New personal shopper and shelf-side solutions support a more distributed approach to self-service.

SINGAPORE, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — UROVO, a global provider of enterprise mobility and AIDC solutions, today announced the launch of its SP35 Personal Shopper and U100 Price Checker, two purpose-built retail solutions that give retailers complementary mobile and fixed touchpoints to support shoppers at different stages of the in-store journey.

As retailers balance rising expectations for convenient in-store experiences with pressure on store teams, they need to make shopping tasks easier to complete without staff assistance. The SP35 extends mobile self-service to the shop floor, while the U100 provides a dedicated shelf-side point for product information and retail services.

“Self-service is moving beyond fixed destinations and becoming part of the broader shopping journey,” said Zhang Bo, CTO of UROVO. “Retailers need technology that can meet shoppers where they need information, assistance and transaction capabilities—not simply where a kiosk is installed. SP35 and U100 give retailers a practical way to extend digital capability to more moments in the store, without adding complexity for shoppers or store teams.”

SP35 Personal Shopper: Enable More Independent Shopping

Item Location — Optional UWB-powered positioning helps shoppers locate and navigate to products.Scan-as-You-Shop — Barcode scanning and auto-scan mode support item capture with fewer manual steps.Mobile Payment — NFC and SoftPOS support contactless payments.

U100 Price Checker: Bring Product Information to the Shelf

Pricing Display — A compact, tablet-like design features a 10.1-inch HD touchscreen for displaying regular, promotional and member pricing.Product Identification — Optional UHF RFID supports multi-item reads for product lookup and comparison.Shopper Interaction — Presence sensing wakes the display as shoppers approach; idle screen supports promotional and informational content.

Together, SP35 and U100 extend self-service across the shopping journey, helping retailers handle routine product, pricing and payment interactions with less staff intervention while allowing store teams to focus on higher-value shopper service.

Meet UROVO at NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show Europe

UROVO will showcase SP35, U100 and its connected retail portfolio at NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show Europe, Sept. 15–17, at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Hall 6, Booth B-020.

About UROVO

Founded in 2002, UROVO is a global provider of enterprise mobility and digital business solutions, specialising in barcode, RFID, mobile computing, printing and payment technologies. Visit: UROVO.

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Litavis offers programmable multi-modal capabilities on-chip, accelerating time-to-market for imaging applications

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Singular Photonics, an innovator in single-photon imaging, today announced the launch of its most advanced image sensor to date. Litavis is the world’s first single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensor using in-pixel processing to unify imaging, timing, histogramming and photon statistics on a single chip.

Designed to bring unprecedented flexibility and intelligence to imaging applications, Litavis introduces a software-configurable sensing architecture capable of combining photon-counting imaging, programmable time gating, and advanced photon timing within a scalable SPAD array platform.

Litavis is also the first SPAD-based sensor to enable simultaneous intensity, timing and histogramming modes. The system also enables users to dynamically adapt sensor parameters in software without requiring new hardware designs.

By processing photon events directly on-chip, Litavis significantly reduces the amount of raw data that must be transferred and processed externally. This enables more scalable real-time imaging systems through lower latency, improved power efficiency and faster decision-making.

Litavis supports a broad suite of configurable operating modes, including:

Multiple TCSPC and high throughput TDC configurations using internal or external clocksHigh-dynamic-range photon counting modes with selectable resolutionWindowed and coincidence-based detection for advanced temporal analysisCombined timestamping and imaging modes

Developers can reconfigure the same hardware platform for different applications with minimal redesign effort, accelerating development cycles and reducing system complexity. The sensor is suitable for a broad range of applications including machine vision, robotics, physical AI, depth sensing, spectroscopy, scientific imaging, medical imaging, quantum technologies and industrial automation.

“Litavis combines the sensitivity advantages of SPAD technology with the adaptability and scalability increasingly required by modern multimodal imaging,” said Shahida Imani, CEO of Singular Photonics. “It condenses these into one intelligent sensor, enabling a new generation of imaging systems built on a single, configurable platform. We designed Litavis to serve multiple applications and markets, and we’ve already received significant pre-order volumes from companies and institutions around the world.”

