HK40014367A - Open-type self-service vending method and system based on buyer positioning - Google Patents

Description

Open type self-service selling method and system based on buyer position positioning

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of sales equipment, in particular to an open type self-service sales method and system based on buyer position positioning.

Background

In the traditional farmer and merchant over-sale mode, for commodities which are not weighed in advance and marked with prices, customers need to select the commodities to a special weighing platform and then the commodities are weighed according to categories after being weighed by special sales personnel. Therefore, the labor cost for sale is increased, the weighing queuing time of the customer is increased, and the shopping experience is influenced. In some unmanned supermarkets, two-dimensional codes or RF tags are required to be attached to each commodity in advance for pricing, so that workload and delivery cost are increased. In other unmanned supermarket schemes based on machine vision, due to the reasons of the arrangement and the recognition rate of a camera, the system operation load and the like, the situation that the purchasing behavior of a purchaser cannot be accurately recognized occurs when the flow of people is large.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides an open self-service sale method and a system based on buyer position location, which automatically calculate the goods quantity purchased by a customer after the customer selects goods by matching corresponding automatic weighing modules in different goods storage areas, automatically judge the purchase behavior according to the real-time location information of the customer, calculate the purchased goods quantity and money amount and count the account of the corresponding customer for settlement, thereby simplifying the shopping process, shortening the queuing time, reducing the operation cost and really realizing open automatic shopping.

The invention is realized by the following technical scheme:

according to the open type self-service selling method based on the position positioning of the buyer, goods are placed in different goods storage areas according to categories, each goods storage area is correspondingly provided with a unique storage area ID code, and each customer has unique characteristic information of the customer when entering a store;

when a customer purchases in a certain classification storage area, the automatic weighing platform at the bottom of the classification storage area respectively and automatically weighs the weight of the classification storage area before and after the customer purchases, the amount of goods purchased by the customer is calculated, and current shopping amount information is generated and comprises the amount of the goods and storage area ID codes corresponding to the classification storage area; meanwhile, real-time positioning information of a customer is obtained, whether the customer belongs to a shopping state is judged according to the distance between the position of the customer and a classified storage area, if yes, current shopping client information is generated, and the current shopping client information comprises unique characteristic information of the customer and an ID code of the storage area; then, by acquiring real-time positioning information of the customer, judging whether the distance between the real-time position of the customer and the corresponding classification storage area belongs to a shopping finish state, and if so, judging that the current shopping amount information of the customer is effective; calculating the amount of the goods corresponding to the current shopping amount information of the customer according to the pre-stored unit price of the goods in the classification storage area, and generating current shopping amount information, wherein the current shopping amount information comprises the amount of the goods and the storage area ID code corresponding to the classification storage area; establishing an incidence relation among the generated current shopping amount information, the current shopping customer information and the current shopping amount information according to the ID codes of the storage areas to generate current customer shopping information;

when the weight of the goods shelf changes, the system collects goods shelf images according to frames, establishes a time correlation sequence of the weight change of the goods shelf and the image collection of the goods shelf, identifies the consistency of goods when the same goods shelf is used for taking and placing the goods by utilizing a machine vision technology, checks goods taking and normal goods returning and changing behaviors of a customer, and prevents illegal goods changing.

Accumulating the shopping information of each current client which is not settled according to the unique characteristic information of the client, generating a shopping list and sending the shopping list to the client, wherein the shopping list comprises a single number, time, commodity name, unit price, quantity, amount and total amount; the client adopts on-site payment or electronic bank and third party payment platform mode to make settlement, and the client settlement-finished shop-leaving prohibition device opens the shop-leaving permission of said client.

The classified storage area is provided with a sale state, a goods loading state and a goods returning state, and when the goods loading state is adopted, current shopping amount information is not generated any more; in the loading process, the system monitors the weight of goods in real time, and when the goods are close to the upper weighing limit, the system sends out an over-range early warning; recovering the normal selling state after the goods loading is finished; when the goods return state is established, the information of the amount of the current shopping is determined to be invalid and the customer is notified.

