JP2005332060A - Commodity-sales system and commodity-sales method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a commodity-sales system which can prevent the unlawful dumping of used commodities such as cigarette butts, used bottles and so on, which are required not to illegally dispose of, and also provide a sales method for the system. <P>SOLUTION: A sales device (10) sells commodities to which information storage mechanisms capable of writing and reading data are added and reads personal identification information (S4) when a recording medium to which the personal identification information of users is recorded is presented (S3). Further, the sales device determines whether the commodities are to be sold or not based on the personal identification information (S7) and writes the personal identification information to the information storage mechanisms of the commodities (S10) when it receives a purchasing request (S9). In addition, a disposal monitoring device (30), which can read the data from the information storage mechanisms, reads the personal identification information (S12) when the disposed commodities are presented, and records a penalty to be imposed on a user corresponding to the personal identification information thus read (S15). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a system including a sales apparatus that automatically sells articles such as cigarettes and bottled drinks, and an article sales method thereof, and more particularly, to a sales apparatus that uses a recording medium on which information about the customer is recorded at the time of article sales. It is related with the sales method of a system including.

Conventionally, as a technique for preventing improper sales of goods such as sales of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages to minors, for example, there is one proposed in Patent Document 1 described below. The technique described in Patent Document 1 describes a barcode indicating whether or not the user is an adult on a synthetic resin card, and attaches a barcode reading device to a cigarette vending machine. Then, when the user purchases the cigarette, the card is inserted into a reading device, and based on the bar code of the card, it is determined whether or not the user is an adult, thereby selling the cigarette to the minor. It is to prevent.
JP 09-223211 A

  By the way, so-called illegal dumping, in which cigarette butts and empty bottles are discarded on the road after purchasing goods with the vending machine as described above, has become a conventional social problem. The technique described in Patent Document 1 is useful for preventing inappropriate sales to minors, etc., but has a deterrent against illegal dumping of articles by those who are permitted to purchase. There is an inconvenience of not having it.

  This invention is made | formed in view of the said subject, and aims at providing the goods sales system which can prevent illegal dumping of goods, and the sales method for this system.

  An article sales system according to the present invention includes a sales apparatus that sells an article to which an information storage mechanism capable of writing and reading data is added, and a disposal monitoring that is handled by an organization that monitors the disposal of the articles sold by the sales apparatus. A device for reading the personal identification information from a recording medium on which personal identification information for identifying the user of the sales device is recorded, and determining whether or not the item can be sold to the user. And an article writing unit for writing the personal identification information read by the medium reading unit into the information storage mechanism of the article to be supplied to a user. An article reading unit that reads personal identification information from the information storage mechanism of the sold article and a punishment to be imposed on a user corresponding to the personal identification information read by the article reading unit are recorded And a punishment recording unit.

  In the article sales method according to the present invention, personal identification information is recorded for a sales apparatus that sells an article to which an information storage mechanism capable of writing and reading data is added to identify a user of the sales apparatus. When a recording medium is presented, personal identification information is read from the recording medium, whether or not goods can be sold to the user based on the personal identification information, and a purchase request is received from a user authorized to sell goods The read personal identification information is written in the information storage mechanism of the article to be supplied to the user, and is handled by an organization that monitors the disposal of the article sold by the sales apparatus and reads data from the information storage mechanism When the disposal monitoring device capable of receiving the information indicates the discarded article, it reads the personal identification information from the article and places it on the user corresponding to the personal identification information. Is a method that records can punishment.

  According to the present invention, even if there is an article that has been illegally dumped after being sold by the sales device, the purchaser can be reliably identified by the organization that handles the disposal monitoring device. As a result, the deterrence against illegal dumping is increased.

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Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an article sales system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The article sales system 100 according to the embodiment includes a cigarette vending machine 10 owned by a cigarette vendor 10A and a card issuing device that issues a purchase card 201 (to be described later) for the purchaser 200 to use the cigarette vending machine 10. 20 and a waste monitoring device 30 handled by a waste product monitoring organization 30A that monitors illegal dumping of cigarettes, and these are communicably connected via a network 100a.

