SmartMerch created a neuronet for retail on Google Cloud Platform

On March 27, 2018 the Softline company announced creation of a neuronet for retail on Google Cloud Platform.

The market of FMCG as dynamically developing direction actively consumes digital-technologies. For increase in business performance the industry aims to save time for data processing, minimizing or at all excepting "manual work". The SmartMerch project proposes solutions on digital merchandising. This direction integrates technologies of automation of audit of the range of goods in points of sale when photographing. As a result clients receive the tool for the most objective analysis of a big array of photos of products in different packaging. Having generalized the experience, the project team began to use neural networks and machine learning technologies in digital merchandising.

Creation of a neuronet. Photo: sys4tec.com

For technical implementation of the project impressive computing powers were required, the command stopped the choice on Google Cloud Platform. SmartMerch estimated a possibility of a project startup without creation of IT infrastructure from scratch and flexibility of resource consumption depending on business objectives. At the platform the clear mechanism of administration. It simplifies mastering of infrastructure by developers.

"The project of migration from the local server in a cloud took about a month. The deployed solution two regular specialists of SmartMerch administer. With transition to Google Cloud Platform TPU – a Google service became available to specialists to the developers wishing to start the processes connected with machine learning in a cloud. The SmartMerch command uses in work of Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, GPU, DataLab, StackDriver. In the long term connection of CloudSQL and G Suite is considered". Nikita Kostromov, technical lead of the SmartMerch project

Convenient payment of power consumptions became one of advantages of work with Google Cloud Platform. The Softline company helped to organize this process of SmartMerch. Being a partner of vendor, Softline gave to the customer an opportunity to make monthly cashless payment in rubles. In addition, for SmartMerch consultations with engineers of Google on migration in a cloud and technical support of the solution were organized.