Helping brick-and-mortar retailers to profitability; with game-changing computer vision AI on IoT devices

实体零售商迫切希望提高实体店的盈利能力，在新冠肺炎疫情封锁之后，这种渴望比以往任何时候都要强烈。为了快速恢复，零售商将需要衡量其门店和客户行为的各个方面，以了解哪些新因素正在影响销售业绩。然而，目前还没有一种解决方案能够迅速将全店覆盖范围扩大到100家门店，提供做出成功创收决策所需的洞察力质量，并适当地保护客户和员工的隐私。Aura Vision开创了一种独特的即插即用人工智能技术，该技术使用零售店现有的安全摄像头来了解不同类型的人如何在整个商店中移动和参与，现在还包括社交距离热图、实时占用报告和PPE合规措施等新冠病毒安全功能。它充分保护了顾客和员工的隐私，并帮助零售商显著增加了店内收入。为了使该解决方案更具成本效益，Aura Vision正在寻求使用一种新型的尖端硬件，专门用于下一代人工智能软件来处理视频。这将使零售商能够将全店覆盖范围扩大到100家门店，并首次在每家门店利用大数据行为洞察的力量，真正了解客户是如何购买他们的产品的。到2026年，我们预计将在英国的许多地方部署，为英国的高街提供提振，帮助防止潜在的商店关闭和失业，并使零售商能够使他们的商店整体上更有利可图。Aura Vision是一个由6名雄心勃勃的专家组成的团队，他们拥有将复杂技术商业化的经验。该团队还得到了包括Y Combinator、Pioneer Fund和全球零售品牌ASICS在内的30多家投资者的支持。

Brick-and-Mortar retailers are desperate to improve the profitability of their physical stores, now so more than ever in the wake of Covid-19 lockdowns. To quickly recover, retailers will need to measure every aspect of their stores and customer behaviours, to understand what new factors are now affecting sales performance. However, there is no solution that can rapidly scale full-store coverage to \>100 locations, offer the insight quality needed to make successful revenue generating decisions, and suitably protect customer and staff privacy.Aura Vision has pioneered a unique plug&play AI technology that uses existing security cameras in retail stores to understand how different types of people move and engage throughout the store, and now includes covid-secure features such as social distance heatmaps, real-time occupancy reporting and PPE compliance measures. It fully protects customer and staff privacy and is helping retailers significantly increase their in-store revenues.In order to make the solution even more cost-effective to scale, Aura Vision is looking to use a new type of cutting-edge hardware that is purpose built for next-generation AI software to process video. This will enable retailers to scale full-store coverage \>100 locations and harness the power of big-data behavioural insights across every store for the first time, to really understand how customers come to purchase their products.By 2026, we expect to be deployed in a large number of UK locations, providing a boost to the UK's high-streets, helping prevent potential store closures and job losses, and enabling retailers to make their stores more profitable overall.Aura Vision is a team of 6 ambitious experts with experience in commercialising complex technology. The team is also backed by over 30 investors including Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund and global retail brand ASICS.