JPH05307689A - Information collecting equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To grasp business information in a real time to properly and quickly correspond to it to improve sales efficiency by providing a POS register with a radio transmitter/receiver. CONSTITUTION:This equipment consists of the POS registers 12 which are respectively mounted to plural moving store 11 and provided with radio communication equipment for collecting business information concerning the kind/ numerical quantity/sales place/sales time, etc., of a sales product at the point of the sales time, a tele-terminal system 13 consisting of a cooperative using center 13a and a radio base station 13b and a main control part 15 connected with the cooperative center 13a by way of the line network 14. The main control part 15 consisting of a host computer centralized-processes data based on business information of the plural moving stores 11, analyzes/grasps product stock information and information concerning product sales route/place of each moving store 11 and transmits the result to each moving store 11 to provide information or to transmit proper indication.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information collecting device for performing wireless communication to collect business information and centralize the business information, particularly in mobile retail stores.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a POS (point-of-sale) system sends sales information collected for each individual item by an optical reading type register or the like and various information generated at the stage of purchase, delivery, etc. to a computer, Is a system that processes, processes, and transmits information that can be effectively used according to each purpose, and is a system used in department stores, supermarkets, cafeterias, leisure facilities, and the like.

On the other hand, there is known a so-called mobile store in which a predetermined product is loaded on a car or the like and sold while moving to each place. In this mobile store, business information about the type of product, place of sale, time, etc. is collected for each mobile store, and is normally processed collectively by the management department of the headquarters after the day's business ends. ..

[0004]

Therefore, since the conventional collection of business information in mobile stores does not perform real-time processing, inventory information of products in each mobile store during business, product sales points and places, etc. In some cases, it was not possible to grasp the information promptly, and as a result, it was not possible to improve sales efficiency by not replenishing products to each mobile store and giving appropriate instructions.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an information collecting apparatus capable of grasping sales information on sales at a mobile store in real time and improving sales efficiency by appropriate and prompt response.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the information collecting apparatus of the present invention has a wireless transmitting / receiving apparatus as a POS.
It was prepared for the register. Further, in the information collecting apparatus of the present invention, the POS register equipped with the wireless transmission / reception apparatus is mounted in a mobile store, and transmits / receives business information to / from a headquarters control section that performs centralized management via a teleterminal system. It is something to do. Further, in the information collecting apparatus of the present invention, the POS register equipped with the wireless transmission / reception apparatus is mounted in a mobile store and transmits / receives business information regarding a sales place including a selling point of a product to / from the headquarters control unit. ..

[0007]

According to the present invention, by providing the POS register with the wireless transmitting / receiving device, the sales information at the time of sale can be collected in real time, and the POS register having the wireless transmitting / receiving device can be installed in a mobile store to By sending and receiving sales information to and from the central control unit that performs centralized management via the terminal system, it is possible to know in real time the stock information of the products at each mobile store, the selling products and places, etc. Sales efficiency will be improved by giving appropriate and prompt instructions to each mobile store.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be specifically described below with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the configuration of an information collecting device for a mobile shop by wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the information collection device for mobile stores by wireless communication according to the present embodiment is installed in each of a plurality of mobile stores 11 which carry a predetermined product on a car and move to each place for sale. Point-of-sale register 12 equipped with a wireless communication device for collecting business information about the type and quantity of products sold at the time of sale, sales location, sales time, etc.
And a tele-terminal system 13 including a shared use center 13a and a wireless base station 13b that wirelessly transmit and receive with the POS register 12, a shared use center 13a of the tele-terminal system 13 and a line network 14.
It is composed of a head office controller 15 connected via the. The headquarters control unit 15 intensively performs data processing based on sales information of a plurality of mobile stores 11, analyzes and grasps inventory information of products for each mobile store 11 and information about sales and locations of products. The host computer is a part that sends the result to each mobile store 11 to provide information and send an appropriate instruction.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining the structure of the POS register according to the embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, the POS register 12
Is a POS register data processing unit 16 including a central processing unit (CPU), a data input unit 17 for inputting sales information data at the time of sale, a data storage unit 18 for storing data, and sales information data. It comprises a data output unit 19 for printing or displaying etc., and a wireless transmission / reception device 20 connected to the POS register data processing unit 16. The wireless transmission / reception device 20 includes a transmission / reception unit 21 that transmits / receives data by radio waves to / from the wireless base station 13b, and a communication control unit that controls communication data between the transmission / reception unit 21 and the POS register data processing unit 16. 22 and an antenna 23.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining an example of the operation on the POS register side of the information collecting apparatus for a mobile shop by wireless communication according to the embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, first, the POS register 11
On the side, before the mobile store 11 loaded with the predetermined product starts the business activity at the predetermined place, the line is connected so that data can be transmitted / received to / from the headquarters control unit 15 (ST1). next,
When a product is sold, as the sales information at that time, for example, the type, quantity, place, time, etc. of the sold product are collected and processed by the POS register 12, and then it is determined whether or not these data are read. (ST2). When data is read, the wireless transmitter / receiver 2 immediately
Data is transmitted by radio waves from 0, and is transmitted from the teleterminal system 13 to the host computer of the headquarters control unit 15 via the network 14 (ST3), and returns to the determination of whether or not to read the data, and reads the data. If there is not, it is judged whether or not there is an instruction from the host computer of the head office controller 15 (ST4). When there is an instruction from the host computer of the head office control unit 15, a process matching the instruction is performed (ST5), and the process returns to the determination of whether or not the data is read again. When there is no instruction from the host computer, it is determined whether or not the line is disconnected. (ST6), when the connection is not established, the process returns to the judgment of whether or not the data is read,
When disconnecting the line, the process is performed and the process ends.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the host computer side of the information collecting apparatus for mobile stores by wireless communication according to the embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, first, on the host computer side of the head office control unit 15, line connection is performed so that data can be transmitted / received to / from the POS register 12 before the mobile store 11 starts business operation (ST11). Next, it is judged whether or not data is received from the POS register 12 (ST1
2) If the data is received, the sales management process is immediately performed (ST13), and then the process returns to the determination as to whether or not the data is received. If the data is not received, the inventory status of the mobile store 11 is determined from the result of the sales management process, or It is determined whether or not there is an instruction from the host computer side of the head office control unit 15 based on the information about the selling point or the location of the product (ST14). When there is an instruction from the host computer side, POS
The necessary instruction is transmitted to the register 12 (ST15), and then the process returns to the judgment of the presence / absence of data reception. If there is no instruction from the host computer side, the presence / absence of line disconnection is judged (ST16). Returning to the judgment of the presence / absence of data reception, when disconnecting the line, the process is performed and the process is terminated.

