iSchool Capstone

Internet of Things: Grocery Store Operations Manager

Project tags:

business & systems analysis

information behavior & user research

ux & interaction design

Project poster

A typical grocery store in your neighborhood grapples with the challenges of high operating costs, narrow margins and losses in expired inventory. Achieving incremental gains in optimizing inventory stocking, efficient consumption of utilities and avoiding wastages will result in huge impact on the bottom line of locally operated grocery stores. Our project ventures in this space to provide a facility management platform for store managers to centrally monitor performance of various devices in the store and collect insights for operational intelligence. We have designed a centralized dashboard for store managers to connect, configure and monitor performance of typical devices that you find in a grocery store. The dashboard can be used for fault and configuration management to minimize MTTR (mean time to response). Data is collected by a polling mechanism which queries devices about their statuses. The data collected can be used for rendering trending graphs and generate reports for forecasting and proactively detect issues before they arise.

Project participants:

Ajinkya Gore

MSIM

Rutul Kshirsagar

MSIM

Smita Ravale

MSIM

Nishant Shenoy

MSIM