Project description
A big boost for the micromarket solution
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift towards e-commerce, particularly for the electronics and book sectors. Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers need innovations to maintain their profit margins and their clients. The EU-funded MiMEX project has developed a solution that relies on intelligent shelves and connected smart spaces. The project proposes the automation of social distancing checks according to regional safety protocols exploiting deep learning algorithms and low-cost sensors to meet product choice and availability requirements. MiMEX is a hardware and software micromarket solution that at the same time monitors shoppers’ safety, tracks products demanded by clients in real time inside a store, and facilitates smart and safe checkout with prepayment systems.
Objective
The retail world is going through a period of strong evolution, accelerated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. E-commerce has been shown to be a pillar of society and through necessity it outperformed physical shop retail in many product sectors, e.g. electronics, books. To cope with new social distancing measures being enforced by nearly all countries, in the near future traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers must introduce innovations that can help them to maintain their profit margins and support customers’ choice, access and most importantly their employees’ safety. Shoppers are demanding reduced waiting times, the possibility of buying a greater variety of products when they want them, i.e. 24-hour opening hours, and to feel safe when shopping. The solution we have developed in MiMEX, using intelligent shelves, and connected smart spaces targets these problems and opportunities. We propose to automate social distancing checks and adhere to regional safety protocols (such as wearing gloves and masks). We will exploit deep-learning algorithms and low-cost sensors to answer product choice and availability needs. We will create a complete hardware & software micro-market solution that can monitor shoppers’ safety and simultaneously track products/goods collected by customers in real-time inside a store, facilitating smart and safe checkout with bespoke payment systems. A complete monitoring system will make it possible to offer high-value services such as exhausted product alarms, attempted thefts or display-shelf tidying requests to retailers.
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- medical and health sciences health sciences public health epidemiology pandemics
- social sciences economics and business business and management commerce e-commerce
- medical and health sciences health sciences infectious diseases RNA viruses coronaviruses
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence machine learning deep learning
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H2020-EC - Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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IA - Innovation action
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020
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38123 Trento
Italy
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