CN111462399A - Vending machine, vending system, and method and device for determining quantity of goods - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses an automatic vending machine, an automatic vending system, a method and a device for determining the quantity of goods. Wherein, this automatic vending machine includes: the cabinet body is used for placing goods to be sold; the infrared emitter is arranged on the first side of the cabinet body and used for emitting infrared rays; and the infrared receiver is arranged on a second side local to the cabinet machine and used for determining the stock state of the cabinet machine body based on the receiving state of the infrared rays emitted by the infrared emitter, wherein the first side and the second side are oppositely arranged. The invention solves the technical problems that the reliability of a mode for counting the inventory in the vending machine cabinet is low and the counting result is easy to be inaccurate in the prior art.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of vending machines, in particular to a vending machine, a vending system, a method and a device for determining the quantity of goods.
Background
At present, the vending machine often adopts a mode with lower reliability in counting or in stock sensing, for example, a sensor is used for acquiring goods in a cabinet machine body; however, the goods in the cabinet body are obtained only based on the sensing signals of the sensors in the mode, and when other objects which are not goods trigger the sensors, the sensing signals can be generated, so that the counting error phenomenon of the goods of the cabinet body can be caused, and the goods in the vending cabinet can not be accurately counted.
Aiming at the problems that the reliability of a mode for counting the inventory in the vending machine cabinet in the related technology is low and the counting result is easy to be inaccurate, an effective solution is not provided at present.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the invention provides a vending machine, a vending system, a method and a device for determining the quantity of goods, and aims to at least solve the technical problems that the reliability of a mode for counting the stock in a cabinet machine of the vending machine in the prior art is low, and the counting result is easy to be inaccurate.
According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a vending machine including: the cabinet body is used for placing goods to be sold; the infrared emitter is arranged on the first side of the cabinet machine body and used for emitting infrared rays; the infrared receiver is arranged on a second side of the cabinet machine and used for determining the stock state of the cabinet machine body based on the receiving state of the infrared rays emitted by the infrared emitter, wherein the first side and the second side are oppositely arranged.
Optionally, the vending machine further comprises: and the pressure sensor is arranged below the cabinet body and used for sensing the trigger signal of the goods to be sold in the cabinet body so as to count the number of the goods sold by the vending machine.
Optionally, the cabinet body includes: and the goods placing layers are arranged on the cabinet body at preset intervals and used for placing the goods to be sold.
Optionally, the infrared emitter and the infrared receiver are both disposed within a height range of a cargo placement layer at a bottommost layer in the cabinet body.
Optionally, the first side and the second side are two sides of a cabinet door of the vending machine, respectively.
According to another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a vending system including: the vending machine of any of the above; the storage module is used for storing and receiving the receiving state of the infrared rays transmitted by the infrared transmitter by the infrared receiver; and the processing module is used for processing the receiving state to obtain the stock state of the vending machine.
Optionally, the storage module is further configured to store the trigger signal sensed by the pressure sensor and acquired by the vending machine; the processing module is further used for processing the trigger signal to obtain the vending quantity of the vending machine.
According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a method for determining the quantity of goods, which is applied to the vending machine described in any one of the above and/or the vending system described in the above, including: acquiring a receiving state of an infrared receiver on infrared rays emitted by an infrared emitter, wherein the infrared receiver and the infrared receiver are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of a cabinet body of the vending machine; determining a current quantity of goods to be vended within a cabinet body of the vending machine based on the receipt status.
Optionally, the method for determining the quantity of the goods further comprises: acquiring a trigger signal of goods to be sold in the cabinet body, which is sensed by a pressure sensor, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged below the cabinet body; determining a number of vends for the vending machine based on the trigger signal.
Optionally, after determining the current quantity of the goods to be sold in the cabinet body of the vending machine based on the receiving state, the method for determining the quantity of the goods further comprises: determining a deviation value of the current quantity from a predetermined value; and generating a prompt signal when the deviation value is larger than a preset threshold value, wherein the prompt signal is used for prompting that goods to be sold in the cabinet body are insufficient.
Optionally, after the determining the number of vends of the vending machine based on the trigger signal, the method for determining the number of vends further includes: determining a deviation value of the vending quantity and a preset numerical value; and generating a prompt signal when the deviation value is larger than a preset threshold value, wherein the prompt signal is used for prompting that goods to be sold in the cabinet body are insufficient.
