Innovation Showcase

Don’t hesitate. Innovate.

With retailers looking for increasingly innovative ways to grow market share and retain customers, the TWO Innovation Showcases at Retail Business Technology Expo and Cards & Payments Solutions will provide the ideal platform for retailers to see the latest trends and technology that will shape the way we shop:

Omniperception will be showcasing ‘Facial recognition and image analysis in retail’.  Based on 10 years of cutting edge development,  ‘facial recognition’ is used for surveillance and access control – examples of which are used by police forces, airports and datacentres to secure and watch sensitive areas.  Image recognition is used for people and merchandise management – with amazing image identification & tracking within live video or CCTV feeds – these solutions enable retailers or brands to identify, track and measure products and customers in an innovative and revolutionary manner.

The Enlighten Smart Poster by Signbox is a revolutionary new smart poster that uses NFC (Near Field Communication) technology proximity marketing which will change the way that consumers interact with brands and the marketing around them.

ID24 will be showing off its ‘Slim - Customer Club Terminal’, the first of its kind to offer touch screen customer terminals  facing customers at the counters in stores.  It provides retailers with a competitive advantage by enabling them to keep their CRM database up to date at the counter in store – a huge bonus when it comes to customer loyalty.

Scologic’s  ‘Store Assist’ is new mini Kiosk technology that provides digital signage, price checking and in-store product mapping and customer assistance.  It sits neatly on the end of the aisle and can do a lot more for customers, including product look up and  interfacing with paging partners so it can alert members of staff to customer enquiries.

Von Bismark has developed an Augmented Reality platform based on the Microsoft Kinect camera that allows users to interact with digital products and clothing physically. It can track the physical metrics and interaction of every user and tie these interactions in with social check in and e-commerce solutions via mobile technology.   It allows retailers and consumers to explore previously unheard of ways of interacting with each other.

DinePad is an innovative digital menu experience that seamlessly links to a restaurants existing Point of Sales system via an iPad, creating at seat ordering without the need for a waiter, but in many cases as in addition to the waiter. The application incorporates a number of innovative features such as Food & Wine Matching, which is a unique algorithm within the application that recommends wine to match the food choices of the guest, a Chat function that allows one click reordering of drinks, or to request a waiters attention.

Valtech’s Facebook Shop allows administrators to operate an e-commerce and content management solution, using one system to manage not only multiple traditional channels, but also native Facebook pages and stores. When a shop/website is presented within Facebook, the social graph can be exploited to narrowly (or widely) target specific audiences.                                                                                           

 Yes Wallet will be launching its Pouch Wallet Service - Mobile Payments, a mobile wallet service, all set to usher in a ‘new payments lifestyle’ using smartphones. Securely storing credit and debit payment cards, payment receipts, loyalty and coupon information, Pouch enables to securely make payments through smartphones for free.

Voice Commerce Group will be revealing all about VoicePay – The use of voice biometric technology to provide identity verification for securing a wide range of transactions. VoicePay enables consumers to safely authorise financial transactions via a mobile phone using just their unique biometric "Voice Signature".

Another payments innovation is the Magtec iDynamoEMV Mobile Payment Platform, which allows for secure EMV Chip + PIN transactions using any mobile smartphone. It’s fully certified to PCI PTS 3.x, and makes mobile transactions as secure as any traditional transaction, plus it’s fully compatible with all smart phone platforms.

Cashbases will be showing ‘the only intelligent cash drawer’ the SMARTtill which helps retailers by monitoring every transaction going through the tills; automatically counting coins and notes and addressing cash related problems such as theft, staff error and time spent counting cash.

 And finally Trustwave will be showing franchises how they can make compliance management easily - managing the PCI DSS compliance process can be time consuming and burdensome for both the franchisor and the franchisee, so the Trustwave suite of solutions comes to the reailers aid by protecting a network, and in turn cardholder data, using a holistic, on-going defence-in-depth strategy.