Open self-service sales system based on buyer's position location, including open subregion weight response goods frame, set up a plurality of branch article types on the goods frame and deposit the region, every branch article type is deposited the region and is corresponding respectively the below automatic weighing platform that sets up. The self-service sale system also comprises a client position detection and positioning module, a pricing module, a settlement module, an access control unit and a central control module; the open type subarea weight sensing goods shelf, the client position detecting and positioning module, the pricing module, the settlement module and the access control module are respectively connected with the central control module. The open type subarea weight sensing goods shelf and the client position detecting and positioning module automatically identify the shopping behaviors of the client by comprehensively utilizing the weight sensing technology and the indoor high-precision positioning technology, wherein the information comprises information such as shopping personnel, commodity categories, commodity quantity (weight), shopping time and the like, and the core of the system is provided.

The open type subarea weight sensing goods shelf has the functions of loading and displaying goods, automatically weighing, calculating the weight or quantity of purchased goods, informing customers of pricing information and the like. The automatic weighing device mainly comprises an automatic weighing unit, a control unit, a purchase reminding unit, a purchase isolating device, a loading/unloading button, a cargo abnormal weight increasing alarm unit and the like. The goods shelf is designed in a modular manner, and is convenient to install and combine.

And the automatic weighing platform is used for weighing the goods loaded on the automatic weighing platform in real time. Through the pre-stored characteristic information of unit weight, total weight and package of goods during goods loading, the system can automatically identify the weight or quantity of the goods taken out as the basis of pricing.

The automatic weighing platforms with different specifications can be matched with goods shelves and goods baskets with different specifications, so that various commodities displayed in a supermarket can be met. The same goods shelf can be used for placing and selling various goods with different weights of single goods, and the system can automatically identify the goods to be taken through weight change. Meanwhile, the system can prevent the situation that the taken goods cannot be accurately identified because the total weight is a common multiple of the weights of the different single products when the goods are taken by calculating and prompting the limitation of the number of the different single products.

The control unit provides micro-computing support for the goods shelf, provides various control, communication and storage functions and is the brain of the goods shelf. The goods shelf is communicated with the system central control module through the control unit, transmits data and receives instructions of the central control module. One control unit may control a plurality of weighing platforms.

The purchase reminding unit is mainly a display, realizes the electronization of goods labels, and displays information such as names, quantity, unit price, total price and the like of goods selected by customers in real time. When a plurality of people are in the same subarea and other shopping abnormal conditions occur, the purchase reminding unit displays related information to remind customers to perform screening processing. The reminder information is shown in table 1.

TABLE 1 Purchase reminder Unit display content

The purchasing isolation device is an isolation separation blade with the interval of 0.4-1.5 meters and the height of 0.03-0.8 meters higher than the height of the goods and is respectively installed on two sides of each sub-class storage area. The customer purchasing isolation device is used for preventing customers located in two adjacent sub-category storage areas from taking goods from other areas and ensuring accurate attribution of purchasing behaviors of each sub-category storage area.

The goods loading/returning button is used for allowing an operator to control the goods returning program to load or return goods on the goods shelf. In consideration of the need for loading or customer return, a loading/return button is provided in the separate item storage area. When goods are loaded, the loading/returning button is pressed down, or the background loading button of the system is pressed down, or the ID held by the loader is detected to be changed into a loading mode, the automatic weighing module no longer generates the shopping amount information and sends the shopping amount information to the central control module, and the automatic weighing module is reset to be in a selling state and updates the weight of the goods after the loader leaves the loading mode.

The abnormal weight increment alarm unit is used for informing a supermarket loss prevention worker and a customer to process in time when the system finds that the goods shelf is in a non-goods-loading/goods-returning state and abnormal increase (such as illegal goods change and the like) occurs.

The open type subarea weight sensing goods shelf utilizes a machine vision technology, when the weight of the goods shelf changes, the goods shelf images are collected according to frames through a camera on the goods shelf, a time correlation sequence of the weight change of the goods shelf and the image collection is established, the consistency of goods when the goods are taken from or placed on the same goods shelf is identified by utilizing the machine vision technology, and when goods which are not placed in the goods shelf are found, a worker is guided to process the goods in time through a central control module.

The client position detection and positioning module is a mobile phone positioning device or a WIFI positioning device, a face recognition machine vision camera, an RFID reading and writing device, a UWB positioning base station, a Bluetooth receiving and positioning device, an infrared receiving and positioning device or an ultrasonic receiving and positioning device. The method has the following characteristics:

positioning accuracy: the customer can be accurately identified as entering or leaving the shopping partition. When the customer does not enter the partition, the customer does not need to identify, and the computing resources of the system are saved. Whether the customer is in a shopping state or passes through a shelf is judged according to the relation between the position of the customer and the residence time.