According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a device for determining the quantity of goods, which is applied to the method for determining the quantity of goods described in any one of the above, including: the first acquisition unit is used for acquiring the receiving state of infrared rays emitted by the infrared emitter by the infrared receiver, wherein the infrared receiver and the infrared receiver are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of a cabinet body of the vending machine; a first determination unit for determining a current quantity of goods to be sold within a cabinet body of the vending machine based on the reception status.
Optionally, the device for determining the quantity of the goods further comprises: the second acquisition unit is used for acquiring a trigger signal of goods to be sold in the cabinet body, which is sensed by the pressure sensor, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged below the cabinet body; a second determination unit for determining a number of vends of the vending machine based on the trigger signal.
Optionally, the device for determining the quantity of the goods further comprises: a third determination unit configured to determine a deviation value of a current quantity of goods to be sold within a cabinet body of the vending machine from a predetermined value after the determination of the current quantity based on the reception state; the first generation unit is used for generating a prompt signal under the condition that the deviation value is larger than a preset threshold value, wherein the prompt signal is used for prompting that goods to be sold in the cabinet body are insufficient.
Optionally, the device for determining the quantity of the goods further comprises: a fourth determination unit, configured to determine a deviation value of the vending quantity from a preset value after the vending quantity of the vending machine is determined based on the trigger signal; and the second generating unit is used for generating a prompt signal under the condition that the deviation value is greater than a preset threshold value, wherein the prompt signal is used for prompting that goods to be sold in the cabinet body are insufficient.
In the embodiment of the invention, a cabinet body is adopted for placing goods to be sold; the infrared emitter is arranged on the first side of the cabinet body and used for emitting infrared rays; the automatic vending machine comprises an infrared receiver and a cabinet machine body, wherein the infrared receiver is arranged on a second side of the cabinet machine body and used for determining the stock state of the cabinet machine body based on the receiving state of infrared rays emitted by an infrared emitter, the first side and the second side are arranged oppositely, the aim of reasonably arranging the infrared receiver and the infrared emitter to determine the stock state in the cabinet machine body based on the receiving state is fulfilled, the technical effect of improving the reliability of stock statistics of the automatic vending machine is achieved, the technical effect of improving the accuracy of the stock statistics of the automatic vending machine is also improved, and the technical problems that the reliability of a mode for counting the stock in the cabinet machine of the automatic vending machine in the prior art is low and the counting result is inaccurate are easily caused are further solved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an alternative vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a vending system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a flow chart of a method of determining a quantity of goods according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a cargo quantity determination apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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In order to make the technical solutions of the present invention better understood, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present invention and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the invention described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a vending machine, fig. 1 is a schematic view of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, the vending machine including: cabinet body 11, infrared emitter 13 and infrared receiver 15. The vending machine will be described in detail below.
The cabinet body 11 is used for placing goods to be sold.
Optionally, the cabinet body is a main body of the vending machine, and is used for placing goods to be sold.
And the infrared emitter 13 is arranged on the first side of the cabinet body and used for emitting infrared rays.
And the infrared receiver 15 is arranged on a second side local to the cabinet machine and used for determining the stock state of the cabinet machine body based on the receiving state of the infrared rays emitted by the infrared emitter, wherein the first side is arranged opposite to the second side.
As can be seen from the above, the vending machine provided in the embodiment of the present invention includes: the cabinet body is used for placing goods to be sold; the infrared emitter is arranged on the first side of the cabinet body and used for emitting infrared rays; infrared receiver, set up with the local second side of cabinet-type air conditioner, a receiving state for based on the infrared ray to the infrared emitter transmission, confirm the stock state of cabinet-type air conditioner body, wherein, first side sets up with the second side relatively, set up infrared emitter and infrared receiver through the both sides relative at cabinet-type air conditioner body, and then can be based on the receiving state of infrared receiver to the infrared light of infrared emitter transmission, confirm the stock state of cabinet-type air conditioner body, realized with infrared receiver and infrared emitter reasonable setting with the purpose of confirming this internal stock state of cabinet-type air conditioner based on receiving state, reached and improved the technological effect of carrying out the reliability of stock statistics to the automatic vending machine, the technological effect of the accuracy of making statistics to the stock of automatic vending machine has also been improved.
Therefore, the automatic vending machine provided by the embodiment of the invention solves the technical problems that the reliability of a mode for counting the inventory in the automatic vending machine cabinet in the prior art is low, and the counting result is easy to be inaccurate.
