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Artificial Intelligence Elevates Drive-Thru Sales

AI Boosts Speed, Accuracy, and Profits in Drive-Thrus

Various kinds of drive-thru services, such as fast food restaurants, coffee shops, retail stores, and even banks, bring greater convenience to daily life. Now, the rise of artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the drive-thru experience by delivering greater speed, accuracy, and service consistency for customers while helping business owners improve operational efficiency and profitability.

AI Chatbot at Drive-Thru

With the emergence of large language models (LLMs), business owners are increasingly exploring AI chatbot applications to improve service workflows. Drive-thru ordering is an ideal use case, as employees often need to communicate with customers through headsets and take orders in noisy outdoor environments. Deploying an AI chatbot for the drive-thru speaker system can help reduce labor pressure, speed up the ordering process, and even support sales growth. An AI chatbot can accurately take orders across different speaking speeds and accents while reducing background noise. It can also recommend or promote menu items to help increase sales opportunities.

AIE110-ONA: Ultra-Compact Edge AI Developer Kit Designed for AI Applications

Compact and Flexible

Designed as an SBC, the AIE110-ONA offers greater flexibility for system integrators to install in space-constrained environments and integrate with other peripherals. Integrators can connect microphones and cameras via USB or PoE ports. The PoE port provides 15W of power, while HDMI output can support an indoor display for showing order details.

High AI Performance

Powered by the NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ Nano, the AIE110-ONA delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance while maintaining low power consumption. Its 1024-core NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU with 32 Tensor Cores supports edge AI inference workloads for AI chatbot, voice AI, and vision-based applications.

Outdoor-Ready

The AIE110-ONA supports an operating temperature range from -10°C to +60°C, making it suitable for semi-outdoor environments such as drive-thrus. It also provides one M.2 Key M NVMe SSD slot for storage and one PCI Express Mini Card slot for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LTE, or GPS expansion.

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AI-Powered Digital Signage

Drive-thrus usually feature large digital signage boards to attract attention and promote hot-selling or new items. Today, AI-powered digital signage can use audience analytics and contextual signals to dynamically adjust promotional content for different customer groups. Deploying a digital signage player with AI algorithms can support more precise marketing and help increase sales by tailoring advertisements more effectively. Digital signage players also make it easier to update advertising content, reduce long-term operating costs, and track campaign effectiveness.

DSP501-527: Digital Signage Player for Harsh Environments

Outdoor-Ready

The DSP501-527 is one of the few digital signage players on the market that supports an extended operating temperature range from -40°C to +60°C, making it suitable for semi-outdoor environments such as drive-thrus.

AI-Ready

Powered by the Intel® Core™ i3-8145UE processor and supporting optional Hailo AI accelerators via mPCIe and M.2, the DSP501-527 can run AI algorithms for personalized recommendations, audience engagement analysis, and advertising performance evaluation.

Flexible Connectivity

The DSP501-527 has one HDMI 2.0 and one DisplayPort++ to present 4K UHD content. Moreover, it provides an M.2 Key E slot for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, as well as an M.2 Key B slot with a SIM slot for 4G LTE, enabling wireless connectivity for remote management and content updates.