Anti-collision: can meet the requirement of 0.2-0.4 person/m in a supermarket²Identifying multiple cards in the working area of the antenna according to the requirement of people stream density; when a plurality of persons enter the same partition at the same time, the module can distinguish the distance between the customers and the shopping rack and the entering sequence (the system is supposed to enter the valid distance of 0.3 m at first, and the customers staying for more than 3 seconds are the current shopping customers).

Overcoming environmental interference: the module identification can overcome the interference influence of supermarket personnel, goods shelves and goods.

And (4) stopping the departure: the module can identify the label of illegal leaving, and limits that the customer who finishes checkout can only leave the card from the exit gate, and other personnel who try to take the card can be identified.

Information transmission: the module can remotely read the information of the customers (labels) entering the subarea, and the customers are identified; the information transmission process needs to realize security authentication and privacy guarantee, and prevent illegal access and label counterfeiting.

Prevent people's card mismatch: the partition positioning identification and machine vision (face identification) double verification can accurately verify the identity of the client and detect the position of the client, prevent the stealing of other cards to take goods and improve the safety.

Shopping behavior recording: the subarea visual identification unit simultaneously records the video information of shopping and goods taking of the customer and can be used as evidence material when disputes occur.

When a customer purchases in a certain classification storage area, the pricing module calculates the amount of goods purchased by the customer through the weight of the goods provided by the weight sensing shelf, and generates current shopping amount information, wherein the current shopping amount information comprises the amount of the goods and the storage area ID code corresponding to the classification storage area; meanwhile, positioning information of a customer is obtained, whether the shopping state is judged according to the distance between the position of the customer and the classified storage area, if so, current shopping client information is generated, and the current shopping client information comprises unique characteristic information of the customer and an ID code of the storage area; judging whether the distance between the real-time position of the client and the corresponding classification storage area belongs to a shopping finish state or not by acquiring the real-time positioning information of the client, and if so, judging that the current shopping amount information of the client is effective; calculating the amount of the goods corresponding to the current shopping amount information of the customer according to the pre-stored unit price of the goods in the classification storage area, and generating current shopping amount information, wherein the current shopping amount information comprises the amount of the goods and the storage area ID code corresponding to the classification storage area; and establishing an association relation among the generated current shopping amount information, the current shopping customer information and the current shopping amount information according to the storage area ID codes to generate current customer shopping information.

The settlement payment module accumulates the current customer shopping information which is not settled according to the unique characteristic information (bound with the RFID tag card) of the customer to generate a shopping list. Each label is fixedly printed with a two-dimensional code, and the card code and the code are integrated. After the customer finishes shopping, the two-dimensional code on the tag card is scanned through the mobile phone, and then a shopping list can be obtained. The shopping list comprises a single number, time, commodity name, unit price, quantity, amount and total amount; the customer adopts the modes of on-site payment or electronic bank, third-party mobile payment platform or shopping card deduction to make settlement. After the customer has settled, the store-out prohibition device opens the store-out permission of the customer.

The open type self-service sales system further comprises a purchase reminding unit, a goods loading/returning button and a goods abnormal weight increasing alarm unit, wherein the purchase reminding unit, the goods loading/returning button and the goods abnormal weight increasing alarm unit are respectively installed in each sub-category storage area and are respectively connected with the central control module.

The open self-service sale system of the access control unit further comprises a store exit prohibition device connected with the central control module, wherein the store exit prohibition device comprises a gate or an exit door. A face card corresponding file is established in an entrance channel, and random detection is carried out in a store through a client position detection and positioning module by using a face recognition technology to prevent a client from changing cards. And establishing an acquaintance channel and a student channel at the entrance, or automatically identifying the acquaintances and the students, and providing training video picture reminders for the students.

The access control unit comprises an ID chip card issuing and recovering unit, the inlet is provided with the ID chip card issuing unit, and the outlet is provided with the ID chip card recovering unit. The method comprises the steps of issuing an RFID label, an UWB label, a Bluetooth positioning signal source label, an infrared positioning signal source label or an ultrasonic positioning signal source label. The ID chip card can be recycled, and comprises a passive card and an active card, and the active card can be automatically charged.

