CASE STUDY / 01RETAIL OPERATIONS · VIDEO INTELLIGENCE

FOOTAGE.
IN FOCUS.

Make recorded footage useful to the people running the store.

Engineered analytics. Product interface shown with sample data.Explore the case
THE PRODUCT, IN PERSPECTIVEFOUR OPERATING VIEWS
Store-level product screen with a dwell heatmap, hourly footfall, and recorded-footage playback.

Read the store through movement.

Locate busy areas, compare dwell, and return to the recorded scene.
Product interface · illustrative sample data

MOVEMENT / PRODUCT VIEW

Store-level product screen with a dwell heatmap, hourly footfall, and recorded-footage playback.

Product interface · illustrative sample data. Open full-resolution image ↗

SECTOR

Retail & store operations

PRODUCT

Video intelligence platform

OUR WORK

Product design & engineering

OPERATING MODEL

Recorded footage. Human review.

01 / THE OPPORTUNITYFROM VISIBILITY TO A DECISION

01Locate patterns in how people use a store.

02Connect checkout friction to a specific place and time.

03Keep flagged events open to human review.

BRING STORE
EVIDENCE INTO
THE DECISION.

Store leaders need to decide where to put attention: a checkout lane, a crowded area, or a moment that warrants investigation. Finding that evidence by replaying recordings places the search burden on the person making the decision.

We engineered a recorded-video analytics service and designed its operating interface. Person tracks support counts, movement analysis, queue measurements, and candidate events. The screens show how store teams can explore those outputs, using the interface’s demonstration dataset.

Retail teams should begin with the decision they want to improve, then choose the camera coverage and measurements that can support it.

02 / THE OPERATING EXPERIENCETHREE QUESTIONS. ONE CONNECTED VIEW.

THREE VIEWS OF
STORE OPERATIONS.

01

WHERE DOES
ATTENTION GO?

Footfall tells one part of the story. Dwell and movement add the location and duration. Store teams can examine how activity varies across a recorded period and which zones deserve a closer look.

THE DECISIONWhere should the store team investigate layout, placement, or congestion?

Store-level product screen with a dwell heatmap, hourly footfall, and recorded-footage playback.
EXHIBIT 02 / MOVEMENTProduct interface · illustrative sample data
02

WHERE DOES
SERVICE SLOW?

Queue measurements make checkout friction specific. Lane activity, estimated wait, and threshold alerts help managers examine when demand exceeded the service available.

THE DECISIONWhich periods and lanes should inform the next staffing review?

Queue-analysis screen showing checkout lanes, estimated waits, and threshold alerts.
EXHIBIT 03 / QUEUESProduct interface · illustrative sample data
03

WHAT NEEDS
A HUMAN LOOK?

A flagged event starts a review. The event reel brings the scene, its timing, and the detection context together so an operator can assess the evidence and record a disposition.

THE DECISIONDoes the observed event require investigation or a change in store practice?

Event-review screen with recorded evidence, incident filters, and a detection trace.
EXHIBIT 04 / EVENTSProduct interface · illustrative sample data
03 / THE ENGINEERINGA TRACEABLE PATH THROUGH THE PRODUCT

A SHARED PIPELINE
CONNECTS
THE ANALYSIS.

We designed a shared processing pipeline so each analysis starts from the same tracked activity. Counts, heatmaps, zone visits, queues, and safety events become different views of that record.

Privacy controls sit within the processing workflow. Saved evidence frames pass through face-region blurring. Tracks-only retention removes the source recording after processing and retains anonymised tracks and blurred stills. Playback and clip export require the source recording to be retained.

  1. 01

    CAPTURE

    Upload recorded footage and map the camera to the store.

  2. 02

    TRACK

    Detect people and follow movement within the recording.

  3. 03

    INTERPRET

    Calculate counts, visits, waits, and candidate events.

  4. 04

    REVIEW

    Inspect the evidence and decide what happens next.

04 / A MEASURED ROUTE TO ROLLOUT

VALIDATE AGAINST
THE STORE’S
ACTUAL CONDITIONS.

Camera angle, occlusion, lighting, and the definition of a queue affect what the system can measure. Leaders should validate representative footage against manual counts and reviewed events before using its outputs to change operating practice.

The analytics service processes uploaded recordings. The screens shown here use illustrative sample data to demonstrate the experience; their figures represent neither customer performance nor measured commercial uplift.

WHAT TO ESTABLISH
  • Counting accuracy for the camera positions in scope.
  • Queue and event thresholds that operators find useful.
  • Who reviews exceptions and owns the resulting action.
BUILD AROUND THE DECISION THAT MATTERS

MAKE YOUR
FOOTAGE USEFUL.

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