For those whom choose not to read the vendingtimes website on a...

For those whom choose not to read the vendingtimes website on a weekend -

"Partnering with Edgify, Shekel will introduce a distributed machine-learning, cloudless retail solution that automatically recognizes products and allows the existing retailer’s hardware to teach itself on how to recognize new products. The Edgify solution, introduced to the world of retail through Shekel, allows retailers to start using computer vision-based checkout processes without the hassle of new infrastructure or any privacy concerns involved with cloud-based training. The Edgify Framework reduces near 95% of time at till and increases the accuracy of product recognition to 100%, which will reportedly reduce loss by nearly 45%."

source: https://www.vendingtimes.com/articles/shekel-brainweigh-brings-autonomous-shopping-ai-re-13332

The advantages of this technology is significant - much faster and much cheaper for supermarkets. I have no doubt that this type of technology will be widespread in the near future due to the cost of theft..