Agilence Integrates with LaneHawk(TM) to Prevent Significant Loss for Retailer.Agilence, Inc's StoreVision System Catches a $1200 Loss Event with the Help of the LaneHawk Visual Scanner to Prevent Bottom-of-the-Basket Loss MOUNT LAUREL Laurel, cities, United States Laurel. 1 Town (1990 pop. 19,438), Prince Georges co., central Md., about halfway between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore; patented in the late 1600s, inc. 1870. , N.J. -- Agilence, Inc., the leading provider of Event-based Video Analytics (eVA) continues to deliver results through StoreVision. Taking advantage of a recent integration between the Agilence-StoreVision 3.0 (Hawkeye Edition) system and the LaneHawk Visual Scanner to Prevent Bottom-of-the-basket (BOB) solution, the Pathmark stores recently caught a cashier CASHIER. An officer of a moneyed institution, who is entitled by virtue of his office to take care of the cash or money of such institution. 2. The cashier of a bank is usually entrusted with all the funds of the bank, its notes, bills, and other choses in in a $1200 passing scheme. The incident was identified when a store auditor executed a newly defined "BOBclear" query, resulting in a summary of all of the bottom-of-the-basket clear events. Within the single Hawkeye user screen the auditor was able to quickly step through images of each event and located the suspect transaction. With cross examination of the LaneHawk information, investigators were armed with everything they needed to gain a confession A Confession is a short work on questions of religion by Leo Tolstoy. It was first distributed in Russia in 1882. Consisting of autobiographical notes on the development of the author's belief, A Confession from the cashier. Pedro Ramos Pedro Ramos Guerra (born April 28, 1935, in Pinar Del Rio, Cuba) was a Major League pitcher with a 15-year career from 1955 to 1967, and again from 1969 to 1970. He played for the Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees, all of the American , Director of Loss Prevention at Pathmark, stated, "Being able to query on BOB messages within Hawkeye (StoreVision 3.0) is like shooting fish in a barrel. Agilence is consistently making my job more productive by integrating our various data streams within their application that allows our investigators to quickly develop actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. cases." Agilence recently upgraded Pathmark to its StoreVision 3.0 (Hawkeye) Enterprise Edition. The new 3.0 unleashes powerful data-mining and retail specific auditing tools that allows retail management to accurately reduce shrink at the point-of-sale by capturing instances of theft, pinpointing operational problems and identifying training issues. StoreVision is a robust video & data analytics/relational database-based reporting tool providing an intelligent, comprehensive view of the enterprise, tracking trends, surfacing statistical correlations across multiple sites, and supporting the efficient allocation of often scarce Loss Prevention and Operational resources across the enterprise. The Hawkeye Edition was built to more easily integrate StoreVision with leading third-party technologies - providing a higher value for its customers. The recent integration with LaneHawk from Evolution Robotics robotics, science and technology of general purpose, programmable machine systems. Contrary to the popular fiction image of robots as ambulatory machines of human appearance capable of performing almost any task, most robotic systems are anchored to fixed positions Retail, is a prime example of the increased value to be derived from combining best-of-breed technologies. LaneHawk, a revolutionary BOBloss prevention solution for the retail industry is based on Evolution Robotics Retail's award winning visual pattern recognition (ViPR[TM]) technology. Throughout a rigorous beta-testing, phased release of its LaneHawk software, Evolution Robotics technology sifted through more than 3 million images in grocery-store customer pilots. The LaneHawk software more than proved its ability to identify items that exist BOB and present them to the point-of-sale clerk for inclusion in the transaction. "We are extremely happy with the results we have seen through our partnering with Agilence," said Jeff Sakaguchi, President and Chief Operating of Evolution Robotics Retail. Mr. Sakaguchi went on to say, "After seeing the granularity The degree of modularity of a system. More granularity implies more flexibility in customizing a system, because there are more, smaller increments (granules) from which to choose. of the data they store, the ease-of-use of their query builder, and the speed of the results, I was sold!" Typical U.S. grocers are losing more than $10 per lane per lane with BOB items leaving the stores unpaid for. LaneHawk significantly reduces the losses per lane, allowing grocery retailers to improve overall corporate profitability by as much as 10%. Hawkeye is easily installed in any retail point-of-sale environment and is easily implemented into store operations and can be used for training, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , accounting/auditing/compliance applications in addition to its core Loss Prevention utility. Agilence has automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. many of the customer support functions as well by being able to communicate with its deployed servers on a real-time basis. About Evolution Robotics Retail, Inc. Evolution Robotics Retail, Inc. is based in Pasadena, CA, and develops intelligent products and solutions for the retail industry based on VIPR[TM] which is considered the "gold standard" implementation of scale-invariant feature transformation (SIFT SIFT - SHARE Internal Fortran Translator. Translation utility designed for converting Fortran II to Fortran IV. The word "sift" was often used as a verb to describe converting code from one language to another. Sammet 1969, p.153. ) algorithms. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. is LaneHawk[TM], a Visual Scanner for Preventing Bottom-of the-Basket Loss. Evolution Robotics Retail is a subsidiary of Evolution Robotics, Inc. (www.evoretail.com) About Pathmark Pathmark Stores, Inc. is a major northeast supermarket chain operating 141 stores in the New York-New Jersey and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. About Agilence, Inc. (Agilence) A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Mount Laurel, NJ, Agilence is the leading provider of Event-based Video Analytics (eVA). In Q3 of 2006, Agilence, Inc. acquired the assets of CA Technology as well as the rights for Active Recognition Technology to further extend the Agilence Event-based Video Analytic (eVA) capabilities. Today, Agilence Inc. provides solutions to the Retail, Transportation and Gaming industries. These solutions provide a measurable return on investment through the synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. of transaction data (point-of-sale, toll plaza lane controller data, player tracking systems, etc.) and CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television video streams. By doing so, it enhances context and auditing capability for the protection of corporate assets as well as its customers and constituents. Agilence and its global network of partners have helped numerous customers worldwide manage their business assets more efficiently. For more information about Agilence, please visit http://www.agilenceinc.com. |
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