SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor for Retail
Unlock real-time business intelligence into your customers, employees, and operations with visual analytics
Boost revenue, track customer experience, analyze operational efficiency, improve safety and compliance, and more with Visual AI Advisor for Retail.
Retailers can leverage their existing surveillance camera equipment in powerful new ways with SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor.
SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor for Retail automates your ability to track footfall/traffic, queuing behavior, inventory management, product engagement, customer experience, and more—while enhancing safety and security inside and outside your store.
Proven value
Automate business intelligence and customer analytics that impact your bottom line
Retail store managers and executive leadership want timely insights into their customers’ behavior and to identify new opportunities to maximize operational efficiency—business intelligence that can help them drive more revenue per store. But anecdotal information isn’t reliable, and closely monitoring each store’s daily activity isn’t feasible with traditional systems that provide lagging or scattershot indicators. The retail industry needs a scalable, intelligent solution for gathering real-time data that produces actionable insights to improve profits, doesn’t require costly equipment investment, and won’t interfere with day-to-day store operations. That solution is SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor for Retail.
Visual AI Advisor enables convenience stores, gas stations, department stores, etc., to target and optimize high ROI use cases like tracking customer experience and conversion, observing employee performance, analyzing and improving safety and compliance issues, staying alert to inventory stock-outs, measuring traffic flow from the forecourt to the check-out line, and much more—simply by deploying Visual AI Advisor’s award-winning, low-code/no-code software product to analyze the live camera feeds from their existing CCTV infrastructure.
Ready to transform your existing camera infrastructure with Visual AI Advisor for Retail?
Improve customer experience using Visual AI Advisor for Retail
Visual AI Advisor can analyze dozens of high-value use cases simultaneously, aggregating powerful customer experience insights to help you determine data-driven difference-makers that impact customer acquisition, retention, and selling more products.
- Capture marketing insights like customer demographics, forecourt-to-store conversion rate, identifying repeat customers, etc.
- Analyze traffic flows inside and outside your store, like vehicle counts and types, dwell time, footfall and queue analysis, etc.
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Alert your employees when timely action is needed
SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor automatically and non-disruptively looks out for safety, service, and compliance issues and sends role-based alerts to your employees so they can resolve issues in real time.
- Track the last restroom cleaning and automatically alert staff when it’s due for a freshening.
- Alert staff to send additional cashiers to register when customers are waiting in long lines, the hot food counter is understocked, etc.
- Notify supervisors of PPE compliance issues (e.g., employee not wearing a hairnet) or when the branded coolers are incorrectly stocked.
Listen to podcast: Visual AI at the Edge—Turning Passive Cameras Into Active Sensor
Transform the value of your video feeds with proactive, always-on computer vision
Visual AI Advisor is a proven solution for gas stations, c-stores, and other retail outlets—redefining the value of CCTV cameras to scale AI-powered automation, turn store data into operational intelligence, and discover untapped profit drivers.
- Works with standard camera equipment to make integration seamless and cost-effective. Deploys in days and scales to thousands of cameras.
- Drag-and-drop platform configuration and intuitive UI dashboards simplify scaling the product across your enterprise for maximum impact.
- Ships with prebuilt use cases for retail—bundle packages include Food Service, Marketing, Compliance, Productivity & Operations, and Forecourt.
Read our use case: How SparkCognition made hundreds of gas stations more profitable with Visual AI Advisor
Visual AI for retail resources
How SparkCognition made hundreds of gas stations more profitable with Visual AI Advisor
How Visual AI builds business intelligence for convenience store operators
Visual AI at the Edge: Turning Passive Cameras Into Active Sensors
Unlocking the Operational Value of Visual AI
Why SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor for Retail?
Retail is demanding work, with labor shortages and high employee turnover complicating the business of providing consistent and high-quality service at scale. Consider that there are about 150,000 convenience stores in the United States alone—all selling basically the same products at similar prices. To build a competitive advantage, savvy retailers track the individual touchpoints between their customer and their business. Computer vision-enabled solutions leveraging existing CCTV cameras provide an almost limitless capacity to harvest valuable information from video feeds inside and outside their stores.
SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor delivers a scalable solution to help retailers monitor critical use cases like inventory management, stock-outs, employee training alignment, customer queue experience, footfall, traffic heatmaps, turnaround time, checkout behavior, product placement testing, and much more. Deploying in days and scalable for franchises or targeted implementations, Visual AI Advisor breaks through the data acquisition bottleneck, allowing you to learn more from your customers and employees than ever.
Visual AI Advisor works with widely available and inexpensive GPU nodes—compatible with virtually any camera system feed available on your site, including CCTV, PTZ, drones, and mobile devices. The upfront costs of Visual AI deployment are offset quickly by leveraging the valuable information visual AI provides to create a cost-saving positive feedback loop for retail store optimization.
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