  When using the cigarette vending machine 10, the purchaser 200 according to the present embodiment obtains the purchase card 201 in advance from the card manager 20 </ b> A that provides a service related to the purchase card 201. As a method for obtaining a card, for example, the terminal device 202 such as a personal computer or a cellular phone can be purchased by providing personal information such as age, address, name, telephone number, and gender to the card issuing device 20. Obtain a business card 201.

  In the purchase card 201, personal identification information for identifying the purchaser 200 is recorded. The personal identification information may be, for example, a part or all of the personal information. In this embodiment, the personal identification information is ID information assigned to each purchaser 200 by the card manager 20A. The purchase card 201 is provided with an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) mechanism 201a for recording ID information. The RFID mechanism 201a is a so-called non-contact IC chip that performs wireless communication at a short distance, and ID information is written by the card issuing device 20 when the purchase card 201 is issued.

  The cigarette vending machine 10 of this embodiment sells cigarettes provided with an information storage mechanism for writing and reading data. In FIG. 2, the structural example of the tobacco which the tobacco vending machine 10 sells is shown. In the cigarette 400, an RFID mechanism 403 as the information storage mechanism is built in a filter unit 402 adjacent to the smoking target unit 401. The RFID mechanism 403 is a non-contact IC chip having a mechanism similar to that of the RFID mechanism 201a of the purchase card 201, and its size can be stored in the filter unit 402 as shown in the figure. In the illustrated example, the RFID mechanism 403 is built in the filter unit 402 in consideration of the burning of the smoking target unit 401. However, the mode of adding the RFID mechanism 403 is not limited to that illustrated in the drawing. May be set. The cigarette vending machine 10 sells a predetermined number of cigarettes 400 in units of packages, as in a general cigarette vending machine.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the cigarette vending machine 10 includes a medium reading unit 11 that reads ID information from the purchase card 201, a sales determination unit 12 that determines whether or not goods can be sold to the purchaser 200, and a purchaser 200. An article writing unit 13 that writes ID information in the RFID mechanism 403 of the cigarette to be supplied and a fee setting unit 14 that determines the fee of the item to be presented to the purchaser 200 are provided.

  Specifically, the medium reading unit 11 is a non-contact type data reading mechanism that reads ID information from the RFID mechanism 201 a of the purchase card 201 presented by the purchaser 200, and the read ID information is sent to the sales determination unit 12. Notice. The sales determination unit 12 is a software component of the cigarette vending machine 10, and includes the age of the purchaser 200 from the card issuing device 20 and punishment information described later using the ID information read by the medium reading unit 11. Personal information is acquired, and based on these, it is determined whether or not the purchaser 200 can sell cigarettes.

  Specifically, the article writing unit 13 is a non-contact type data writing mechanism that writes the ID information read by the medium reading unit 11 to the RFID mechanism 403 of the cigarette 400, and the sales determination unit 12 permits the sale. At this time, ID information is written to each of the cigarettes 400 from the ordered cigarette package. The fee setting unit 14 is a software component of the cigarette vending machine 10, and presents a normal fee to the purchaser 200 permitted to sell by the sales determination unit 12, or a penalty fee described later in the normal fee. It is decided to add and present.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the card issuing device 20 includes a personal information management unit 21 that holds personal information of the purchaser 200. The personal information management unit 21 assigns ID information to the personal information received from the purchaser 200 when applying for the purchase card 201, and associates the ID information with the personal information and registers them in a predetermined database (not shown). Also, the assigned ID information is written in the RFID mechanism 201a of the purchase card 201, and the purchase card 201 is issued to the purchaser 200.

  The disposal monitoring apparatus 30 includes an article reading unit 31 that reads ID information from cigarettes sold by the article sales system 100, and a punishment recording unit 32 that records punishment to be imposed on a purchaser corresponding to the read ID information.

  The article reading unit 31 is a non-contact type data reading mechanism, and when the waste product monitoring organization 30A finds the tobacco 400 illegally dumped after being sold by the cigarette vending machine 10, ID information is received from the RFID mechanism 403. read. The punishment recording unit 32 notifies the card issuing device 20 of the ID information read by the article reading unit 31 and makes an inquiry about who the purchaser is. The punishment content including the fine determined by the monitoring organization 30A and the punishment information including whether or not the punishment was executed by the purchaser is recorded in a predetermined database (not shown).

