Under the baptism of Internet of Things technology, the retail industry is welcoming an unprecedented change. Traditional Internet retailing or physical retailing can no longer satisfy consumers' demands. The relationship between people and goods is changing. The new pattern of the retail industry is gradually being established. . At the same time, the development momentum of the retail industry is also driven by the supply-driven transformation into demand-driven, and further rises to the innovation drive. The entry of smart devices breaks the retail border, and the unbounded retail market is inseparable from the power of data.
In the year of 2018, Intel and JD.com once again signed a memorandum of cooperation to promote the full-speed advancement of the smart retail era. In fact, as early as October 2017, JD.com cooperated with Intel in hardware, software and ecosystem to create the world's first low-cost, modular assembly smart store solution D-MART, this cooperation The signing of the memorandum is exactly the collision of innovation in technology and retail.
Overall solution
Breaking the barriers to smart retail scenes
When the relationship between people and goods is reorganized, technology has become the main driving force for the development of the industry. The intelligent service scene of “knowing people, knowing goods and knowing the field†has become a new model for the retail market to compete. Intel provides edge computing and artificial intelligence combined technology, JD.com uses a variety of retail scenarios to form a complete solution that can cover a wide range of smart devices, including face recognition, item identification, self-service cash registers, Teller machines, digital signage and other applications. At the same time, complex and fragmented business scenarios have been re-unified. Whether it is unmanned vending machines, small unmanned shops or large-scale fresh supermarkets, Intel and JD.com can create a smart retail overall solution that can be matched.
Weng Zhi, executive vice president of Jingdong Group and the national and local joint engineering research center of big data intelligent management and analysis technology, said that in the context of smart retail era, Jingdong is committed to creating unbounded retail and reconstructing the cost, efficiency and experience of retail. Jingdong and Intel signed a memorandum of cooperation, which is a further exploration after the launch of the D-Mart solution. The two parties will actively use their respective advantageous resources in the entire retail ecosystem to enable retailers to achieve strategic growth economically and efficiently, using smart technology to change Existing sales barriers.
Innovation drive demand
Edge computing releases data potential
As the computing requirements of the edge are richer and more diversified, cloud computing has been difficult to meet the requirements, and the front end of the device needs to respond quickly. Therefore, cloud computing and edge computing must be combined. In response to this challenge, Intel officially launched a responsive retail platform at the National Retail Alliance Show last year. Over the past year, Intel's Responsive Retail Platform (RRP) has brought many new machines to the retail industry. A retail scenario that is easy to manage, flexible to deploy, and extremely scalable.
In addition, Intel has captured the pains of smart retail technology with unique industry insights. First, behind the Internet of Things-based retail scene, a large number of smart devices are stationed in offline stores, and there are various smart devices in the current retail stores. If each device is deployed with one server, it will inevitably increase the cost and is not conducive to management. . As a result, Intel offers a total solution for workload consolidation. Intel integrates small edge computing into a central server through workload consolidation, reducing server costs and increasing computational efficiency. Second, Intel can also use the powerful image recognition capabilities provided by integrated graphics, artificial intelligence acceleration using FPGA and Movidius to improve computing efficiency. With the dual blessing of artificial intelligence and load consolidation, Intel's smart retail total solution maximizes the benefits of retailers and consumers, unlocking the potential of data to enable efficiency and optimize the experience in every aspect of the industry chain.
Chen Wei, general manager of Intel's vice president of the Internet of Things business unit, believes that the smart retail era should enhance the customer experience and optimize operations. By continuously increasing R&D investment in the retail sector, it actively cooperates with leading partners in the same industry as Jingdong. Intel has activated the retail ecosystem and addressed the major challenges facing the retail industry, changing the way consumers shop, and accelerating automation and management, bringing real-world changes to the retail industry.
At present, people's understanding of smart retailing is becoming clearer. The combination of technology companies and retail giants is getting closer, new technologies are constantly coming, and a new era of retail is at your fingertips. The cooperation between Intel and JD.com has brought more opportunities and vitality to the entire smart retail market. I believe that the signing of the memorandum of cooperation will enable the two parties to make data into viable insights through complementary advantages, so that the future vision of smart retail will become a reality.
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