WO2004084104A1 - Kundenunterstützungssystem für warenhäuser - Google Patents
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- WO2004084104A1 WO2004084104A1 PCT/EP2004/002697 EP2004002697W WO2004084104A1 WO 2004084104 A1 WO2004084104 A1 WO 2004084104A1 EP 2004002697 W EP2004002697 W EP 2004002697W WO 2004084104 A1 WO2004084104 A1 WO 2004084104A1
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- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
- G07F7/02—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by keys or other credit registering devices
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- G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
- G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
- G06Q20/30—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks
- G06Q20/34—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
- G06Q20/343—Cards including a counter
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- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
- G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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- G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
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- the invention relates to a customer support system for department stores with a very large sales area, in particular so-called hypermarkets according to the preamble of claim 1.
- department stores are fundamentally also interested in a statistical recording and evaluation or documentation of the typical customer behavior, especially depending on an originally disclosed purchase request of the customer, possibly preferably with regard to the entrainment effects of special offers that are actually based on one of the original ones
- Purchase request of the customer corresponding product group are located in a remote product area.
- the department stores are also interested in finding out about the sales of accessories for a customer's original purchase request, for example battery-operated electrical appliances and batteries, or washing machines and detergents and the like.
- the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a customer support system which, on the one hand, ensures reliable guidance of the customer within the department store and, on the other hand, detects and evaluates the customer and buying behavior within the department store, with a comparatively low installation effort and very little maintenance effort.
- At least one device containing a so-called touch screen is arranged at the entrance to the sales area in order to enable the customer to identify at least one desired product or product group in a machine-readable manner and at the same time to help locate the associated one
- each shopping cart or shopping basket is provided with a passive, identifiable identifier, in particular a transponder,
- a large number of interrogation devices each formed by a transmitter / receiver unit, are distributed over the sales area in order to * identify the previous transitional identity of the respective shopping cart or shopping basket are arranged,
- At least part of the interrogation devices formed by a transmitter / receiver unit is arranged on one of the information output devices, in particular display panels,
- the information output devices or display boards are assigned to the customer, at least with subfields for outputting or displaying guide or guidance information, for example a combination of product details and directional arrows,
- Central computers are connected, and h) the central computer is equipped with suitable, learning expert knowledge suitable for optimal customer support, in particular machine knowledge.
- the main advantage achieved with the customer support system according to the invention is seen on the one hand in the fact that the customer is offered the possibility of requesting a support system as soon as he enters the sales area of a department store, which system allows him to find or find items directly and easily and simply. Locates the desired goods.
- the educational advantage is seen in the fact that touch screens only have to be set up at the entrances to the sales area, and therefore the maintenance and training costs for the customer support system are kept to a minimum.
- equipping the central computer with a comparison device enables the customer to track the routes, so that in the event of a deviation from the prescribed shortest route, a detour version can be offered, which on the one hand ensures the safety of the customer's route guidance and on the other hand the possibility of the customer on the go other goods, such as those on offer, in his shopping cart.
- the customer is offered the opportunity, if he so wishes, to deviate from the specified direct route to the goods sought, without losing the general route.
- the equipment of the central computer with a preferably self-learning first device, which comprises an expert knowledge of a customer's general buying behavior, and a linking device for creating a suitable, possibly comparable product groups or experience-based experience program that takes into account the interests of a customer for a first product group
- a self-learning first device which comprises an expert knowledge of a customer's general buying behavior
- a linking device for creating a suitable, possibly comparable product groups or experience-based experience program that takes into account the interests of a customer for a first product group
- an optimal guidance of the customer through the sales area of the department store.
- the customer support system of the invention provides also for the management of the department store some advantages, so the directional tracking system allows first identifying and documenting the special purchase interests, or at least the in t eressen a customer in special, do not go to the state-mentanen desire to buy irigen, located for example on offer Were.
- the self-learning expert knowledge can be enriched in this way and prepared or trained for a future product arrangement or customer management.
- the customer guidance system enables optimum use of the information output devices, in particular display boards, which are distributed over the sales area, to the extent that they are only used to guide a customer if the customer has to branch off from his previous direction of movement in order to achieve the desired amount Department to arrive.
- the information output devices, in particular display boards can be used for general advertising purposes or references to special offers over periods in which no display is required for a customer tour, a device being advantageously provided in the central computer which records the occupancy times of the information output devices, in particular display boards , with a standardized or general advertisement for a special advertiser acting as a customer towards the department store and summed up for later billing.
- a general idea on which the present invention is based is to equip a customer, when taking a shopping cart or a shopping basket, with a temporary identity that only lasts for the length of time he is in the sales area and to allow the movements and the activities of this identity within the sales area record and document as well as for further training of the machine expert evaluate the central computer's knowledge so that it can provide the best possible customer guidance within the sales area.
- the possibilities of expert knowledge of the central computer should be available through special facilities but also in favor of the management of the department store.
- Figure 1 is a schematic representation of a section of a sales area of a department store
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic representation of the connection of a central computer to a multiplicity of transmitting / receiving units for detecting or tracking the transponders accommodated in shopping carts or shopping baskets, or temporary identities formed by them,
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic illustration of a central computer equipped with a number of devices for the exploitation of results.
- a column 5 carrying a touch screen 4 is arranged at the entrance 1 to a sales area of a department store, which is generally designated 2 and is otherwise closed off by barriers 3.
- the touch screen 4 is provided with a number of product identifiers representing the product groups offered within the department store, in particular pictograms 6.
- the touch screen 4 changes its surface in such a way that the customer sn is now shown in detail all the goods falling under the selected product group and the customer now has the option of to enter the desired goods in the touch screen 4.
