SHANGHAI, June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Suning, the
commercial giant ranked second in China's top non-state-owned enterprises and
owners of Suning.com, a Fortune Global 500 retail company, will
showcase its unmanned automated 'Biu' store at CES Asia 2018,
demonstrating the firm's latest innovations in the fields of Smart
Retail and Smart Home.
Powered by Big-data, Facial Recognition and Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID), Suning's first self-service store was
launched in Nanjing in
August 2017. As the first industrial
player to bring the unmanned store concept into commercial use,
Suning gave the Biu Store its international debut at CES 2018 in
Las Vegas earlier this year,
attracting thousands of visitors from around the globe. The company
is currently operating five unmanned stores in China, in Nanjing, Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing.
This week at CES Asia, Suning demonstrates its latest
innovations in Smart Retail solutions and showcases the firm's
revolutionary experience of delivering intelligent tech-driven
services and products in such an eco-system. Compared to the
previous pop-up unmanned store shown in Las Vegas, Suning is transforming its booth at
CES Asia into an upgraded version, providing more practical and
diversified experiences of Smart Retail consumption tools. These
include Suning's Anywhere AR, which enables consumers to place
virtual products into a real scene for making purchasing decisions
in a more efficient way; Smart Sue Shopping Assistant, which
provides a shopping guide service to customers via text and voice
interaction; and Smart Shelves, which incorporate gravity sensing
and face recognition technology to enable automated payments and
customized shopping recommendations.
The leading products of Suning's smart logistics are also
revealed on site, including the delivery drone, self-driving
delivery car, AGV robots, and the company's self-developed Sharing
Express Box. In addition, Suning's Smart Home intelligent terminals
such as PPTV and Magic Mirror deliver the pioneering insights of
the smart life experience in the near future.
Qiao Xinliang, Executive Vice President of Suning Technology and
General Manager of Suning Data Cloud Company said: "Suning's Smart
Retail largely depends on the datamation of retail factors and
intelligentization of retail operation. Based on a wealth
experience of Omni-channel retail, Suning has laid a solid
foundation in cloud computing, IoT and AI, to better serve our
customer and continuously improve our services. CES Asia will be a platform for people to better
experience Suning's innovative products and services."
On 13 June 2018, a 'Created in
China' forum hosted by Suning and
China Household Electric Appliance Research Institute took place at
CES Asia. The event has explored the electronics industry trends in
China, and Sun Weimin, Vice Chairman of Suning, has made a
speech at the forum on the topic of Suning's Smart Retail
experience.
About Suning
Founded in 1990, Suning is one of the leading commercial
enterprises in China with two
public companies in China and
Japan respectively. In 2017,
Suning Holding ranked second among
the top 500 private-owned enterprises in China with annual sales of 65.7 billion USD (412.95
billion RMB). With the mission of "Leading the Ecosystem
across Industries by Creating Elite Quality of Life for All",
Suning has strengthened and expanded its core business through
eight vertical industries: Suning.com, Logistics, Financial
Services, Technology, Real Estate, Media &Entertainment,
Sports, and Investment, among which Suning.com was listed on the
2017 list of Fortune Global 500.
For more information, see www.suningholdings.com
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