IoT Solutions for Retail Markets
New technologies help developers respond to the challenges of rapid innovation and change in the retail market.
The retail market is evolving with the incorporation of computer vision, advanced RFID solutions, and the ability to collect and analyze data at the edge.
Use Cases
Frictionless Checkout
Create a smoother customer checkout experience using computer vision technologies and smart point-of-sale (POS) systems.
Inventory Management
Maintain accurate inventory data, quickly locate in-store products, and reduce retail shrinkage using RFID solutions.
Audience Measurement
Use computer vision technology to monitor retail foot traffic and product interest and get analytics on customer activities.
Workload Consolidation
Deploy multiple applications such as audience measurement, inventory management, and frictionless checkout on a single system.
Reference Implementations for Retail
Follow these reference implementations to deploy retail IoT solutions.
Use computer vision inference to provide analytics on customer engagement, store traffic, and shelf inventory.
Digital Kiosk Display for 4K Ads
Use computer vision solutions to adjust kiosk displays in response to audience demographics.
Track and analyze customers' reactions to products and advertising displays.
Monitor people and product inventory in a retail setting using multiple video streams.
Capture video, generate a heat map, record the number of people present, and then integrate the results.
Track and post information on available parking spaces.
Detect the mood of shoppers when they are looking at a retail or kiosk display.
Capture analytics on foot traffic volume inside and outside of a retail store.
Retail Solutions
Intel® Media Accelerator Reference Software
Develop graphics and media solutions, enable AI inferencing, and run applications on Windows® 10 or Ubuntu* 16 LTS operating systems.
Intel vPro® Platform
Upgrade application software and operating systems, trouble-shoot performance issues, and secure data for digital signage systems.
Intel® Smart Display Module
With this small form factor, network operators and system integrators can quickly deploy interchangeable digital signage devices and pluggable media players faster.
Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA
Develop advanced workloads for display, video, and image processing using this flexible and customizable processor.
Security Technologies for Retail
Enhance and streamline retail security with the following solutions that enable uses such as IP address protection during transaction, hardware-backed key storage and encryption, and easy onboarding of new devices.
Intel® Software Guard Extensions SDK
Enhance IoT application security and enable the development and use of trusted computing enclaves that deliver increased protection for data and applications—independent of the operating system or hardware configuration.
Intel® Platform Trust Technology
Securely store artifacts (such as passwords, certificates, or encryption keys) inside the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 that is integrated into Intel® silicon.
Leverage a hardware-based identity to enable simple and trusted automatic IoT device onboarding using device management and cloud platforms.
Retail Kits with Hardware Acceleration
These product-ready kits can be used to develop, optimize, and analyze multiple videos streams, inference at the edge, and high-performance computer vision applications.
Tools and Training
Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit
This multiplatform computer vision solution can generate retail analytics on shopper behavior, mood, interaction with kiosks and displays, and more.
Develop media applications on Windows* and embedded Linux* operating systems with this cross-platform API that includes video editing and processing, media conversion, playback, and video conferencing.
Intel® oneAPI Base & IoT Toolkit
The combination of Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit (Base Kit) and Intel® oneAPI IoT Toolkit (IoT Kit) provides a core set of high-performance build tools, libraries, and analysis tools to simplify IoT system design, development, and deployment across CPU, GPU, FPGA, and other accelerator architectures that run at the network’s edge.
Smart Retail Workshop
Review workshop materials and explore how to use the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit and video analytics to build smarter retail solutions.
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