  The operation procedure of the article sales system 100 will be described along the sequence diagram shown in FIG. First, the purchaser 200 transmits personal information (age, address, name, telephone number, gender, etc.) from the terminal device 202 to the card issuing device 20, and applies for the purchase card 201 (step S1). The card issuing device 20 investigates the report contents and issues a purchase card 201 in which predetermined ID information is written to the purchaser 200 (step S2).

  The purchaser 200 who has obtained the purchase card 201 presents the purchase card 201 when purchasing the cigarettes with the cigarette vending machine 10 (step S3), that is, the card surface on which the RFID mechanism 201a is provided. Is applied to the medium reading unit 11 of the cigarette vending machine 10. Then, the medium reading unit 11 reads ID information from the RFID mechanism 201a by wireless communication at a close distance (step S4).

  When the medium reading unit 11 completes reading the ID information, the sales determination unit 12 notifies the card issuing device 20 of the ID information via the network 100a and inquires about the personal information of the purchaser 200 (step S5). At this time, as personal information, at least age information for determining whether or not the purchaser 200 is an adult and punishment information for determining whether or not illegal dumping has been performed in the past are inquired. To do. The age information may be recorded in advance in the RFID mechanism 201a when the purchase card 201 is issued, instead of making an inquiry to the card issuing device 20 every time it is sold as in this embodiment.

  The personal information management unit 21 of the card issuing device 20 extracts the personal information of the purchaser 200 based on the notified ID information, and replies to the cigarette vending machine 10 (step S6).

  When the cigarette vending machine 10 acquires the personal information from the card issuing device 20, the sales determination unit 12 determines whether or not the cigarette can be sold to the purchaser 200 based on the personal information (step S7). This determination procedure will be described later. For example, if the purchaser 200 is a minor, or if it is an adult who has been illegally dumped a predetermined number of times in the past, Is not allowed.

  When the sales determination unit 12 permits the sale, the cigarette vending machine 10 presents the fee for the cigarette based on the determination content of the rate setting unit 14 described later (step S8). Then, when the purchaser 200 designates a desired cigarette brand and inputs the fee (step S9), the article writing unit 13 first sends a medium to the RFID mechanism 403 of each cigarette 400 of the designated brand. The reading unit 11 writes the ID information read from the purchase card 201 (step S10). When the writing of the ID information is completed, the cigarette vending machine 10 supplies the purchaser 200 with a cigarette package as a product (step S11), and ends the sales process.

  On the other hand, it is assumed that the waste product monitoring organization 30A regularly monitors the illegal dumping of cigarettes, and here, the monitor finds the cigarettes 400 discarded on the road or the like. At this time, when the monitor applies the discovered cigarette 400 to the article reading unit 31 of the disposal monitoring apparatus 30, the article reading unit 31 reads ID information from the RFID mechanism 403 of the cigarette 400 (step S12). It transmits to the card issuing apparatus 20 (step S13). The personal information management unit 21 of the card issuing device 20 returns personal information corresponding to the ID information received from the discard monitoring device 30 to the discard monitoring device 30 (step S14).

  The discard monitoring device 30 specifies the purchaser 200 who illegally dumped based on the personal information received from the card issuing device 20. The identification of the purchaser 200 by the disposal monitoring device 30 refers to a process of presenting to the disposal product monitoring organization 30A who is the purchaser corresponding to the ID information read from the cigarette 400, for example, the ID information and the name This is a process of displaying a screen in association with personal information such as an address or an address or printing it out. Thereby, the waste product monitoring organization 30 </ b> A can control the purchaser 200.

  The punishment recording unit 32 of the disposal monitoring device 30 records punishment information indicating the punishment contents such as the fine determined by the waste product monitoring organization 30A for the specified purchaser 200, and then the purchaser 200 pays the fine etc. Information indicating whether or not has been performed is recorded in punishment information as needed (step S15). The punishment information recorded by the discard monitoring device 30 is notified to the card issuing device 20 periodically or at any time, and the personal information management unit 21 of the device records the personal information (step S16).

