Korus: Monitoring of a retail store equipment

Monitoring of a retail store equipment - the specialized solution for retailers, the wholesale and logistic companies.

On November 18, 2016 CORUS Consulting Group announced the development TEConts of refrigerating appliances focused on retailers, the wholesale and logistic companies.

The solution is placed in a cloud environment of Microsoft Azure and helps to automate process of collection of information on each piece of equipment, reducing the probability of emergence of failures in operation of the equipment.

Storage of products quite often yields losses to retail chain stores: information on problems with refrigerating appliances arrives late when products are already spoiled, and mechanisms for operational identification and reaction to emergency situations often at all are absent. The faulty refrigerating appliances increase costs for the electric power, on average, by 15%. The expensive floor spaces occupied by the faulty equipment do not bring income.

Use of the Monitoring of a Retail Store Equipment service intended for automation of process of collecting of important information on each piece of equipment allows to reduce risks of outage of technology, to reduce costs on the electric power, almost completely to exclude the probability of uncontrollable failures in it.

The solution helps to obtain information on temperature of each item of equipment and timely notifies responsibles on temperature increase before the goods are defrozen or spoiled. Besides, a system itself carries out the analysis of failures, establishing the basic reasons of malfunctions.

The solution can be integrated with the system of accounting of requests which is available in the company for service crews, the possibility of completion of the interface under needs of the specific client is provided in it. All this helps to adjust a control system for efficiency of service of operation and to make it more transparent. "Monitoring of a retail store equipment" does not require investments into infrastructure and allows connection of necessary number of users. Service works with the equipment of any vendors and is quickly scaled.

The cloud service will become the excellent tool for quality evaluation of work of service of operation that it is usually rather difficult to perform in big retail chain stores. Besides, need to minimize losses because of misuse of floor spaces, irrational electricity consumption and damage of products will stimulate growth of interest in the solution which can reduce costs of retailers for storage of goods many times already now. An opportunity to quickly scale a system and to use only the volume necessary at present, will serve as additional benefits of its use We already began to study expansion of functionality of service for even more exact prediction of possible faults, geolocations of objects of monitoring with the status on each of them in the form of cards for optimization of routes of service crews. Andrey Meluzov, director of business development of department of IT outsourcing of CORUS Consulting Group