UA146037U - GOODS SALES SYSTEM - AUTONOMOUS SHOP - Google Patents

Abstract

The system for purchasing purchases in a stand-alone store includes: a central computer that is connected to a power source and contains at least one electronic unit for processing customer requests, at least one electronic unit for managing the warehouse department. The computer is connected to a communications network to transmit data to at least one wireless mobile device and from the wireless mobile device to the host computer. The system further comprises an electronic device configured to determine the quantity of final and / or received or returned goods on the counter of the store and an electronic device of instant wireless payment, which is configured to display the name of the goods, its price and final quantity of the goods on the counter. payment for the selected product or return the money received for the product, in case it is returned to the counter. The wireless mobile device is the buyer's smartphone.

Description

The useful model belongs to the field of trade, mainly to retail and wholesale trade of goods, and is intended for self-service when making purchases in a store.

There are well-known systems aimed at increasing the convenience of shopping by the buyer in the store. These systems are focused on accelerating the movement of the buyer through the store, helping the buyer to find goods on the store shelves, tracking the movement of the buyer through the store, and speeding up payments. Unfortunately, many of these systems have proven to be very complex, time-consuming, and extremely expensive to implement, maintain, and/or repair. Often, these systems negatively affect the store's profit, cause an increase in the cost of goods in the store, were unreliable in the rapidly changing environment of the store.

A known process (Application of Japan Me01130949 (Yoshihisa), which provides the client with the opportunity to register goods with a scanner attached to a shopping cart, with the transfer of registration information to the main computer via a radio channel and the subsequent transfer of information about the content of the cart to the cash register. An obstacle to the implementation of such a process is the high cost of popular portable devices, ranging from several hundred to thousands of dollars or more. This cost directly affects store profitability, customer pricing, or both. As mentioned above, this cost increase is driven by highly complex components, software, and expensive programming procedure commonly used in the creation of these portable devices.These expensive devices are also very often subject to theft and thus can require high costs to insure and replace them.

Recently, retail stores have begun to implement self-checkout terminals, where the payment function is performed by the customer, and not by a store employee.

However, it turned out that it is difficult to introduce self-payment terminals into the already existing network of payment terminals serviced by cashiers. Self-checkout systems in retail trade require full integration with the software of the retail store, as well as with the policies and procedures of its personnel.

The "System and method of introducing the self-payment system into the payment system of stores" is known (patent 5 Mo 20080015940 JSC). The invention provides a system and methods for integrating a self-checkout terminal into an existing cashier-serviced terminal environment without the need to rework existing code and without the above-mentioned risk of pricing errors. System and

This method allows you to integrate the codes of the current application, which is used in other areas of the store, by selecting unique self-checkout elements, into a separate application. Thus, the functionality of the existing system is preserved, and the new mode, necessary for self-calculation, exists outside the framework of the current application. The disadvantage of this system is its complexity of organization, the need to involve a lot of complex electronics, including the need for customers to have complex electronic devices. The system is very expensive and requires a radical restructuring of the store. Thus, there is a need for an efficient and reliable retail system that provides an improved, simplified, and expedited customer service process with little or no in-store markup due to expensive components, with little or no reduction in store profits.

The basis of a useful model is the task of improving the system of an autonomous store, optimizing the process of purchasing goods, increasing the efficiency of the store and expanding the functionality of customer service. The current level of technology, namely the widespread distribution of smartphones and the development of artificial intelligence, can allow you to abandon the need to use expensive equipment, replacing them with the latest technologies, which will minimize resource costs for business owners and time costs for buyers.

The problem is solved by the fact that the system for the buyer to make purchases in an autonomous store contains a central computer that is connected to the power supply source and contains at least one electronic unit for processing customer requests, at least one electronic unit for managing the warehouse department, this computer is connected to a communication network for transmitting data to at least one wireless mobile device and from the wireless mobile device to a central computer, according to a useful model, further comprising an electronic device configured to determine the amount of final and/or received or returned goods at the store counter . and wireless the mobile device is the buyer's smartphone, while the system is made with the possibility of: - authentication of the client in the store network by reading identification information from the buyer's smartphone;

- formation of the results of the search for goods in the store according to the buyer's request via smartphone; - providing the buyer with information on the availability of the goods in the store on the smartphone screen according to the data of the warehouse department; - reading and recognition by the central computer of the code scanned by the buyer's smartphone located on the goods; - creation of a virtual basket with the goods selected by the buyer on his smartphone according to the scanned codes; - transmission of reading data through the store's network to the store's central computer; - acceptance of payment for selected shopping items through any electronic payment system or wireless payment system; - provision of an electronic check to the buyer's smartphone via the communication network.

In fig. 1 presents a schematic model of the implementation of the autonomous store system.

In fig. 2 presents a schematic model of the implementation of the system of instant payment for the selected product or instant refund in case of product return and the system for controlling the quantity of the final, received or returned product. The process of implementing an autonomous store.

