Kava Lockers LX
Hot stays hot, cold stays cold, and the laptop waits behind its own door.
Kava Lockers LX are smart lockers for business, built from modules of 6, 12 or 18 compartments. Mix heated (140–165 °F), refrigerated (35–40 °F) and ambient modules for meal pickup, online orders and IT asset exchange, opened by code, QR, badge or app.
- heated modules
- 140–165 °Fheated modules
- refrigerated modules
- 35–40 °Frefrigerated modules
- compartments in the base bank
- 18compartments in the base bank
One bank, five jobs, three temperatures
Hot meal pickup
Cooked in the kitchen, held at 140–165 °F, picked up by the night shift after the counter closes.
Online order pickup
Orders placed in an app or on a site, ready behind a door instead of at a staffed counter.
IT asset exchange
Drop a broken laptop, take the replacement. Every handoff is tied to a badge and a timestamp.
Tool and laptop loaners
Shared equipment checked out and returned without a sign-out sheet or a crib attendant.
Package rooms
Deliveries held in ambient compartments until the recipient taps in, not stacked in the mailroom.
Mixed banks
Put refrigerated and heated modules beside ambient ones, so lunch and a replacement badge share one wall.
Prepared somewhere else. Picked up here, at any hour.
Lockers solve a different problem from coolers. The meal or the order is made elsewhere: in a kitchen, a commissary, a stockroom, an IT depot. The locker holds it at the right temperature until the person it belongs to arrives.
When an order is loaded, the compartment's door sensor and occupancy detection confirm something is inside, and the recipient gets access by code, QR, badge or app. When they open the door and take it, occupancy detection confirms the handoff. Nobody signs a clipboard, and a compartment that has been full too long shows up in Kava OS as an exception rather than a mystery.
- Per-compartment door sensors and occupancy detection.
- Access by code, QR, badge or app.
- Every load and every pickup logged in Kava OS.
A hot meal, four handoffs, no counter
Load
Kitchen staff place the meal in a heated compartment held at 140–165 °F. The door sensor and occupancy detection register it.
Notify
The recipient gets access: a code, a QR link, their badge or the app.
Pick up
They open their compartment, and only theirs. No queue, no cashier, no wrong bag.
Confirm
Occupancy detection sees the compartment is empty, and it's ready for the next order.
Kava Lockers LX
Modules
- Compartments per module
- 6, 12 or 18
- Base bank (LX-18)
- 18 compartments
- Module types
- Ambient, refrigerated, heated
Temperature
- Refrigerated
- 35–40 °F
- Heated
- 140–165 °F
- Refrigerant
- R290 natural refrigerant (refrigerated modules)
Access and sensing
- Access
- Code, QR, badge or app
- Door sensing
- Per-compartment door sensors
- Occupancy
- Per-compartment occupancy detection
Platform
- Software
- Kava OS, with open REST API and webhooks
- Offline operation
- 72-hour transaction buffering
- Uses
- Online order pickup, hot meal pickup, IT asset exchange, tool and laptop loaners, package rooms
Buy the LX-18, or run it on VaaS
| Compare | Buy LX-18 | LX-18 on VaaS |
|---|---|---|
| Up front | $7,400 | $0 |
| Monthly | Kava OS from $19 (Core) or $39 (Pro) | $229, Kava OS Pro and service included |
| 36-month total | $8,804 with Pro billed monthly, before service | $8,244, service included |
| After month 36 | You own the bank | Renew, or the modules go to refurbish-and-redeploy |
Totals assume one 18-compartment bank billed as one connected device. Larger banks add modules of 6, 12 or 18 compartments.
What happened when dinner outlived the cafeteria
Three campuses and 1,100 beds replaced 14 legacy machines with 22 Kava Coolers and 4 Kava Lockers for hot meal pickup. The cafeteria used to close at 7 p.m. First 6 months:
Which of your services ends when the counter closes, not when the need does?
Most kitchens close because staffing a counter at night doesn't pay. The cooking doesn't have to stop when the counter does. Cook at 5 p.m., load heated lockers at 6:30, and the 2 a.m. shift picks up a hot meal from the same kitchen. The same logic applies to the IT help desk that closes at 6 and the mailroom that closes at 4. What else in your building is limited by a counter's hours?
Lockers rarely work alone
Smart locker questions
Can one bank mix hot, cold and ambient compartments?
Yes. Banks are built from modules, and each module is ambient, refrigerated (35–40 °F) or heated (140–165 °F). Plan the mix around what you hand off most, then add modules as demand shows up.
How does the locker know an item was picked up?
Each compartment has its own door sensor and occupancy detection. Kava OS records when the door opened and whether the compartment is now empty, so a pickup is confirmed rather than assumed.
Can we use lockers for laptops and tools?
Yes. IT asset exchange and tool and laptop loaners are core uses. Badge access ties each handoff to a person, and the log shows who took what and when.
What does a bank cost?
The LX-18 base bank of 18 compartments is $7,400 to buy, plus Kava OS, or $229 per month on a 36-month VaaS term with Kava OS Pro and service. See pricing for the full price sheet.
Where to go next
Keep dinner hot until the night shift gets there.
Tell us what you hand off, and when. We'll size the bank, the mix of temperatures and the placement.