Event report : National Retail Federation (NRF) 2023: Retail's Big Show

February 17, 2023

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions(“SSS”) participated for the first time in the "National Retail Federation (NRF) 2023: Retail's Big Show", the leading trade fair and conference for Retail, held in New York, US on January 15 - 17, 2023. AITRIOS™, an edge AI sensing platform that makes it more efficient to develop and deploy Egde AI solutions was exhibited, and several solutions developed by partners using AITRIOS were introduced.

SSS Exhibit Booth: An introduction of the AITRIOS platform and solutions

SSS demonstrated how AITRIOS can be used by presenting actual use cases and solutions that combined the AITRIOS platform and compatible hardware. Each solution was developed by partners, including: AI Developers, Application Developers, and System Integrators.

Two people looking at the screen that displays different products on the shelves. Products are labeled with the titles. One product is highlighted in red, indicating that it will be out of stock soon. (low resolution)

Shelf monitoring Demo

SSS presented a live demo which featured a camera placed in front of a shelf to detect when a customer removes an item in order to alert staff to replenish the stock and improve on-shelf availability.

A woman is standing in front of the screen, explaining the concept of real-time detection that is applied on the users in the booth. Screen displays a digital representations of the people in the booth, labeled by IDs. The second screen displays the visual dashboard, indicating the number of the users, entering the booth over time. (low resolution)

Trajectory Demo

SSS demonstrated how to enable dwell time analytics to analyze shopper behavior with a camera installed on the wall of Sony booth that detected the flow and location of people in the booth in real time.

AR solution Demo

SSS showed a highly immersive AR experience demo using a system that instantaneously detects self-location information and overlays AR content when users hold and move their devices inside the booth space.