the Internet Administrator computer could monitor the up to date information like temperature and selling transaction data. The system was successfully being monitored from the Internet.
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