WO2021072882A1

WO2021072882A1 - Control method for smart goods cabinet, and smart goods cabinet

Info

Publication number: WO2021072882A1
Application number: PCT/CN2019/118637
Authority: WO
Inventors: 吴启超
Original assignee: 艾信智慧医疗科技发展（苏州）有限公司
Priority date: 2019-10-18
Filing date: 2019-11-15
Publication date: 2021-04-22
Also published as: CN110745449A

Abstract

Provided are a smart goods cabinet and a control method therefor. The smart goods cabinet comprises a plurality of storage boxes, a control unit arranged on a goods cabinet, and a speech recognition apparatus that is arranged on the goods cabinet and is in communication connection with the control unit. The control method comprises the following steps: receiving demand information, input by a user by means of speech, of required items; and automatically updating the amount of remaining items in a smart goods cabinet according to the demand information. According to the smart goods cabinet and the control method therefor, efficient pick and place management can be performed on the smart goods cabinet, so that a user can restock items that are in short supply in a timely manner, thereby ensuring a sufficient stock of various items in the goods cabinet, without affecting the picking and use of the user.

Description

Control method of smart container and smart container

Technical field

The present invention relates to the technical field of item management, and in particular to a method for controlling a smart container capable of automatically updating the remaining quantity of items and a smart container.

Background technique

Nowadays, hospitals or pharmacies, especially Chinese pharmacies, generally store medicines in different storage boxes in containers. With the diversification of products and medicines, these are all for products/medicine. Managers have brought a great burden and reduced the efficiency of related workers.

The container in the prior art generally does not record the access to items, or directly relies on manpower to collect statistics, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and cannot achieve faster and efficient access management, and there are often products/pharmaceuticals that are not refilled in time. The shortage will delay the patient's use and prolong the patient's recovery cycle.

In view of this, it is necessary to provide a new smart container control method and smart container to solve the above-mentioned problems.

Summary of the invention

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for controlling a smart container and the smart container.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned purpose of the invention, the present invention adopts the following technical solution: a method for controlling a smart container, including the following steps:

Receive the demand information of the required items input by the user's voice;

The remaining quantity of the item in the smart container is automatically updated according to the demand information.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, after the step of automatically updating the remaining amount of the item in the smart container according to the demand information, the control method further includes the following steps:

It is judged whether the remaining quantity is less than the preset minimum stock quantity; if so, the user is prompted.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, before the step of receiving the demand information of the required items inputted by the user by voice, the control method further includes the following steps:

Receive the type of required items entered by the user;

Voice broadcast and/or display the inventory of the item.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, after receiving the type of the required item input by the user, and before the step of receiving the demand information of the required item input by the user's voice; the control method further includes the following steps:

Inform the user of the location of the storage box where the item is stored.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the step of informing the user of the location of the storage box storing the item specifically includes the following steps:

The voice broadcasts the location of the storage box where the item is stored.

Turn on the reminder light on the storage box corresponding to the item.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object of the invention, the present invention also provides a smart container, which includes a container with a plurality of storage boxes for storing items, a control unit arranged on the container, and a control unit arranged on the container and connected to the container. The control unit is a voice recognition device communicatively connected; the control unit is used for automatically updating the remaining amount of the article according to the demand information of the required article fed back by the voice recognition device.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the smart container further includes a voice broadcast device communicatively connected with the control unit; the voice broadcast device is used to voice broadcast the inventory of the required items and/or the corresponding items The location of the storage box.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the smart container further includes a reminder light corresponding to the storage box one-to-one, and the reminder light is communicatively connected with the control unit.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the smart container further includes a client terminal communicatively connected with the control unit.

The beneficial effect of the present invention is that the control method of the smart container in the present invention can automatically update the remaining quantity of the item in the smart container according to the received demand information of the required item input by the user's voice; Smart containers carry out efficient pick-and-place management, so that users can replenish the shortage of items in time, and ensure that the inventory of each item in the container is sufficient without affecting the user's access.

