First install · Aradhana’s Openhour, Kerala

The store that runs itself.

SASOS builds Openhour — India’s first AI-run, fully autonomous store format. Walk in with the UPI app you already use. Take what you need. Walk out. No queues, no counters, no staff — the store handles everything.

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Staff on floor
24/7
Open, always
15 g
Shelf sensing
34
Joints tracked per person
// how it works

Three steps. Zero friction.

Designed for India: if you can use GPay, you can use Openhour. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.

Scan. The door opens.

Scan the QR at the door with any UPI app — GPay, PhonePe, anything. A small deposit opens the door, and it's credited to your bill.

Take what you need.

Cameras understand movement at the wrist. Shelves feel every gram. Your basket builds itself as you shop — put something back, it comes off.

Walk out.

Your bill settles the moment you leave — deposit adjusted, receipt issued. No queue, no counter, no waiting for anyone.

No app required. Regulars can optionally use the Openhour wallet for ₹0-at-entry and automatic exit billing — but every feature of the store works with plain UPI.
// the technology

Senses, fused.

Openhour doesn't guess who took what — it measures, twice, with two independent senses, and reconciles them in real time.

Vision AI

Pose, understood at the wrist

34-joint body tracking follows every shopper's hands — not just their silhouette. Two people at one shelf? Openhour knows whose wrist crossed the line.

Smart shelves

Shelves that feel

Precision load-cell plates under every shelf sense changes down to 15 grams and know exactly which product — and how many — left the shelf.

Sensor fusion

Two senses, one truth

Weight events and vision events are fused into a single attributed action: who took what, when. Anything ambiguous is flagged for review — never silently guessed.

Edge AI

No cloud required

Everything runs on-site on NVIDIA Jetson edge hardware. Internet slow or down? The store keeps sensing, keeps selling, keeps itself safe.

// built to be trusted

Autonomous, not careless.

An unmanned store only works if people trust it at 2 AM. Every trust decision in Openhour is physical, visible, or mathematically enforced.

Fail-safe by physics

The door lock holds only while powered. Power cut, fire, emergency — it opens. Safety never depends on software behaving.

Glass-first storefront

The whole store is visible from the street, lit around the clock. Nothing hidden, nothing to wonder about — at any hour.

Your money stays yours

The optional wallet is prepaid and closed-loop — no bank mandates, no autopay hooks into your account. Load only what you want to spend.

Boring, auditable security

Payments, locks and billing run on deterministic, testable code. AI does the sensing — it never guards the door or touches the money.

// the vision

Today a store. Tomorrow, everything that can run itself.

SASOS is not one shop — it's an autonomy platform being proven in the hardest arena first: real retail, real money, real customers.

Now

Aradhana’s Openhour — Kerala

India's first AI-run, fully autonomous grocery store. Grab-and-go, open around the clock, run entirely by the Openhour platform.

Next

Openhour for every shop owner

Any shop, made autonomous: sensing hardware, AI, payments and remote management as a service. Your shop earns while you sleep — under your own name, powered by SASOS.

Then

Autonomous medical stores

24/7 access to essential medicines in every neighbourhood — with the accountability and auditability only a sensor-fused store can offer.

Beyond

Autonomy, applied anywhere

Warehouses, kiosks, frontier robotics — the same fused-sensing core, aimed at whatever India needs to run itself next. Anything possible, we make.

// questions, answered straight

Fair questions.

An unmanned store is new here. These are the questions we'd ask too.

Do I need to install an app?

No. If your phone has GPay, PhonePe or any UPI app, you can shop at Openhour. The optional Openhour wallet exists for regulars who want ₹0-at-entry and automatic billing — but it is never required.

What is the small payment at the door?

A small entry deposit — it opens the door and is fully credited against whatever you buy. It keeps the door honest: only paying customers enter an unmanned store.

What if the system bills me wrongly?

Every pick is measured twice — by weight on the shelf and by vision above it. When the two senses don't agree perfectly, the item is flagged for human review instead of being silently charged. Every receipt is itemized, and a real person answers billing disputes.

Can I get stuck inside?

Physically impossible. The door lock holds only while it has power — any power cut, fire alarm or emergency releases it instantly. That's physics, not software, and it can't crash.

Is my money safe in the wallet?

The wallet is prepaid and closed-loop: it never connects to your bank account, sets up no autopay mandates, and holds only what you choose to load. Spend it at the store; that's all it can ever do.

When and where does it open?

Aradhana’s Openhour is being built in Kollam, Kerala — and it opens when it's genuinely ready, not a day before. Want to know the moment it does? Drop us a line.

// partner with us

Own a shop? Make it autonomous.

We install Openhour — the shelves, the vision, the door and the payments — and run the software for you. Your shop stays open 24/7 without a single extra salary. The store even learns what your customers buy. Early partners shape what Openhour becomes.

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