The intelligent dressing room, shown by Metro Group at CeBit in Hannover, Germany, scans your measurements and lets you see on a projection screen how a piece will look on you. The technology is part of the Metro Group’s Future Store Initiative, which brings companies together to envision a technology-driven store of tomorrow.
A smart information terminal, on display at CeBit as part of Metro Group’s Future Store Initiative, helps a would-be customer locate product information.
Self check-outs are one of the additions that are meant to make the payment process more efficient for shoppers.
Radio frequency identification, or RFID, is key to the Metro Group’s vision of the future store. RFID tags, which contain special microchips and antennae, are designed to automatically relay precise information about merchandise and its location to computers via radio frequency signals.
Bill Detwiler is the Editor for Technical Content and Ecosystem at Celonis. He is the former Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and previous host of TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer podcast and Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Previously, Bill was an IT manager in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.
