Motorola Solutions today has introduced Mobility Lifecycle
Management, a service that maintains the performance and availability of
mobile devices for retailers and other businesses that have deployed
mobile devices to staff members, such as tablets for store associates.
The new service can handle Apple Inc. iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and
Motorola mobile devices.
It ensures the successful introduction
of mobile devices across an enterprise by speeding rollout and providing
operational support for mobile device and application planning, the
vendor says. Mobility Lifecycle Management also supports deployment,
management, service desk, repairs, and reporting and analysis.
Mobility
Lifecycle Management is just one piece of a broader mobile vision
Motorola Solutions has for retailers and other businesses. The vision is
called Next Generation Enterprise, and includes the companys Connected
Shopper portfolio of mobile technologies. Motorola Solutions recently
conducted a demonstration for Internet Retailer of the numerous
technologies that make up its Next Generation Enterprise. Some of the
technologies demonstrated are commercially available while others are
concepts still being vetted.
The starting point is what a
Motorola client, such as a retailer, is trying to do, and how the
addition of technology might impact the clients customer,The whole
variety of the brightest rtls is now gathered under one roof. such as a shopper,We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in
China Paul Steinberg, senior vice president and chief technology
officer at Motorola Solutions, tells Internet Retailer. Then we think
how does it make sense to implant technology into a retail environment,
what are the applications you want to surface and what are the workflows
and use cases you want to realize. Then we invent the technology to
make that happen.
One system available now is Mobile Workforce
Management, which Motorola Solutions describes as an intelligent task
management system. The system provides store associates outfitted with a
Motorola mobile device an up-to-the-minute, prioritized task list that
is designed to help managers ensure a productive shift. Tasks are
automatically delivered to the mobile device of the associate best
suited for the job, monitored until theyre completed and automatically
escalated when needed, the vendor says.
Supervisors can view on a
mobile device a task management mobile dashboard to monitor progress,
view sales data,Other companies want a piece of that smartcard action see a count of customers and associates,Virtual miningtruck logo
Verano Place logo. and even watch video of a truck dropping off
products in the loading dock. And customers with smartphones and a
retailers mobile app can request help when they are in the store, and
the system will immediately send the nearest associate.
Indoor
Locationing is part of Motorola Solutions Connected Shopper technology;
it is in development and would work with Mobile Workforce Management and
retailers mobile apps. It can track any mobile device that enters a
store and pinpoint its location within inches, which Motorola Solutions
demonstrated with precision to Internet Retailer. The company will not
reveal the nature of the proprietary networking and location technology
it is using to track devices. It says the location technology could be
used to send associates to customers in need of help, guide customers
through a store to find a product, rearrange a shopping list based on
products locations, and send extremely precise location-based offers to
customers in-store. To protect privacy, customers would have to OK the
use of location technology when they open a retailers app.
Connected
Shopper technology, which the company says is designed to personalize
in-store shopping and increase average orders, includes a software
development kit that retailers will be able to build into their apps. In
addition to the Indoor Locationing functions, a retailer can enable
self-checkout. An in-store shopper uses a retailers app to scan bar
codes of products she adds to her cart. When shes ready, the shopper
touches a checkout button and the system generates a unique bar code
that is scanned at self-checkout stations,You've probably seen handsfreeaccess at some point. where she pays for her purchases.
Coming
soon to Connected Shopper is Customer Concierge, a giant-screen smart
TV that is connected to the Internet as well as store systems and
features a magnetic swipe reader on the side for credit cards. A
customer approaches the TV in a store and holds her smartphone up to the
screen, as is explained on the screen. The concierge recognizes her
because she has the retailers app on her device. She then can shop via
an e-commerce interface for items that are out of stock in-store or not
carried in-store and have them delivered, paying for them with a swipe
of her credit card. A shopper also can page an associate on the
concierge screen or request a videoconference with an expert. Customer
Concierge has a voice recognition interface.
Motorola Solutions
demonstrated for Internet Retailer some technologies that it has dreamed
up and is exploring; these technologies have not yet been given the
green light. They include a 3-D infrared camera that can scan a box and
generate the exact dimensions; video analytics that use myriad tiny,
low-cost cameras snapped onto store shelves that provide data at the
shelf level; and wireless charging by generating a magnetic resonance
field that charges the batteries of mobile devices within its range.
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