The client installs the appropriate application on his electronic device, enters his contact data into the application and links his payment card(s) to it. Then he goes to the store. At the entrance to the store, the store system performs the client authentication procedure in the application and gives consent to connect to its computer network using the following protocols and procedures: - MES (short-range wireless data transmission technology) and/or; - OK code generation, and/or; - generation of a numerical code, and/or; - using a fingerprint scanner, and/or; - using facial recognition.

During authentication, the presence of the client's registration in the application, as well as the validity/availability of his cards for payment, are checked. If the authentication is successful, the customer is admitted to the store, otherwise the customer will not be able to use the services of the offline store.

In the store, with the help of, for example, video surveillance devices, the system monitors which products the customer chooses, and also creates a virtual shopping cart for each customer in the computer memory. The fact of selecting goods can be determined by the store system in the following ways: if the goods have installed KERIO tags, the store's wireless scanner will record the fact of the purchase of this product, so the customer does not need to perform any additional actions, just put the desired product in the basket.

If the goods are without labels, the system can scan the barcode (or OK code) of the goods selected by the client, activated in the specified application on the client's mobile device, the barcode scanner (or OK code) of the goods. After scanning, the system adds the product to the virtual basket and displays this data in the application on the client's mobile device. If the store is equipped with a device for controlling the amount of final and/or received or returned goods that are on the store counter and connected to the store's computer network, the product is on this device, and this product can be placed directly on the device and/or on the pallet, and/or in the drawer, which are on the device, and the fact of selecting the product is recorded by a decrease in the total weight of the product on the device when removing the product unit, and the fact of returning the product is recorded by an increase in the total weight of the product on the device when returning the product unit to its place. The store system records information on the removal and return of goods and displays this data when creating a virtual shopping cart for the respective buyer. The device for controlling the amount of goods can be, for example, electronic scales, which are connected to the store's computer network through the appropriate controller. If the store is connected to an artificial intelligence system, the fact of product selection is recorded by installed cameras and recognized by the specified system using software components of machine/deep learning and/or computer vision. After the artificial intelligence system recognized the fact of product selection, the product is added to the client's virtual basket. If the customer rejects the product and returns it to its place, the artificial intelligence system recognizes this fact and removes the product from the virtual basket. Payment of goods. At the exit from the store, the store system again identifies the customer in one of the above ways. Also, the system determines the goods taken by the client or: - if the goods were scanned by the application or recognized by the artificial intelligence system - the contents of the virtual basket; because - if the product has KRIO labels - by scanning KRIO labels.

The store system has the ability to receive payment for part or all of the product directly at the counter with the product during product selection, thanks to the instant wireless payment device that is installed on the counters opposite each product.

This device is connected to the store's computer network and is designed with the ability to display the name, price and final quantity of the product on the counter, and thanks to the MES system, it makes payment for the selected product or returns the money received for the product in case it is returned to the counter.

Such a device should contain, for example, a display for displaying relevant information about the product on the counter, a MES reader for instant payment for the product, a microcontroller for connecting to the store's computer network.

After determining the type and quantity of goods, the system automatically deducts the necessary amount of the cost of the selected goods from the client's bank card and sends a check to the client's mailbox (created in the personal account of the application). The customer's purchase history and receipts are stored in the app.

In this way, the implementation of the declared technical result is ensured, namely: the expansion of the technical and functional capabilities of the autonomous store management system for the purchase of goods through the comprehensive system optimization of the autonomous technology of electronic commerce, the introduction of an intelligent network interface with its own functional software, the improvement of the organizational and structural connection between client and store, increasing productivity, efficiency, efficiency and reliability of trade.

Claims (1)

UTILITY MODEL FORMULA A system for a customer to make purchases in an autonomous store, which includes: a central computer that is connected to a power source and contains at least one electronic unit for processing customer requests, at least one electronic unit for managing the warehouse department, this computer is connected to a communication network for data transmission to at least one wireless mobile device and from the wireless mobile device to a central computer, which is characterized by the fact that it additionally contains an electronic device configured to determine the amount of final and/or received or returned goods at the store counter and an electronic device for instant ZO wireless payment, which is made with the ability to display the name of the product, its price and the final quantity of this product on the counter, as well as make payment for the selected product or return the money received for the product in the case of its return to the counter, and a wireless mobile the device is the buyer's smartphone, while the system is designed with the ability to: authenticate the client in the store network by reading identification information from the buyer's smartphone; formation of the results of the search for goods in the store according to the buyer's request via smartphone; providing the buyer with information on the availability of the product in the store on the smartphone screen according to the data of the warehouse department; reading and recognition by the central computer of the code scanned by the buyer's smartphone located on the goods; formation of a virtual basket with the goods selected by the buyer on his smartphone according to the scanned codes; transmission of reading data through the store's network to the store's central computer; acceptance of payment for selected shopping items through any electronic payment system or wireless payment system; provision of an electronic check to the buyer's smartphone via the communication network.