  Here, an operation procedure by the medium reading unit 11 and the charge setting unit 14 of the cigarette vending machine 10 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. The following description is a series of steps from Steps S4 to S8 described above with reference to FIG. 3, that is, a period from when the cigarette vending machine 10 reads the ID information from the purchase card 201 to when the fee is presented to the purchaser 200. Corresponds to the procedure.

  When the sales determination unit 12 acquires personal information including age information and punishment information from the card issuing device 20 using the ID information read from the purchase card 201 by the medium reading unit 11 (steps A1 and A2), the age information Based on the above, it is determined whether or not the purchaser 200 is an adult (step A3). As a result, if the purchaser 200 is an adult, it is determined whether there is a criminal record of illegal dumping based on the punishment information. If there is no history of illegal dumping in the past (step A4: No), sales are permitted. To do. In this case, the fee setting unit 14 determines to present the normal fee for tobacco to the purchaser 200 (step A5).

  Moreover, when there exists a criminal record of illegal dumping (step A4: Yes), the sales determination part 12 determines whether tobacco should be sold with respect to the purchaser 200 based on the preset rule. As a rule, for example, if the criminal record of illegal dumping is one time, sales are permitted, and for those who have repeated illegal dumping several times, or for those who have not been fined, permission for sales is granted. It can be set not to give.

  As a result of the determination by the sales determination unit 12, if sales are permitted even if there is a criminal record of illegal dumping (step A 6: Yes), the fee setting unit 14 gives the purchaser 200 a predetermined penalty fee as a normal fee. Are added and presented (step A7). By adding the penalty fee in this way, the deterrence of illegal dumping can be increased. When sales are not permitted (step A6: No), or when it is determined that the person is a minor at step A3, the purchaser 200 is notified of the fact that the sale is not possible, for example, by voice or screen display ( Step A8).

  The determination result that the penalty fee is added, the determination result that the sale is impossible, and the like are written in the RFID mechanism 201a of the purchase card 201 together with the determination date, or notified to the card issuing device 20 and the personal information management unit 21 It is desirable to hold in. And, when making a determination at the next sale, by setting to refer to the past determination result, for example, the penalty fee is added only once, or a predetermined period has passed even if the sale is not possible In this way, it is possible to make a determination according to various regulations, such as making it available for purchase.

  According to the article sales system 100 described above, the cigarette vending machine 10 writes the ID information read from the purchase card 201 at the time of sale in the RFID mechanism 403 of the cigarette. When the disposal monitoring device 30 reads the ID information, the purchaser can be identified by the disposal product monitoring organization 30A. Thereby, since the control system by the waste monitoring organization 30A is strengthened, it is possible to prevent illegal dumping by the tobacco purchaser, and to improve the environment and prevent fire.

  In the above embodiment, the discard monitoring device 30 inquires of the card issuing device 20 for personal information in order to identify the purchaser who has illegally dumped. Instead, the card issuing device 20 purchases the personal information. Each time the person card 201 is issued, the personal information may be notified to the disposal monitoring device 30. This eliminates the need for the inquiry procedure to the card issuing device 20 (FIG. 3: steps S13 and S14), and the waste product monitoring organization 30A can quickly identify the purchaser when illegal dumping is found. it can.

  In addition, when it is determined whether or not the cigarette vending machine 10 can be sold, if it is determined that the purchaser is not paying a fine by the judgment based on the punishment information, the cigarette vending machine 10 cannot be sold. A predetermined warning sound may be sounded together with the notification, or the disposal monitoring device 30 may be notified that a person who fails to punish is attempting to purchase tobacco. Thereby, the deterrent against illegal dumping can be further enhanced.

  In the above embodiment, the RFID mechanism 201a is used as a recording medium for recording the purchaser 200's ID information. However, instead of this, for example, a conventionally known two-dimensional barcode may be used. In addition, the recording medium is not limited to being attached to or printed on the surface of the purchase card 201, and may be attached to or built in an aspect other than the card.

  In the above embodiment, an example using cigarettes as an article according to the present invention has been described. However, the scope of application of the present invention is not limited to cigarettes, for example, various drinks that can be monitored for illegal dumping such as bottled drinks and confectionery It can be applied to articles.

