Camera recognition system tackles empty shelves...
By Nick Heath
Published: 31 January 2008 15:42 GMT
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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.
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Dangerous goods handling and storage. Monitoring and controlling stock levels of day to day consumables including re-ordering of spares, consumables ...
Key relationships include:* Clients across Europe - the role involves liaison and negotiation with all levels of technical and senior managers to ...
The role is varied and includes: Processing and confirming all orders from the sales team Co-ordinating deliveries and organising weekly despatch of ...
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