Mirage designs, engineers and operates connected hardware for unattended retail — touchscreen vending, perfume-spray units, powerbank rental and custom OEM builds. One platform. One dashboard. One contact.
Engineered in
Germany
Manufactured with
Audited partners
Owned
Supply chain
Pricing
Beats resellers
Designed & engineered in Germany · Built with hand-picked factory partners · Distributed worldwide
Flagship · Gamma series
Interactive HD displays, contactless payments, custom peripherals, and real-time telemetry — all engineered into the same unified, modular stack that powers the entire Mirage lineup.
Why Mirage
Microelectronics, PCB design, mechanical CAD, firmware and cloud — all done in-house in Germany. Not a re-badged catalog product.
EE, ME, firmware and platform teams all under one roof. Every screw and every line of firmware is ours to change.
Pure
in-house engineering
We don't resell. We design the product, contract the lines, source the components and run the cloud. The margin you usually pay to middlemen stays in your quote.
Direct factory relationships, on-site QA staff, our own logistics — the same unit, several layers cheaper than buying from a distributor.
0
middlemen in the chain
Every machine ships connected to the Mirage stack and keeps gaining features over the air. You're not buying a frozen product — you're joining a fleet that gets smarter every release.
Monthly firmware drops. New payment methods, AI vision, dynamic pricing — all roll out across the installed base, not just the next model.
OTA
feature releases
The platform
Mirage isn’t a single product — it’s a connected hardware stack we engineer in-house and keep upgrading over the air. Today it powers vending, dispensing and rental. Tomorrow, whatever you bring us.
Microelectronics, PCB layout, mechanical CAD, firmware and the cloud platform — all built by the same team in Germany. One vendor, one bill of materials.
Schematic capture, DFM, EMC pre-compliance and firmware are owned end-to-end. We don't badge other people's products.
Production runs at hand-picked factories specialised by domain. Mirage staff are on-site, running QC and closing the loop with engineering in real time.
We don't drop a spec and hope. Every line of a new SKU has an on-site Mirage engineer until quality stabilises.
Every unit ships with cellular + Wi-Fi and is pre-flashed to the Mirage cloud. Plug it in and it appears in your dashboard.
Zero-touch provisioning. The machine phones home on first power-up, pulls its config and starts streaming telemetry.
Card, NFC and QR built in. Age verification for restricted categories. PCI-DSS L1 payment stack — no extra integrations needed.
Apple Pay, Google Pay, EMV, mPOS, tap-to-phone and country-specific schemes — we keep the certifications current so you don't have to.
Trays, motors and spray heads swap in minutes. The same chassis powers vending, perfume dispensing and powerbank rental.
Switch product categories without re-engineering the cabinet. New dispensing modules drop into the existing rail and controller.
Sales, stock, sensor health and uptime — streamed in real time. REST + webhook APIs feed your existing systems.
Predictive restock alerts, anomaly detection, per-tray attribution. Optimising one route can pay for the data plan ten times over.
Every machine is a node in our software stack. New features — AI vision, dynamic pricing, loyalty, fraud rules — roll out OTA across the whole fleet, not just the next model.
Today's hardware unlocks tomorrow's features. The Volt you ship in March still ships features in December — for free.
Because we engineer the product and own the supply chain, we routinely undercut what you'd pay buying overseas — and back it with EU-grade service.
Bring us a competing quote. We've yet to lose on like-for-like spec when the comparison includes shipping, certification and ongoing software.
Custom wraps, branded UIs, your own colorway and packaging. Ship Mirage hardware under your own name.
From custom vinyls and dispense head colors to fully re-skinned UIs and your-domain dashboards. We've shipped under more brand names than our own.
In-house engineering
Most of the brands in this category are commissioning a generic factory model and slapping a logo on. We’re not. PCB, firmware, mechanics, dispensing, cloud — every layer is owned by people on our payroll.
Disciplines under one roof
Schematic, layout, BOM, EMC pre-compliance and firmware bring-up — all in-house. When a card terminal vendor changes a chipset, we re-spin in weeks, not quarters.
Cabinets, dispensing mechanisms and spray heads modelled in CAD, printed and machined on-site, validated on real customers before we tool for production.
Active prototyping lab — scopes, logic analyzers, environmental chambers, real customer venues. Every firmware bug we fix ships OTA to the entire installed base.
Engineering HQ
Germany
Disciplines in-house
10+
Prototyping cycle
≤ 2 wks
Firmware drops
Monthly · OTA
Mirage Console
Operators see venue revenue. Distributors see fleets. OEM partners see only their own units, white-labelled. One stack — tailored views for every role.
Live telemetry
Sales, stock and uptime stream in real time. Webhooks fire on every event for your own systems.
Predictive restock alerts
Restock thresholds learn from each location. Field teams know exactly which trays to refill, and when.
Payouts & commissions
Automated payouts to venue owners, distributors and franchise partners. Audit trail included.
REST & webhook APIs
Plug Mirage data into your ERP, accounting or BI stack. Stable, versioned, documented.
Last 30 days · gross revenue
€12,840
Units online
128 / 130
Avg uptime
99.84%
Avg ticket
€8.40
Recent events
The lineup
Today’s catalog. Every family runs on the same connected stack, so anything you add later just appears in the same dashboard.
