Enhancing Retail Security Systems – A Smarter Way to Reduce Losses and Improve Efficiency
In today’s fast-evolving retail landscape, store security is no longer just about stopping theft – it’s about improving efficiency, protecting assets, and delivering a seamless customer experience. Retailers today face a range of challenges, including shoplifting, fraud, long checkout times, and inefficient allocation of resources. With growing challenges, modern retail security systems must go far beyond basic video monitoring.
The AxxonSoft Retail Solution integrates advanced video surveillance with AI-powered analytics to enhance security, minimize shrinkage, and improve operational performance. The software enables real-time monitoring, proactive threat detection, accelerated incident investigation, intelligent data collection, and comprehensive reporting. These capabilities provide retailers with actionable insights to drive store performance while maintaining a safer shopping environment.
Supported by Intel’s hardware accelerators, AxxonSoft’s solution delivers high-performance video analytics, offering a scalable and cost-effective approach suitable for retail businesses of any size. This whitepaper outlines how the AxxonSoft Retail Security Solution is redefining security and operational excellence in the retail sector.
The Evolving Landscape of Retail Security
As e-commerce expands and consumer expectations continue to evolve, brick-and-mortar retailers must adapt to maintain their competitive advantage. A critical component of this transformation is the ability to provide a secure, efficient, and customer-focused in-store experience. To achieve this, retailers are increasingly investing in advanced technologies that address modern security challenges, reduce losses, and improve overall customer satisfaction.
AxxonSoft’s intelligent video surveillance solutions – powered by artificial intelligence and integrated with Intel’s state-of-the-art technologies – equip retailers with the tools necessary to handle their tasks. By leveraging real-time data and advanced analytics, retailers can not only prevent theft and fraud but also optimize store layouts, manage queues, and deliver a seamless shopping experience that meets the expectations of today’s consumers.
What are the key challenges in retail security?
POS Fraud & Checkout Theft
Fraud at the checkout is one of the primary sources of financial losses for retailers. It can involve individual customers, employees, or collusion between employees and customers. Errors at the point of sale (POS) also contribute to revenue loss.
AxxonSoft’s video surveillance system integrates with POS systems to cross-reference transactions with video footage. This allows for the detection of cashier errors and fraudulent activities, such as voided transactions, incorrect scanning, or unauthorized discounts. Suspicious activities can be flagged for review by security personnel.
Shoplifting & Inventory Shrinkage
Shoplifting is a persistent challenge, particularly for high-value items. While traditional surveillance systems provide some level of deterrence, automated detection of theft remains a challenge.
AxxonSoft’s intelligent search capabilities streamline theft investigations by identifying individuals who picked up items from the shelves but avoided scanning them at checkout. Additionally, the system provides detailed close-ups of suspects, enabling security personnel to focus on individuals who may require heightened attention during future visits.
Supplier & Stockroom Losses
Losses can occur during the unloading, acceptance, and stocking of goods due to supplier fraud, employee collusion, or simple human error.
By integrating video surveillance with inventory management systems, AxxonSoft solutions provide comprehensive evidence of each stage of the supply chain. Analyzing video footage linked with QR/barcodes allows businesses to quickly locate recordings of specific items or packages, enabling them to identify patterns of shrinkage and determine when and where losses occur.
Access Control & Internal Theft
Securing storage areas and preventing unauthorized access to high-value assets is crucial for reducing shrinkage and improving overall security.
AxxonSoft’s access control integration enables real-time monitoring of entry points in warehouses and restricted zones. By linking access events with video footage, businesses can identify exactly who entered specific areas and whether they removed any items. Additionally, burglar alarms combined with video verification enhance response efficiency.
Customer Experience & Store Optimization
Optimizing store layouts and understanding customer behavior is key to improving sales and operational efficiency.
AxxonSoft’s heat mapping, visitor counting, and queue detection tools provide retailers with insights into consumer behavior. These analytics help optimize product placement, improve store layouts, and streamline customer service by dynamically adjusting staffing based on foot traffic and queueing trends.
Additional Security Considerations
Retail security extends beyond the store interior. Parking control and fire safety are critical aspects of a comprehensive security strategy.
