Groceryshop 2026
Groceryshop 2026
Join SOLUM for a private lunch and a working look at what comes next for your store network — a single connectivity layer designed to carry every device on your floor, from the back room to the far corner of the store.
Electronic shelf labels. Handhelds. Sensors, cameras, scales, robots, digital signage, and cold-chain monitors. Each arrived with its own radio, its own gateway, and its own vendor — and every one of them now competes for the same congested spectrum inside a steel-and-concrete building full of moving metal and water.
The result is a store that runs on a stack of parallel networks: expensive to deploy, brittle at the edges, and nearly impossible to scale consistently across a fleet. In this session, we will show what happens when that stack collapses into a single wireless layer.
Dramatically fewer access points for the same floor area — not a gateway every few aisles. Coverage that reaches the back room, the freezer, and the loading dock, with a rollout model that repeats identically across hundreds of locations.
A wireless layer built for the RF conditions where standard Wi-Fi degrades — dense metal shelving, refrigeration, and structural walls — so performance stays predictable from the front door to the back of house.
Fewer gateways, fewer vendors, fewer truck rolls, and one management layer instead of six. Lower installed cost and dramatically less to maintain over the life of the store.
SOLUM designs and manufactures electronic shelf labels, power modules and retail technology deployed across thousands of stores worldwide. More at www.solum-group.com.
Jerry Sheldon is VP of Technology at IHL Group, where he has spent over a decade researching retail infrastructure, from POS systems to store networks to enterprise IT spend. Before retail analysis, he was a mechanical engineer running stress tests on Space Shuttle propulsion systems — a background that still shows up in how he evaluates infrastructure claims.
Tim McCracken Jr. is Chief Revenue Officer at SOLUM America, where he drives sales and partner leadership across the North American market. With deep experience in enterprise and channel sales, he helps major retailers modernize their physical stores through digital infrastructure and electronic shelf label (ESL) deployments.
Boyle Seo is EVP & Corporate CTO at SOLUM HQ in Korea, where he leads product strategy for the company's global electronic shelf label and IoT retail portfolio. SOLUM, spun off from Samsung in 2015, has deployed more than 350 million ESL units across over 50,000 stores worldwide under his product leadership.
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