Make Sense of Stores Sales Data with Store Sense!
Presenting GrayMatter’s Store Sense, an IoT device that enables real-time data capture from POS systems. The device enables significant business value for global airports, driven by the following:
- Automated data capture from point of sale leading to more efficient and accurate revenue reporting by retailers
- Data captured is used for billing and subsequent income computation based on contract rules. Enhanced accuracy in sales data collection ensures that there is no revenue leakage and hence no negative impact on income computation for the airports
- Store Sense integrates data from multiple sources including boarding pass scanner, passport scanner as well as POS machines to enable cross-linked, insightful analytics through analysis of passenger demographics and purchase data
- The device also enables push of messages to passengers’ smart phones and thereby supports execution of promotional campaigns leading to enhanced store revenues
Checks and Balances to prevent leakage while Reporting Revenues
What makes Store Sense peerless?
Store Sense is equipped with features that positions it as the leading choice to deliver the business benefits listed above. The image below depicts the key features that differentiate Store Sense.
How Does Store Sense Work?
Store Sense extracts sales data from POS machine as well as passenger demographics data from boarding pass / passport scanner, if the airport wishes to do so. The data is passed on to data collection server from where data is passed on a) to billing module for further processing and income computation, b) to analytical system to generate business insights. The device works on LAN, WiFi and Mobile networks.
Software Version of Store Sense
Store Sense is also available as a lightweight software app besides the IoT device version. Choice of IoT or software version depends on customer requirements and preferences. The app is agnostic to type of and comes with built-in auto retry mechanism in case of network failure or if collection server is not available. The only key technical requirements are as follows:
- .NET 2.0 framework
- Whitelisted access to Data Collection Server
Data Capture Variants
Store Sense comes with comprehensive capabilities to capture POS data from concessionaires in multiple ways as follows:
File format extracts |
UI-based uploads |
Web services interface |
Transaction log feed from POS |
Connector to centralized database |
Printing and scanning digital receipts |
