A kind of self-help shopping accounting device and self-help shopping accounting method
Technical field
The present invention relates to field of radio frequency identification, particularly relate to a kind of self-help shopping accounting device and self-help shopping accounting method.
Background technology
In daily life, the checkout lanes that supermarket is arranged is no more than ten, and a supermarket consumer group at one time likely reaches thousands of, especially in weekend or festivals or holidays, client needs to arrange very long team choose commodity in supermarket after, supermarket recruitment cashier scanned one by one to commodity bar code, efficiency of account settling is low, client wastes the time in queuing process, even some client abandons shopping because avoiding queuing up, this is a kind of invisible loss to supermarket, have impact on the sales volume of supermarket commodity.
For this reason, a lot of large supermarket offers more checkout lanes as far as possible, but on the one hand, need to recruit more cashier, on the other hand, be subject to the restriction in place, supermarket, checkout lanes can not unrestrictedly be set up, and these two aspects all can increase the operation cost in supermarket simultaneously.
Traditional barcode scanner has strict requirement to the scanning angle of commodity and scanning distance, have impact on the speed of checkout to a great extent, need a kind of self-help shopping accounting device of research and development badly, adopt radio-frequency (RF) identification (RFID) label that is efficient, that easily read, improve the checkout speed in supermarket, reduce the personnel cost in supermarket, for consumer provides shopping channel easily.
Summary of the invention
For overcoming the deficiencies in the prior art, the object of the invention is: a kind of self-help shopping accounting device is provided, improving the checkout speed in supermarket, reduce the personnel cost in supermarket, for consumer provides shopping channel easily.
In order to solve the technical matters in background technology, the invention provides a kind of self-help shopping accounting device, comprise server, travelling belt, picking casket, be set up in the radio-frequency (RF) Reader above described travelling belt and self checkout terminal, wherein, the end on of described picking casket and travelling belt, described picking casket is provided with the door for picking, described door is provided with combination padlock, a sensor is at least provided with below the initial end of described travelling belt, whether the initial end of described sensor travelling belt for detecting is placed with commodity, the transmission of described server controls travelling belt and stopping, the data recognized are sent to server by described radio-frequency (RF) Reader, data processed result is sent to self checkout terminal by described server, described self checkout terminal sends payment request to client, after client responds payment request, described server controls to export the digital key for separating combination padlock according to the signal that self checkout terminal sends.
Alternatively, described self-help shopping accounting device also comprises a conclusion button, and when pressing described conclusion button, or radio frequency number of times reaches the number of times of setting, then described server controls travelling belt stops transmitting.
Alternatively, described self-help shopping accounting device also comprises a start button, and when pressing described start button, or sensor detects that gravitational cue works the time reaching setting, then travelling belt described in server controls starts to transmit.
Alternatively, be provided with between described travelling belt and picking casket one domatic, the described domatic gradient is less than 45 °, and described domatic commodity for accepting on travelling belt also make described commodity enter described picking casket.
Present invention also offers a kind of self-help shopping accounting method based on above-mentioned self-help shopping accounting device, comprise the following steps:
S1, the commodity of checkout will be needed to lie against the initial end of travelling belt and make its label upward, after described travelling belt starts, described commodity are sent to the scanning area of radio-frequency (RF) Reader;
S2, the radio-frequency (RF) Reader label to commodity scans, and cargo price information is sent to server;
The commodity transmission scanned is entered picking casket by S3, travelling belt, and the scanning area next part commodity being sent to radio-frequency (RF) Reader is scanned;
S4, need the commodity of checkout all scanned after, travelling belt described in server controls stops transmitting, and the result of data processing is sent to self checkout terminal;
S5, self checkout terminal display client needs payment, waits for customer payment action;
After S6, self checkout terminal detect that customer payment action completes, server opens the authority opening described picking casket to client;
S7, client take out commodity according to the authority received from described picking casket, complete self-help shopping checkout.
Preferably, preset in step S4 and need the commodity number of packages of checkout to be no more than 10, if commodity are more than 10, then after described radio-frequency (RF) Reader completes the tenth scanning motion, it is all scanned that namely server judges to need the commodity of checkout, and the result of data processing is that cargo price is added the summation obtained.
Except this, in step S4, if press conclusion button, then server judges that the commodity needing to settle accounts are all scanned.
Preferably, in step S1, after sensor detects the commodity being placed on travelling belt initial end, preset standing time more than 5 seconds, or client presses start button, then server controls travelling belt starts to transmit.
Alternatively, in step S6, self checkout terminal is provided with cash and two kinds of modes of payments of swiping the card.
Except this, in step S7, after client shuts door after taking commodity away, server distributes a random digit key to the combination padlock on described door, after responding payment request etc. next client on self checkout terminal, described server provides described digital key to this client.