AxxonSoft’s LPR license plate recognition and parking management solutions help regulate vehicle access and promptly identify incorrect parking. Fire alarm systems integrated with video surveillance and analytics enable early detection of smoke and flames, allowing for rapid and more accurate response to emergencies.
AxxonSoft’s Role in Transforming Retail Security
Security challenges extend beyond traditional shoplifting and fraud. Retailers need intelligent solutions to protect assets, streamline operations, and enhance customer experience
Flexible User Rights Management
AxxonSoft’s flexible retail security system architecture allows businesses to monitor single stores or entire retail chains from a centralized hub or multiple remote locations. The system supports distributed surveillance with a scalable infrastructure, ensuring real-time visibility across all retail zones.
Cash Transaction Monitoring & Reporting
AxxonSoft’s cashier operations supervision pairs video feeds with point-of-sale (POS) data, allowing instant review of transactions, voided sales, and refund patterns. Advanced reporting tools generate insights into suspicious activities, helping retailers mitigate losses and improve accountability.
Retail Analytics for Smarter Operations
AI-based retail analytics offer visitor counting for foot traffic analysis, heat maps to visualize movement and dwell time, queue detection to reduce wait times and optimize staffing: a centralized reporting system enables management to access detailed analytics on each store operation.
Logistics & Inventory Control
Prevent stock loss and improve supply chain efficiency with real-time monitoring of loading/unloading, license plate recognition (LPR) for delivery tracking, QR/barcode scanning tied to video, incident tools to resolve stock discrepancies
Parking Management & Security
AxxonSoft’s AI video surveillance system enhances parking security through LPR for tracking vehicle entry/exit, smart search by car make, color, or direction, instant alerts for policy violations or improper parking
Seamless Integration with Security Systems
Easily connect video monitoring with other retail security systems, including access control and burglar alarms, video-tagged event logs for break-ins and access attempts, employee attendance and time tracking
By implementing AxxonSoft’s retail intelligent security camera system solutions, retailers gain more than just protection — they optimize efficiency, reduce shrinkage, and improve customer satisfaction. In an era where data-driven decision-making is key, AI-powered security is the competitive advantage that modern retailers need.
Boosting Video Analytics Performance with Intel® Products
Video analytics is a resource-intensive process that demands significant computing power. For instance, when the number of cameras exceeds 10–20, building a cost-effective AI-powered video surveillance system becomes nearly impossible without dedicated AI accelerators. To optimize performance and ensure efficient video analytics, AxxonSoft has partnered with Intel to leverage its cutting-edge accelerators and specialized tools.
Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit
The Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit is a powerful solution designed for computer vision applications. It enables workload distribution across Intel® hardware, including accelerators, to maximize performance. AxxonSoft integrates this toolkit into its AI analytics tools to enhance neural network inference capabilities, ensuring faster video processing.
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Intel® Quick Sync Video is a built-in technology available on Intel® processors that provide hardware-accelerated video decoding. By offloading video decoding tasks to the GPU, this technology significantly reduces CPU load on both servers and client devices. This results in improved efficiency and performance for video analytics and playback.
Benefits of Client-Side Hardware Video Decoding
Faster Decoding Times. Reduced latency for smooth video playback.
Scalability. Client devices can display more camera feeds or operate on lower-performance hardware without compromising quality.
Benefits of Server-Side Hardware Video Decoding
Higher Capacity. Servers can handle more concurrent video streams while delivering higher resolution and better performance.
Cost Efficiency. More cameras can be connected to a single server, reducing hardware costs and simplifying maintenance.
By leveraging Intel® products and technologies, AxxonSoft delivers high-performance, value-added solutions that meet the demands of modern video analytics. These innovations ensure scalability and efficiency, empowering businesses to achieve their operational goals.
What’s the future of retail security?
The retail industry is evolving rapidly, and security is no longer just about preventing theft – it's about creating a seamless, efficient, and safe shopping experience for customers. AxxonSoft’s intelligent video security solutions, powered by AI and enhanced by Intel’s cutting-edge technologies, are transforming the retail security landscape. By providing retailers with insights into customer behavior, optimizing operations, and preventing fraud and shrinkage, AxxonSoft is helping retailers stay ahead of the competition and deliver a superior shopping experience.
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