A plurality of exit control gates are arranged at the exit of the store. After the customers finish links such as shopping, pricing, settlement and payment, the customers can go out of the house through the exit gate. When the customer passes through the gate, the card is inserted into the gate, the system confirms that the card has no outstanding bills, and verifies whether the card is consistent with the identity of the face of the person. And after the verification is passed, the customer is released. Users of non-ID chip card tags (cards) are not self-service.

The VIP ID card provided for the regular client can be directly swiped to enter a store. For the customer with the pre-stored money, the system can automatically settle the payment and send the settlement list to the mobile phone of the customer. The customer can directly swipe the card to go out of the field after shopping.

The open type self-service sale system provides two goods returning ways, one way is that when a customer still processes a shopping state in a certain shopping subarea, the goods in the subarea which is not needed can be put back, the system establishes a time correlation sequence of weight change of the goods shelf and image acquisition through the time correlation sequence, utilizes a machine vision technology to identify the consistency of the goods when the goods are taken from and put on the same goods shelf, and judges whether the put-back goods are the goods (not yet priced) taken out by the customer in the shopping behavior. If the goods taken out in the shopping behavior is determined, the system deducts the returned goods from the shopping amount automatically, otherwise, the system judges that the goods are other goods and sends an abnormal alarm. The other goods returning mode is a specially-arranged goods returning counter, and the system modifies the shopping pricing records after the confirmation of supermarket personnel through the customer ID and the returned goods information.

Development open type self-service selling method

Taking the card and entering the field: and a customer enters a shop through a gate, the ID card is taken from the automatic card sender as the unique characteristic information of the customer, and meanwhile, the visual identification unit acquires the visual characteristics of the customer and establishes a matching relation with the ID card.

Shopping positioning: the customer freely selects and purchases goods, the customer position detection module determines the subarea where the customer is located in real time, judges whether the customer purchases goods or not, and determines the ID of the purchased goods subarea.

Automatic weighing: the customer takes the purchased goods, and the automatic weighing module calculates the quantity and the category of the taken goods according to the weight change.

And (3) immediate pricing: the pricing module calculates the amount of money of the selected articles by the customer in real time.

And (3) purchase reminding: the purchase reminding unit displays information such as the name, the quantity, the unit price, the total price and the like of the goods selected by the customer in real time.

Settlement and payment: after the customer purchases the commodity, the payment is quickly carried out through various modes such as mobile phone, cash, pre-stored card fee deduction and the like.

And (4) card discharge: the customer who finishes payment can go back to the card and go out of the market through the gate of going out of the market, finish the whole shopping procedure.

The invention has the following advantages:

(1) accurately identifying the customer and purchasing behavior:

because the purchasing area (classified storage area) is effectively and uniquely associated with the customer information, the number of the purchased goods is accurately counted by weight, and the identification accuracy of the information and purchasing behavior of the customer is improved.

(2) The data flow is simple and reliable, a large amount of system operation is avoided, and the method is suitable for large passenger flows.

As the purchasing behavior of the customer is confirmed by a hardware mode, the data operand is small, the system operation resource is greatly saved, and the method is suitable for being used in complex scenes and under the condition of intensive people flow.

(3) Open-type goods loading and shopping can be completed at one time without additional processes such as marking, pricing inspection and the like, a customer can freely purchase goods at will, real-time total automatic bookkeeping is realized, one-time payment is realized, and the experience of a merchant and the customer is friendly.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an open self-service sales system based on buyer location according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of an open zone weight sensing goods shelf structure of the open self-service vending system of the present invention based on purchaser location positioning.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the network topology and operation of the customer location sensing and positioning module to be developed for the open self-service sales system based on the buyer location positioning.

In the figure, 1: classification storage area, 2: automatic weighing module, 3: purchase isolation device, 4: visual collection unit, 5: purchase reminding unit, 6: get/return button, 7: cargo abnormal weight increase alarm unit, 8: article, 9: control unit, 10: shopping partition, 11: RF low frequency antenna (125KHz), 12: RF low-frequency exciter, 13: zoned visual recognition unit, 14: RF high frequency reader (2.4GHz), 15: network switch, 16: and positioning the calculation center.

