Contactless Self-Checkout

AiFi is an AI technology company automating the world’s stores for retailers and brands of all sizes, from small footprint pop-up stores to supermarkets. With its Autonomous Store Platform OASIS, AiFi is creating delightful shopping experiences with some of the most influential retail partners in the world including Carrefour, Albert Heijn, and Żabka. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

SandStar is an artificial intelligence and new retail company that develops, manufactures, and operates unmanned convenience stores. SandStar can recognize over 3,000 products including vegetables, fruits, snacks, beverages, breads, fast foods, stationery, and clothes. The technology can be used in all retail checkout scenarios such as supermarkets, pharmacies, food courts, bookstores, and bakeries. Consumers simply place their items on the machine, and their prices are displayed immediately. Payments can be made via WeChat or Alipay. Additionally, merchants can be connected to the machine without having to change their existing system structure, meaning the machines can be quickly deployed and duplicated. The machine also features a face recognition anti-theft system to reduce the rate of damaged goods.

Trigo is a computer vision and AI startup focused on reshaping the retail experience by developing a platform that combines a ceiling-based camera network with proprietary machine vision algorithms and neural networks. Trigo's system identifies and captures customers' shopping items during their in-store journey, eliminating the need for a checkout process to create a seamless shopping experience.

Standard provides AI-powered autonomous checkout solutions for brick and mortar retailers. The Standard solution lets consumers shop and pay without waiting in line, scanning or stopping to check out.

Cloudpick is an unmanned retail technology service company that offers off-line physical retail stores a solution that does not require queued checkouts. Consumers can scan a WeChat or Alipay code to enter the store, take goods, and leave while payments are completed automatically. Cloudpick mainly targets small physical retail stores such as convenience stores, pharmacies, and more.

Zippin offers checkout-free technology enabling retailers to deploy shopping in their stores. The company's approach uses AI, machine learning, and sensor fusion technology to create a consumer experience that includes: banishing checkout lines and self-scanners for goods and letting shoppers zip in and out with their purchases. Zippin's platform uses product and shopper tracking through overhead cameras as well as smart shelf sensors for high levels of accuracy among crowded stores.

Grabango is a checkout-free technology provider for large-scale grocery and convenience store chains. The Grabango platform is a fault-tolerant, edge computing network that accurately processes millions of simultaneous transactions. The system places no limits on who can enter the store, what can be sold there, or how the shelving is configured.

Supersmart develops a secure grocery shopping experience where consumers use mobile phones to scan items to a digital cart. The physical cart is visually authenticated at the checkout by a scanning device.

Sensei is a business intelligence solution that captures non-sales/in-store information using security cameras and merges this information with other retailer data to provide recommendations and insights.

MashGin is a maker of a self-checkout machine that works through a machine vision system. The company's brick-and-mortar checkout kiosk uses cameras to machine vision scan objects and instantly ring them up. The kiosk recognizes what the food items look like without user input or bar codes, and customers can swipe their cards to pay and leave. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

MishiPay is a mobile, self-checkout solution that brings the online checkout experience to physical retail stores. Its technology allows consumers in-store to purchase goods using their mobile device via MishiPay's mobile application.

Nomitri offers deep-learning edge and embedded visual AI solutions that allow retailers to integrate an autonomous self-checkout system that eliminates camera installations, cloud-infrastructure set-up, and connectivity issues.

Imagr is the developer of SMARTCART, an image recognition retrofit solution designed to eliminate the queues at checkouts and is set to revolutionise the shopping experience for consumers and retailers.

Shopic offers checkout-free shopping experiences for medium and large grocery stores, with no changes in infrastructure or installation of ceiling and shelf hardware. The company specializes in mobile self-checkout and AI-powered Fraud Detection solutions.