Upstate Networks

Upstate Networks is an IT support and computer engineering business in Utica, New York, founded in 1994 and incorporated in New York in 1995. The company manufactures hardware and software that interfaces vending products with PCs and other general-purpose computers, and it works with manufacturers to develop vending and other self-service pay-per-use equipment. Its unattended payment systems work with MDB, USB, RS-232, bill, coin, RFID, and cryptocurrency payment hardware for PC, Android, embedded, and vending machine controllers. Named products include the MDB2PC, which converts multidrop bus to RS-232 for PC-controlled vending; the PC2MDB, which lets a PC act as a cashless device; the PC2ASD alternative selection device, which replaces keypad selection with a PC; the BA2PC pulse bill acceptor to serial converter; and the MDB2USB. On the software side, the company offers the PC2MDB JAVA platform-independent interface, MDB2PC with MDBlab+ software that turns a PC into a vending machine controller and includes source, and legacy software for cyber cafes, public access internet, and bill acceptors. It also developed an Ethereum-based token called P.L.U.M., a payment layer for unattended merchandising used in vending, self check-out, car wash, and laundry systems, and its PLUM OUT and PLUM IN hardware hats work with a Raspberry Pi to let it act as a cashless device or replace a vending machine controller. The company holds a rating of 4.70 from the customers who have reviewed it.

The business sits on Broad Street, about 0.2 miles from the East-West Arterial Highway. Saint Stanislaus School and Utica Fire Station Number 6 are both roughly 0.3 miles away, Saint Anthony De Padua School is about 0.4 miles away, and the East Utica Branch of the Utica Public Library is about 0.6 miles away.

Upstate Networks has built its reputation in Utica on a positive rating from the customers who have reviewed it, earned across three decades of manufacturing payment hardware and software for vending and self-service equipment.