As with Singular’s other products, Litavis is named after an ancient Celtic deity, an earth goddess, whose name means “the broad one” – reflecting the extensive capabilities of the new sensor.

Litavis will be demonstrated at SPIE Sensors + Imaging in Edinburgh next week, and at VISION, the world’s largest machine vision tradeshow in Stuttgart in October.

Technical details

Litavis is a CMOS SPAD-based imaging sensor platform built on an architecture that combines single-photon sensitivity with integrated digital photon processing directly on-chip and in-pixel. This enables precise capture of spatial and temporal information, while reducing reliance on external processing hardware, allowing the sensor to extract additional scene information including depth, timing and event characteristics.

Litavis delivers continuous 256 × 256-pixel photon-counting imaging under low-light conditions. In parallel, time-stamped photon events are generated at a lower rate on a 64 × 64 macropixel grid, providing picosecond-resolution photon timing alongside full-resolution photon counting.

The sensor also supports multi-event timing, allowing multiple detected photons per excitation cycle to be individually time-binned, and in-pixel histogramming. These capabilities provide access to temporal statistics beyond conventional intensity measurements. This supports applications such as fluorescence lifetime imaging, dynamic light scattering, and quantum sensing.

Litavis integrates configurable acquisition and timing capabilities directly within the pixel array. This allows developers and system integrators to rapidly prototype, evaluate and deploy advanced imaging solutions using a single adaptable platform.

About Singular Photonics

Singular Photonics is an Edinburgh-based fabless semiconductor company developing SPAD (single photon avalanche diode) image sensors with on-chip computation, enabling breakthrough capabilities in machine vision, industrial automation, physical AI, scientific discovery and medical imaging. Spun out of the University of Edinburgh from the lab of digital imaging pioneer Professor Robert Henderson, the company’s Andarta and Sirona product families are already commercially available and generating revenue. www.singularphotonics.com 

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HONG KONG, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A KUN Group company has received approval-in-principle from the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) for Type 1 (dealing in securities), Type 4 (advising on securities) and Type 9 (asset management) regulated activities. The Type 1 and Type 4 scopes include virtual asset-related activities and the provision of services to retail clients, while the Type 9 scope covers general asset management.

This was KUN’s first application for these regulated activities, and it received approval-in-principle for all three. The Type 1 and Type 4 scopes also cover both virtual asset-related activities and retail client services. Against the SFC’s stringent fit-and-proper, competence and internal-control requirements, this represents an important milestone in KUN’s regulatory footprint in Hong Kong.

KUN currently operates across four core pillars: Cross-Border Digital Payments, On-Chain Finance, Card Issuing and Agentic Payments. Subject to obtaining the necessary licences and approvals and meeting applicable regulatory requirements, KUN plans to explore further opportunities across virtual asset-related services, digital asset treasury management, asset and wealth management, supply chain finance, and asset tokenization.

In Hong Kong, KUN Group entities also hold licences and registrations including a Money Service Operator (MSO) licence, Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) licence, registration as a trust company under the Trustee Ordinance (Cap. 29), and a Money Lenders Licence. Beyond Hong Kong, KUN has established a regulatory footprint across the United States, Canada and Europe, including MSB registrations in the United States and Canada and VASP registration in Poland, while continuing to advance its regulatory initiatives across Singapore, the Middle East and other priority markets.

About KUN

KUN is an innovative financial infrastructure company centered on digital payments and embedded finance. Built on a globally distributed licensing framework and a robust compliance and risk-management system, KUN connects Asia with high-growth emerging markets across Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Positioned as a trusted vertical digital payments platform for real economies, the company operates across four core pillars—Cross-Border Digital Payments, On-Chain Finance, Card Issuing, and Agentic Payments. By integrating artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies, KUN delivers secure, compliant, and efficient one-stop payment and transaction services for enterprise clients across industries including Bulk Commodity, General Trade, B2B E-Commerce, Service Trade, Web3 Ecosystems and AI Applications.

Through this integrated infrastructure, KUN serves as a growth engine enabling enterprises to expand globally with speed, trust, and financial connectivity.

Learn more about KUN → www.kun.global

CONTACT: brandmkt@kun.global

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