From b7a2463907edc63f681b2cfc5beb300960791f4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: agrawalgaurav Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:26:33 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Added readme for smart shelf application. Signed-off-by: agrawalgaurav Change-Id: Ib69c763e2bcbe8bbcfb8d9470e04f494dfc8747e --- example-apps/ROBO/README.md | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 example-apps/ROBO/README.md diff --git a/example-apps/ROBO/README.md b/example-apps/ROBO/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04d7c83 --- /dev/null +++ b/example-apps/ROBO/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# Smart Shelf Application + +This application is an entry level application to demonstrate Remote Office Branch Office usecase (ROBO) for Retail Enterprise for scenario wherein there is a retail chain comprising of multiple retail stores and a retail headquater. +The application provides Smart Shelf solution to monitor shelf's for a retail chain. + +Why Smart Shelf solution: +Smart Shelf is a technological breakthrough that enhances the overall shopping experience and improves a store’s operational efficiency in terms of stock misplacement and notify empty shelves. + +Smart shelf benefits: +- Smart Shelves can notify empty shelf for items when needed without requiring humans, making it easier to prevent + shortages of popular items at peak times. +- Smart Shelves allow retailers to make more informed decisions about stocking and inventory, notify the back-end + system about the existing quantity of items on the shelves, alert when product levels are running low and when items are misplaced. +- Provides access to the store or shelf information remotely, enables visibility of stock position, cross and up + selling of products. +- Better customer experience with proper inventory for each shelf. + +Available Solutions: +- Camera based with Video analytics solution +- weight sensors/optical sensors based solutions +This application is based on 1st solution + +Why Edge: +This use case demands for low latency, jitter for scenarios like theft detection, stock misplacement. +Currently available in-retail enterprise solutions, wherein in store deployment of compute/storage resources + are done, consumes store spaces and are not cost effective. 5G Telco edge based solution is a need here and this + application demonstrates the same. + +This application is developed as part of Akraino EALTEdge BP using EdgeGallery as an upstream project. Kindly refer + below link to get more insights about this application: +https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/EALT-EDGE+Landing+Application \ No newline at end of file -- 2.16.6