Thundercomm modules aid smart retail applications
At last week’s Embedded World in Nuremberg, Thundercomm, a Californian IoT product provider, announced a series of systems-on-module (SoMs) powered by Qualcomm Technologies platforms for smart retail and smart [...]
SML RFID helps retailers manage tagged fashion goods
Manufacturers of fashion retail goods can manage RFID tagged products and reduce friction within their supply chain using the FactoryCare service from Texas-based AML RFID. This suite of RFID [...]
Congatec targets embedded vision at retail check-out
Automated check-out in retail should be a key target for an embedded vision offering from German firm Congatec, announced at last week’s Embedded World in Nuremberg. The platform is [...]
Pricer demonstrates store digitalisation at Euroshop
At this week’s Euroshop show in Dusseldorf, electronic shelf label company Pricer announced Pricer Plaza, an architecture and set of services enabling new business models for store digitalisation along [...]
Checkpoint upgrades IoT retail platform
At this week’s Euroshop event in Dusseldorf, Checkpoint Systems has revealed the latest upgrades to its Halo IoT platform. The platform uses RFID-driven inventory data to drive the distribution [...]
DXC, Harting and Murata speed self-checkout
DXC Technology, Harting and Murata presented an RFID-based self-checkout counter at this week’s Euroshop show in Dusseldorf that enables a single scan of a complete shopping basket, providing a [...]
Retail staff to work alongside robots by 2025, says Gartner
By 2025, at least two of the top ten global retailers will establish robot resource organisations to manage nonhuman workers, predicts market-watcher Gartner. “The retail industry continues to transform through [...]
Don’t forget delivery in frictionless retail experience
Andrew Tavener (pictured), head of marketing at Descartes Systems in the UK, explains why retailers leveraging virtual real-time stock and delivery capacity information to optimise the delivery model are [...]
AiFi and CMU run smart retail competition
AiFi, a Californian company that has created an autonomous store platform, has partnered Carnegie Mellon University to run a competition for researchers to develop better, faster and more accurate [...]
Reckoon deploys blockchain in retail market
Reckoon is using blockchain technology to create smart contracts that can provide a standard and universal way to fulfil shoppers wish baskets and execute a better outcome for retailers [...]
Coop Sweden uses EBI AI as retail assistant
Swedish retailer Coop Sweden has chosen UK artificial intelligence (AI) lab EBI AI to build a grocery retail AI assistant available to shoppers via apps, web or Google Assistant. [...]
AWS lets KFC eaters talk with Colonel Sanders
Fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) so Canadian chicken eaters can chat with the iconic Colonel Sanders himself when re-ordering their favourite [...]
