
Aug 18, 2026Retail Stores
The Retail Scheduling Maturity Model: Five Stages From Rota to Demand
Five stages from a fixed weekly rota to demand-led labor allocation, what each stage costs, and the single next step that moves you up one level.

In Hall 6 we ran Ariadne on live data from the hall itself: people counted at the entrance, dwell measured zone by zone, and the transitions between zones that show which part of a store is actually doing the work.
Ariadne measures with Hybrid Fusion, its patented camera-free method. Time-of-Flight depth sensing counts every visitor at the entrances, capturing geometry rather than images, while patented phone signal sensing follows movement through the interior, detecting the signals a phone emits even in airplane mode. The sensor streams both feeds to Ariadne, where Hybrid Fusion combines them into one trajectory per visit and computes counts, dwell, and paths. The streams carry no identifier: no MAC address, no device ID, no biometric data, and no camera is involved.
Nothing was added to the hall to make that work. One sensor at a doorway is the whole installation.
EuroShop 2026 ran from 22 to 26 February at Messe Düsseldorf, and we were in Hall 6 / D 46.
If you visited the stand, or meant to and ran out of floor, the follow-up is the same twenty minutes: your store layout, one number you do not trust today, and what our sensors would report in that space.
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