Detailed Description

The following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

The invention relates to an open self-service selling method based on buyer position location, wherein goods categories are placed in different category storage areas, each category storage area is correspondingly provided with a unique storage area ID code, and each client has unique characteristic information when entering a store;

when a customer purchases in a certain classification storage area, the automatic weighing platform at the bottom of the classification storage area respectively and automatically weighs the weight of the classification storage area before and after the customer purchases, the amount of goods purchased by the customer is calculated, and current shopping amount information is generated and comprises the amount of the goods and storage area ID codes corresponding to the classification storage area; meanwhile, real-time positioning information of a customer is obtained, whether the customer belongs to a shopping state is judged according to the distance between the position of the customer and a classified storage area, if yes, current shopping client information is generated, and the current shopping client information comprises unique characteristic information of the customer and an ID code of the storage area; then, by acquiring real-time positioning information of the customer, judging whether the distance between the real-time position of the customer and the corresponding classification storage area belongs to a shopping finish state, and if so, judging that the current shopping amount information of the customer is effective; calculating the amount of the goods corresponding to the current shopping amount information of the customer according to the pre-stored unit price of the goods in the classification storage area, and generating current shopping amount information, wherein the current shopping amount information comprises the amount of the goods and the storage area ID code corresponding to the classification storage area; establishing an incidence relation among the generated current shopping amount information, the current shopping customer information and the current shopping amount information according to the ID codes of the storage areas to generate current customer shopping information;

accumulating the shopping information of each current client which is not settled according to the unique characteristic information of the client, generating a shopping list and sending the shopping list to the client, wherein the shopping list comprises a single number, time, commodity name, unit price, quantity, amount and total amount; the client adopts on-site payment or electronic bank and third party payment platform mode to make settlement, and the client settlement-finished shop-leaving prohibition device opens the shop-leaving permission of said client.

The open type subarea weight sensing goods shelf is the core of the system and is responsible for loading and displaying goods, automatically weighing, calculating the weight or quantity of purchased goods, informing customers of pricing information and the like. The automatic weighing device mainly comprises an open type goods shelf, an automatic weighing unit, a control unit, a purchase reminding unit, a purchase isolating device, a goods loading/returning button, a goods abnormal weight increasing alarm unit and the like. The goods shelf is designed in a modular manner, and is convenient to install and combine.

As shown in fig. 2, the open type self-service sales system based on buyer location positioning using the method of the present invention includes an open type partitioned weight sensing goods shelf, a plurality of partitioned storage shelves 1 are respectively disposed on the goods shelf, and each partitioned storage area 1 corresponds to a unique storage area ID code. The goods shelf can adopt various shapes and can be a special-shaped goods shelf.

Goods 8 are placed in different classification storage areas 1 according to the classification, an independent automatic weighing unit 2 is correspondingly arranged at the bottom of each classification storage area 1, the classification storage areas 1 are automatically weighed in real time through internal pressure sensors, and the precision reaches C3 level (about 0.03%). The automatic weighing unit 2 stores characteristic information such as unit weight and package of the corresponding goods in advance.

A customer purchase separation device 3 is installed in each of the classification storage areas 1. The customer purchasing isolation device 3 is two isolation separation blades with the interval of 0.4-1.5 meters and the height of 0.03-0.8 meters higher than the height of the goods and is respectively arranged at two sides of each sub-goods storage area 1. The customer purchase isolation device 3 is to prevent customers located in two adjacent classification storage areas 1 from taking goods over areas, and to ensure accurate attribution of purchasing behavior in each classification storage area 1.

The control unit 9 provides micro-computing support for the shelves and provides various control, communication and storage functions, which are the brains of the shelves. The goods shelf is communicated with the system central control module through the control unit, transmits data and receives instructions of the central control module. One control unit may control a plurality of weighing platforms.

The purchase reminding unit 5 is mainly a display, realizes the electronization of the goods label, and displays different contents according to different states of the shopping area.

The open type self-service sale system also comprises a client position detection and positioning module, a pricing module, a settlement module and a central control module; the unit prices of the goods corresponding to the ID codes of the different storage areas are stored in the pricing module in advance. The client position detection and positioning module, the pricing module, the settlement module and the access control module are respectively connected with the central control module. In this embodiment, the central control module adopts a server, and the pricing module and the settlement module are respectively a Personal Computer (PC).

The customer position detection module adopts RFID (radio frequency identification device) (proximity method) and machine vision double verification positioning technology to realize accurate detection of customer shopping partition positioning and identification of customer identity.

The module mainly comprises a RW-T906 passive RF card (125KHz)18, a RW-R750 low-frequency activator (comprising a subarea low-frequency antenna 10)12, a RW-R921 high-frequency reader (2.4GHz)14, a visual identification unit and a customer positioning calculation center.

