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IDC Retail Insights: What We Learned About Retail Experiential Operations at the 2023 NRF Big Show

What We Learned About Retail Experiential Operations at the 2023 NRF Big Show

Analysts Leslie Hand and Anne Parris discuss their findings from NRF 23: "GK Software, Hitachi, and Shekel teamed up to create an autonomous checkout solution using the customer's own device to create a virtual shopping basket that connects to a combination of cameras and scales to keep track of what the shopper buys."

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Retail Leader Pro: Tech Improvements Key to Consumer Happiness, CX Research Shows

Tech Improvements Key to Consumer Happiness, CX Research Shows

New research from Shekel Scales showed that 90% of consumers believe technology will significantly improve the overall shopping experience. While nearly 60% of consumers wanted technology that speeds up and simplifies the self-checkout process, more than 30% of respondents expressed a desire for technology that helps them get in and out of the store as fast and as easily as possible.

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RIS: Best of NRF 2023: Top 10 Takeaways

Best of NRF 2023: Top 10 Takeaways

A consumer shopping survey by Shekel Scales, advanced weighing technology, found that 90% of consumers believe technology will significantly improve the overall shopping experience, particularly tech that simplifies the self-checkout process, according to 60% of consumers. 

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The Shelby Report: Consumers Believe Technology Will Improve Shopping Experience

Consumers Believe Technology Will Improve Shopping Experience

A consumer shopping survey sponsored by Shekel Scales revealed that 90 percent of consumers believe technology will improve the overall shopping experience. While nearly 60 percent of consumers cited technology that speeds and simplifies the self-checkout process, more than 30 percent of respondents expressed a desire for technology that helps them get in and out of the store as fast and as easily as possible.

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CIO Review: SPARK Microsystems and UBITO Leverages UWB Technology by developing Wireless, Battery-less IoT Sensors

SPARK Microsystems and UBITO Leverages UWB Technology by developing Wireless, Battery-less IoT Sensors

SPARK Microsystems and UBITO have partnered to develop a range of UWB-based wireless sensing and IoT solutions. This partnership will allow UBITO to leverage SPARK Microsystems’ UWB technology for wireless, battery-less sensor applications in multiple industries, including smart home, industrial automation, and condition monitoring.

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Embedded.com: Insidious malvertising preys on smart home IoT

Insidious malvertising preys on smart home IoT

GeoEdge report indicates criminal gang from Eastern Europe attacked IoT devices in the home using malvertising.

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SC Magazine: Malvertising campaign uses mobile devices as springboard to target IoT devices

Malvertising campaign uses mobile devices as springboard to target IoT devices

GeoEdge researchers are claiming to have found the first-ever instance of a malvertising campaign specifically targeting WiFi-connected smart home devices.

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EE Times: Malvertising: The Silent Attack Threat in Smart Home IoT

Malvertising: The Silent Attack Threat in Smart Home IoT

GeoEdge uncovered a global-scale malvertising attack, the first ad-based cybercrime aimed specifically at home-network based IoT devices.

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eSecurity Planet: Malvertising Campaign Targets IoT Devices

Malvertising Campaign Targets IoT Devices

A malicious advertising campaign originating out of Eastern Europe and operating since at least mid-June is targeting IoT devices connected to home networks.

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Vending Times: Shekel Brainweigh Teams with Parlevel Systems, Imbera on Smart Cooler

Shekel Brainweigh Teams with Parlevel Systems, Imbera on Smart Cooler

Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technology, is teaming up with Parlevel Systems, a software provider, and Imbera, a provider of commercial refrigeration equipment, to introduce hubz, a cooler that offers a secure way to sell any product, anywhere and anytime, according to a press release.

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Kiosk Marketplace: French retailer Monoprix teams with Shekel Brainweigh on cashierless store

French retailer Monoprix teams with Shekel Brainweigh on cashierless store

Monoprix S.A., a Clichy, France-based retailer, has teamed with Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., an Israel-based weighing technology provider, to introduce an AI-powered autonomous shopping system on a self-service retail concept to offer 24/7 service.

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Retail Technology Innovation Hub: Groupe Casino enlists Shekel Brainweigh for automated store pilot

Groupe Casino enlists Shekel Brainweigh for automated store pilot

French retailer Groupe Casino is working with Shekel Brainweigh on an automated store situated at its Monoprix HQ in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris.

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Kiosk Marketplace: Shekel Brainweigh integrates Nayax payment solutions for micro market coolers

Shekel Brainweigh integrates Nayax payment solutions for micro market coolers

Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technology, has integrated Nayax payment solutions as a standard payment method for its Innovendi machines.

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International Business Times: 5 Tech Trends Expected To Shape Retail Through The End Of The Year As Result Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

5 Tech Trends Expected To Shape Retail Through The End Of The Year As Result Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

Technology firm Shekel Brainweigh said 87% of respondents to its global consumer survey indicated they would choose stores with self-checkout over those with only cashier lines.

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Electronics Engineering Journal: WattIQ Uses Its Power for Good

WattIQ Uses Its Power for Good

Enter WattIQ, a 12-person company that previously went by the name Ibis Networks. The rebranded firm is now in the asset-management business, with a particular focus on pharma labs. They essentially retrofit a monitoring network onto all that shiny expensive lab equipment. 

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Storage Unpacked Podcast: #159 – Introduction to MRAM with Joe O’Hare from Everspin

#159 – Introduction to MRAM with Joe O’Hare from Everspin

Storage Unpacked hosts dig deeper into storage media and look at magneto-resistive RAM, commonly known as MRAM in this conversation with Joe O’Hare, Director of Distribution and Product Marketing at Everspin Technologies.