In an alternative embodiment, the vending machine further comprises: the pressure sensor is arranged below the cabinet body and used for sensing a trigger signal of goods to be sold in the cabinet body so as to count the number of the goods sold by the vending machine.
Fig. 2 is a schematic view of an alternative vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, the vending machine includes, in addition to the cabinet body 11, the infrared emitter 13 and the infrared receiver 15 shown in fig. 1: pressure sensor 21 to when every selling a goods, trigger pressure sensor and become flexible once, the goods quantity is sold in the count to can combine pressure sensor to calculate the quantity of the goods of selling. In the embodiment of the invention, the pressure sensor is arranged below the cabinet body, so that the pressure sensor is triggered once when goods roll out of the cabinet body and are taken away by a customer, so as to count the sold goods.
In an alternative embodiment, the cabinet body comprises: and the goods placing layers are arranged on the cabinet body at preset intervals and used for placing goods to be sold. As shown in fig. 2, the track body is internally divided into a plurality of layers, i.e., cargo placement layers, for placing cargo.
In an alternative embodiment, the infrared transmitter and the infrared receiver are both arranged in the height range of the lowest cargo placement layer in the cabinet body. When the goods on the bottom goods placing layer in the cabinet body are sold out or the number of the goods is less than a certain number, the infrared receiver receives the infrared rays emitted by the infrared emitter, and therefore the goods state in the cabinet body can be determined.
In addition, in the embodiment of the present invention, the infrared receiver and the infrared transmitter may be disposed in other height ranges of the cabinet body according to actual requirements, for example, the infrared transmitter and the infrared receiver may be disposed in a height range of a penultimate cargo layer in the cabinet body, so as to prompt replenishment before the goods are sold out.
In an alternative embodiment, the first side and the second side are two sides of a door of the vending machine. As shown in particular in fig. 1 or 2.
According to another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a vending system, and fig. 3 is a schematic view of the vending system according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the vending system including: a vending machine 31, a storage module 33, and a processing module 35. The automatic vending system will be explained below.
The vending machine 31 of any of the above.
And a storage module 33 for storing and receiving status of the infrared ray emitted by the infrared emitter by the infrared receiver.
And the processing module 35 is configured to process the received state to obtain an inventory state of the vending machine.
From the above, the vending system in an embodiment of the present invention may include any of the vending machines described above; the storage module is used for storing and receiving the receiving state of the infrared rays emitted by the infrared emitter by the infrared receiver; the processing module is used for processing the receiving state to obtain the stock state of the vending machine, the purpose that the infrared receiver and the infrared transmitter are reasonably arranged to determine the stock state in the cabinet based on the receiving state is achieved, the technical effect of improving the reliability of stock statistics of the vending machine is achieved, the technical effect of improving the accuracy of the stock statistics of the vending machine is also improved, and the technical problem that the mode for counting the stock in the vending machine in the related art is low in reliability and inaccurate in statistical result is easily caused is solved.
In an optional embodiment, the storage module is further configured to store a trigger signal sensed by the pressure sensor and acquired by the vending machine; and the processing module is also used for processing the trigger signal to obtain the selling quantity of the vending machine.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method embodiment of a method for determining a quantity of goods, where it is noted that steps illustrated in a flowchart of the figures as applied to a vending machine according to any of the above and/or a vending system according to the above may be executed in a computer system such as a set of computer-executable instructions, and that although a logical order is illustrated in the flowchart, in some cases the steps illustrated or described may be executed in an order different from that shown.
Fig. 4 is a flowchart of a cargo quantity determination method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 4, the cargo quantity determination method includes the steps of:
step S402, acquiring a receiving state of the infrared receiver to the infrared rays emitted by the infrared emitter, wherein the infrared receiver and the infrared receiver are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of the cabinet body of the vending machine.
Step S404, determining a current quantity of goods to be sold within the cabinet body of the vending machine based on the reception status.
As can be seen from the above, in the embodiment of the present invention, the receiving state of the infrared receiver to the infrared ray emitted by the infrared emitter can be obtained, wherein the infrared receiver and the infrared receiver are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the cabinet body of the vending machine; the current quantity of goods to be sold in the cabinet body of the vending machine is determined based on the receiving state, the purpose that the infrared receiver and the infrared transmitter are reasonably arranged to determine the stock state in the cabinet body based on the receiving state is achieved, the technical effect of improving the reliability of stock statistics of the vending machine is achieved, and the technical effect of improving the accuracy of the stock statistics of the vending machine is also improved.
