Camera recognition system tackles empty shelves...
By Nick Heath, 31 January 2008 15:42
Gaps on shop shelves can cost large retailers more than $4bn-a-year. But goods being out of stock on shelves could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new high-tech camera.
Accenture's Visual Shelf Monitoring system, shown here, uses a camera connected to an object recognition system to rapidly spot missing products and get new stock out.
Photo credit: Accenture
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1. Ollie Clark
Have Accenture actually asked any retailers if they want or need a system like this? When I worked in Tesco, we had an amazing system of informing the shelf stackers that shelves needed filling. They walked around whilst they were filling shelves, took a note of empty shelves and then went to get some stock to fill them up. I can't see any advantages this system has over that and it's going to cost a lot more than paying shelf stackers to look at shelves.