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Smart Retail Solutions

Kiosks, signage and self-service terminals engineered for unattended public deployment.

Sector Overview

Designing for smart retail

Retail hardware is judged on one metric that never appears on a datasheet: how many site visits it costs per year. Every design decision here — watchdog behaviour, OTA rollback, telemetry — exists to push that number toward zero.

SoCRK3568 / RK3588DDReMMCETHUSBLVDSI/ORK3568 / RK3588CORETRON · REV C · MADE FOR OEM
Design Challenges

What usually goes wrong — and how we handle it

Unattended reliability Nobody on site is trained to reboot anything, and a dead screen is lost revenue. Hardware watchdog, A/B firmware with automatic rollback, RTC-scheduled power cycling and remote screenshot verification.
Fleet-scale management Hundreds or thousands of devices across many sites and several countries. MQTT/REST management agent with staged rollouts, per-device provisioning and telemetry on temperature, uptime and storage wear.
Public-space durability Continuous touch input, occasional abuse, and cleaning with whatever is available. Bonded PCAP displays with 3 mm strengthened glass, vandal-resistant bezels and touch surfaces rated for tens of millions of touches.
Privacy-compliant analytics Retailers want footfall and dwell data; regulators want no video leaving the store. On-device NPU inference that outputs anonymous counts and metadata only — no images transmitted, no faces stored.
Typical Requirements

The specification checklist for this sector

24/7 unattended operationRemote fleet management and OTABonded, vandal-resistant touch4K and dual-display outputOn-device privacy-preserving analyticsPoE and single-cable installation options
Recommended Platforms

Where most smart retail projects start

HMI Display ModulesSoCRK3568 / RK3588DDReMMCETHUSBLVDSI/ORK3568 / RK3588CORETRON · REV C · MADE FOR OEM

Digital Signage Controller

Fanless 4K signage player with dual independent output, hardware watchdog and remote CMS integration.

4K@60, dual independent24/7 with hardware watchdogAndroid 13 / Debian 12
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Industrial Embedded BoardsSoCSigmaStar SSD2386DDReMMCETHUSBLVDSI/ONPUCSI x2SIGMASTAR SSD2386CORETRON · REV C · MADE FOR OEM

SSD2386 AI Embedded Board

Quad Cortex-A55 embedded board with an on-chip NPU and dual camera inputs — interface and inference on one board.

4x Cortex-A55 + ~1 TOPS NPU2x MIPI CSI-2 with ISP1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
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HMI Display ModulesLINE 03 · OPERATOR PANEL7.2 barPRESSURE184 °CTEMPTHROUGHPUT / HRUNMODBUSCAN 2.0BOTA OKTOUCH DISPLAY MODULES10.1" PCAP · IP65

Touch Display Modules

Optically bonded TFT plus PCAP touch and controller, delivered as one tested assembly with one part number.

PCAP, up to 10 pointsOCA / LOCA optical bonding300 - 1500 cd/m2
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Project Examples

Recent work in this sector

Customer names withheld under NDA; technical details shared with permission.

QSR ordering kiosk

A European quick-service chain deployed 1,200 kiosks on a single mainboard design. Hardware watchdog plus A/B updates reduced on-site interventions from an estimated 3 per device per year to under 0.4.

Shelf availability monitoring

An SSD2386 camera node per aisle detects out-of-stock facings and publishes only counts over MQTT. No images leave the store, which closed the GDPR review in one meeting.

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