Hundreds of sites, one network link each, and no engineer on any of them. Retail technology fails on estate operations rather than on the store that was piloted — provisioning, update and support across a fleet nobody visits are what decide whether a rollout survives its second year.
| Application | Platforms drawn on | Products involved |
|---|---|---|
| Footfall and dwell analytics | Vision, Connected Edge | Edge AI inference node, gateways |
| RFID inventory and portal reads | Connected Edge | UHF and HF RFID tags and readers |
| Cold chain monitoring | Connected Edge | Sensors, LPWAN, analytics and alerting |
| Electronic shelf and display systems | Connected Edge | BLE, gateways, device management |
| Estate energy and HVAC | Connected Edge | Submetering, BMS integration |
| Fleet provisioning and update | Connected Edge | Device management and staged OTA |
Everything for this sector
Assembled from one registry rather than written per page, so a link added anywhere appears from both ends.
Estate operations rather than the technology. A system proven in a pilot store meets provisioning, update, support and replacement problems at scale that it never encountered with ten units — which is why the device management layer decides the outcome.
Because store network links were sized for card payments and stock systems, not video. Local inference sends events and counts rather than streams, which also keeps imagery on site where privacy policy usually requires it.
Counts and dwell are aggregated per zone and interval with no identification, and the retention and purpose policy is agreed before deployment rather than after an objection.
Tell us the specification, the constraint and the deadline. Programmes that cross silicon, radio, embedded and AI are where Faststream is strongest.