The principle of self-help shopping accounting device of the present invention is: adopt travelling belt commodity to be sent to radio-frequency (RF) Reader scanning, commodity are sent in picking casket after scanning completes, FRID label information on the commodity of reading is sent to server by radio-frequency (RF) Reader, after the end of scan, server controls self checkout terminal sends to client and pays application, two kinds of modes of payments are had to select for clients: cash or swipe the card, when client selects pay-us-you-go plan, client drops into enough bank note or coin, and self checkout terminal realizes cash small change; When client selects to swipe the card the modes of payments, self checkout terminal inputs the amount of money of paying a bill in POS, and patron self-service is swiped the card and inputted password in POS, thus completes payment, and after completing payment, server opens picking authority to client.
Adopt technique scheme, the present invention has following beneficial effect: 1. paid shopping process by patron self-service formula, does not need supermarket to provide manual service, has saved the human resources in supermarket; 2. the self-checkout device in the application by the restriction of EXIT width, can not be arranged on the corner in supermarket, applied range in a distributed manner; 3. adopt FRID tag recognition, improve speed and the quality of tag reader, saved the time cost of client, further increased the sales volume in supermarket.In sum, self-help shopping accounting device of the present invention improves the checkout speed in supermarket, reduces the personnel cost in supermarket, for consumer provides shopping channel easily.
Accompanying drawing explanation
In order to be illustrated more clearly in technical scheme of the present invention, be briefly described to the accompanying drawing used required in embodiment or description of the prior art below, apparently, accompanying drawing in the following describes is only some embodiments of the present invention, for those of ordinary skill in the art, under the prerequisite not paying creative work, other accompanying drawing can also be obtained according to these accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the self-help shopping accounting device that the embodiment of the present invention provides.
Wherein, in figure, Reference numeral corresponds to: 1-travelling belt, 2-picking casket, 21-door, and 22-is domatic, 3-radio-frequency (RF) Reader, 4-self checkout terminal, 5-sensor, 61-start button, 62-conclusion button.
Embodiment
Below in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in the embodiment of the present invention, be clearly and completely described the technical scheme in the embodiment of the present invention, obviously, described embodiment is only the present invention's part embodiment, instead of whole embodiments.Based on the embodiment in the present invention, the every other embodiment that those of ordinary skill in the art obtain under the prerequisite of not making creative work, all belongs to the scope of protection of the invention.
The structural representation of the self-help shopping accounting device that embodiment: Fig. 1 provides for the embodiment of the present invention, can clearly be seen that from figure, the self-help shopping accounting device that the present embodiment provides comprises server, travelling belt 1, picking casket 2, is set up in radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 above described travelling belt and self checkout terminal 4, described travelling belt is used for sending commodity to radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 and scans, and the commodity transmission after scanning is entered described picking casket 2.
Described picking casket 2 is provided with door 21, described door 21 is provided with combination padlock, one domatic 22 is provided with between described travelling belt 1 and picking casket 2, the non-door 21 of described picking casket 2 docks by described domatic 22 with the end of described travelling belt 1, the described domatic gradient is less than 45 °, and described domatic commodity for accepting on described travelling belt 1 also make described commodity enter described picking casket 2.
Because the commodity identified through radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 lose anti-theft alarm function, so transfer path is closed in erection on travelling belt 1, described closed transmission path extends to domatic 22 and connects with the side of described picking casket, can prevent client from taking like this and scan and outstanding commodity.
Travelling belt is provided with sensor 5 below the initial end of client, pressure transducer selected by described sensor 5, described sensor 5 does not move with travelling belt, when there being commodity to be positioned over the initial end of driving-belt 1, the pressure signal detected is sent to server by described sensor 5, described server controls the transmission of described travelling belt 1 according to the pressure signal that described sensor 5 detects, in order to improve the accuracy of detection of pressure transducer and expand the surveyed area area of pressure transducer, preferably, multiple sensor 5 is set below the initial end of client on a moving belt.
When the RFID label tag of commodity enters in the scanning area of radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3, the RFID label tag of described radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 pairs of commodity carries out scanning recognition, recognition result is sent to server by described radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3, after the recognizer of described radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 completes, data processed result is sent to self checkout terminal 4 by described server, described self checkout terminal 4 sends payment request to client, after client completes payment action, described self checkout terminal 4 sends signal to server, described server opens the authority opening picking casket to client according to this signal, client opens combination padlock on picking casket 2 door 21 to obtain the commodity in picking casket by the digital key that server provides.
