Intel® Responsive Retail Sensor (RRS) Hx Series Sensor
User & Installation Guide
August 2018
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System Description
The RRS-Hx Sensor is just one component of the larger Intel® Responsive Retail
Platform (RRP) shown in Figure 3.1 below. The system is comprised of one or more
Retail Sensors and a RRP appliance for control and orchestration. Customers may
integrate their own cloud infrastructure component for data storage and analytics.
Figure 4: RRS Functional Block Diagram
The power of the RRP is in the networked communication and coordination that exists
between the RR
S’s themselves and between the RRS and the RRP device. Whether a
system deployment has 5 or 500 Retail Sensor Platforms, this communication and
coordination greatly simplifies initial configuration as well as the operational management.
4.1
Data Flow
From a data flow perspective, RFID reader interrogates the tag population within its field
of view and passes information regarding the tags as well as information from other
various on-board sensors to the RRP appliance. The RRP appliance does more than just
aggregate the data from the sensor population, it also orchestrates the behavior of each
sensor to optimize the overall in-store data collection process. Inventory Events, Alerts
and System Status can be forwarded from the RRP device to applications running in the
customer’s cloud infrastructure. Figure 9 illustrates the flow of data and control within the
RRS.