GaitAI RetailGuard
Movement intelligence for the modern retail floor.
RetailGuard provides movement-aware operational analytics across retail zones — loitering alerts, queue analytics, emergency flow, staff-safety events and crowd heatmaps.

Problem
Retail environments combine queue management, staff safety, emergency flow and unusual-movement monitoring.
What GaitAI does
One movement layer serves all four: queue and flow analytics for operations, loitering and unusual-movement events for security, and staff-safety alerts for duty managers.
Who uses it
- Retail chains
- Malls
- Big-box stores
- Store operations and loss-prevention teams (authorized use)
What they receive
Example report values — illustrative, not measured performance claims.
Operational reads: a queue alert means open a till; a loitering event means send a colleague to assist or check; heatmaps show where the floor actually works. Movement events are prompts, not accusations.
Why it matters
The same cameras that watch the floor become an operations tool: shorter queues, earlier safety response and movement-defined security events — without identity-first surveillance.
Example workflow
- 01Store zones (queues, aisles, backrooms) are configured
- 02Movement analytics run across the floor
- 03Queue and density insights reach operations
- 04Movement events reach security / duty managers
- 05Heatmaps inform layout and staffing decisions
Deployment
- Per-store zone configuration
- Chain-level and store-level dashboards
- Aggregate heatmaps for layout planning
- PrivacyGuard controls throughout
Evidence status
GaitAI Evidence Index
1 categories documented
What is documented for this module, and what is not. Research foundation is not product validation — the two are listed separately on purpose.
- Research foundationNot yet published
- No published record in this library directly addresses a capability this module is built on.
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Claim / capability: No published record in this library directly addresses a capability this module is built on.
Status: Not yet published
Applicability: The cited work is specifically about a method or movement signal this module draws on.
Limitation: Research relevance is not evidence that this product's outputs have been validated.
No supporting source is published for this status.
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- Architectural research relationshipNot yet published
- No further shared-platform research relationship is recorded beyond the research foundation above.
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Claim / capability: No further shared-platform research relationship is recorded beyond the research foundation above.
Status: Not yet published
Applicability: Shared capabilities such as pose estimation or temporal modelling are used by many modules.
Limitation: A shared-platform relationship is the weakest research link and must not be read as validating this module.
No supporting source is published for this status.
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- Product specificationAvailable
- The module has a documented specification: inputs, pipeline, outputs and stated limitations.
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Claim / capability: The module has a documented specification: inputs, pipeline, outputs and stated limitations.
Status: Available
Applicability: Documented inputs, intended workflow and output design.
Limitation: Documentation does not establish a released implementation or deployment readiness.
- specificationProduct documentation
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- Product implementation evidenceNot yet published
- No module-specific release or deployment record is published here.
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Claim / capability: No module-specific release or deployment record is published here.
Status: Not yet published
Applicability: Production implementation is distinct from this website's interactive prototypes.
Limitation: The browser pose explorer is not the full clinical or operational product pipeline.
- Context · not validation evidenceProduct and deployment context
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- Interactive demoNot yet published
- No sample output has been built for this module yet.
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Claim / capability: No sample output has been built for this module yet.
Status: Not yet published
Applicability: An interactive explanation of the intended output and workflow.
Limitation: Sample outputs contain illustrative values and are not measurements of a visitor or product performance.
No supporting source is published for this status.
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- Benchmark validationNot yet published
- Validation pending publication. No product benchmark numbers are supplied.
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Claim / capability: Validation pending publication. No product benchmark numbers are supplied.
Status: Not yet published
Applicability: A benchmark needs a defined dataset, sample count, environment, hardware and evaluation method.
Limitation: Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, latency and FPS cannot be inferred from a demonstration.
- Context · not validation evidenceResearch evidence inventory
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- Product-specific validationNot yet published
- No study in the published record evaluates this module's output for a particular intended use.
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Claim / capability: No study in the published record evaluates this module's output for a particular intended use.
Status: Not yet published
Applicability: Validation must match the module, population and intended decision.
Limitation: A product description or related research paper does not establish validated performance.
- Context · not validation evidencePublished evidence inventory
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- Pilot & deployment evidenceNot yet published
- No named pilot, deployment result or customer outcome is documented.
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Claim / capability: No named pilot, deployment result or customer outcome is documented.
Status: Not yet published
Applicability: Pilot and deployment evidence is assessed separately from research.
Limitation: Use-case journeys describe intended workflows, not customer results.
- Context · not validation evidenceTrust Center
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- Product-specific clinical validationNot yet published
- No product-specific clinical validation study is published in this library.
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Claim / capability: No product-specific clinical validation study is published in this library.
Status: Not yet published
Applicability: Clinical applicability depends on the intended use; safety modules are not presented as clinical tools.
Limitation: No output replaces clinician judgement or establishes a diagnosis.
- Context · not validation evidenceResponsible use and intended context
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- Regulatory clearanceNot claimed
- No medical-device clearance, regulatory approval or compliance status is claimed.
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Claim / capability: No medical-device clearance, regulatory approval or compliance status is claimed.
Status: Not claimed
Applicability: Regulatory applicability depends on the intended use and deployment jurisdiction.
Limitation: Research publications, patents and prototypes are not regulatory clearances.
- Context · not validation evidenceWhat GaitAI does not claim
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Privacy & responsible use
Designed to support consent-based capture, encrypted transfer, configurable retention and role-based access, with activity logging and skeleton-only processing modes. Deployment requirements depend on the applicable environment, organization and jurisdiction. Privacy-aware architecture does not automatically mean anonymity: pose, gait and trajectories may still carry identifying information. Movement analytics are designed to run without identifying individuals unless a deployment lawfully and explicitly requires it, and identity-related capabilities are intended only for lawful, authorized deployments with appropriate governance, access control and auditability. Outputs are decision support for trained operators — not autonomous enforcement.
Context & limitations
- Movement-defined events — human review before any action
- Coverage varies with store camera layouts
- Loss-prevention use must follow policy and law



