Smart Retailing

With the development of economy and society, people's material and spiritual pursuits are constantly improving. People also begin to pursue fast and convenient shopping method. In recent years, new retail, new model, leading the new trend. "New Retail" comparing with old retail has become a new industry where unmanned management, intelligent operation, face recognition payment combined into a new retail model that liberate manpower and reduce costs. And with more enterprises joined in this industry, now it has gradually appeared unmanned shelves, unmanned vending machines, unmanned supermarkets, unmanned convenience stores, intelligent refrigerators and so on.

Smart retail technologies are new combination of software & hardware designed specifically for retail sellers. Online retailers and physical stores can use these tools to provide consumers with more convenient and safer shopping experiences. In addition, they help retailers keep up with the growing demands of customers.

The manufacturers and merchants by using IoT technology to perceive consumption habits, predict consumption trends, guide production, and provide consumers with diversified and personalized products and services, which in some aspect, could realize cost and product inventory optimization.

The development of smart retail lies in three aspects. The first is to embrace the technology to innovate retail formats and change circulation channels. Second, turn from B2C to C2B, to achieve big data traction retail; Third, customer service should be socialized to achieve personalized service and precision marketing.

AI+IoT are the two key drivers of Smart Retail. According to the offline application scenarios, smart retail can be divided into following types in generally:

● Devices deployed in high-traffic places such as airports, high-speed railway stations, tourist attractions, shopping centers, hospitals: various kinds of ordering kiosks, tick vending machine, self-service check-in machines, self-service vending machines, Unmanned convenience stores etc.

● Devices in fixed places with fixed people flow such as residence communities, office buildings, schools :delivery lockers, self-service washing machines etc.

The feature of these devices are intelligent to work as salesman in physical stores in some aspect. Like they will have a screen with various sizes and a motherboard inside to realize man-machine interaction. And also they support to play a variety of formats of pictures and videos, through LAN, WIFI, 4G and other networks to achieve remote real-time control updates and release multimedia advertising. With the technology development, these devices now are equipped with face payment display modules so to support face payment.

We Zimton technology has been working on this field for many years with rich experience and expertise on one-stop solutions on smart retailing, now we are the key supplier of some tier one brands whose products are sold globally. We are confident that with our professionalism and fast after-sale service, we could help our clients to get to where want to.