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Kiosk Marketplace: How self-service equipment helps define the 'new normal' against COVID-19

How self-service equipment helps define the 'new normal' against COVID-19

Shekel, a provider of AI-powered advanced weighing solutions, has introduced Fast Track, a touchless machine-learning, cloudless self-checkout solution for supermarkets. Shekel's Fast Track eliminates the need for consumers to enter product codes via touchscreens by automatically recognizing produce, bakery and specialty items.

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Chain Drug Review: Shekel's Fast Track answers urgent call for touchless self-checkout

Shekel's Fast Track answers urgent call for touchless self-checkout

With social distancing driving an urgent consumer demand for touchless grocery self-checkout, Shekel, the leader in AI-powered advanced weighing solutions, brings to market the Fast Track – the first touchless machine-learning, cloudless self-checkout solution enabler.

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MarketWatch: Bubble-wrap maker Sealed Air and Simplehuman CEOs are prepping for a touchless future after coronavirus pandemic

Bubble-wrap maker Sealed Air and Simplehuman CEOs are prepping for a touchless future after coronavirus pandemic

A study by Shekel Brainweigh, an Israeli company specializing in advanced weighing systems, shows that 87% of U.S. consumers would prefer a shopping experience with more touchless and self-checkout options. Nearly three-quarters of shoppers use self-checkout frequently.

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Storage Newsletter: Everspin with Partner Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions Developed Toggle MRAM for Space Applications

Everspin with Partner Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions Developed Toggle MRAM for Space Applications

Everspin Technologies, Inc.‘s partner Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) presented a technical case study describing the versatility and performance of their jointly developed Toggle MRAM for space applications.

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Retail Customer Experience: The consumer after COVID-19

The consumer after COVID-19

Nearly two-thirds of consumers are changing their grocery shopping habits in response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent consumer survey from Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technologies.

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MediaPost: 87% Prefer Stores with Touchless Checkout During COVID-19: Study

87% Prefer Stores with Touchless Checkout During COVID-19: Study

Most shoppers would prefer to shop in stores with touchless self-checkout options, according to a new survey by Shekel.

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DigiTimes: Everspin and GF MRAM development expanded to 12nm

Everspin and GF MRAM development expanded to 12nm

Magnetoresistive memory (MRAM) giant Everspin announced the revision of the STT-MRAM joint development agreement with GlobalFoundries.

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Electronic Design: Catching Up on the Latest Developments in MRAM

Catching Up on the Latest Developments in MRAM

Electronic Design’s Bill Wong discusses MRAM, a future universal memory, with Everspin President and CEO Kevin Conley.

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AnandTech: GlobalFoundries & Everspin Extend MRAM Pact to 12nm

Magnetic RAM Finds Its Niche

Everspin stakes out the territory for magnetic nonvolatile memories.

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Electronic Engineering Journal: Magnetic RAM Finds Its Niche

Magnetic RAM Finds Its Niche

Everspin stakes out the territory for magnetic nonvolatile memories.

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Kiosk Marketplace: Hitachi, Shekel Brainweigh team on autonomous shopping solution

Hitachi, Shekel Brainweigh team on autonomous shopping solution

Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technology, and Hitachi today unveiled Capsule, a framework for an autonomous micro-market solution based on Hitachi's LiDAR sensors and Shekel's Product Aware Shelves, according to a press release.

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MediaPost: Shoppers Want Better Self-Checkout Tech

Shoppers Want Better Self-Checkout Tech

Nearly all (89%) consumers say they want self-checkout machines that can automatically identify items, according to the study, comprising a survey of 270 U.S. adults conducted by Shekel Brainweigh.

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Enterprise IOT Insights: Cleveland upgrades and connects entire streetlight network in just three days

Cleveland upgrades and connects entire streetlight network in just three days

The city of Cleveland, in Ohio, has upgraded its network of 61,000 streetlights with connected LED lights. The work, which took just three business days, has also included installation of 1,000 cameras on the lighting infrastructure. These will be operated by the Cleveland Police Department. Further smart city applications will be hung off the lighting network, the city said.

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ZDNet: Are IoT security standards around the corner?

Are IoT security standards around the corner?

Video: Interview with NanoLock CEO and Co-founder Eran Fine.

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New-TechEurope: Device Protection, Management and Secured OTA

Device Protection, Management and Secured OTA

From embedded to cloud¸ NanoLock Security provides the industry’s only lightweight¸ unbreakable¸ low-cost security and management solution for connected edge devices. Using virtually zero computing and power resources¸ NanoLock Security protects firmware and sensitive information stored on connected IoT devices¸ preventing attacks ranging from ransomware to malicious manipulation of stored code.

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SecurityWeek: NanoLock Launches Platform to Protect IoT Devices From Production Through End-of-Life

NanoLock Launches Platform to Protect IoT Devices From Production Through End-of-Life

Cybersecurity start-up NanoLock Security today announced a new lightweight security platform designed to add security into the small connected devices better known as the internet of things, rather than to overlay security around those devices.

This is security designed to safeguard small devices from the production line through to the end of life and beyond; to allow secure updates but to prevent hacking and tampering; and to ensure the integrity of data from the device outwards.

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IoT Agenda: When your mobile-first operations are mission critical and IoT optimized

When your mobile-first operations are mission critical and IoT optimized

The problem: As we hurriedly enter the “mobile-first” era, companies are transforming their operations by leveraging mobile technology. Reduction in the costs of highly capable mobile devices, sophistication and proliferation of mobile apps, and growth of mobile-supported cloud services have put mobile technology at the forefront of business transformation. But as we reinvent business in this new mobile-first world, we often forget about a very important detail, and that is: How do we effectively support these now “work from anyplace and anytime” mobile workers?