Shrinkage investigations are slow
Reviewing a suspected theft means scrubbing hours across several cameras.
Solutions
Loss, footfall and queues in the same view
Store security that also produces the operating numbers your area managers actually use.
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The situation
What sites in this sector are dealing with
Retail cameras are usually bought for shrinkage and used for nothing else. The same feeds can tell you footfall by hour, how long the queue was at 7pm, and which aisle nobody enters.
Footfall is guessed
Staffing decisions are made on last week's sales, not on who actually walked in.
Queue pain is invisible
Nobody knows a till queue is too long until customers walk out.
Multi-store inconsistency
Every store has different cameras, different settings and different retention.
What we deploy
The products doing the work
Same platform, same event pipeline, same audit log — only the rules differ.
Video Management System
Store groups with consistent retention and central health monitoring.
AI-Enabled Video Analytics
People counting, queue length, dwell by zone and after-hours intrusion.
Face Recognition System
Optional, and only where you have a lawful basis and a documented policy.
Outcomes
What changes on site
- Footfall and conversion by hour, per store, from cameras you already own
- Queue alerts that reach the floor manager while the queue still exists
- Investigation clips found by time and zone instead of manual scrubbing
- The same configuration across every store in the estate
Most retail value comes from anonymous counting, not identity. We would start there — it is cheaper, faster and carries far fewer obligations.
CVHow we approach this sectorCognix Vision engineering
Questions
Frequently asked
Do you integrate with our POS?
Counting data can be exported alongside POS exports for conversion analysis. A live integration with your POS platform is scoped separately.
Is face recognition needed for footfall?
No. People counting is anonymous and answers the footfall question without storing any identity.
Planning something for Retail?
Tell us the site, the camera count and what you need to catch. We will tell you what is realistic before anyone talks price.