Cut store energy and downtime across the whole fleet
A local AI watches every refrigeration case, light circuit and rooftop unit around the clock, understands how the settings pull against each other and proposes the moves that protect cost and uptime. The team stays in control the whole way.
100% local Works offline Explainable decisions Keeps your store controls
Retail AI is a local decision layer that sits on top of a store's existing refrigeration controllers, BMS, HVAC and sensors. It optimizes refrigeration energy, lighting and HVAC while cutting equipment downtime across every store, runs entirely on the retailer's own hardware with no cloud, and keeps working when a site loses its connection. It does not replace what is already installed. It adds an intelligent layer that coordinates existing systems toward energy and uptime goals.
Stores that all drift out of tune
A supermarket runs refrigeration day and night, lighting from open to close and HVAC on top. Refrigeration alone is often the largest electricity load in the building. Setpoints and schedules are fixed by hand, a failing compressor is noticed late, and one facility team cannot watch hundreds of stores at once.
Refrigeration and lighting waste energy
Cases, cold rooms and store lighting run on fixed schedules that ignore weather, occupancy and volatile power prices.
Downtime costs sales
A warm case or a failed rooftop unit means spoiled stock and lost hours, and reactive maintenance always arrives after the damage.
Too many sites to watch by hand
Hundreds of stores each run their own equipment, and a central team cannot tune every setpoint or catch every early warning manually.
Observe, plan and act, on your own hardware
The agent reads the sensors continuously, weighs the trade offs against the operator's targets and drives the controllers that are already installed. It plans ahead instead of only reacting, and it explains every move in plain language.
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Look ahead
A heat wave is coming and power peaks this afternoon. The agent pre cools the cases overnight when power is cheap, trims HVAC during the peak and keeps every case inside its safe band.
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Balance every goal at once
It lowers refrigeration, lighting and HVAC energy, holds food safety temperatures, protects the equipment and shifts load to cheap hours at the same time, not one target after another.
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Explain and stay in control
Ask why it raised a setpoint and it answers in plain language. Every decision is logged and auditable, and the facility team sets the guardrails and can override any action.
Observes
On-Device Agent
Runs 100% locally in each store
Acts
Optimize energy and uptime per store
Retailers do not want one clever store. They want every store to run lean and stay open. The agent optimizes the numbers that move the P&L across the fleet. The ranges below come from independent studies for this technology category.
One agent, every store
Refrigeration, lighting and HVAC energy
The agent watches every case, cold room, light circuit and rooftop unit, weighs them against power prices and occupancy, and trims energy without ever breaking a food safety band. Refrigeration is usually the biggest load, so it starts there.
Food safety and site safety
It holds every case and cold room in its safe temperature band, flags a door left open or a case drifting warm in seconds instead of minutes, and keeps a complete audit trail for every alert.
Uptime and maintenance
Rising power draw on a compressor means a failure is coming. The agent surfaces the likely cause early and opens a maintenance ticket before spoiled stock and lost sales, not after.
Audit trail and agent registry
Every decision, override and alert is logged and auditable, and an agent registry keeps track of which agents run on which device in which store.
Vision and existing bus systems
On device cameras with computer vision read aisles, entrances and equipment, and the agent speaks Modbus and OPC-UA to the refrigeration controllers, BMS and actuators already installed.
Fleet across every site
Store 47 cools with less energy than store 12. The fleet view finds that strategy, rolls it out over the air to every store from one place and updates them safely.
See it run on a store
Watch the agent balance refrigeration, lighting and HVAC against energy and food safety on a real store setup, then start a pilot on your own.
Book a live demo
See the local agent coordinate refrigeration, lighting, HVAC and maintenance across stores, then run a pilot on one of yours and measure the real numbers.
Request a pilotYour store data never leaves the store
The agent runs entirely on the retailer's own hardware in each store. No cloud, no data leaving the building, and it keeps optimizing even when a site loses its connection. Every action is logged and auditable, which matters when the business answers to owners, auditors and food safety rules.
- 100% local, no cloud dependency
- Keeps optimizing through connectivity outages
- Works with existing refrigeration controllers, BMS and PLC
- Full audit trail of every decision
- Explainable, not a black box
- Designed for EU Cyber Resilience Act readiness
Questions retail operators ask
Do we have to replace our refrigeration controllers and BMS?
No. The agent adds a decision layer on top of the existing refrigeration controllers, BMS, HVAC and sensors. It coordinates what is already installed toward energy and uptime goals, and full manual control stays with the team.
Does it run without internet?
Yes. Everything runs locally on hardware in each store, so the agent keeps optimizing during outages and no store or energy data ever leaves the building.
How much can we actually save?
Independent studies for this category report meaningful ranges for building and HVAC energy, and both McKinsey and Deloitte report large gains in uptime and availability from predictive maintenance. We do not promise a fixed number. The real figure gets measured in a pilot.
Will it keep food safe?
Yes. It holds every case and cold room in its safe temperature band and flags a warm case or an open door in seconds with a full audit trail. Food safety limits are a hard guardrail the agent never crosses.
How does it explain its decisions?
Ask why it raised a setpoint or shifted load and it answers in plain language, backed by a full audit log. The team sets the guardrails and can override any action at any time.
Does it work across hundreds of stores?
Yes. A fleet view compares stores, finds the strategy that runs with the least energy and downtime and rolls it out over the air to every site from one place.
Put an operations expert in every store
Start a pilot on a few stores, measure the real numbers on your refrigeration, energy contract and equipment, and keep the team in control the whole way.
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Sources and notes
- 1Energy: NREL analysis reported via 75F, up to about 31% building energy and up to about 42% HVAC and cooling energy through smart automation. Results depend on the starting point and get validated in a pilot.
- 2Downtime: McKinsey reports up to 50% fewer unplanned stoppages with predictive, condition based maintenance. Strongly equipment and site dependent.
- 3Availability: Deloitte reports 10 to 20% higher asset availability and 5 to 10% lower maintenance cost with predictive maintenance. Measured in a pilot, not promised.