Smart retail

💡 Solution Description

The Smart Retail template is a production-ready accelerator for Smart Supermarket projects. It solves the complexity of managing distributed retail chains by providing a unified interface for infrastructure provisioning, floor plan visualization, and device lifecycle management.

✨ Highlights

Transform your retail business with the Smart Retail solution template. Designed for solution providers and system integrators, this template bridges the gap between hardware installation and business insights. 🛒📊

Press Install to generate a complete multi-customer retail ecosystem — populated with demo customers, supermarkets, floor plans, and devices.

📦 What’s inside the box?

We have auto-generated a comprehensive retail platform for you:

• 🛠️ Administration Dashboard: A centralized Smart Supermarket Administration dashboard for Tenant Administrators to provision customers, supermarkets, and manage the global device pool.
• 🏪 Manager Workflow: A dedicated Smart Supermarket dashboard for store managers to browse the real-time state of the supermarkets they are responsible for.
• ❄️ Domain-Specific Profiles: Multiple device profiles with pre-configured alarm rules including “Smart Shelf”, “Chiller”, “Freezer”, “Smart Bin”, and more.
• 🚨 Automated Alerts: Each device type generates specific alarms based on configurable thresholds (e.g., “High Temp”, “Low Battery”, “Intrusion”), which automatically propagate to the Supermarket view.
• 🗺️ Interactive Floor Plans: Integrated tooling that allows field engineers or managers to upload floor plans and map devices to physical locations.
• 📡 Edge Computing Ready: Includes optional configuration for ThingsBoard Edge, allowing you to extend the solution with local computing power for remote supermarket locations.

🌟 Why use this template?

• 🤝 Built for Solution Providers: This solution supports a B2B model where You (the Solution Provider) manage the global device pool, while Your Customers (Retail Companies) manage their specific supermarkets and assets.
• 🛡️ Proactive Compliance: Ensuring food safety and security is critical. The solution comes with pre-configured profiles that automatically raise alarms for temperature excursions or unauthorized access, requiring zero initial coding.
• 🗺️ Visual Operations: Tables are hard to read; maps are intuitive. This solution transforms raw telemetry into Interactive Floor Plans, allowing facility managers to pinpoint exactly where a “Chiller” or “Smart Shelf” is located within the store.

✨ Key Features

• Multi-Customer Provisioning: Create new Retail Companies and assign a specific pool of IoT devices to them directly from the Administration dashboard.
• Interactive Installation: Either you or your customer can physically install devices and logically place them on the custom floor plan using simple drag-and-drop actions.
• Configurable Logic: While alarm rules are pre-configured, Customer users retain the flexibility to tune specific thresholds (e.g., min/max temperature) for each device to match their local requirements.

🌍 Real-World Applications

This template serves as a robust foundation for various sectors:

• 🛒 Supermarket Chains: Deploy a standardized monitoring solution across hundreds of stores to ensure cold chain integrity and stock availability.

• 🏪 Convenience Stores: Provide store owners with a simple app to monitor security sensors and energy usage in smaller retail footprints.

• 🏭 Smart Warehousing: Visualize sensor placement in large distribution centers to track environmental conditions and asset location.

🔌 How to connect real devices?

• IoT Gateway: The most popular approach is to use an IoT gateway per supermarket. Chillers, freezers, and HVAC may be connected using Modbus, BACnet, and other supported protocols.
• MQTT API: Alternatively, use your own IoT Gateway and connect it to ThingsBoard using the MQTT Gateway API.
• Integrations: You may also connect existing LoRaWAN, NB IoT, SigFox, and other sensors through Platform Integrations.