Therefore, the method for determining the quantity of the goods solves the technical problems that the reliability of a mode for counting the inventory in the vending machine cabinet is low and the counting result is inaccurate in the prior art.
In an alternative embodiment, the method for determining the quantity of the goods may further include: acquiring a trigger signal of goods to be sold in the cabinet body, which is sensed by a pressure sensor, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged below the cabinet body; the number of vends of the vending machine is determined based on the trigger signal.
In an alternative embodiment, after determining the current quantity of the goods to be sold in the cabinet body of the vending machine based on the receiving state, the method for determining the quantity of the goods may further include: determining a deviation value of the current quantity from a predetermined value; and generating a prompt signal when the deviation value is larger than a preset threshold value, wherein the prompt signal is used for prompting that goods to be sold in the cabinet body are insufficient.
In an alternative embodiment, after determining the number of vends of the vending machine based on the trigger signal, the method of determining the number of vends further includes: determining a deviation value between the vending quantity and a preset value; and generating a prompt signal when the deviation value is larger than a preset threshold value, wherein the prompt signal is used for prompting that goods to be sold in the cabinet body are insufficient.
According to the method for determining the quantity of the goods, provided by the embodiment of the invention, the pressure sensor can be arranged below the cabinet body of the vending machine, and the quantity of the goods sold can be counted after the pressure sensor loosens once when one goods is sold; in addition, the left and right sides of each two ends of the bottom layer of goods are respectively provided with an infrared emitter and an infrared receiver, when the goods are sold, the infrared receivers cannot receive signals and indicate that the goods are sold, and when the goods are sold, each group of the goods is blocked, the infrared receivers can receive infrared rays emitted by the infrared emitters and indicate that the goods are sold; in addition, infrared emitter and infrared receiver can adjust different positions as required, can just so advance the early warning when the goods is to certain surplus to and the replenishment in time.
According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a device for determining a quantity of goods, which is applied to the method for determining a quantity of goods described above, and fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of the device for determining a quantity of goods according to the embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5, the device for determining a quantity of goods includes: a first acquisition unit 51 and a first determination unit 53. The determination device of the number of the goods will be described in detail below.
The first acquiring unit 51 is configured to acquire a receiving state of an infrared ray emitted by the infrared emitter from an infrared receiver, where the infrared receiver and the infrared receiver are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of a cabinet body of the vending machine.
A first determination unit 53 for determining a current amount of goods to be sold within the cabinet body of the vending machine based on the reception status.
It should be noted here that the first acquiring unit 51 and the first determining unit 53 correspond to steps S402 to S404 in the embodiment, and the units are the same as the examples and application scenarios realized by the corresponding steps, but are not limited to the disclosure of the embodiment. It should be noted that the above-described elements as part of an apparatus may be implemented in a computer system, such as a set of computer-executable instructions.
As can be seen from the above, in the above embodiments of the present application, the first obtaining unit may be used to obtain the receiving state of the infrared receiver to the infrared ray emitted by the infrared emitter, where the infrared receiver and the infrared receiver are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the cabinet body of the vending machine; and determining, with the first determining unit, a current quantity of goods to be vended within a cabinet body of the vending machine based on the reception state. By the device for determining the quantity of the goods, provided by the embodiment of the invention, the purpose of reasonably setting the infrared receiver and the infrared transmitter to determine the stock state in the cabinet body based on the receiving state is achieved, the technical effect of improving the reliability of the stock statistics of the vending machine is achieved, the technical effect of improving the accuracy of the stock statistics of the vending machine is also improved, and the technical problem that the counting result is inaccurate easily caused by the lower reliability of a mode for counting the stock in the cabinet of the vending machine in the prior art is solved.
In an optional embodiment, the device for determining the quantity of the goods further comprises: the second acquisition unit is used for acquiring a trigger signal of goods to be sold in the cabinet body, which is sensed by the pressure sensor, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged below the cabinet body; a second determination unit for determining a number of vends of the vending machine based on the trigger signal.
In an optional embodiment, the device for determining the quantity of the goods further comprises: a third determination unit for determining a deviation value of the current quantity from the predetermined value after determining the current quantity of the goods to be sold in the cabinet body of the vending machine based on the reception state; and the first generating unit is used for generating a prompting signal under the condition that the deviation value is greater than a preset threshold value, wherein the prompting signal is used for prompting that goods to be sold in the cabinet body are insufficient.
