Unmanned supermarkets come into reality from science fiction

"When I bought something, I deliberately put one of the small notebooks in my pocket." For the science and technology of the unmanned supermarket, Ms. Pan, who works for an Internet company in Hangzhou, gave a thumbs up: "I want to test it, after I come out." Look at the phone and find that this notebook is on the bill."
At first, like most people think, Ms. Pan thought that if she hides the small goods, she can bring out the unmanned supermarket without paying the bill. "This technology really realizes no one word."
According to relevant technical personnel from Ali, the products in the store use RFID technology.
RFID is a radio frequency identification technology that can be identified at a distance (30m) by attaching an RFID tag to an item and being inductively recognized when it is placed in the area where the reader is installed. As long as the product enters the scanning area, all the product accumulation calculations can be completed in an instant. At present, it is common practice to place RFID chips in the outer packaging of goods to sense goods. This is a relatively mature application in the field of smart packaging, and thus has become the most reliable technical support for identifying goods behind unmanned stores.
Compared with the previous shopping experience in traditional supermarkets, Ms. Pan feels that no one retail store will be more comfortable, and will never worry about being surrounded by salesmen. “Technological progress will make unmanned retail stores based on various sensors. The information of the captured guests and products is analyzed, and smart recommendations are made to the guests. Even if they don’t buy them, they will not feel embarrassed and troublesome.”
“Without queuing up, you don’t have to pull out your wallet and mobile phone. It’s convenient to complete the offline shopping and directly eliminate the “pay the bill” ceremony.” Miss Wang, who came to the unmanned supermarket, said excitedly: “ The technologies that were previously only seen in science fiction movies have now been created. It is conceivable how much convenience will be brought when they are put into use."
Miss Wang believes that this will become the development trend of offline retail stores in the future. “Maybe, after another ten years, my children will ask me when they are watching movies. Why do these people queue up in the supermarket? In order to pay the bill? What is the pay order? ”
Behind the Internet of Things payment black technology
The IoT payment solution of the unmanned supermarket was developed by the R&D engineer of the Ant Financial Technology Laboratory. This is a team focused on cutting-edge technology research and development. The world's first VR payment technology for landing applications released by Ant Financial last year came from this lab.
Dr. Jiang Guofei, the head of the laboratory team, was previously the vice president of NEC Group. After returning to China to join the ants, he studied and worked in the United States for 20 years. He led NEC American Research Institute and global R&D dedicated to IoT, big data analysis, AI, cloud platform, Computer security and software define R&D in areas such as networking.
For the team members, Zeng Xiaodong, a senior technical expert at Ant Financial Technology Lab, is very proud. He told Changjiang Business Daily that “this lab has more than 30 R&D engineers and is the team with the highest proportion of Dr. Ant Jinfu. Research and development in cutting-edge technologies such as VR, IoT, and blockchain."
The research and development of any technology is bound to be accompanied by a difficult process. When referring to the research and development process, Lin Feng, a senior technical expert at Ant Financial Technology Lab, still remembers, "The payment gate used now is actually our first. The five versions, from the very beginning of the design to the final experience of the product landing, repeated overthrows and then come back, constantly improving from practical problems."
In the stress test, the system can accommodate 50 people to enter the market at the same time, the focus of which is sensor sensing and biometrics. For the contradiction between the number of people and the rapid investment in commercial use, Lin Feng believes that "from the perspective of consumers, there will be a pain point in the payment settlement queue when there is a large flow of people; from the perspective of merchants, offline retail store transformation The higher the cost, the lower the commercial landing. So our design philosophy comes from these two aspects, based on black technology to create a comprehensive IoT payment solution."
Mentioning Ant's gold-based Internet of Things payment black technology, Internet analyst Yu Bin said in an interview with reporters, "For Ant Financial, the offline + online payment system is open, which means that users are consuming consumption. Habits, more convenient for users, are also an important stage in consumption upgrades, which is destined to become a milestone in the history of new retail."
Internet black technology may change the real economy
There is no ant gold service for the offline business, but the technology research and development for this industry, the purpose of which is quite confusing. Lin Feng told reporters, "We don't do physical supermarkets, but we want to give new payment solutions to our businesses, solve the real problems of consumers, and let businesses know more about our consumers and better serve us. Consumers, so we started thinking about exploring IoT-based payment solutions starting in March of this year."
As for the idea of opening up the offline store in the future, Lin Feng said, "In the beginning, I thought about the trial and creation of black technology. I didn't have what I could do. The more I found it, the more confident I was. When the prototype was polished, the product was deeply touched by the fact that black technology is not purely cool, but also solves the real problems of users and businesses."
Internet companies gradually enter the offline, and use their own advantages in technology to open up the territory is no longer news, the technology crab founder Xie Wei believes that "now online payment field, Ant Financial's Alipay has occupied more than 50% market share, but for Alipay and WeChat payment, their biggest enemy is no longer each other, but credit card and cash, so it will be inevitable to expand offline. And hope for sustainable operation. For enterprises, no possibility of the future can be let go, and various technologies must be made to cope with market changes."
Throughout the Internet industry, the main business is mainly fewer online companies, whether it is Baidu's driverless technology, or Taobao Jingdong's logistics system, or WeChat's payment tools. Zhao Hongmin, the founder of "One Network" told reporters, "Now the Internet companies are adopting offline use scenarios. Traditional enterprises actively embrace the Internet + is a trend. I think that in the future, successful companies will not have Internet companies and offline companies. The difference, because there is no Internet company under the transition line, and traditional companies without Internet + will die."
Just as Internet companies develop black technology to enter offline scenarios, consumer electronics companies also need to have enough black technology to make enough eye-catching highlights in their products. Among them, for example, the full screen on Xiaomi MIX, the VOOC flash of OPPO, etc., these previously seemingly unachievable technologies are now well known to consumers.
After selecting the goods to enter a gate, the phone will automatically settle the deduction.
Take out the phone scan code to enter the store