As can be seen from Fig. 1, self-help shopping accounting device of the present invention also comprises a start button 61 and a conclusion button 62, when pressing start button 61, according to the detection signal of sensor 5, server judges whether the initial end of travelling belt 1 is placed with article, if had, commodity in initial end are sent in the scanning area of radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 by travelling belt 1, the RFID label tag of described radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 pairs of commodity carries out scanning recognition, then travelling belt continues transmission second commodity, and first commodity is continued to forward until these commodity enter picking casket 2 by domatic 22, so repeatedly, when pressing conclusion button 62, the identification data of radio-frequency (RF) Reader is carried out addition process by described server, and result is sent to self checkout terminal 4,
Or, can preset the start time is in the server 5 seconds, and due to the limited volume of picking casket 2, the commodity number of packages of disposable checkout is preset according to the volume of picking casket 2 reality, in the present embodiment, the commodity number of packages presetting disposable checkout is no more than 10, when sensor 5 detects that the commodity duration that travelling belt initial end is placed reaches 5 seconds, press without client and start key 61, described travelling belt 1 just can start to transmit, the number of times identified when described radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 reaches 10 times, press without client and terminate to be good for, namely server can perform the action after pressing end key 62.
If buy commodity more than ten, so need client to settle accounts several times and buy.
Described self checkout terminal 4 is self-checkout machine, comprise processor, operation screen, POS, coin slot and coin refund, client selects Payment Methods in operation screen, if selection bankcard consumption, then the processor of the self-checkout machine amount of money of swiping the card sends to POS, is swiped the card, inputs password to confirm consumption by patron self-service; If client selects cash consumption, then drop into enough currency or coins from coin slot, described processor judges whether to need small change according to the cash received, if needed, is exited by small change, complete payment process from coin refund.After self checkout terminal 4 confirms that payment process completes, send signal to server, server opens the authority opening picking casket to client, described combination padlock opened by the digital key that namely client provides according to server, take the commodity of received payment in picking casket away, complete this self-checkout.
Preferably, preset an end time, in the present embodiment, under the scanning times of described radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 is no more than the prerequisite of 10 times, after setting travelling belt 1 starts transmission, sensor 5 does not detect that in 1 minute new commodity are positioned over the initial end of described travelling belt 1, then travelling belt 1 stops transmitting, otherwise, before not pressing end strong 62, travelling belt keeps transmitting always, so just be unlikely to each part commodity and all need the scanning that pauses, and the sweep velocity of radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 can meet and scans the commodity of movement on travelling belt 1, namely travelling belt 1 does not stop transmitting the scanning that yet can not affect radio-frequency (RF) Reader 3 pairs of Commercial goods labelses, substantially increase the sweep velocity of Commercial goods labels.
Present invention also offers a kind of self-help shopping accounting method, comprise the following steps:
S1, the commodity of checkout will be needed to lie against the initial end of travelling belt and make its label upward, after described travelling belt starts, described commodity are sent to the scanning area of radio-frequency (RF) Reader;
S2, the radio-frequency (RF) Reader label to commodity scans, and cargo price information is sent to server;
The commodity transmission scanned is entered picking casket by S3, travelling belt, and the scanning area next part commodity being sent to radio-frequency (RF) Reader is scanned;
S4, need the commodity of checkout all scanned after, travelling belt described in server controls stops transmitting, and the result of data processing is sent to self checkout terminal;
S5, self checkout terminal display client needs payment, waits for customer payment action;
After S6, self checkout terminal detect that customer payment action completes, server opens the authority opening described picking casket to client;
S7, client take out commodity according to the authority received from described picking casket, complete self-help shopping checkout.
Preferably, preset in step S4 and need the commodity number of packages of checkout to be no more than 10, if commodity are more than 10, then after described radio-frequency (RF) Reader completes the tenth scanning motion, it is all scanned that namely server judges to need the commodity of checkout, and the result of data processing is that cargo price is added the summation obtained.
Except this, in step S4, if press conclusion button, then server judges that the commodity needing to settle accounts are all scanned.
Preferably, in step S1, after sensor detects the commodity being placed on travelling belt initial end, preset standing time more than 5 seconds, or client presses start button, then server controls travelling belt starts to transmit.
Alternatively, in step S6, self checkout terminal is provided with cash and two kinds of modes of payments of swiping the card.
Except this, in step S7, after client shuts door after taking commodity away, server distributes a random digit key to the combination padlock on described door, after responding payment request etc. next client on self checkout terminal, described server provides described digital key to this client.
Self-help shopping accounting device of the present invention effectively can improve the checkout speed in supermarket, reduces the personnel cost in supermarket, for consumer provides shopping channel easily.
Above disclosedly be only several preferred embodiment of the present invention, certainly can not limit the interest field of the present invention with this, therefore according to the equivalent variations that the claims in the present invention are done, still belong to the scope that the present invention is contained.