The RFID is activated by the sectored RF antenna 10 and acquires the antenna ID when a customer makes a shopping sector with the RF card 18. After activation, the tag actively sends the antenna ID and the RSSI value (signal strength) to a nearby high-frequency reader 14 in a 2.4GHz frequency band, so that the positioning of the shopping partition of the customer is realized.

The subarea visual recognition unit 13 is matched with an RFID (radio frequency identification) recognition technology to recognize face information of a customer entering a subarea, compares the face information with face information acquired when the customer enters a card taking port, verifies the customer information recognized by the RFID, and simultaneously prevents the person and the card from being mismatched. And communicating with the positioning calculation center through a wireless network.

And the positioning calculation center processes and analyzes the information transmitted by the high-frequency reader and the subarea visual identification unit, forms the position information of the customer (the shopping subarea) after verification calculation and sends the position information to the system central control module.

Each customer has customer unique characteristic information when entering the store. In the process of issuing the RF card, the system automatically acquires the face information of the customer, establishes the corresponding relationship of the face card, and carries out random detection in the supermarket to prevent the customer from changing the card. The system distinguishes the live and mature guests through the face recognition technology, and adopts different guide mechanisms respectively (when the live guests enter the field, the system displays the picture or video information of the operation flow of shopping operation to train, and when the mature guests enter the field, the system provides friendly welcoming information), so that the customer experience is improved.

Each sub-category storage area 1 is further respectively provided with a visual acquisition unit 4, a purchase reminding unit 5, a goods loading/goods returning button 6 and a goods abnormal weight increasing alarm unit 7, and the visual acquisition unit 4, the purchase reminding unit 5, the goods loading/goods returning button 6 and the goods abnormal weight increasing alarm unit 7 are respectively connected with the central control module through a control unit 9.

The system of the invention has the following working procedures:

after a customer selects a goods 8 on a certain open type goods shelf 1, the corresponding automatic weighing platform 2 respectively weighs the weight of the sub-category storage area 1 before and after the customer selects the goods 8, calculates weight change information, calculates the quantity of the goods purchased by the customer according to pre-stored characteristic information such as unit weight of the goods 8 and the like and the weight change information, and then generates a current shopping quantity information sending central control module, wherein the current shopping quantity information comprises the goods quantity and the storage area ID code corresponding to the sub-category storage area 1. Meanwhile, the system corresponds to the article identification time through machine vision, and the goods taking behavior is verified through comparing the pictures before and after goods taking.

The customer position detection and positioning module judges whether a customer is in a shopping partition in front of the classification storage area according to whether an RF card carried by the customer is activated by a low-frequency activator installed in the classification storage area 1 and the distance between the RF card and an antenna, if so, the customer positioning information is automatically associated with the classification storage area 1, namely, the customer unique characteristic information is associated with the storage area ID code to generate current shopping customer information and the current shopping customer information is sent to the central control module.

The central control module judges whether the customer leaves the classification storage area 1 or not according to the distance between the real-time positioning information of the customer and the classification storage area 1, if the customer leaves, shopping is finished, and meanwhile, if the central control module detects that the goods loading/returning button 6 is not pressed down, the current shopping amount information of the customer is judged to be effective.

The central control module sends the effective current shopping amount information to the pricing module, the pricing module searches unit prices corresponding to the goods 8 according to the storage area ID codes in the shopping amount information and calculates the goods amount, current shopping amount information is generated and sent to the central control module, and the current shopping amount information comprises the goods amount and the storage area ID codes corresponding to the classification storage areas 1.

The central control module establishes an association relation among the effective current shopping amount information, the current shopping amount information and the current shopping client information according to the storage area ID codes, generates current client shopping information and sends the current client shopping information to the shopping reminding unit 5, and the shopping reminding unit 5 informs a client of the current shopping information in the classification storage area 1 through voice or a display screen.

The central control module accumulates the effective unsettled customer shopping information based on the unique characteristic information of the customer, generates a shopping list and sends the shopping list to the settlement module and the customer mobile phone, wherein the shopping list comprises information such as a single number, time, commodity name, unit price, quantity, amount, total amount and the like.

