CN111695647A - Multi-antenna electronic price tag device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a multi-antenna electronic price tag device, comprising: the antenna comprises a main control chip, a first antenna and a second antenna, wherein the main control chip is used for: the data required to be displayed by the electronic price tag is received through communication between the first antenna and the AP; and when the electronic price tag is positioned, data interaction is carried out with surrounding neighbor electronic price tags or other equipment through the second antenna. The scheme comprises the first antenna and the second antenna, so that different antennas can be adopted to achieve the optimal effect when different functions are required, and the determination of the position of the antenna and the accurate measurement of the neighbor price tag are realized.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of electronic price tag positioning, in particular to a multi-antenna electronic price tag device.
Background
The traditional electronic price tag mainly completes the function of displaying the price of the commodity, the core system pushes information to be displayed to the electronic price tag for display, and only one communication antenna is used for wireless communication of the electronic price tag. As the big merchants have business requirements of finding goods, shopping guide and the like in real time, the problem of positioning the goods in the big merchants is a topic. The traditional indoor positioning methods include ibeacon, uwb and wifi fingerprints. The positioning accuracy of the schemes is more than 1m, even the error reaches 10m, and the requirements of dense commodity display positioning cannot be met. When the wireless communication system where the electronic price tag is located is used for positioning, the main function of the communication antenna of the electronic price tag is to communicate with the AP, so that the functional requirement that neighbors need to be detected with weak functions in the positioning process cannot be met.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the invention provides a multi-antenna price tag device for an electronic shelf, which solves the technical problem that the function requirement of detecting neighbors with weak functions in the positioning process cannot be met in the prior art.
This many antennas's electron goods shelves price tag device includes: the antenna comprises a main control chip, a first antenna and a second antenna;
wherein, the main control chip is used for: the data required to be displayed by the electronic price tag is received through communication between the first antenna and the AP; and when the electronic price tag is positioned, data interaction is carried out with surrounding neighbor electronic price tags or other equipment through the second antenna.
In the embodiment of the invention, by arranging the first antenna and the second antenna, the data required to be displayed by the electronic price tag can be received by the first antenna and the AP through communication; when the electronic price tags are positioned, data interaction is carried out between the electronic price tags and surrounding neighbor electronic price tags or other equipment through the second antenna, so that the system optimization is achieved by adopting different antennas when different functional requirements are met, and the determination of the position of the antenna and the accurate measurement of the neighbor price tags are achieved.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.
Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a multi-antenna electronic price tag device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Detailed Description
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.
In an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a multi-antenna electronic price tag device, as shown in fig. 1, including: the antenna comprises a main control chip, a first antenna and a second antenna; the switch identification in fig. 1 is not an actual hardware switch, but is merely to describe the switching between the first antenna and the second antenna when different functions are implemented.
The main control chip is used for: the data required to be displayed by the electronic price tag is received through communication between the first antenna and the AP; and when the electronic price tag is positioned, data interaction is carried out with surrounding neighbor electronic price tags or other equipment through the second antenna.
Other devices may include, among other things, an electronic display screen, an anchor point (i.e., a device with a known location), etc., that uses the same transmission protocol as the electronic price tag.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the main control chip is specifically configured to: and performing data interaction with surrounding neighbor electronic price tags through a second antenna as follows:
receiving an electronic price tag positioning control instruction, controlling to switch to a second antenna according to the electronic price tag positioning control instruction, sending self identity information to surrounding neighbor electronic price tags through the second antenna, receiving the identity information sent by the surrounding neighbor electronic price tags through the second antenna, and determining the position information of the electronic price tags according to the identity information of the surrounding neighbor electronic price tags.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the main control chip is specifically configured to: the switching to the second antenna is controlled in accordance with the electronic price tag positioning control instruction during a synchronized time window according to a predetermined protocol (e.g., the AP sends a broadcast message with a command word indicating that all electronic price tags initiate a positioning procedure).
In an embodiment of the present invention, the main control chip is specifically configured to:
and sending the identity information of the second antenna to the surrounding neighbor electronic price tags according to the preset power, and receiving the identity information sent by the surrounding neighbor electronic price tags according to the preset power through the second antenna. Wherein, the electronic price tag and the neighbor electronic price tag adopt the same work to send information.
In an embodiment of the invention, the first antenna and the second antenna may both be on-board antennas. When the antenna is an onboard antenna, the antenna is connected with a circuit board where the main control chip is located through a special antenna connector or contact.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the first antenna and the second antenna may be external antennas, and the second antenna is located outside the electronic price tag housing and is assembled and fixed through a special accessory.
In the embodiment of the invention, the second antenna and the first antenna are designed in an omnidirectional or directional mode according to the technical index of the antenna design, so that the matching of the antenna can meet the requirement of gain or attenuation.
In summary, the multi-antenna electronic price tag device provided by the present invention is provided with the first antenna and the second antenna, and can communicate with the AP through the first antenna to receive data to be displayed by the electronic price tag; when the electronic price tags are positioned, data interaction is carried out between the electronic price tags and surrounding neighbor electronic price tags or other equipment through the second antenna, so that the system optimization is achieved by adopting different antennas when different functional requirements are met, and the determination of the position of the antenna and the accurate measurement of the neighbor price tags are achieved.
As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.
The present invention is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made to the embodiment of the present invention by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. A multi-antenna electronic price tag device, comprising: the antenna comprises a main control chip, a first antenna and a second antenna;
wherein, the main control chip is used for: the data required to be displayed by the electronic price tag is received through communication between the first antenna and the AP; and when the electronic price tag is positioned, data interaction is carried out with surrounding neighbor electronic price tags or other equipment through the second antenna.
2. The multi-antenna electronic price tag device of claim 1, wherein the main control chip is specifically configured to:
and performing data interaction with surrounding neighbor electronic price tags through a second antenna as follows:
receiving an electronic price tag positioning control instruction, controlling the first antenna to be switched to the second antenna according to the electronic price tag positioning control instruction, sending self identity information to surrounding neighbor electronic price tags through the second antenna, receiving the identity information sent by the surrounding neighbor electronic price tags through the second antenna, and determining the position information of the electronic price tags according to the identity information of the surrounding neighbor electronic price tags.
3. The multi-antenna electronic price tag device of claim 2, wherein the main control chip is specifically configured to:
and controlling the switching from the first antenna to the second antenna according to the electronic price tag positioning control command in a synchronous time window according to a preset protocol.
4. The multi-antenna electronic price tag device of claim 2, wherein the main control chip is specifically configured to:
and sending the identity information of the second antenna to the surrounding neighbor electronic price tags according to the preset power, and receiving the identity information sent by the surrounding neighbor electronic price tags according to the preset power through the second antenna.
5. The multi-antenna electronic price tag device of claim 1, wherein the first antenna is an on-board antenna.
6. The multi-antenna electronic price tag device of claim 1, wherein the second antenna is an on-board antenna.
7. The multi-antenna electronic price tag device of claim 1, wherein the first antenna is an external antenna located outside of the electronic price tag housing.
8. The multi-antenna electronic price tag device of claim 1, wherein the second antenna is an external antenna located outside of the electronic price tag housing.
9. The multi-antenna electronic price tag device of claim 1, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna are both on-board antennas.
10. The multi-antenna electronic price tag device of claim 1, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna are external antennas located outside of an electronic price tag housing.
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