Hewlett Packard Enterprise has unveiled new capabilities designed to enhance retail customer experiences and boost operational efficiency through improved connectivity and high-performance edge computing.
These new solutions enable quick, secure deployment in retail environments to improve performance for real-time applications and workloads at the edge, Hewlett Packard Enterprise said.
Retail organisations with geographically distributed locations such as stores, warehouses, and back offices require management of an increasingly complex network to decrease the number and duration of IT visits. HPE's new solutions enable remote management across on-premises, Cloud, and edge compute resources by expanding private 5G and Wi-Fi wireless solutions, integrating with HPE GreenLake Cloud and edge compute portfolio.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Expanded Retail Portfolio
HPE's expanded portfolio for retail customers includes:
100 Series Cellular Bridge: The Cellular Bridge helps deploy primary or backup WAN access to provide connectivity when fibre or broadband WAN circuits are unavailable or experience failure. It provides customers with better resiliency for critical services such as credit card processing. It can also be used for quick deployment of new or temporary locations, like kiosks or pop-up locations.
CX 8325H: The new 18-port switch fits into compact spaces, with lower power and cooling requirements, and connects with the HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server for edge computing.
750 Series: Wireless access points help secure, process, and deliver IoT data in real-time to power AI retail applications. To protect against breaches and malware, these access points offer a secure connectivity platform for the increase in IoT devices at the network edge, such as cameras, shelf labels, RFID labels, energy sensors, and motion detectors.
HPE Aruba Networking Central AI Insights
The Central AI Insights solution helps optimise retail curbside operations by increasing performance of Wi-Fi networks when deployed outdoors and can also detect unusual IoT behaviour that indicates a potential security breach.
As retailers focus on customer experience that spans in-store and online transactions, it becomes more critical that passerby traffic does not interfere with customer transactions. Central AI Insights detects any negative impact on the customer experience and can automatically adjust transmit settings to remedy poor performance.
Expanded IoT Operations Dashboard And IoT Partner PortalÂ
Apart from that, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is also expanding its Central IoT Operations dashboard. This allows retailers to take advantage of pre-built third-party applications from HPE retail partners to enhance capabilities of the access points and improve visibility into IoT applications at the edge.
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