And the settlement module settles the payment with the customer according to the shopping list sent by the central control module. The settlement module is simultaneously connected with payment systems such as banks, third-party payment platforms and the like, and the clients can pay by adopting on-site payment or modes such as electronic banks, third-party payment platforms and the like. And after the client finishes settlement, the settlement module sends the settled information to the central control module. The central control module judges the leaving condition according to the settlement condition of the client, controls the outlet prohibition device comprising a gate or an exit door and opens the outlet permission of the client.

In consideration of the need for loading or customer return, a loading/return button 6 is provided in the separate item storage area 1. When the goods are loaded, the loading/returning button 6 is pressed down or the background loading button of the system is pressed down or the ID held by the loader is detected to be changed into a loading mode, the automatic weighing module 2 sends the shopping amount information to the central control module, and the distribution type storage area 1 is reset to be in a selling state and the weight of the goods is updated after the loading is finished. In the loading process, the system monitors the weight of goods in real time, and when the goods are close to the upper weighing limit, the system sends out-of-range early warning. When a customer returns goods, the goods loading/goods returning button 6 is pressed down or the system background presses down the goods returning button and returns goods according to the goods type, the central control module detects the pressing state of the goods loading/goods returning button 6, determines that the received shopping amount information is invalid at the current time, does not send the shopping amount information to the pricing module any more, and reminds the customer of the goods returning information through the purchase reminding unit 5. In the non-loading and returning states, when the automatic weighing module 2 finds that the goods are abnormally increased in weight, the warning unit 7 for abnormal weight increase of the goods gives a voice warning and a background warning.

The classification storage area 1 and the automatic weighing unit 2 below the classification storage area can be adjusted, so that the classification of commodities is convenient to adjust.

The real-time weight of goods in each goods storage area 1 is automatically monitored at a system background, and the goods are automatically reminded when the goods are insufficient.

When the face is used as a positioning information source, when a customer enters a store, a camera installed in a store entrance channel shoots the customer and gives a unique number to the customer as unique characteristic information of the customer, the unique characteristic information is informed to the customer in the modes of sound and light, a machine vision acquisition unit 4 is installed in each classification storage area 1, and the customer is identified through the machine vision acquisition unit 4 to obtain the positioning information of the customer.

When the mobile phone is used as a positioning information source, when a customer enters a store, the customer is informed of the unique characteristic information of the customer by using the IMEI or MAC code of the mobile phone held by the customer in the form of sound and light, a certificate and the like, and the positioning information of the customer is acquired by the wireless APs densely distributed in the store.

Similarly, if the mobile phone number of the mobile phone held by the customer is used as the unique characteristic information of the customer and the customer is informed in a sound-light and strip mode, the position of the mobile phone is positioned through the base station of the operator to obtain the positioning information of the customer.

Claims (18)

1. An open self-service selling method based on buyer position location is characterized in that:

goods are placed in different classification storage areas, each classification storage area is correspondingly provided with a unique storage area ID code, and each customer has unique characteristic information of the customer when entering a store;

when a customer purchases in a certain classification storage area, the automatic weighing module at the bottom of the classification storage area respectively and automatically weighs the weight of the classification storage area before and after the customer purchases, the amount of goods purchased by the customer is calculated, and current shopping amount information is generated and comprises the amount of the goods and storage area ID codes corresponding to the classification storage area; meanwhile, real-time positioning information of a customer is obtained, whether the customer belongs to a shopping state is judged according to the distance between the position of the customer and a classified storage area, if yes, current shopping client information is generated, and the current shopping client information comprises unique characteristic information of the customer and an ID code of the storage area; then, by acquiring real-time positioning information of the customer, judging whether the distance between the real-time position of the customer and the corresponding classification storage area belongs to a shopping finish state, and if so, judging that the current shopping amount information of the customer is effective; calculating the amount of the goods corresponding to the current shopping amount information of the customer according to the pre-stored unit price of the goods in the classification storage area, and generating current shopping amount information, wherein the current shopping amount information comprises the amount of the goods and the storage area ID code corresponding to the classification storage area; establishing an incidence relation among the generated current shopping amount information, the current shopping customer information and the current shopping amount information according to the ID codes of the storage areas to generate current customer shopping information;

accumulating the shopping information of each current client which is not settled according to the unique characteristic information of the client, generating a shopping list and sending the shopping list to the client, wherein the shopping list comprises a single number, time, commodity name, unit price, quantity, amount and total amount; the client adopts on-site payment or electronic bank and third party payment platform mode to make settlement, and the client settlement-finished shop-leaving prohibition device opens the shop-leaving permission of said client.

