Retail and convenience operators are sitting on operational data the cameras already capture but the existing platforms cannot deliver. Signals turns that infrastructure into a live intelligence layer. Conversion by zone. Lines and staff coverage. Loss prevention without the review burden.
Retail is the highest-volume, fastest-cycle vertical in the Signals portfolio. The technology proof point is the production deployment at Hi-Life convenience chain in Taiwan. The same model applies to US chains: Wawa, Sheetz, Casey's, and Circle K. High-throughput,, understaffed formats where real-time operational intelligence drives measurable improvement in efficiency and LP outcomes.
"Which zones had the longest dwell times yesterday that did not convert to a transaction?"
"Show me anyone who spent more than three minutes near the display case after 6 pm in the past week."
A zone with strong traffic and high dwell is converting at half the rate of adjacent zones. Without Signals this shows up as category underperformance. With Signals you can see whether the problem is pricing (dwell without purchase, consistent all day), staffing (conversion drops correlating with unstaffed periods), or layout (customers approaching but not engaging). Each has a different fix.
Diagnostic precisionTraditional LP requires dedicated staff monitoring feeds or reviewing footage after incidents. Signals eliminates the review burden. Natural language search returns relevant clips in seconds. Anomaly detection flags behavioral deviations before they become incidents. The Pegatron team has seen this capability demonstrated in the context of a Verizon-type retail security use case.
LP function efficiencyHi-Life, one of Taiwan's largest convenience chains, runs Signals across its network. Real-time traffic flow, line wait times, zone conversion data, anomaly alerting. The same model applies directly to US chains including Wawa, Sheetz, Casey's, and Circle K. High-throughput,, understaffed formats where real-time operational intelligence drives measurable improvement.
Production-deployed todayAs retailers build in-store media networks and sell advertising to CPG brands, they need to prove placements drive engagement. Signals provides verified impression data · actual dwell and behavioral response at each placement, not door-count estimates. Enables media pricing based on real engagement and supports the creation of a high-margin media revenue stream.
New revenue lineEvery Signals deployment ships with a real-time operational dashboard configured for the retail environment. Browser-based, device-agnostic, no specialist required. The natural language query bar runs across every view.
Real-time view across all locations. Traffic, conversion, alerts, line waits. Primary view for chain operations.
Per-store traffic flow, zone conversion, dwell heatmaps, line and staffing data. Used by store ops and store managers.
Real-time anomaly alerts. After-hours access, behavioral deviation, suspect patterns. Each alert links to footage.
Dwell and engagement analytics for each in-store media placement. Impression quality data for retailer-CPG conversations.
Live line lengths, average wait, abandonment count. Triggers staffing alerts and routes to manager.
Ask any question about any store at any point in time. Returns clips, counts, or summaries.
Most retail deployments run Hybrid. Edge for real-time alerting, POS integration, and footage sovereignty. Cloud for cross-store benchmarking and unified chain-level dashboards. Single-site operators typically run Edge. Chains of 10+ locations are best served by a Hybrid architecture with cloud multi-site analytics.
All inference on-site. No footage leaves the building. Fully offline-capable. Qualcomm-powered hardware.
Single-site operators and regulated environments.
Edge for real-time alerting and privacy-sensitive processing. Cloud for indexed search, cross-site analytics, and trend reporting.
Most common enterprise configuration for retail.
Camera streams route to managed cloud. Full platform access. Best for multi-site portfolios.
Multi-site chains and portfolios where central visibility takes priority.
| POS | Square · Lightspeed · NCR · Oracle Retail · Shopify POS (conversion by zone) |
| VMS | Milestone XProtect · Genetec (Signals as analytics layer on existing VMS) |
| Workforce | Deputy · Sling · UKG (staffing alerts triggered by live traffic data) |
| Retail media | RetailNext · Broadsign (behavioral data for in-store media networks) |
| BI & reporting | Power BI · Tableau · Looker (REST API delivery of behavioral data) |
| Loyalty & CRM | Salesforce Commerce Cloud · loyalty platform APIs (kiosk assistant integration) |
| Hardware | Qualcomm-powered edge devices (preferred) · Axis · Hanwha · Hikvision · Dahua compatibility |
Hi-Life is in production. Children's Place has the deck. Pegatron is engaged on the security use case. The retail story is not what we will build. It is what is already deployed and what we are extending.
3-5 stores, 60 days, KPIs agreed before deployment. Pilot fee $5,000-$10,000 (depending on store count). Credited against Year 1 contract on conversion. Cloud or hybrid configuration.