Tuesday
June 2
2020

New AI Technology Helps Retailers and Shoppers Maintain Social Distancing

By Julie Knudson

The restart is underway, and as stores reopen, retailers must ensure customers and employees maintain adequate social distancing. To help track and manage those efforts, startup Voxel51’s platform can monitor in-store traffic and identify when locations are busy. The company’s metric, referred to as the physical distancing index, uses video feeds and computer vision modeling to reflect the amount of human activity in a particular location over time.

Jason Corso, co-founder and CEO of the technology firm, says physical distance measurement wasn’t on the radar before COVID-19. “Our vision as a company is to be the video platform where people go to rapidly build applications that need image and video capabilities,” he says.

Photo courtesy of Kate Trifo.

Source: National Retail Federation (link opens in a new window)

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