RBTE throwback: UK trade fair on retail-oriented innovation

During 3 days, Kaliop Digital Commerce, represented by Aurélien, Martin and Luc, was present at the RBTE in London, with the French Tech delegation.

We were present on the French tech pavilion with the following companies:
– One stock
– Proximis
– Reachfive
– Occi
– Soyooz
– Storetail
– Corolo
– Akoustic-arts
– Alcmeon
– Botfuel
– Untienots
– Usersloveit

A highly mature trade fair:

All in all, the RBTE is a high-quality trade fair for innovative technologies in the retail sector.

Kaliop Digital Commerce presented 2 innovations in the form of POCs:

1. A voice search system via google home with the sending of a selection of products by mail corresponding to voice search criteria
2. A cross-device interaction system on a mock point of sale based on the Kuzzle backend.

Innovative digital solutions:

We had the pleasure of meeting partners offering beautiful solutions complementary to our business as experts in digital commerce:

• Onestock: A made in France OMS allowing a unification of retail & web stocks. Already used by many beautiful brands, it is a solution to watch closely: https://www.onestock-retail.com/fr/
• Soyooz: A powerful chatbox that enables the users’ needs to be identified and the product corresponding to their expectations to be offered via an intelligent question and answer system: http://www.soyooz.com
• Checkout.com: A comprehensive payment service provider, covering many local and international payment methods: https://www.checkout.com

Retail innovations:

Beyond digital, we were able to discover original retail solutions:

Signage/display sector:

• Userful offers video walls for video or daskboard/kpi controllable from an Iphone application: https://www.userful.com
• Hypervsn wall offers videos with a 3D effect thanks to a technology based on “fans + led” to display content: https://kino-mo.com/
• Inurface Media is a UK specialist in screen displays (on the street, on garbage trucks, on bollards in the street/store, McDonald’s display screens…): http://inurfacemedia.co.uk/

Mobility and in-store analysis:

• SOTI, with its Mobicontrol solution, makes it possible to manage  a fleet of mobile devices at headquarters deployed around the world in stores (smartphones, screens, tablets…): http://www.soti.net/products/mobicontrol
  This tool makes it possible to obtain usage statistics for each device, to be alerted when a device breaks down or suffers a shock (thanks to accelerometer sensors in particular) and to remotely control the devices, for example to launch an automatic deployment of a new application version (useful for vendor tablets, for instance).

• Ultinous (http://www.ultinous.com) in-store video analysis that plugs into existing security cameras to analyse traffic within the store and produce statistics pushed hour by hour (age, sex, counting…), also optimising and preventing a flow of people in checkouts to fluidity in-store traffic – see video presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNakQGaEk2g

We would like to thank Business France and the French Tech delegation for the quality of this event, and hope to see you all next year!

Aurélien, Martin and Luc