Vision:
The RAISE initiative aims to collect, integrate and process multi-modal retail data with the goal of enhancing business objectives of retailers through advanced analytics, providing actionable intelligence for brick-and-click retailers to better fit into smart cities and reducing carbon foot print.
Retail Sustainability:
Responsible management of environmental impact directly affect how retail's business brand is perceived by customers and can reduce retailers' operational cost. Learn more about ongoing related rojects.
Smart Retail in Smart City:
Sensing and data collection enable efficient resource management in smart urban environments. Retail services are one of the pillars of every smart city. RAISE initiative is partnering with industry leaders and help retailers reposition to best serve needs of evolving cities. Learn more
Retail Analytics:
Analytics sits at the heart of retailer's data driven business and operational model. In collaboration with retail industry, we have worked on a variety of retail analytic problems to develop decision-making tools for optimal business and operational decision-making. Learn more
People:
Javad Mohammadi, RAISE Director Special Faculty, Electrical & Computer Engineering Soummya Kar, RAISE co-Director Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Shubham Sarkar MSc Student, Energy Science, Technology & Policy Gauri Dixit MSc Student, Energy Science, Technology & Policy Spandan Sharma BSc Student, Electrical & Computer Engineering Allison Ervin Administrative Coordinator
Funding Sources and Deployment Partners
We are honored to be supported by Target Corp, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance and entities at the state, national and international levels.