CES: Qnap Showcased Smart Retail and Smart Office Products and Solutions

Qnap, Inc. has released its broad lineup of smart retail and smart office products and solutions at CES, including QVR Pro Surveillance solution, QVR Face Smart Facial Recognition solution and QVR Retail Pro Intelligent Customer Traffic analytics platform to help retailers embark on a digital transformation journey; KoiMeeter Smart Video Conference solution integrates AI to build an economic wireless video conferencing system for enterprises.

QVR Face Smart Facial Recognition

Moreover, the company provides networking solutions to help accelerate infrastructure deployment and centralize cloud management in smart retail and smart office.

Smart retail solution
In the AI era, customer experience is essential in retail. The firm has realizes this IT trend by achieving smart retail solutions from retail premises to customer recognition. QVR Pro can deploy a large-scale surveillance network for retail shops. When shoplifting or suspicious activities occur, the QVR Pro Motion Search function can complete suspects facial identification searches within 10 minutes in a 12-hour long playback video to enhance premise security. QVR Pro also integrates SIP broadcasting system to convey information including promotional advertisements, announcements, and send emergency alerts in the shop.

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Meanwhile, QVR Face can set up VIP, unregistered faces, blacklists, and build intelligent door access systems to manage staff attendance. Moreover, QVR Face also integrates facial recognition into CAYIN smart digital signage, which can provide tailored promotion information and bring more business opportunities to retail shops. The QVR Retail Pro integrates flow statistics, in-store analytics and heat map data to optimize selling strategy and retail display performance. QVR Pro, QVR Face and QVR Retail Pro can be used together to improve overall customer experience and help boost customer visits and actual sales in retail shops.

Smart office solution

KoiMeeter Smart Video Conferencing solution features a wireless presentation function to share screens without additional wireless projectors. Using a Jabra speakerphone, which supports noise cancellation functions, and 180° camera to enjoy communication during meetings. It also provides AI audio transcription and real-time translation ^(*) to help break language barriers in international meetings. When hosting multi-party video conferences, enterprises can fine-tune network bandwidth with Qnap QuWAN, which deploys QoS to provide unhindered meeting environment. KoiMeeter also integrates Avaya, Inc. and Polycom, Inc. ^(*) video conferencing system and will integrate more cloud meeting solutions in the future to build flexible enterprise video conference environments .

Smart network infrastructure solution

To deploy a reliable and secure network infrastructure for smart retailing and offices, the company provides a software and hardware integrated network solution. The Guardian smart PoE edge switch series is compliant with the latest IEEE 802.3bt PoE++ standard and supports up to 370W total PoE budget. Integrating layer-2 management functions with built-in QTS and VM applications, the Guardian meets all demands for IP surveillance, network security, storage expansion, and wireless AP management in edge networking. The model QGD-1602P also features 10Gb SFP+ fiber ports to satisfy high-speed network and long-distance transmission requirements.

The QuCPE Edge Computing Server is an integrated network virtualization solution for SMBs using performance Xeon or AMD processors with system memory up to 32GB RAM (maximum memory up to 256GB RAM). The QuCPE series is equipped with multiple physical 1GbE RJ45 or 10GbE SFP+ ports and supports network expansion up to 25Gb/s. Adopting Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) and Smart NIC Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) hardware acceleration technology, the QuCPE series provides high bandwidth and computing performance required for running QNE, VNF, and cloud deployment.

The QuCPE series is a solution for diverse networking applications to replace traditional expensive and complicated networking devices.

QNE is a cloud-centric network virtualization solution, coupled with computing-capable edge devices, providing Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) for value-added services. Combining networking, computing, application services, and cloud management, QNE meets business network infrastructure deployment requirements.

QuWAN is a SD-WAN solution that provides WAN optimization and steady network transmission for big data digital transformation. The QSW-M408 and QSW-M1208 L2 10G managed switch series for boosting 10Gb network deployment and management efficiency was also be showcased.

^(*) AI audio transcription, real-time translation, and Polycom functions will be available in Q1 2020.

New NAS products:

• TS-251D: A 2-bay NAS for home users, featuring Celeron dual-core 2.0 GHz processor with two or 4GB RAM available. It supports 4K HDMI output to provide a variety of multimedia entertainment. PCIe expansion supports SSD caching and 10GbE/5GbE/2.5GbE connectivity.

• TS-230: Entry-level 2-bay NAS featuring Realtek RTD1296 ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core 1.4 GHz processor with 2GB RAM available. The NAS supports home entertainment with flexible multimedia streaming and supports snapshots protection and file and data protection capabilities.

• VS-8348: The VioStor NVR series features Intel Core i5-8400T 6-core processor and QVR Pro applications, for SMBs surveillance needs.