ICT infrastructure and industry solutions provider Ruijie Network recently released a new generation of AI SaaS cloud platform solutions. This scheme is to adapt to the increasingly popular unmanned retail industry. Based on advanced artificial intelligence visual identification technology, it can not only make the intelligent container reach the operation level in cost and business indicators, but also support the high-precision, high-performance and highly reliable operation of millions of intelligent cabinets, which will effectively promote the commercialization and large-scale application process of intelligent cabinets.
What happened to untouchable unmanned retail?
In recent years, the traditional retail model has experienced several rounds of profound changes. 2016 is the first year of new retail, and unmanned retail in 2017 blew a strong wind in China. From traditional retail to new retail and unmanned retail and other concepts of innovation, we can see the urgent need of the retail industry to improve efficiency and reduce cost.
The unattended, all-day smart container not only builds a more convenient shopping scene, but also only requires users to pay for themselves, saving labor and space costs. Therefore, it has become the preferred choice of many retailers, brands and operators.
However, after several years of development, the scale of unmanned container laying in China is far less than expected. Take Japan as an example. Since 1970, the number of vending cabinets in Japan has reached more than 5 million units in less than 10 years, which is almost 500,000 units laid every year. According to preliminary statistics, from 300,000 in 2017 to 400,000 in the first half of 2021, the laying scale of automatic vending cabinets in China has increased by less than 100,000 in four years.
This is a market with great growth space, but the scale of laying is far lower than expected. The reasons are as follows: First, the cost of unmanned container is too high, leading to the operator's inability to make profits, and it runs counter to the original intention of improving efficiency and reducing cost; Second, the core technical indicators that affect the business, such as the category limit, the number limit and the new efficiency limit, cannot reach the operation level.
Ruijie's new generation AI saas cloud platform scheme supports the operation of millions of intelligent cabinets
Adhering to the concept of "scene innovation", Ruijie dug deep for the pain points of the unmanned retail scene, and launched a new generation of AI saas cloud platform solutions through technical breakthroughs.
Based on the advanced artificial intelligence visual identification technology, the scheme can not only make the intelligent container reach the operation level in cost and business indicators, but also support the high-precision, high-performance and highly reliable operation of millions of intelligent cabinets, and solve the two problems of commercialization and scale of unmanned containers in one move, which will effectively help the digital transformation of the retail industry.
Four iterations, the cost of computing power decreased a hundredfold. From the launch of the first generation of dynamic vision cabinet products in 2018 to 2021, the products have gone through four iterations, from the initial edge computing to end-cloud collaboration, and then to the current all-cloud solution, and finally reached a hundredfold cost reduction, promoting the intelligent cabinet into the commercial stage.
Key business indicators to reach operational level. There are four key indicators for the retail industry:
First, there are many types of SKUs. The SKUs category requirements of general operators range from dozens to hundreds. The richer the categories in the intelligent cabinet, the higher the ping-to-efficiency ratio. There are thousands of SKUs in Ruijie's whole cloud solution freezer. A single cabinet supports 45+ categories at the same time. The categories are more abundant to meet the use needs of more scenarios.
Second, the new efficiency is high, the peak season of businesses a month will have more than a dozen new products on the new, the larger the operator, the higher the requirements on the new. Use Ruijie full cloud solution, 1 hour to complete the new more 3+ categories, new more timely. Compared with the traditional container, most of the new speed takes 5-7 working days. The super learning and training mechanism of AI intelligent container can ensure that the speed of 1-3 new categories on the merchants can be compressed to 1 hour. The current market changes rapidly, and the Internet celebrity products are emerging in an endless stream. Increase the stickiness of consumption;
Thirdly, there is zero tolerance for false deduction. For the new shopping method of smart cabinet, consumers have low tolerance, and false deduction will seriously hurt consumers' loyalty and trust. Using Ruijie full cloud scheme, the identification accuracy is over 99.5%, and the algorithm error rate is less than 0.5%. The accuracy of complex shopping behavior can be maintained, and the consumption of abnormal real-time alarm. Whether the consumers take the goods single and double hand, many people take it at the same time, or take it out and put it back, can carry out accurate capture and identification, greatly reducing the rate of goods damage;
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Fourth, ultra-low entry threshold: the performance requirements of intelligent hardware components are reduced to only two clear videos can be collected at the same time, and the hardware cost is greatly reduced. Moreover, the cloud platform provides side and multi-platform SDK, shopping mini program, operation DEMO suite and development instructions, etc. The overall operation experience platform is open to customers and can be experienced at any time without threshold.
AI track "new players", industry deep cultivation of "old players"
AI intelligent cabinet solution is derived from Ruijie's scenario-based AI cloud service capability. In the retail industry, Ruijie's AI cloud service capability can also be applied to intelligent settlement scale and intelligent SOP supervision; In the manufacturing industry, Ruijie's AI cloud service capability can replace part of manual product quality inspection, identify various types of defects, real-time monitoring, detection rate of over 98%, high accuracy, and support multi-color composite detection.
Ruijie has long been concerned about the two major fields of retail and manufacturing, relying on long-term profound industry accumulation and market insight, to create a full set of automatic training platform and supporting tools based on retail and manufacturing, which can quickly land in the actual scene.
Ruijie since its establishment, always adhere to scene innovation, committed to fully integrate technology and application scenarios, promote the industry to achieve digital transformation, is worthy of the name of the "old player". In the future, Ruijie will continue to deepen the industry, constantly innovate scenario-based application, apply the team's intensive technical ability and rich practical experience to thousands of industries, innovate more scenario-based product technical solutions, and drive the digital future.
