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Here you can find news about the visioncheckout, insights to our team and trends in community catering.
Self-checkouts are no longer just a thing in supermarkets and furniture stores. In catering, too, especially in community catering, the checkout process is increasingly left to the guests. And there are numerous advantages: It's quick, easy on the workforce and can be used flexibly. However, there are many different self-checkout systems, and the decision may not be easy. This article is intended as guidance in the decision-making process and to illustrate the advantages of the different systems.
We are constantly working on improving the visioncheckout. Naturally, this includes programming new features, as well as optimizing our hardware. While we release new software versions and features almost daily, the step to renew the hardware is something special for us. In the latest version of the visioncheckout, we have applied our experience from live operations and responded directly to our customers' feedback.
Self-checkouts are on the rise. From 2019 to 2022, the share of stationary self-checkout terminals in German retail has doubled, mobile self-scanning alternatives have even increased tenfold! Customer acceptance and dealing with the new types of payment terminals has also changed in this context. Less skepticism, faster processes and, accordingly, increasing customer satisfaction are the result. However, many questions still arise for potential operators. In this article, we’ll take a look at the most important ones and answer them in detail to make sure that no doubts remain.
Valuable images are captured on the fly, when operating an AI-based meal recognition.
Observant followers might have already noticed a big change in our last posts. The visioncheckout is becoming the focus of our presence and the auvisus brand is fading more and more into the background. Now we are making it official. auvisus is turning into the visioncheckout - at least in the external perception. The auvisus GmbH, the team and the usual service will remain. The change to our product brand has several reasons, which we will explain to you in this article.
The recognition is the core of every autonomous self-checkout system. To reach a recognition rate of up to 100% some may count on RFID tags and expensive modifications. Nowadays, that is not necessary any longer! In this blog post, we reveal how to reach such high recognition rates with computer vision.