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Xiyang Industrial Control's M55 enables smart mall automation, comprehensively improving operational and energy-saving efficiency.
I. Enhancing Operational Efficiency
Intelligent POS and Settlement: Industrial control computers (ICCs) serve as the core processor of intelligent POS terminals. By integrating hardware devices such as touchscreens, barcode scanners, and payment systems, they enable fast and accurate product scanning, payment processing, and inventory updates. For example, a large supermarket chain introduced an ICC system to implement self-checkout functionality. Customers can quickly complete payments by scanning barcodes or swiping cards, significantly reducing waiting time and improving the customer shopping experience and mall operational efficiency.
Precise Inventory Management: ICCs connect to IoT devices and sensors to monitor product inventory in real time. When inventory falls below a set threshold, the system automatically alerts staff to replenish stock, preventing overstocking and shortages and improving inventory turnover. Intelligent shelves connect product information to the back-end system in real time via ICCs, enabling precise inventory management.
Data Analysis and Decision Support: Industrial control computers (ICCs) can collect and process large amounts of customer behavior data, sales data, and inventory data. By analyzing this data, shopping malls can understand customer shopping habits, product sales trends, and other information, providing decision support for product procurement, pricing strategies, and promotional activities. For example, personalized promotional activities can be pushed based on customer purchase history data, or product demand trends can be accurately predicted by analyzing sales data, allowing for rational planning of product procurement and supply chain management.
Intelligent Marketing and Advertising: ICCs can drive digital signage to display various promotional information, advertising content, and product recommendations. Through real-time data monitoring, the displayed content can be adjusted based on customer behavior data to achieve precise marketing. For example, different advertisements can be placed in different areas of the mall based on pedestrian flow characteristics and consumer interests, improving advertising effectiveness and marketing efficiency.
II. Enhancing Energy Efficiency
Intelligent Lighting Control: The industrial control computer connects to devices such as light sensors and time controllers to automatically adjust lighting brightness based on the intensity and duration of natural light in the shopping mall. During the day when natural light is abundant, some lights are automatically turned off; at night or in areas with low foot traffic, the lighting brightness is reduced to achieve energy savings. Furthermore, intelligent dimming of the LED lighting system can be achieved through GPIO interfaces and PWM outputs, further saving energy.
Air Conditioning System Optimization: The industrial control computer (ICC) can serve as the control core of the air conditioning system, combining temperature, humidity, and passenger flow density sensors to monitor environmental parameters and pedestrian traffic in the mall in real time. Based on this data, the cooling capacity, fan speed, and other parameters of the air conditioning system can be dynamically adjusted to achieve on-demand cooling and heating. For example, one mall used a central control SCADA system as the central control platform, combined with edge intelligent control terminals, to optimize the scheduling of equipment such as chillers, chilled water pumps, and cooling pumps, achieving an overall energy saving rate of approximately 25% for the central air conditioning system.
Equipment Operation Monitoring and Management: The ICC can monitor the operating status of various equipment in the mall in real time, such as elevators and escalators. Based on data such as equipment operating time and load, the operation and maintenance plans of the equipment can be rationally arranged to avoid prolonged idling or excessive operation, reducing equipment energy consumption and maintenance costs. For example, the number of elevators operating can be reduced during off-peak hours, and escalators can be operated at low speeds when no one is using them.
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