It is all about knowing more about customers winning and keeping customers providing more and better services reducing cost increasing efficiency & margin protecting customers and business

1. An IT Centric
IoT Infrastructure

2. Overview
• Smart Shelf
• Smart POS
• eBeacon
• RFID / smartTag
• Monitoring & Tracking
• People counting
• Scanning and weight
• Smart Trolleys
• Payment systems
• Queue management
• Anti-theft systems
• Security & surveillance
• Vending and reverse
vending machines
• …
Retail Automation & Integration

3. • knowing more about customers
• winning and keeping customers
• providing more and better services
• reducing cost
• increasing efficiency & margin
• protecting customers and business
What IoT can do in Retail automation
It is all about

4. The Internet of Things
Digital Transformation & Computational Power at the Edge
Eliminating OT application silos
Enable the software defined edge
Seamless IT/OT Integration
Focus on TCO of deployed services
success factors:

5. SERVER CLIENT
CLOUD
EDGE node
IoT Gateway
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
Navigating the Technological Pendulum

6. How to deal with all these data?
Solution: Decoupling Data-Producer from Data-Consumer
Consumers
of Data
Producers
of Data
IoT
Platform
&
Data Lake
The right Internet of Things implementation
will bring:
- Elasticity:
data producers and data consumers
may increase
- Agility:
Fast development of new Apps for
new Services
- Data Lake ready:
Big Data and Analytics
- Seamless IT Integration:
IoT as a new enterprise tooll
RFID

7. Anatomy of IoT Solutions
The Key Elements from Eurotech Perspective
Multi-service Gateway
IoT Integration Platform
Enterprise IT & Business Applications
IoT / M2M Communication

8. Anatomy of IoT Solutions
Putting Things in Perspective (Customer View)
Application Integration
Process Handling
Data Management
Other
Applications
Data
Warehousing /
Big Data
IT Infrastructure
Management
& Services
Manufacturing
Execution
System
(MES)
Warehouse
Management
System
(WMS)
Enterprise
Resource
Planning
(ERP)
Customer
Relationship
Management
(CRM)
Core
IT
Infrastructure
IoT / M2M
Integration
Platform
Software
Defined
Assets
“World of OT”
RFID

9. Retail Automation & Integration
Many Shops & Services
Communication
Infrastructure
Smart Shelf
Smart Cashier System
People Traffic Analysis
Vending
Machines
RFID
RFID
Shop Services Gateway
Transportation
Security &
Surveillance
Logistics
Building
IT
Tools

10. IoT / OT Technology Stacks / Edge
Adding an Hypervisor
Allowing the customer to leverage the benefits
of “hyper-convergence” at the edge of the enterprise infrastructure
to reach new levels of operational efficiency and design flexibility.
Full
IoT
Gateway
Stack
“Python
Stack”
“Java
Stack”
OS OS Linux
PythonOther
Hypervisor
Code
Java VM
Python
Agent
EC
Client
Hardware
“Other
Stack”

11. Use Case : Retail Energy and Asset Management
Cellular Platform for Data Management
APPLICATION:
A programmable Intel® cellular
platform for monitoring of refrigeration
units at grocery stores for energy
and asset management
Goals:
• Monitoring refrigeration units
• Collecting data related to energy consumption and
asset status
Key Success Factors:
• ESF
• Started with Helios… software portability
• Eurotech software knowledge and experience
• Flexible hardware platform
• Looking into EDC for long term storage
• Intel®-based gateway
ReliaGATE
50-21
Asset Monitoring
Energy Management

12. ReliaGate 2025
Use Case: Retail Shop Performance Measurement
People Counting and Data Comparison
APPLICATION:
Comparing transactions with
people entering and leaving
the shops
Goals:
• Measuring single shop performances (franchising chain)
• Comparing customer data 8entering, leaving, financial
transactions, contracts sold)
People Counting
Performance
Measurement
Key Success Factors:
• Short time to market due to EDC approach
• ESF
• Simple
PCN-1001
People Counter

13. Recap: IoT in RETAIL
Distributed Shops
IoT Typical Applications
• Smart Shelf, Smart POS, Kiosk
• Monitoring & Tracking, RFID Solutions
• People counter
• Scanning and weight control
• Smart Trolleys
• Payment systems
• Queue management
• Anti-theft systems
• Security & surveillance
• Logistic & Supply Chain
• Many more …
Needs/Problems
• Many remote locations with multiple
highly specialized applications
• Often no data center environment
feasible because of size / cost
• Demanding requirements with regards to
security
Communication
Infrastructure
Smart Shelf
Smart Cashier System
People Traffic Analysis
RFID
Shop Services Gateway
IT
Tools
RFID
RFID

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