Retail Solutions

The most important application of surveillance in the retail segment is security - in other words, prevention of loss and shrinkage. It is also useful in safety issues, like investigation of accidents in the stores. The field of operational video surveillance (store planning, customer behavior etc.) opens a lot of applications.

The DINA Digital Video Management System offers retailers local real-time monitoring, centralized surveillance over the network, and integration with other retail systems like electronic article surveillance, point of sales, data mining and storage control.

Retail case study

Mirasys Retail Solution presentation

Local Real-time Surveillance
Real-time monitoring is a must in large shops and supermarkets where customers move unattended between the shelves. The free positioning and resizing of video windows on the DINA DVR and Client screens permit the operator to adjust the view according to the current situation.

The DINA DVR Comp series can be fitted with an optional analog output that can display one-channel or quad video. The programmable control of external matrices is a standard feature of DINA Comp.

Centralized Video Surveillance
Retail business requires continuous and efficient video surveillance. Strong industry competition forces management
to cut costs wherever possible, including security. The loss prevention manager must consider, on a daily basis, how much
of available resources to allocate to security and how to get the maximum benefit from the current system.

Centralized video surveillance monitored by specially-trained personnel facilitates significant cost savings. This type of set
up is not only applicable to supermarkets and large department stores, but also to multiple locations of smaller outlets.

DINA RMC system is dedicated to centralized video surveillance. Specially trained personnel employ an easy-to-use format to control hundreds of cameras. The powerful alarm management utilities decrease operational costs while providing higher security.

Integration with Point of Sales System
The outstanding system integration features of the DINA allow
for seamless integration with a point of sales system. All cash register actions can be stored synchronously with video footage of events taking place at the cash register. This allows for quick and easy reviewing of deviant material so that all cashier transactions can be viewed with the video material of events taking place at the register.

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Integration with EAS System
Apart from video surveillance, electronic article surveillance is one of the widest used and most rapidly advancing protective assets in the retail world. Modern RFID systems allow intelligent article recognition. By combining the strengths of these two systems through system-level integration, the staff is instantly able to visually verify the EAS alarms. When an alarm event is generated, the security staff can see the respective video images - in the near future in a portable PDA computer or on the display of a cell phone!

Visual Verification of POS Transactions in Data Mining Environment
The common management of POS and CCTV data can be taken a step further: the POS data can later be analyzed with Data Mining Software to identify abnormal transactions. According to the predefined conditions and parameters, the Data Mining solution produces a report of suspicious transactions. By means of the Mirasys Camera Bean Component, each transaction can easily be visually verified - the respective recorded video images can be obtained to the screen with a single click of the mouse over network connection!

This approach saves loss prevention managers and shop supervisors a significant amount of time and improves accuracy, eliminating human error or interpretation. The fast and easy visual validation helps retailers to reduce shrink losses caused by mistakes or willful manipulation.
 
Data Mining integration