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Retail Store Heat Map Driven
Store Layout Optimization

Leverage retail store heat map technology, combined with footfall analytics and
customer journey mapping, to refine store layouts and product placement.
Gain actionable insights into shopper behavior, maximize visual merchandising
effectiveness, and drive higher conversion rates and operational efficiency.

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Challenges

Great products alone don't guarantee retail success. Without a data-driven store layout optimization powered by retail store heat maps, retailers often face hidden revenue losses and operational inefficiencies:

Failing to identify high-traffic zonesand
less-visited zones makes it difficult to strategically design an efficient store layout.
Suboptimal product placement caused by limited visibility into product performance across different display locations.
Inefficient staff allocation and scheduling due to
a lack of reliable foot traffic data across different
in-store zones.
Disrupted customer flow resulting from confusing store pathways, degrading the shopping experience, and ultimately lowering conversion rates.
Lack of shopper profiles leads to poorly designed aisles that fail to engage the
target audience.

Milesight Solution: Reveal In-Store Hotspots with Advanced Heat Maps

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Milesight People Counters track precise in-store traffic and customer behavior patterns.
By leveraging retail store heat maps to visualize store hotspots and dwell time, they offer
actionable insights for retailers to make confident decisions on store layout, product
placement, and queue management.

High-Precision Data Foundation

Delivers a data foundation with 99.8% precision in zone and line-crossing
traffic, fully visualized through detailed heat maps.

Effortless Deployment & Integration

Features hassle-free installation and broad compatibility (PoE/4G
Cellular/LoRaWAN®) for seamless integration into existing systems.

Scalable Portfolio for Every Need

Offers a diverse range of models tailored to perfectly fit any store size or ceiling
height, from boutiques to large malls.

3D Vision People Counter

VS125 Series

Featuring view direction detection for the real-time identification of
customer focus areas, unlocks comprehensive, AI-driven shopper
insights beyond simple footfall counting.

  • Advanced Recognition: Identifies staff, groups, gender and children.
  • Versatile Fit: Multiple models for various ceiling heights (boutiques to malls).
  • GDPR Compliant: Secure, anonymous processing.
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ToF People Counter

VS13x

Ensures absolute privacy and ultra-high precision using
pioneering ToF technology.

  • 100% Anonymous: Captures depth data instead of images.
  • Superior ToF Accuracy: 99.8% precision, industry-leading detection performance.
  • Smart Filtering: Differentiates children by height and staff by reflective tags.
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Unlock Granular In-Store Insights with Retail Store Heat Maps

Heatmap analytics allow you to move beyond simple entrance counting to understand the pulse of your store. By analyzing specific zones, you can gain
deep visibility into store performance through two key dimensions: traffic volume over time and customer engagement.

Footfall Trends: Traffic Volume & Time-Based Pattern

Footfall trends focus on the "when" and "how much" of customer traffic within specific areas. This metric aggregates visitor counts to reveal density patterns over time.

Identify Peak Periods

Pinpoint exactly when specific zones are busiest, enabling staff scheduling that aligns perfectly with actual traffic peaks.

Compare Performance Over Time

Analyze traffic volume across different days, weeks, or seasonal campaigns to measure the specific impact of marketing events on zonal activity.

Validate Zone Popularity

Confirm which store areas attract the highest visitor volumes, ensuring that prime floor space is generating the expected traffic density.

Dwell Time: Measuring Engagement & Interest

While footfall trends tell you how busy an area is, dwell time reveals how engaging it is. This metric measures the average duration visitors remain stationary in a specific zone.

Assess Merchandising Impact

High dwell times serve as a key indicator of successful displays where customers actively stop to interact with products or signage.

Leverage Pass-Through Zones

Areas with high traffic but low dwell time are ideal for positioning impulse-buy items to capture attention as shoppers move between sections.

Optimize High-Engagement Areas

Placing high-margin products in zones with naturally long dwell times capitalizes on existing shopper interest and increases the likelihood of conversion.

Benefits

Maximize Space Profitability

Identify and revitalize less-visited areas by rearranging store layouts, adjusting signage, or optimizing product placement, ensuring every square foot contributes to sales data and performance.

Drive Revenue Growth

Leverage insights into in-store zone popularity, dwell time, and customer behavior to optimize product mix and position key products in high-visibility areas, capturing more attention and increasing sales.

Optimize Staff Allocation

Align staffing levels and schedules with real-time traffic patterns insights across store zones, ensuring the right staff are in the right place at the right time, reducing labor waste and improving service efficiency.

Enhance Marketing ROI

Design aisles and displays based on shopper behavior mapping and customer journey insights.

Improve Customer Experience

Eliminate bottlenecks and confusing pathways to create a smooth, intuitive shopping journey from entrance to checkout, reducing walkaways and increasing conversion rates.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is Retail Store Heat Map Technology?

Heatmap technology is a powerful visual analytics tool designed to translate complex visitor data into an intuitive visual representation, a color-coded floor plan. Instead of presenting you with raw spreadsheets, it overlays your store layout with a thermal spectrum, using "hot" colors for busy areas and "cool" colors for quiet zones. This technology visualizes the aggregated behavior of your customers, offering retailers an instant, high-level view of how physical space is actually being utilized.

Q: How Does Heat Map Technology Work?

The system utilizes advanced ceiling-mounted sensors to detect body shapes and movement within the store. This data is processed to calculate traffic density and duration, which is then mapped onto your floor plan.

Privacy by Design:

Security and anonymity are not afterthoughts; they are prioritized at the very foundation of Milesight People Counters' design. Their "privacy-first" design ensures that retailers receive highly accurate behavioral data while strictly maintaining GDPR compliance and protecting customer privacy.

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Q: How Does Heat Mapping Benefit Retailers?

Heat mapping transforms customer movement into visual insights, revealing high-traffic "hot spots" and ignored "cold zones." This allows retailers to optimize store layouts and refine product placement scientifically. By understanding where shoppers linger, managers can strategically position promotional displays to boost engagement and conversion rates. It eliminates guesswork, enabling data-driven decisions that maximize space utilization and eliminate store bottlenecks, ultimately leading to increased revenue and a smoother shopping experience.

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