- all shopping trolleys 7 or shopping baskets of the department store are provided with a transponder 8 which, upon request, issues a special, unique identifier or temporary identity, which transponder is queried by an antenna 9 connected to the touch screen 4 when it enters the sales area 2 and is sent to the central computer 10 of the system as a temporary identity of the customer carrying the shopping cart 7 or shopping basket.
- a large number of sales shelves 11 are arranged over the sales area 2 of the department store, in which the goods offered for sale in the department store are stored in groups.
- the sales shelves 11 are aligned at an angle to one another, so that the customer looking for a certain item of goods has to change his forward direction one or more times in order to arrive at the shelf in which the item he is looking for is stored.
- a number of information output devices, in particular display boards 12, are used to guide the customer to the sales shelf 11a containing the desired goods, in this case a radio, which are provided with signage devices, in particular with goods information 13, which can be controlled by the central computer 10 for example, radio-provided arrows 14 are equipped and thus show the customer the changes in direction required to find the desired goods within the sales area 2.
- the display boards are equipped with first transmitter / receiver units 15, which record the identifier or temporary identity of each transponder 8 entering its area and transmit it to the central computer 10, so that the latter trigger an activation of a directional instruction or, if no directional change is necessary, any directional display can suppress.
- the individual store shelves 11 are equipped with corresponding transmitter / receiver units 16, which determine the arrival of the customer at the store shelf 11a sought and can transmit to central computer 10.
- the fi ⁇ formation output devices are not only suitable for outputting signage functions, but at least over a large part 19 of their area also for displaying general advertising texts and the like, especially also for manufacturers or suppliers acting as customers of the department store.
- the display of advertising texts or advertising images preferably takes place at times when no direction is required for a customer.
- the central computer 10 is equipped with a first device 20 which stores and links the goods request entered by the customer via the touch screen 4 and the temporary identity specified by the transponder 8 of the shopping cart 7 or shopping basket carried by the customer and that the central computer 10 is also equipped with a second device 21, which is equipped to generate a management program for the customer or the temporary identity on the basis of the expert knowledge available in the computer and the customer's request, and means for controlling the displays necessary for the management of the customer Information output devices, in particular display panels 12 includes. In the embodiment shown, these means consist of activating the displays 13 and 14, which show arrows and factual information, by means of the transmitter / receiver units 15.
- the advertising field 19 of the information output devices, in particular display boards 12, is temporarily shut down or switched off. consequences.
- the central computer 10 is further equipped with a comparison device 22, which receives the messages from the transmitter / receiver units 15, which are distributed over the sales area 2, about the passage of a certain identity at certain points of the sales area 2 with that by the second device 21 compares the management program created for a specific customer or a specific identity and, in the event of deviations, generates instructions for a targeted continuation of the customer.
- the central computer 10 is also equipped with a device 23 which is used to record and compare the goods acquired by the customer or the temporary identity or paid for at the cash register with the goods selected on the touch screen 4 when entering the sales area 2 is suitable and which further derives a statistical quantity for a recurring customer behavior from the result of a large number of such comparisons and adds the expert knowledge of the central computer 10.
- the central computer 10 is equipped with an additional device 24, which determines the occupancy times of the individual information output devices, in particular display boards 12 with third-party advertisements or product advertisements, and registers them and totals them for an advertising cost statement.
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| US10/549,967 US20060178891A1 (en) | 2003-03-18 | 2004-03-16 | Customer assistance system for stores |
| GB0520972A GB2417347B (en) | 2003-03-18 | 2004-03-16 | Customer assistance system for stores |
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| DE10312026.2 | 2003-03-18 | ||
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| DE10314349.1 | 2003-03-31 | ||
| DE10314349A DE10314349A1 (de) | 2003-03-18 | 2003-03-31 | Kundenunterstützungssystem für Warenhäuser |
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| CN109074726A (zh) * | 2016-04-04 | 2018-12-21 | 株式会社日立制作所 | 人流评价系统、人流控制的检测方法 |
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| EP0991039A2 (de) * | 1998-09-14 | 2000-04-05 | Ncr International Inc. | Lokales Nachrichtensystem |
| DE10028980A1 (de) * | 2000-06-16 | 2002-01-10 | Super Market Media Ag | Verfahren zum Lotsen von Kunden durch einen SB-Markt |
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- 2004-03-16 WO PCT/EP2004/002697 patent/WO2004084104A1/de not_active Ceased
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| US4882724A (en) * | 1987-10-14 | 1989-11-21 | Leo Vela | Shoppers communication system and processes relating thereto |
| WO1993004449A1 (en) * | 1991-08-20 | 1993-03-04 | Digicomp Research Corporation | Product information system for shoppers |
| WO1998038589A1 (en) * | 1997-02-27 | 1998-09-03 | Abell, Peter, B. | In-store consumer targeted messaging system |
| EP0991039A2 (de) * | 1998-09-14 | 2000-04-05 | Ncr International Inc. | Lokales Nachrichtensystem |
| DE10028980A1 (de) * | 2000-06-16 | 2002-01-10 | Super Market Media Ag | Verfahren zum Lotsen von Kunden durch einen SB-Markt |
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| US8420202B2 (en) | 2009-12-09 | 2013-04-16 | Hunan Zhongtal Special Equipment Co., Ltd. | Stab and ballistic resistant material and method for preparing the same |
| CN109074726A (zh) * | 2016-04-04 | 2018-12-21 | 株式会社日立制作所 | 人流评价系统、人流控制的检测方法 |
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