Seeonic, the leading innovator in reusable "smart shelves," helps manufacturers and distributors anticipate stock-outs and prevent lost sales. Traditional inventory tracking systems provide little visibility of the sales floor. Stock-outs at retail stores average 8 percent across all product categories, and often reach 20 percent during promotions.
Seeonic relied on SkyeTek™ technology and staff expertise to embed RFID functionality into their Glass Shelf ™ smart display, a real-time demand management and inventory replenishment service. With accurate and timely data about inventories, stock-outs can be anticipated and avoided.
Requirements:
- Item-level inventory tracking
- Real-time visibility at the retail shelf / display level
- Compatible with inexpensive, ubiquitous Gen2 UHF tags
- Ability to interchange HF and UHF technology depending on environment
- Approximately 1 ft read range
- Capacity to store and track 25+ items
- Small footprint
- Reusable for future disposable display shelves
- Leverage off-shore production to deliver volume in excess of 50,000 units
- Low total cost of ownership and forward compatibility
Solution:
- Specially designed smart kiosk that uses SkyeTek's M9 UHF and M2 HF reader modules
- Support from SkyeTek design services to create an integrated device encapsulating the RFID reader, antenna, cabling and software logic
- Single Application Programming Interface (API) that provides simple connection and development for networked systems
- Common blade technology for true plug-and-play swapping between UHF and HF
- Anti-collision support for 25+ tags in the field at one time
- State-of-the-art encryption and anti-cloning to protect against tampering and theft
- Remote field upgradeable firmware keeps readers undated with the latest security and tag support
- SkyeTek licensing model to support in-house production -- for a 70 percent cost savings