Johnson Controls announced that Sensormatic Solutions, its leading global retail solutions portfolio, will debut its latest offering, VisionWorks, as part of the Sensormatic IQ intelligent operating platform, at NRF 2021.
AI & ML-powered VisionWorks analytics to provide real-time data, insights and reporting
VisionWorks is Sensormatic’s Computer Vision offering designed to deliver retail operational insights based on best-in-class deep learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) models.
VisionWorks is created in partnership with Intel and optimized for retail using Sensormatic Solutions proprietary AI algorithms.
VisionWorks can be easily deployed in a Sensormatic Smart Hub appliance leveraging existing camera infrastructure. The new offering provides retailers with easy access to real-time data, prescriptive insights, and reporting in a one-stop, consolidated dashboard.
“VisionWorks is a building block and data source to our intelligent operating platform, Sensormatic IQ, providing new, actionable insights into any retail environment,” said Subramanian Kunchithapatham, VP of engineering, at Sensormatic Solutions. “VisionWorks modularized architecture enables plug & play of use case-specific Vision Agents to adapt to the ever-changing needs of retailers. New Vision Agents that target specific retail use cases are continually in development to maximize performance and address unsolved business challenges for retailers.”
Each Vision Agent performs a specific task to solve a real-world retail challenge with more in the works such as customer engagement, associate engagement, loitering, curbside pickup, shelf sweep and shelf replenishment.
The following Vision Agents are available right now:
- Occupancy: helps retailers comply with public health directives without allocating additional staff resources. Using existing camera feeds, this solution features a live occupancy tracker to ensure that store occupancy does not exceed retailer-configured limits;
- Line Queue / Social Distancing: monitors queuing areas to determine the number of people who are currently waiting in line, as well as the hourly average. An alert is triggered when the number of people waiting exceeds a set threshold;
- Mask Detection: ensures the safety of shoppers and employees by using store video feeds to detect the use of facial masks within a pre-determined area of the store, as set by local health directives;
- Audience Measurement: determines the type of customers that enter the store by giving insights into their demographics and approximate mood. Insights are gathered by anonymously categorizing customers that linger in an assigned camera’s field of view for an extended period, measuring gender, relative age, gaze direction and audience sentiment;
- Traffic: provides insights on traffic patterns and observes the path to purchase of the shoppers located within the store. Retailers can learn about consumer behavior through data on dwell time, lateral customer movement, customer directionality and average traffic counts.