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Smart Retail Store Solution
Integrating Digital and Intelligent Technology to Improve Refined Operations of Retail Stores
Improving Operational Efficiency and User Experience by Integrating Technologies
Huawei's Smart Retail Solution combines advanced networking, IoT, and AI technologies to transform how retailers manage employees, products, and spaces. These tools streamline operations, cut costs, and boost efficiency by digitizing stores. Partnering with top-tier independent software vendors (ISVs), Huawei delivers innovative applications such as intelligent operations, customer traffic analysis, automated inspections, and IoT integration. With unified cloud, network, data, AI, and security systems—plus intelligent edge computing—the solution helps retailers standardize services, optimize store efficiency, and elevate the shopping experience.
Challenges of chain stores and consumption upgrade
As the scale of retail chains continues to expand, standard operations and management become increasingly complex and difficult. Consumers seek convenient and personalized shopping experiences, demanding better products and services.
High requirements on refined store operations
Online shopping expansion challenges traditional stores. Complex management practices further threaten their survival. To thrive, these stores must refine their operations, as well as redefine their services and business models for growth.
Urgent need for intelligent store upgrades
To cut costs, boost efficiency, and drive growth, businesses need to upgrade to optimized displays, automated restocking, energy management, targeted marketing, intelligent inspections, intelligent scheduling, and self-checkout systems.
Benefits
Better shopping experience
Wi-Fi 6/7 and ESLs enable automatic product price updates. This, together with other smart applications like AI-enabled display identification and interactive marketing using a smart screen, delivers better shopping experiences.
Improved operational efficiency
AI-powered sensors and intelligent edge analytics track customer movements, monitor staff activities, and optimize stock levels. By enhancing hands-on processes, AI boosts overall store performance.
Lower store costs
Combining cloud, network, data, intelligence, and security into a single system, the solution simplifies management, control, and analysis, and unifies operations across headquarters and branch offices, cutting total network costs by 30%.
Architecture
With unified cloud, network, data, AI, and security systems, the Huawei Smart Retail Store Solution combines sensing, connectivity, and digital edge infrastructure to streamline device O&M across locations. The IoT-powered network links smart devices to the central platform for management, control, and analysis. It uses AI to boost store operations and management, drive efficiency, and enhance the shopping experience.
Products
AirEngine 6776-58TI Triple-Radio Wi-Fi 7 AP
• 1 x 5GE electrical, 1 x GE electrical
• Max. speed: 7.89 Gbps
• Spatial stream: 2+4+2 or 4+4
NetEngine AR5710-S Series Enterprise Routers
NetEngine AR5710-S series enterprise routers are fixed routers designed by Huawei for small and medium-sized enterprise branches.
NetEngine AR6700 Series Enterprise Routers
As the industry's first enterprise-class Access Routers (ARs) designed for a Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN) solution, the NetEngine AR6700 series uses a multi-core processor and non-blocking switching architecture, providing a forwarding performance that's three times the industry average.
CloudEngine S5735-L-V2 Series Switches
• 8/10/16/24/48 x GE downlink ports, 4 x GE SFP uplink ports or 1 x 10GE SFP+ uplink port
• Switching capacity of 520 Gbit/s
• Fast/Perpetual PoE, providing highly reliable power supply and access for PDs
• Telemetry-based network fault locating in minutes
CloudEngine S6750-S Series Switches
• Downlink GE electrical ports + downlink 10GE/25GE optical ports + uplink 25GE/100GE optical ports
• Switching capacity of 2.32 Tbit/s
• VXLAN-based network virtualization and multi-service converged bearing
• MACsec supported by all ports, building networks featuring E2E MACsec encryption
CloudEngine S6730-S Series Switches
• Up to 24 x 10 GE downlink ports and 6 x 40 GE uplink ports
• Switching capacity of 2.4 Tbit/s
• Network fault location in minutes through telemetry
• One network for multiple purposes through VXLAN-based network virtualization
CloudEngine S5731-S Series Switches
• GE electrical/GE optical /2.5GE optical downlink, 4*10GE SFP+ uplink ports
• Switching capacity of 672 Gbit/s
• Super Virtual Fabric for simplified network O&M
• One network for multiple purposes through VXLAN-based network virtualization