It is a block diagram of the goods sales system of the Example by this invention. It is explanatory drawing of the tobacco which the tobacco vending machine of an Example sells. It is a sequence diagram which shows the operation | movement procedure of the goods sales system of an Example. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement procedure of the tobacco vending machine of an Example.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Goods sales system 100a Network 200 Purchaser 201: Purchase card, 201a: RFID mechanism, 202: Terminal device 10A: Tobacco dealer, 20A: Card management company, 30A: Waste monitoring organization 10 Tobacco vending machine 11: Medium Reading unit 12: Sales determination unit 13: Article writing unit 14: Charge setting unit 20 Card issuing device 21: Personal information management unit 30 Disposal monitoring device 31: Article reading unit 32: Disciplinary recording unit 400 Cigarette 401: Smoking target part, 402: filter part, 403: RFID mechanism

Claims (11)

A sales device that sells an article to which an information storage mechanism capable of writing and reading data is added, and a disposal monitoring device that is handled by an organization that monitors the disposal of the article sold by the sales device,
The sales apparatus includes a medium reading unit that reads personal identification information from a recording medium on which personal identification information for identifying a user of the sales apparatus is recorded, and a sales determination unit that determines whether or not the user can sell goods. An article writing unit for writing the personal identification information read by the medium reading unit into the information storage mechanism of the article to be supplied to the user,
The disposal monitoring device records an article reading unit that reads personal identification information from the information storage mechanism of an article sold by the sales device, and a punishment to be imposed on a user corresponding to the personal identification information read by the article reading unit. An article sales system comprising:   2. The article sales system according to claim 1, wherein the sales apparatus includes a fee setting unit that determines a fee to be presented to the user based on the personal identification information read by the medium reading unit. And an issuing device that is communicably connected to the sales device and the disposal monitoring device and issues the recording medium to a user.
3. The article sales according to claim 1, wherein the issuing device includes a personal information management unit that holds personal identification information of the issued recording medium and information for specifying the user in association with each other. system. When a sales apparatus that sells an article to which an information storage mechanism capable of writing and reading data is added is presented with a recording medium on which personal identification information for identifying a user of the sales apparatus is recorded, the sales apparatus Articles to be supplied to a user when personal identification information is read from a recording medium, whether or not goods can be sold to the user based on the personal identification information, and a purchase request is received from a user authorized to sell goods Write the read personal identification information to the information storage mechanism of
When a disposal monitoring device that is handled by an organization that monitors the disposal of an article sold by the sales apparatus and can read data from the information storage mechanism is presented with the discarded article, the personal identification from the article An article selling method, comprising: reading information and recording a punishment to be imposed on a user corresponding to the personal identification information. The issuing device that issued the recording medium acquires punishment information indicating the recorded punishment from the discard monitoring device,
5. The article according to claim 4, wherein the selling device acquires punishment information corresponding to the personal identification information read from the recording medium from the issuing device, and determines whether or not the article can be sold based on the punishment information. Sales method.   The sales apparatus presents a user who is recorded that the punishment is imposed on the punishment information and is permitted to sell the article by adding a predetermined fee to the price of the article. Item 5. A method for selling goods according to Item 5. The disposal monitoring device records whether or not the punishment is performed in the punishment information,
6. The method for selling goods according to claim 5, wherein the selling device sounds a warning sound when punishment failure is recorded in the punishment information corresponding to the personal identification information read from the recording medium. The disposal monitoring device records whether or not the punishment is performed in the punishment information,
When the sales device records a breach of punishment in the punishment information corresponding to the personal identification information read from the recording medium, it notifies the disposal monitoring device that the user attempts to purchase the article. The method for selling goods according to claim 5, wherein: The discard monitoring device notifies the issuing device of personal identification information read from the discarded article,
6. The article selling method according to claim 5, wherein the issuing device specifies the user based on the personal identification information notified from the disposal monitoring device, and notifies the disposal monitoring device of the specified result. .   The article selling method according to any one of claims 4 to 9, wherein the selling apparatus sells an article to which an IC chip that performs wireless communication at a short distance is added as the information storage mechanism.   The article selling method according to any one of claims 4 to 10, wherein the selling device sells tobacco as the article.

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