Freestanding units with up to 43” HD interactive displays, modular trays and full payments stack. Built for high-traffic venues.
Custom UI, age-gating, AI vision and venue-specific pricing — all driven from the same Mirage Console.
Wall-mountable spray units with a 10” touchscreen, swappable cartridges and onboard dosing — the starter platform for premium scent retail.
Cartridge auth, per-dose metering, brand-locked UI. The lowest-CapEx way to test a smart scent strategy.
Connected rental kiosks with 6–24 bays. Customers rent on tap, return at any Volt station — your fleet, your network.
Cross-station returns, deposit-free rentals via card auth, white-labelled app. Your fleet, your network, your brand.
Bring us a use case. We engineer the mechanics, integrate the dispensing, brand the UI and ship under your name. From 200 units.
Mechatronics, industrial design, certifications, payments and cloud — all the parts of a hardware company, on tap.
How it ships
We’re honest about what makes hardware competitive in 2026: engineering in-house, manufacturing with specialist partners we personally oversee, and a supply chain we own end-to-end — so the price reaches you, not the middle man.
We design and engineer in Germany — schematics, PCB, mechanics, firmware, cloud. You get a real spec, a real BOM and a real price inside 48 hours. No catalog-shopping.
Production runs at hand-picked partner factories — specialists in displays, dispensing and metalwork — with Mirage engineers on-site doing QC, cooperating and optimizing in real time.
Pre-flashed, pre-connected, pre-branded. Plug it in and it’s live in your Mirage Console — and it keeps gaining features over the air long after install.
The honest answer
Volume assembly of consumer-grade smart hardware doesn’t pencil out in Germany — and it doesn’t for any major brand in this category, even the ones that imply otherwise. What does work is what we do: engineer here, contract specialist factories abroad, and put our own people on the floor so quality is owned, not hoped for.
What that buys you
Engineering HQ
Germany
Units shipped
2,400+ since 2022
On-site QA staff
At every active line
Field uptime
99.8% rolling 90d
Customers
Mirage sits in beach clubs, retail chains and private-label hardware programs across Europe. Different buyers, same stack.
“The hardware just disappears into the room. Guests use it without thinking about it — that’s the highest compliment a vending machine can get.”
Café del Mar
Tarifa, Spain
+38%
wk/wk sales lift
“Mirage is the first manufacturer where we don’t end up fixing firmware in the field. Units arrive ready, telemetry works on day one.”
Nordic Smart Retail
Copenhagen, DK
320
units in field
“We brought the use case, Mirage brought the engineering. We shipped a branded product in 14 weeks — six months faster than any other bid.”
Confidential brand
DACH region
14 wks
spec → ship
We’re a deeply technical team — EE, ME, firmware, cloud, ops — shipping real hardware at scale. If you like the idea of seeing your design on a thousand machines and your code on every one of them, talk to us.
Team
~25
Engineers
60%
Pay
Top-of-band
Open roles
5 open · 1 speculativeSenior Embedded Firmware Engineer
Germany · hybrid
PCB / Electrical Design Engineer
Germany · hybrid
Supply Chain & On-site Quality Lead
Shenzhen · on-site
Full-stack Engineer · Mirage Console
Remote · EU timezones
Field Service Technician
DACH · travel
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We hire on talent
FAQs
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We design, engineer and operate connected smart retail hardware — and we own the full stack behind it. Today: touchscreen vending, perfume-spray dispensers and powerbank rental, with expansion to smart lockers, smart signage and more product categories soon. Every product runs on the same Mirage software platform.
Engineered in Germany — microelectronics, PCB layout, mechanical CAD, firmware and cloud are all done by our in-house team. Manufacturing happens at hand-picked specialist factories, with Mirage staff permanently on-site overseeing QA and closing the loop with engineering at HQ. This is how every reliable brand in this category builds hardware in 2026 — we just don't pretend otherwise.
Because we are the manufacturer's direct partner — not a reseller. We engineer the product, contract the lines, source the components and run the cloud. The margin you'd normally pay to a distributor or a brand who's just re-labelling a catalog product simply isn't in the chain. Bring us a competing quote on a like-for-like spec and we'll show you the math.
It keeps improving. Every machine is a node on our software stack. AI vision, new payment methods, dynamic pricing, loyalty rules, fraud detection — features roll out OTA to the whole fleet, including units shipped years ago. You're not buying a frozen product.
Yes — that's a core part of what we do. Bring us a use case and we'll engineer the mechanics, integrate dispensing, brand the UI and ship under your name. Lead time typically 8–16 weeks.
4–8 weeks from order to door for standard configurations of Gamma, Lima and Volt families. Faster for repeat orders against an open frame contract.
Every Mirage machine ships with advanced connectivity, pre-flashed to the Mirage Console. Plug it in and it appears in your dashboard. REST and webhook APIs available on demand
12 months standard hardware warranty, with extended options. Remote diagnostics + over-the-air firmware updates are included for the life of the unit. Field service is available across the EU.
Yes — engineering, supply chain and field roles, both in Germany and on-site at our factory partners. See the careers section above or write to [email protected].
Let’s build
A quote inside 48 hours. No deck, no sales sequence — just spec, price and lead time.
