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，新冠肺炎被封后，实体店的盈利能力比以往任何时候都要高。为了迅速复苏，零售商将需要衡量其门店和客户行为的方方面面，以了解目前哪些新因素正在影响销售业绩。然而，还没有解决方案可以迅速将全店覆盖范围扩大到100个地点，提供做出成功创收决策所需的洞察力，并适当地保护客户和员工隐私。Aura Vision开创了一项独特的即插即用人工智能技术，它使用零售店中现有的安全摄像头来了解不同类型的人在整个商店如何移动和参与，现在包括社交距离热图、实时入住率报告和PPE合规措施等令人满意的安全功能。它充分保护客户和员工的隐私，并帮助零售商显著增加他们的店内收入。为了使该解决方案更具规模效益，Aura Vision正在寻求使用一种新型的尖端硬件，该硬件是专为下一代人工智能软件而设计的，用于处理视频。这将使零售商能够扩大100家门店的全覆盖范围，并首次利用大数据行为洞察的力量覆盖每一家门店，真正了解顾客是如何购买他们的产品的。到2026年，我们预计将在英国的大量门店部署，促进英国商业街的发展，帮助防止潜在的门店关闭和失业，并使零售商的门店总体上更有利可图。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30多家投资者的支持，其中包括Y Combinator、先锋基金和全球零售品牌ASICS。

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.