Description of the drawings

Fig. 1 is a flow chart of the control method of the smart container in the present invention.

Detailed ways

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings. Please refer to FIG. 1, which is a preferred embodiment of the present invention. However, it should be noted that these embodiments do not limit the present invention. The functions, methods, or structural equivalent changes or substitutions made by those of ordinary skill in the art based on these embodiments fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Please refer to Figure 1, the present invention provides a control method for a smart container and a smart container, the smart container can automatically update the remaining amount of each item in the container, efficient pick and place management, so that users can replenish in time , To ensure that the inventory of each item in the container is sufficient, and it will not affect the user's access.

The smart container includes a container with a plurality of storage boxes for storing items, a control unit provided on the container, and a voice recognition device provided on the container and communicatively connected with the control unit. The control unit has a statistical module, and the inventory of the items in each storage box is stored in the statistical module.

The control method includes the following steps:

Receive the demand information of the required items input by the user's voice;

It can be understood that, for this embodiment, the step of receiving the demand information of the required items input by the user's voice is specifically: the voice recognition device obtains the user's voice information, and recognizes the required items contained in the voice information. The demand information is then fed back to the control unit, the control unit sends the demand information to the statistics module, and the statistics module receives the demand information.

The above-mentioned required quantity information of required items is the quantity of required items that the user needs to take away from the corresponding storage box.

The step of automatically updating the remaining quantity of the item in the smart container according to the demand information is specifically: the statistical module automatically subtracts the demand quantity of the item from the inventory quantity of the item to obtain the remaining quantity of the item, and automatically Update the inventory of the item in the smart container to its remaining amount.

Further, after the step of automatically updating the remaining amount of the item in the smart container according to the demand information, the control method further includes the following steps:

The minimum inventory of each item is pre-stored in the control unit. After the statistics module counts the remaining amount of the item, it is fed back to the control unit, and the control unit compares the remaining amount with the minimum inventory corresponding to the item. To determine whether the remaining amount is less than the preset minimum inventory amount, and if so, prompt the user.

Specifically, the smart container further includes an alarm provided on the container, and the alarm is communicatively connected with the control unit.

The above prompting the user is specifically: the control unit controls the alarm to start an alarm, so as to prompt the user to replenish the corresponding item immediately.

Further, before the step of receiving the demand information of the required items inputted by the user by voice, the control method further includes the following steps:

Receive the type of required items entered by the user;

Voice broadcast and/or display the inventory of the item.

Specifically, in the embodiment in which the smart container includes a voice recognition device, the step of receiving the type of required items input by the user is specifically: the voice recognition device obtains the user's voice information, and recognizes the required items contained in the voice information. The type of the item is then fed back to the control unit.

Further, the smart container further includes a client terminal communicatively connected with the control unit, and the user can also check the inventory/remaining quantity of each item in the container through the client terminal, and replenish the shortage items in time to avoid Affect user access.

In a specific embodiment, the client terminal may be a mobile phone, a tablet, a computer, etc.; of course, it is not limited to this, and the client terminal may also be a touch display screen provided on the container.

In the embodiment in which the smart container includes the client terminal, the step of receiving the type of the desired item input by the user may be: manually inputting the type of the desired item through the client terminal.

At the same time, in the embodiment in which the smart container includes the client terminal, the step of voice broadcasting and/or displaying the inventory of the item is specifically: displaying the inventory of the item through the client terminal for the user to view.

Further, the smart container further includes a voice broadcast device provided on the container, and the voice broadcast device is communicatively connected with the control unit.

In the embodiment in which the smart container includes a voice broadcasting device, the step of voice broadcasting and/or displaying the inventory of the item is specifically: the control unit obtains the inventory of the item in the statistics module, and controls the voice The broadcast device broadcasts the corresponding inventory to let the user know the inventory of the item.

