KR20150124015A - Apparatus for remote managing and analyzing sales information of vending machine and method of thereof - Google Patents
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The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for analyzing sales information of a vending machine and a method thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for analyzing sales information of a vending machine, Analysis and remote management apparatus and method thereof.
In general, a vending machine is an unmanned sales system in which products such as coffee, tobacco, confectionery, and books are provided therein, a user inputs an amount corresponding to a product to be purchased, and then selects a desired product , And the selected product is discharged to the outlet.
In particular, vending machines store beverages, gum, and confectionery that can be purchased easily and are installed inside the building or on the road so that consumers can purchase them anywhere easily.
Such an automatic vending machine has advantages in that it enables users to conveniently purchase goods, and since they can be sold without renting the stores, it is possible to sell the goods without paying a lot of the rent of the store, which is profitable.
However, the operator who operates the vending machine could not know the status of the sales stop due to the shortage of inventory due to the inability to grasp the inventory quantity of the product before the sales product sold at the vending machine was sold out.
In addition, some of the items sold in vending machines such as coffee, prim, sugar, cocoa, and yulmu tea are hardened due to high humidity during rainy season and rainy weather, or because there are some materials such as prim and sugar, A situation in which sales are not smooth can occur frequently.
Also, there was no way for a vending machine handling cans to recognize a cooler failure unless the supplier came directly to confirm that the cooler malfunction in the vending machine failed to sell a cool cans beverage.
An object of the present invention is to provide a sales information analyzing and remote management apparatus and method of a vending machine capable of real-time updating the sales status and inventory index of sales items sold in a vending machine.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a heating device, a ventilating fan or a heating device for measuring the internal humidity and temperature of a vending machine and comparing the reference humidity and the reference temperature to maintain a proper level of the product sold in the vending machine And a sales information analysis and remote management apparatus and method of the vending machine capable of determining whether the ventilation fan is driven or not.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for analyzing and managing sales information of an automatic vending machine for discharging a selected one of a plurality of sales items to an outlet after the input of money is detected, A machine controller for determining an operation mode as a sales mode or a standby mode on the basis of a money input result received from the main board and receiving identification information of goods to be sold from the main board when the determined operation mode is a sale mode; And a server for receiving the identification information of the goods and the unique information of the corresponding automatic vending machine from the machine controller and updating the sales status and inventory status of the goods being sold in the automatic vending machine An information analysis and remote management device is provided. In addition, when the server is operating in a standby mode of the automatic vending machine, the machine controller can update the humidity, temperature, temperature of the refrigerator, driving status of the heating device and the ventilation fan inside the automatic vending machine and update them in real time.
The current status of the inventory and the humidity, temperature, temperature of the refrigerator and the heating device inside the vending machine, and the driving status of the ventilation fan
Wherein the machine controller is provided with a humidity sensor and a temperature sensor for measuring the humidity and the temperature inside the automatic vending machine, and when the operation mode is determined as the standby mode, the humidity and the temperature measured from the humidity sensor and the temperature sensor are transmitted to the server .
The server compares the received humidity and temperature with predetermined reference humidity and reference temperature to determine whether the heating device, the ventilation fan or the heating device and the ventilation fan provided in the machine controller are driven, and based on the determination, It is preferable to provide a driving signal for driving the heating device, the ventilating fan or the heating device and the ventilating fan to the machine controller.
The machine controller may include a connector connected to a connector provided on the main board.
The machine controller transmits a sold out signal or no change signal of the sold item to the server when receiving a signal indicating that the sold item is out of stock or no change through the connection connector, It is preferable to transmit the product supplement notification signal or the no change notification signal to the mobile communication terminal of the operator who operates the automatic vending machine or the operator terminal of the operator operating the automatic vending machine.
The server may provide a sales stop signal to the machine controller if it is determined that the inventory of the sales items sold in the automatic vending machine is insufficient based on the updated inventory status.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sales information analysis and remote management method using sales information analysis and remote management apparatus of an automatic vending machine for discharging a sales item selected from a plurality of sales articles to an outlet after the input of money is detected, Determining a mode of operation of the vending machine as a sales mode or a standby mode based on a money input result received from a main board provided in the vending machine; When the operation mode determined by the machine controller is the sales mode, receiving the identification information of the goods from the main board and transmitting the identification information of the goods and the unique information of the corresponding vending machine to the server ; And updating the sales status and the inventory status of the sales items sold on the automatic vending machine based on the identification information of the goods to be sold, by the server, to the sales information analysis and remote management method of the automatic vending machine .
Further, in the method of analyzing sales information and remote management of a vending machine according to another embodiment of the present invention, after the determining step, when the operation mode determined by the determining step of the machine controller is determined to be the standby mode, It is preferable to provide the humidity and temperature measured from the humidity sensor and the temperature sensor provided to the server.
In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for analyzing sales information and remote management of a vending machine, the method comprising the steps of: after the providing step, the server compares the received humidity and temperature with a preset reference humidity and a reference temperature, Determining whether the heating device, the ventilation fan or the heating device and the ventilation fan are driven; And a drive signal for driving the heating device, the ventilating fan or the heating device, and the ventilating fan when the server is driven based on the determination of the determining step.
