Verizon New Business Incubation

Verizon New Business Incubation provides enterprises with end-to-end solutions that combine data from physical and digital spaces, apply artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and drive business outcomes.

Verizon New Business Incubation is designing solutions that can help automate processes and increase visibility to address some of the most urgent challenges companies face today: supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, inflation and more. We help integrate a customer’s existing systems with Verizon New Business Incubation’s new transformative solutions in a single pane of glass to deliver outcomes that help drive automation, orchestration, efficiency, intelligence, productivity and safety.

Who we serve


Verizon New Business Incubation works across many industries to help provide business results using computer vision, location technology, robotics, digital twins and IoT with potential integrations into a customer’s existing digital systems and big data. Industries may include:

  • Manufacturing
    Improving process efficiency and addressing workforce shortage challenges by performing automated materials handling, robotics fleet management, process validation and quality control
  • Warehouse, Distribution and Transportation
    Driving the potential for efficiencies and visibility across a customer’s supply chain with solutions to help automate inventory management, track assets, reduce manual processes and improve fulfillment accuracy
  • Retail, Venue and Hospitality
    Improving physical safety and visibility to enhance  customer and employee experiences by designing and developing solutions to facilitate  automated checkout, precise indoor location and wayfinding, behavior analysis and space utilization
Outcomes


Verizon New Business Incubation is developing technologies and solutions to address outcomes such as the following examples:

  • Security and Public Safety
    Deploy camera and video networks with analytics, automated workflows and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to improve situational awareness, near real-time intelligence and notification.
  • Workplace Physical Safety
    Detect physical safety violations, increase compliance and create a digital archive of events by implementing computer vision to record compliance issues, document safety events and identify patterns that lead to safety incidents.
  • Quality Control and Process Validation
    Leverage computer vision and AI to detect and document anomalies in, and damage to, manufactured goods for quality improvement, process optimization and waste reduction. The solution can also be used with augmented reality (AR) to accelerate training.
  • Inventory, Cargo, Returns and Shipping Management
    Drive visibility into inventory location and condition, increase efficiency and decrease inventory loss by automating manual activities with integration into ERP and WFS systems. This creates a digital atlas of inventory locations and an archive of recorded events.
  • Retail and Venue Analytics
    Capture insight into customer behavior and product interactions with retail analytics integrations, workflows, SOPs, behavioral analysis, monitoring, autonomous stores or POS with the intention of reducing inventory loss and providing a touchless customer experience.
  • Passenger and Guest Experience
    Create frictionless experiences for guests, improve efficiency, and gain business insights by integrating sensor data with parking, POS, WMS, ticketing and mobile apps to automate workflows and SOPs.
  • Intelligent Building 
    Help optimize comfort, space usage and more by integrating sensor data such as occupancy and historic utilization to provide autonomous integration between analytics, facility systems and work order generation.

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Features and key components

Orchestration Platform
A set of modular microservices that can enable scalable business automation solutions. The platform allows sensor data to be ingested, analyzed and integrated with existing systems, while applying AI and ML for increased business intelligence.

Computer vision
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applied to video and LiDAR to offer increased understanding of the 2D and 3D world

Servicios de ubicación
Maps, wayfinding, indoor precise positioning and analytics

Hardware
Sensors, edge hardware and robots from industry-leading OEM partners plus Verizon’s subject matter expertise and support

Video management
Federated architecture to allow for remote/standalone management and federation of multiple cameras or video management systems (VMS)

Digital twin
Virtual representation of an object or system with near real-time, bi-directional data flow and the ability to simulate outcomes and make decisions powered by AI and ML

Robotics management
Fleet management, robot automation and simulation of fleet operations


Verizon Orchestration Platform

The Orchestration Platform is the business application for connecting the technologies and platforms required for orchestrating, measuring and delivering Industry 4.0 for Enterprise customers. Benefits may include:

  • Flexible architecture
    Modular and flexible to adapt to your business needs and evolving technology while supporting small, medium or large deployments
  • Easy integration
    Designed to manage the complexities and variations in your organization’s tech stack as well as changes in your business
  • Scalability and Growth
    Designed for flexibility and expansion—add new use cases and components without adding significant complexity to your operation
  • Network and Cloud Agnostic
    Support various types of network configuration and both cloud and/or on-premise architecture
  • Single pane of glass
    One central source for control, data insights and visualization across your industrial operations

Preguntas frecuentes

Existing / Featured deployments

  • AMR Management:
    Helped a leading fashion-focused department store chain and online retailer in Germany deploy 35+ Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in its warehouses. Automated forklifts and shuttles handle 700+ transports per hour leading to better workflow flexibility, accessibility and cost optimization.
  • Automated Inventory Records:
    Helped a leading manufacturer reduce waste, improve efficiency and eliminate manual scanning and counting in their warehouse with a computer vision solution that automatically records the movement of  palletized inventory. A digital atlas with location data and associated product information is integrated into the ERP in near-real time for an up-to-date view of inventory and a single-pane-of-glass view of inventory and location.
  • Mobile Transportation Security:
    Delivered a mobile video security solution on a US metropolitan transit authority bus fleet. The solution improved visibility, safety, security and event-based communication. It also maintains an indexed and searchable digital archive, and the system can scale to adapt to new demands and use cases.
  • Retail and Venue Analytics
    Helped a New York City attraction improve visibility into utilization, wait times and efficiency metrics with a computer vision solution. The solution anonymously counts people entering and exiting the experience, leading to increased same-day ticket sales while adhering to customer-provided safety standards and an improved guest experience with shorter wait times.
  • Motion Analytics:
    Deployed motion analytics technology for one of the largest 3rd-party logistics (3PL) providers to help improve the order picking rate in their large warehouses. Verizon’s motion analytics solution provides smart tools that allow 3PLs the ability to see asset location and dwell, congestion, and aisle utilization information in order to increase fulfillment efficiency.
  • Indoor Positioning:
    Provided step-by-step, near real-time wayfinding and internal mapping for one installation in one of the largest malls in the world. Through integration into an easy-to-use app, Verizon’s indoor positioning system provides mall visitors the ability to find their way in this 12 million square foot complex. Whether it is finding their car among the 14,000 parking spaces or their favorite store, visitors are accurately guided to their destination.
  • Smart Office:
    Deployed a smart office solution on the corporate campus of one of the world’s largest consulting firms. The Verizon solution helps employees overcome common challenges for hybrid offices by integrating indoor positioning technology with scheduling tools (attendance planning, smart meetup, room/desk booking). The solution also provides personalized smartphone notifications and enables space utilization metrics to optimize the in-office experience.

Verizon components

  • 5G Edge