"The alphabet of Taste" begins to test development of the resident Skolkovo

2018: Image Recognition system testing

The Skolkovo Foundation announced on July 5, 2018 that the retail network "Alphabet of Taste" begins conducting testing of the solution of the resident of an IT cluster, Intelligence Retail companies, on control of accuracy and speed of recognition of products of dairy category using technology of computer vision.

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Possibilities of the solution

The company is going to estimate a possibility of use of this tool for solution of the problem of lack of goods on the shelf and control of observance of plano-grams.

The solution Intelligence Retail is based on use of technologies of computer vision for recognition of goods of different categories for the purpose of control of existence and correctness of the calculation of goods in network of sales. A system allows the employee of shop to obtain information on existence of the range and observance of standards of the calculation within 10 seconds.

Comments of specialists

Use of technologies of computer vision for control over the calculation in shops bears in itself the high potential for further development. We expect that the solution Intelligence Retail will allow to reduce labor costs by control of the calculation and to increase goods availability for buyers. Georgy Mikhaylov, chief innovation officer of Alphabet of Taste company

The guaranteed existence of favourite goods on the shelf of shop will increase satisfaction of buyers and will discover new layer of data for demand analysis on these or those goods. Use of machine vision from Intelligence Retail for automation of transactions – the first step in robotization of shop and creation of "future retail". Olga Strelova, the director of the Center of the innovative technologies for Retail & FMCG of an IT cluster of Skolkovo Foundation