In the year of 2018, Intel and JD.com signed a memorandum of cooperation to promote the full-scale advancement of the smart retail era. In fact, as early as October 2017, JD.com teamed up with Intel in hardware, software and ecosystem to create a comprehensive cooperation. The world's first low-cost, modular-assembled smart store solution D-MART, the signing of this cooperation memorandum, is the spark of innovation in technology and retail.
The overall solution breaks the barriers to intelligent retail scenarios
When the relationship between people-goods and market was reorganized, technology became the main driving force for the development of the industry, and the intelligent service scene of 'knowledge, knowledge, and knowledge of the market' became a new model for the retail market to compete. Intel provided edge computing and artificial intelligence. The combined technology, Jingdong is used in various retail scenarios to form a complete solution that can cover a wide range of smart devices, involving face recognition, item identification, self-service cash registers, ATMs, digital signage, etc. , Complex and fragmented business scenarios have also been reunified, whether it is no vending machines, small unmanned shops or large fresh supermarkets, Intel and JD to build a smart retail solution can be matched together.
Jung-dong Group Vice President, Executive Director of the National Local United Engineering Research Center of Big Data Intelligent Management and Analysis Technology, said that in the smart retail era, JD.com is committed to creating unrestricted retail, restructuring retail costs, efficiency and experience. Signing a memorandum of understanding with Intel is a further exploration after the introduction of the D-Mart solution. The two sides will actively use their respective resources in the entire retail ecosystem to enable retailers to economically and efficiently achieve strategic growth and use smart technologies to change existing ones. Sales barriers.
Innovation drive demand edge calculation release data potential
With the richer and more diversified computing needs of the edge, the cloud computing has been difficult to meet the requirements, and the front-end equipment also needs to react quickly. Therefore, cloud computing and edge computing must be combined. To meet this challenge, Intel last year The Responsive Retail Platform was formally launched at the US Retail Industry Alliance Exhibition. Over the past year, the Intel Responsive Retail Platform (RRP) has brought many new opportunities to the retail industry. It can meet a variety of retail scenarios, achieving easy management and flexibility. Deployed and highly scalable.
In addition, Intel also captured the pain points of smart retail technology with unique industry insights and tackled them one by one. First, behind the Internet of Things-based retail scenario, a large number of smart devices are entering offline stores, while existing retail stores have All kinds of smart devices, if each device deploys a server, virtually increases the cost and is not conducive to management. Therefore, Intel provides a total solution for workload consolidation. Intel integrates small-scale edge computing into a central server through workload consolidation. This reduces server costs and improves computing efficiency. Second, Intel can also accelerate artificial intelligence with FPGAs and Movidius through the powerful image recognition capability provided by integrated graphics. With the dual support of artificial intelligence and load integration, Intel provides Smart Retail's total solution can benefit retailers and consumers to the greatest extent. By unlocking data potential, every link in the industry chain can improve efficiency and optimize experience.
According to Chen Wei, Intel’s vice president of the Internet of Things Division in China, the smart retail era should enhance customer experience and optimize operations. Through continuous increase in R&D investment in the retail sector, it is actively joining hands with industry-leading partners like Jingdong. Intel has activated the retail ecosystem and solved the major challenges facing the retail industry, changed the way consumers shop, fully accelerated automation and management of business, and brought tangible changes to the retail industry.
At present, people’s understanding of smart retailing is increasingly clear. The combination of technology companies and retail giants has become increasingly closer. New technologies have continued to land, and a brand-new retail era is within easy reach. The cooperation between Intel and Jingdong has brought more benefits to the entire smart retail market. With many opportunities and opportunities, I believe that with the signing of this cooperation memorandum, the two sides will make data into feasible insights through complementing each other's advantages, and let the future smart retail vision become a reality.