According to the above configuration, the sales information about the type and quantity of the sold product at the time of sale, the sales place, the sales time, etc. collected by the POS register 12 installed in the mobile store 11 is immediately transmitted to the wireless transmitter / receiver 20. Is transmitted from the teleterminal system 13 to the host computer of the head office control section 15 via the network 14, and the host computer of the head office control section 15 centrally processes the sales information to sell the mobile shop 11. Situation,
Since the stock status of products, the location of the selling items, etc. are grasped, the information such as the information processing result is used to provide the information such as the replenishment plan of the items for each moving store 11, information of the selling places, etc., or an appropriate instruction.
It can be sent to the OS register 12. That is,
Sales information about sales collected at the mobile store 11 can be grasped in real time, and sales efficiency can be improved by appropriate and prompt response.

In the above embodiment, the mobile store 11
In the above description, a car loaded with products is described as an example, but it is not limited to the embodiment as long as it can change the business place where the products are sold. Further, the sales information collected by the POS register 12 and the sales management information processed by the host computer of the headquarters control unit 15 can be arbitrarily set according to the type of product or the like.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, the sales information collected at the POS register installed in the mobile store at the time of sale is immediately controlled by the radio transmitter / receiver via the teleterminal system at the headquarters. And the central control unit performs centralized processing based on the sales information sent from the mobile store, so that the inventory information of the products in each mobile store,
It is possible to know real-time selling products and places in real time, and it is possible to improve sales efficiency by giving appropriate and prompt instructions to each mobile store.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an information collection device for a mobile store by wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a POS register according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an operation example on the POS register side of the information collecting device for a mobile shop by wireless communication according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the host computer side of the information collecting apparatus for a mobile shop by wireless communication according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Mobile Store 12 POS Register 13 Teleterminal System 13a Shared Use Center 13b Radio Base Station 14 Circuit Network 15 Headquarters Control Unit 16 POS Register Data Processing Unit 17 Data Input Unit 18 Data Storage Unit 19 Data Output Unit 20 Wireless Transmitter / Receiver Device 21 Transmit / Receive Part 22 Communication control part 23 Antenna

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An information collecting device comprising a wireless transmitting / receiving device in a POS register. 2. The POS register equipped with the wireless transmission / reception device is mounted in a mobile store and transmits / receives business information to / from a central control unit for centralized management via a teleterminal system. The information collection device according to claim 1. 3. The POS register equipped with the wireless transmission / reception device is mounted in a mobile store, and transmits / receives business information regarding a sales place including a selling point of a product to / from a headquarters control unit. Alternatively, the information collection device described in 2.