2. The buyer location based open self-service selling method of claim 1, wherein the classification storage area is provided with a selling state, a loading state and a returning state, and when in the loading state, the current shopping amount information is not generated; recovering the normal selling state after the goods loading is finished; when the goods return state is established, the information of the amount of the current shopping is determined to be invalid and the customer is notified.

3. Open self-service sales system based on buyer's position location, including open subregion weight response goods frame, set up a plurality of branch article types on the goods frame and deposit the region, every branch article type is deposited the region and is corresponding respectively the below automatic weighing platform that sets up. The self-service sale system also comprises a client position detection and positioning module, a pricing module, a settlement module, an access control unit and a central control module; the client position detection and positioning module, the automatic weighing module, the pricing module, the settlement module and the access control module are respectively connected with the central control module.

4. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the client position detection and positioning module adopts indoor wireless positioning technologies such as a mobile phone positioning device or a WIFI positioning device, an RFID reading-writing device, a UWB positioning base station, a Bluetooth receiving and positioning device, an infrared receiving and positioning device or an ultrasonic receiving and positioning device and a face recognition machine vision camera.

5. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the client position detection and positioning module combines face recognition machine vision and indoor wireless positioning technology to accurately verify the identity of the client and detect the position of the client. And establishing a file corresponding to the face card in the inlet channel, and carrying out random detection in a store to prevent a customer from changing the card.

6. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the client position detection and positioning module judges whether the customer is in a shopping state or passes through a shelf according to the relationship between the position of the customer and the residence time.

7. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the client position detection and positioning module calculates whether the client is in the shopping partition or not by adopting a two-dimensional algorithm of the relationship between the client position and the time.

8. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: when the weight of the goods shelf changes, the system collects goods shelf images according to frames, establishes a time correlation sequence of the weight change of the goods shelf and the image collection of the goods shelf, identifies the consistency of goods when the same goods shelf is used for taking and placing the goods by utilizing a machine vision technology, checks goods taking and normal goods returning and changing behaviors of a customer, and prevents illegal goods changing.

9. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the same goods shelf can be used for placing and selling various goods with different weights of single goods, and the system can automatically identify the goods to be taken through weight change. Meanwhile, the system prevents the situation that the taken goods cannot be accurately identified because the total weight is a common multiple of the weights of the different single products when the goods are taken by calculating the limitation of the number of the different single products.

10. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: and establishing an acquaintance channel and a student channel at the entrance, or automatically identifying the acquaintances and the students, and providing training video picture reminding for the students.

11. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the automatic weighing module can provide goods over-range alarm function, and when goods approach or exceed the range, prompt or alarm is given.

12. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the system provides two goods returning modes, namely that the goods returned by the customer are directly and accurately placed back to the original goods shelf, the system identifies, confirms and deducts the goods purchased by the customer, and the service personnel guide the goods returning through a special goods returning counter.

13. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the shopping subareas can adjust the shape and the size of the subareas through the goods trays on the weighing platform according to the sales requirements.

14. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the open type self-service sale system also comprises an ID chip issuing unit, wherein the ID chip issuing unit issues an RFID label, a UWB label, a Bluetooth positioning signal source label, an infrared positioning signal source label or an ultrasonic positioning signal source label.

15. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the open type self-service sales system further comprises a purchase reminding unit, wherein the purchase reminding unit is arranged in each classified storage area, is a voice playing or display screen and is connected with the central control module.

16. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the open self-service sales system further comprises a customer purchase isolating device, wherein the customer purchase isolating device is formed by two isolating separation blades which are 0.4-1.5 meters apart and 0.03-0.8 meters higher than the goods, and the two isolating separation blades are respectively arranged on two sides of the goods storage area.

17. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the open type self-service sales system further comprises a store-out prohibiting device connected with the central control module, and the store-out prohibiting device comprises a gate or an exit door.

18. The buyer location based open self-service marketing system according to claim 3, characterized in that: the open type self-service sales system further comprises a purchase reminding unit, a goods loading/returning button and a goods abnormal weight increasing alarm unit, wherein the purchase reminding unit, the goods loading/returning button and the goods abnormal weight increasing alarm unit are respectively installed in each sub-category storage area and are respectively connected with the central control module.