In an optional embodiment, the device for determining the quantity of the goods further comprises: a fourth determination unit for determining a deviation value of the vending quantity from a preset value after determining the vending quantity of the vending machine based on the trigger signal; and the second generating unit is used for generating a prompting signal under the condition that the deviation value is greater than the preset threshold value, wherein the prompting signal is used for prompting that goods to be sold in the cabinet body are insufficient.
The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.
In the above embodiments of the present invention, the descriptions of the respective embodiments have respective emphasis, and for parts that are not described in detail in a certain embodiment, reference may be made to related descriptions of other embodiments.
In the embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed technology can be implemented in other ways. The above-described embodiments of the apparatus are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units may be a logical division, and in actual implementation, there may be another division, for example, multiple units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, units or modules, and may be in an electrical or other form.
The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.
In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit. The integrated unit can be realized in a form of hardware, and can also be realized in a form of a software functional unit.
The integrated unit, if implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a removable hard disk, a magnetic or optical disk, and other various media capable of storing program codes.
The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, various modifications and decorations can be made without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these modifications and decorations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. A vending machine, comprising:
the cabinet body is used for placing goods to be sold;
the infrared emitter is arranged on the first side of the cabinet machine body and used for emitting infrared rays;
the infrared receiver is arranged on a second side of the cabinet machine and used for determining the stock state of the cabinet machine body based on the receiving state of the infrared rays emitted by the infrared emitter, wherein the first side and the second side are oppositely arranged.
2. The vending machine of claim 1, further comprising: and the pressure sensor is arranged below the cabinet body and used for sensing the trigger signal of the goods to be sold in the cabinet body so as to count the number of the goods sold by the vending machine.
3. The vending machine of claim 1, wherein the cabinet body comprises: and the goods placing layers are arranged on the cabinet body at preset intervals and used for placing the goods to be sold.
4. The vending machine of claim 3, wherein the infrared emitter and the infrared receiver are both disposed within a height range of a lowermost cargo-receiving floor within the cabinet body.
5. The vending machine according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the first side and the second side are respectively two sides of a cabinet door of the vending machine.
6. A vending system, comprising:
the vending machine of any of the preceding claims 1 to 5;
the storage module is used for storing and receiving the receiving state of the infrared rays transmitted by the infrared transmitter by the infrared receiver;
and the processing module is used for processing the receiving state to obtain the stock state of the vending machine.
7. The vending system according to claim 6,
the storage module is further used for storing the trigger signal which is obtained by the vending machine and is sensed by the pressure sensor;
the processing module is further used for processing the trigger signal to obtain the vending quantity of the vending machine.
8. A method for determining the quantity of goods, to be applied to a vending machine according to any one of claims 1 to 5 and/or to a vending system according to claim 6 or 7, comprising:
acquiring a receiving state of an infrared receiver on infrared rays emitted by an infrared emitter, wherein the infrared receiver and the infrared receiver are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of a cabinet body of the vending machine;
determining a current quantity of goods to be vended within a cabinet body of the vending machine based on the receipt status.
9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
acquiring a trigger signal of goods to be sold in the cabinet body, which is sensed by a pressure sensor, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged below the cabinet body;
determining a number of vends for the vending machine based on the trigger signal.
10. The method of claim 8, wherein after said determining a current quantity of goods to sell within a cabinet body of the vending machine based on the receipt status, the method further comprises:
determining a deviation value of the current quantity from a predetermined value;
and generating a prompt signal when the deviation value is larger than a preset threshold value, wherein the prompt signal is used for prompting that goods to be sold in the cabinet body are insufficient.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein after the determining the number of vends for the vending machine based on the trigger signal, the method further comprises:
determining a deviation value of the vending quantity and a preset numerical value;
and generating a prompt signal when the deviation value is larger than a preset threshold value, wherein the prompt signal is used for prompting that goods to be sold in the cabinet body are insufficient.
12. A cargo quantity determination device applied to the cargo quantity determination method according to any one of claims 8 to 11, comprising:
the first acquisition unit is used for acquiring the receiving state of infrared rays emitted by the infrared emitter by the infrared receiver, wherein the infrared receiver and the infrared receiver are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of a cabinet body of the vending machine;
a first determination unit for determining a current quantity of goods to be sold within a cabinet body of the vending machine based on the reception status.
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