Wiliot platform and IoT Pixel (inset)
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thousands of sites and is approaching hundreds of millions of actively tracked assets. PHYSICAL AI RESULTS These deployments have improved inventory accuracy to 99% or greater; reduced dock-to-stock time from 24-48 hours to 2-6 hours; reduced receiving labor by 30-50%; reduced mis-shipments by up to 90%; and reduced lost, damaged, and delayed packages by 60%. The companies are now also working to expand AT&T’s role beyond deployment into network monitoring, alerting, and ongoing operations, with a longer-term plan for deeper integration of Wiliot-generated data into AT&T’s services and enterprise offerings. Wiliot’s Physical AI platform creates a continuous sensing layer across supply chains, capturing real-time data on location, temperature, and other attributes. This data is processed to generate insights and automated
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A new study of 336 retail C-suite executives, conducted by Incisiv in partnership with Manhattan Associates and World Retail Congress, reveals an industry in an unusual position: nearly unanimous conviction about AI’s importance, paired with a glaring absence of the infrastructure to act on it. 91% of retail executives say AI will be table stakes by 2030. Only 29% have built the data and technology foundation
work ows across inventory, logistics, and operations. By combining Wiliot’s platform with AT&T’s infrastructure, certi cation, and deployment capabilities, the collaboration lets enterprises replace fragmented visibility with a scalable, real-time system for understanding and managing physical supply chain operations. The companies are expanding deployments across additional customers, sites, and use cases.
to scale it. And only 11% have the AI and data science talent to build it.
WHAT IS PHYSICAL AI?
AI systems that operate in, interact with, and learn from the physical world.
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