Applications In C-Store and Petroleum Retailing
One-stop-shopping continues to be the dominant trend in the global retail market. Mobile, time-impoverished customers expect it, and your profits depend on efficiently providing them with easy access to services that C-Stores can offer: car wash, fast food, dry cleaning, gasoline and banking to name a few.But adding new services means adding complexity, both in operational processes and technical infrastructure. For example, today’s C-Store can have 25 or more independent devices controlling everything from a soap dispenser...to a deep fat fryer...to an ATM. Just closing at the end of the shift can become a nightmare. Maintenance is more complex. Employees need to be more skilled. Profits come under pressure at a time when competition is fierce.
Niagara is a comprehensive software framework designed to address the challenges of integrating diverse smart devices into unified systems. It overcomes the barriers that exist between disparate systems and devices, creating a seamless, unified system. With Niagara, your standard web browser becomes a full-featured management and control console – a dashboard for running your operation. Each one of your stores becomes a dynamic, easy to navigate website that you can access anywhere, at anytime. By making all of the systems and devices in your stores look and work the same, Niagara gives you the flexibility to choose the devices and systems that best meet your needs and then combine them into one easily managed system.
In addition, Niagara makes it possible to easily integrate all of this data with your existing enterprise applications, using a variety of accepted Internet and web-services standards.
With Niagara, your web browser turns into a full-featured management and control console. The Niagara Framework connects almost any device imaginable, including:
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Need more information? Download our Convergence Retailing brochure.
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National Association of Convenience Stores
Petroleum Convenience Alliance for Technology Standards