It is understandable that the user can either manually input the type of the required item and check the inventory of each item through the client terminal, or input the type of the required item by voice and broadcast the inventory of the item through the voice broadcast device. , In order to let users know the inventory of each item.

Further, after the step of receiving the type of the required item input by the user's voice, and before the step of receiving the demand information of the required item input by the user's voice, the control method further includes the following steps:

Inform the user of the location of the storage box where the item is stored.

Each of the storage boxes is marked with a corresponding label. In the embodiment in which the smart container includes a voice broadcasting device, the step of informing the user of the location of the storage box storing the item includes the following step: voice broadcasting the location of the storage box storing the item.

Specifically, the voice broadcasts the label of the storage box in which the article is stored, so that the user can quickly find the location of the storage box.

Of course, it is not limited to this. In another embodiment, the smart container further includes a reminder light corresponding to the storage box one-to-one, and the reminder light is communicatively connected with the control unit.

In an embodiment in which the smart container includes a reminder light corresponding to the storage box, the step of informing the user of the location of the storage box storing the item includes the following steps: illuminating the storage box corresponding to the item Reminder light, so that the user can quickly find the location of the storage box.

In summary, the smart container control method of the present invention can automatically update the remaining quantity of the item in the smart container according to the received user voice input of the required item demand information; perform efficient pick-and-place management , So that users can replenish the shortage of items in time to ensure that the inventory of each item in the container is sufficient, and it will not affect the user's access.

It should be understood that although this specification is described in accordance with the implementation manners, not each implementation manner only includes an independent technical solution. This narration in the specification is only for the sake of clarity, and those skilled in the art should regard the specification as a whole. The technical solutions in the embodiments can also be appropriately combined to form other embodiments that can be understood by those skilled in the art.

The series of detailed descriptions listed above are only specific descriptions of feasible implementations of the present invention. They are not intended to limit the scope of protection of the present invention. Any equivalent implementations or implementations made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention All changes shall be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

A control method for a smart container, characterized in that: the control method includes the following steps:

Receive the demand information of the required items input by the user's voice;

The remaining quantity of the item in the smart container is automatically updated according to the demand information.
The control method of the smart container according to claim 1, wherein after the step of automatically updating the remaining quantity of the item in the smart container according to the demand information, the control method further comprises the following steps:

It is judged whether the remaining quantity is less than the preset minimum stock quantity; if so, the user is prompted.
The control method of the smart container according to claim 1, wherein before the step of receiving the demand information of the required items inputted by the user by voice, the control method further comprises the following steps:

Receive the type of required items entered by the user;

Voice broadcast and/or display the inventory of the item.
The control method of the smart container according to claim 3, characterized in that: after receiving the type of the required item input by the user, and before the step of receiving the demand information of the required item input by the user by voice; the control method It also includes the following steps:

Inform the user of the location of the storage box where the item is stored.
The method for controlling a smart container according to claim 4, wherein the step of informing the user of the location of the storage box storing the item specifically includes the following steps:

The voice broadcasts the location of the storage box where the item is stored.
The method for controlling a smart container according to claim 4, wherein the step of informing the user of the location of the storage box storing the item specifically includes the following steps:

Turn on the reminder light on the storage box corresponding to the item.
A smart container includes a container with a plurality of storage boxes for storing items, a control unit arranged on the container, and a voice recognition device arranged on the container and communicatively connected with the control unit; It is characterized in that: the control unit is used for automatically updating the remaining quantity of the item according to the demand quantity information of the required item fed back by the voice recognition device.
The smart container according to claim 7, characterized in that: the smart container further comprises a voice broadcast device communicatively connected with the control unit; the voice broadcast device is used to voice broadcast the inventory of required items and/or The location of the storage box corresponding to the required item.
7. The smart container of claim 7, wherein the smart container further comprises a reminder light corresponding to the storage box one-to-one, and the reminder light is in communication with the control unit.
8. The smart container of claim 7, wherein the smart container further comprises a client terminal communicatively connected with the control unit.