Secta9ine, an affiliate of SPC Total Marketing Solution, announced on March 8 that it will expand its self-developed AI scanner business for the first time in the South Korean food and beverage industry.
The AI scanner is a product recognition scanner that utilizes deep learning-based object recognition AI technology. Store employees simply place the product on the checkout counter without having to scan a barcode separately, and it recognizes the product with just a scan of around 1 second. It supports quick payment.
Customer convenience and satisfaction are greatly increased by drastically reducing payment and waiting time, and store owners can obtain effects such as minimizing human errors and reducing training time for new employees.
In particular, unlike existing scanners that take a picture of a product and send it to the server, it uses a video camera to immediately extract the characteristics of the product selected by the customer and match it to pre-learned data to derive a price.
This is the result of Secta9ine's own advanced technologies such as data analysis, deep learning, and algorithm technology, and the product recognition rate of 'AI Scanner' reaches more than 98%.
Since 2019, Secta9ine has been operating AI scanners in SPC-affiliated brand stores such as Paris Baguette, Fashion 5, and Paris Croissant. During the first half of this year, AI scanners will be supplied free of charge to some Paris Baguette franchisees for testing, and then gradually expanded.
In addition, by expanding supply to the outside world, it was recently decided to pilot AI scanners at 5 stores of "artisee" first, and they are discussing expanding the introduction to all 80 stores in the future.
Meanwhile, Secta9ine established an AI technology research center for deep learning and machine learning technology research last year, and established a big data team and an AI research team for big data technology development (R&D) to strengthen its competitiveness in the digital field.
