Retail Solutions

 
Point of Sale, Warehousing, Distribution, Supply Chain Management, PCI standards, RFID, and every point in between require the ultimate in seamless mobility to ensure just in time product delivery throughout the retail value chain. Efficient, reliable IT systems help move products from factory to sales floor by providing the infrastructure to support mission critical communications, inventory control, surveillance, and product flow whether you’re a big box retailer with hundreds of locations, or a small single shop on the corner.

Ready for Retail

• Toll-Quality voice over Wireless – Assured Application Delivery to all devices from the floor to the head office
• Seamless Mobility – Improving productivity and device utilization across the facility – no matter the size
• Transaction Secure Communications – Enhanced Security for POS applications, warehousing, and distribution
• All Wireless Store/Warehouse – Extensible to the growing demand for Wireless applications and devices
• Lowest total Cost of Ownership – Easy to manage, support and operate – saving money and resources

Meru focuses on two main types of facilities, each unique in their requirements.

Small to Large Box Retailers
When time and customer service really matter, Meru’s award-winning fourth generation Wireless LAN (WLAN) system provides the infrastructure needed to support the mission critical applications that keep the products flowing throughout the supply chain. Enhanced with the latest in Point-of-Sale technologies, voice communications, product tracking, video surveillance, and more, today’s retailers continue to add applications to their legacy environments. At the same time they are adding devices designed to protect their inventory and provide their consumers with a convenient, safe, and rewarding shopping experience. The retailers of today have product inventory information at their fingertips, providing up-to-the minute information to the customer on product availability and competitive pricing. Meru’s extensible architecture is designed to scale from the smallest retail outlet to the largest facility.

Meru’s industry leading architecture provides the necessary infrastructure for today’s demanding retailer. With a fully-converged solution, Meru’s innovative wireless architecture is designed to provide assured application delivery with coverage from the loading dock to the point of sale. Meru’s advanced system is helping to increase sales while reducing shrinkage with state-of-the-art communications for Voice, Data, Video Surveillance, WiFi and RFID tracking, and Point of Sale transactions.

Warehousing and Distribution
At the core of the supply chain, wireless in the warehouse, and distribution facility help track products from the manufacturing floor—throughout the transportation and shipping process—to the loading dock. With inputs from a myriad of devices, on the floor, throughout the warehouse, and in delivery, real-time inventory can be tracked, ensuring just in time delivery wherever needed. Tracked with wireless tags and through wireless bar code scanners, shipments can be processed with legacy devices or the latest in automated tracking devices. Augmented by video surveillance, voice communications and more, Meru’s robust extensible architecture has the ability to carry it all.

By bringing wireless to every part of the supply chain, wirelessly connected phones, tablet PCs, fork lift mounted scanners, portal and handheld scanning devices, and other devices help eliminate costly errors by providing the latest information in a seamless yet secure wireless environment.

Benefits of Meru Wireless LAN Technology for Retail

While others have created WLAN switch architectures, they focus primarily on ease of deployment and central management of AP configuration parameters. Solving this problem is both important and necessary, but it is not enough. The key challenge to being able to provide the type of reliable, high-quality wireless communication that will improve all aspects of the supply chain eliminating errors and managing contention amongst devices, interference and Quality of Service in a dense Wi-Fi environment with both data and voice clients. Meru has done just that with its Mobile SCALE solution.

Designed for Quality Wireless Communication
Meru’s patented Air Traffic Control™ technology delivers over-the-air QoS, predictable performance, and roaming with no connection loss to reliably support landline quality wireless VoIP without interrupting mobile data applications. Up to 30 concurrent calls per access point are supported—a 500% increase over other WLAN products. The Meru WLAN system works with standard Wi-Fi clients and supports 802.11 wireless phones.

Reliable Connectivity for Challenging Environments
With Meru's Wireless LAN System, wireless access to the information in the supply chain is simple and easy. Completely converged voice, data and video—Meru’s architecture is uniquely designed for the most challenging warehouse, distribution center, or retailer. Whether implementing in a small retail outlet or a location, Meru’s scaleable architecture is designed to grow with your application and device demands.

E(z)RF Eliminates Channel Planning
Retail locations with unique building topologies, vast open facilities, and long hallways create challenging environments for wireless LAN deployment. Other wireless LAN solutions require complex channel planning in an attempt to avoid co-channel interference, which can add significantly to installation time and cost. Meru eliminates the problems of co-channel interference and greatly simplifies this process with Virtual Cell technology allowing Meru access points to be simply placed in the best positions to ensure complete coverage and reliable communication.