According to the embodiment of the present invention, there is an effect that the sales status and the inventory index of the sales items sold in the vending machine can be updated in real time. In particular, it is possible to check the temperature of the refrigerator for storing cans inside the vending machine, the temperature inside the vending machine, and the humidity inside the vending machine in real time, and can automatically drive the heater and the ventilating fan connected to the vending machine, Can be updated in real time.
Also, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the internal humidity and the temperature of the vending machine are measured and compared with the reference humidity and the reference temperature set in advance, thereby maintaining an appropriate level of the product sold in the vending machine. As a result, the products sold in vending machines can be sold smoothly, and powder can not be hardened, making it a reliable vending machine.
According to the embodiment of the present invention, the connector of the machine controller is connected to the connector provided on the main board of the conventional vending machine, thereby facilitating the collection of the identification information of the vending products sold in the vending machine.
According to the embodiment of the present invention, when an out-of-stock signal or no-change signal of a specific sale item is received, a notification message is transmitted to an operator who operates the automatic vending machine, or displayed on the manager's terminal have.
1 is a block diagram for explaining a sales information analysis and remote management apparatus of an automatic vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a sales information analyzing method and a remote management method for analyzing sales information of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a sales information analysis and remote management apparatus of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, the apparatus for analyzing and analyzing sales information of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention may be configured to change an operation mode of a vending machine into a sales mode or a standby mode, depending on whether a currency input such as a coin or a paper money is detected on the vending machine And in the case of the sales mode, receives the identification information of the selected sales item and the unique information of the automatic vending machine, updates the sales status and inventory status of the automatic vending machine, measures the humidity and temperature inside the automatic vending machine in the standby mode, The
In particular, the apparatus for analyzing and analyzing sales information of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention can recognize a money inserted through a money input port, select a sale item, discharge a selected sale item to an outlet, return change when there is change, If the sales signal of the sales item is displayed at the button position of the sales product, the operator can force the sales signal to be given when there is no material of the sales product, and if there is no change, A
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When the operation mode of the vending machine is the sales mode, the
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On the other hand, when the operation mode of the vending machine is the standby mode, the
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The sales information analysis of a vending machine having such a configuration and the sales information analysis and remote management method using the remote management apparatus will be described with reference to FIG.
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The machine controller 1000 determines whether the input of money is detected through the money input port provided in the vending machine based on the received sensing information (S13).
If it is determined in step S13 that the money input is detected, the
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If it is determined in step S23 that the stock is not insufficient, the
If it is determined in step S23 that the inventory is insufficient, the
In this way, when selling a combination of powders and the like easily, it is possible to easily grasp the sales status and the inventory status of the sales items being sold in the vending machine, and when a specific item is out of stock, the sales stop signal is provided to the
If it is determined in step S13 that the money input is not detected, the
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The invention being thus described, it will be obvious that the same way may be varied in many ways. Such modifications are intended to be within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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A machine controller for determining an operation mode as a sales mode or a standby mode on the basis of the money input result received from the main board provided in the vending machine and receiving the identification information of the goods from the main board when the determined operation mode is the sales mode, ; And
And a server for receiving the identification information of the goods and the unique information of the corresponding automatic vending machine from the machine controller and updating the sales status and inventory status of the goods being sold in the automatic vending machine Analysis and remote management device.
Wherein the machine controller is provided with a humidity sensor and a temperature sensor for measuring the humidity and the temperature inside the automatic vending machine, and when the operation mode is determined as the standby mode, the humidity and the temperature measured from the humidity sensor and the temperature sensor are transmitted to the server And the sales information analysis and remote management apparatus of the vending machine.
The server compares the received humidity and temperature with predetermined reference humidity and reference temperature to determine whether the heating device, the ventilation fan or the heating device and the ventilation fan provided in the machine controller are driven, and based on the determination, The ventilation fan, or the heating device and the ventilation fan to the machine controller, wherein the sales information is provided to the machine controller.
Wherein the machine controller comprises a connector connected to a connector provided on the main board.
The machine controller transmits to the server an out of stock signal or a no change signal of a sale item when receiving a signal indicating that the sold item is out of stock or no change,
Wherein the server transmits a predetermined product supplement notification signal or no change notification signal to the mobile communication terminal of the operator or the operator terminal of the operator who operates the automatic vending machine according to the no-stock signal or the no change signal, Sales information analysis and remote management device.
Wherein the server provides a sales stop signal to the machine controller when it is determined that the inventory of the sales items sold in the automatic vending machine is insufficient based on the updated inventory status, .
Determining a mode of operation of the vending machine as a sales mode or a standby mode based on a result of money input received from a main board provided in the vending machine;
When the operation mode determined by the machine controller is the sales mode, receiving the identification information of the goods from the main board and transmitting the identification information of the goods and the unique information of the corresponding vending machine to the server ; And
And updating the sales status and inventory status of the sales items sold on the automatic vending machine based on the identification information of the goods to be sold by the server.
After said determining step,
Wherein the machine controller provides the humidity and temperature measured from the humidity sensor and the temperature sensor provided in the machine controller to the server when the operation mode determined by the determining step is determined to be the standby mode Information analysis and remote management methods.
After the providing step,
Determining whether the heating device, the ventilation fan or the heating device, and the ventilation fan provided in the machine controller are driven by comparing the received humidity and temperature with a preset reference humidity and a reference temperature; And
Wherein the controller provides the machine controller with a drive signal for driving the heating device, the ventilating fan or the heating device, and the ventilating fan when the server is driven based on the determination of the determining step. Remote management method.
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