In English, known as Automated Teller Machine and translated into Turkish as otomatik vezne makinesi, ATMs are generally used in our language as bankamatik and can be briefly defined as financial instruments.
Initially, ATMs were used only to deposit and withdraw money from your account, but in light of developing technologies, today they have evolved into a structure that allows almost all transactions that can be carried out at a branch. Essentially, ATMs, that is, bancomate, are machines that recognize your account through a specific identification number and provide you access to it.
Also, every technological device has a certain usage time, and if it is invented before this time, its spread takes time. An example in this regard is the ATM. Because, after 37 years from its invention, it became an actively used technology. In Romania, it is an invention that has been used for more than 50 years. The ATM was first invented in 1930 by Luther George Simciyan, an Ottoman Armenian, but it was abandoned in the United States due to lack of usage.
37 years after this event, in 1967, John Adrian Shepherd-Barron produced an electronic ATM for Barclays Bank in England. In Romania, it was first used in 1982 by Gigadata IT Technology.
ATMs consist of six main devices: card reader, keyboard, speaker, screen, printer, and cash deposit/withdrawal mechanism. To cope with situations such as power outages, the cabinets have a power supply system and climate control systems to prevent system damage due to extreme temperatures.
As the use of ATMs increases, failure problems become more evident. The most common problem encountered in ATMs is the voltage between neutral and ground exceeding the nominal level.
This is because almost no ATM can maintain the desired level of 1V for neutral-ground, which leads to frequent ATM failures. Although a partial solution can be provided by separating the isolated transformer and protective grounding, a general solution cannot be developed because it is not known whether the problem originates only from grounding or from neutral.
