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Supermarkets anticipate thousands of turkeys will be smuggled out of their stores this Thanksgiving, but new artificial intelligence technology from StopLift is putting a target on thieves, to catch them in the act.
Supermarkets anticipate thousands of turkeys will be smuggled out of their stores this Thanksgiving, but new artificial intelligence technology from StopLift is putting a target on thieves, to catch them in the act.
Supermarkets anticipate thousands of turkeys will be smuggled out of their stores this Thanksgiving, but new artificial intelligence technology from StopLift is putting a target on thieves, to catch them in the act.
Malay Kundu, founder of StopLift in Cambridge, MA, tells NBC Boston how his artificial intelligence technology is putting a target on turkey theft at the supermarket checkout. It flags the unscanned turkeys, immediately sending a notice to a wrist device the attendant or manager is wearing. The technology also prevents false alerts at the self-checkout.
Supermarkets anticipate thousands of turkeys will be smuggled out of their stores this Thanksgiving, but new technology is putting a target on thieves, to catch them in the act.
StopLift uses artificial intelligence to analyze overhead video and spot unscanned items.
Thanks to self-checkout, supermarkets anticipate thousands of turkeys will be smuggled out of their store this thanksgiving – but new technology is aiming to stop that.
Malay Kundu of Stoplift Checkout Vision Systems targets turkey thieves at self-checkout with his “StopLift” technology.
Atlanta-based NCR Corporation, which makes point-of-sale systems, acquired Cambridge-based StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, which makes computer vision systems, to combat theft in the retail business.
Turkey heists happen four times more often in November and December than the rest of the year combined. But now new technology, developed by StopLift, is literally putting a target on the turkey thieves, as it can detect when a cashier fails to scan a turkey — or any other item.
Turkey heists happen four times more often in November and December than the rest of the year combined. Malay Kundu, Founder of StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, explains how his software detects incidents of cashiers and customers passing turkeys through the checkout without scanning them. Inside Edition reporter Les Trent visits Vicente’s supermarket, Brockton, MA, where he passed a turkey through the checkout without scanning it – and gets caught!
NCR plans to integrate StopLift’s artificial intelligence tech, which detects unusual and possibly fraudulent behavior in self-checkout systems, into its point-of-sale portfolio.