DISPOSITIF ET SYSTEME DE CONTROLE DE LA PRESENCE D'ARTICLES SUR ETAGERES ET PROCEDE CORRESPONDANT

• Main Author: D'ANNUNZIO, FRANCK
• Format: Patent
• Language: French
• Published: 07.12.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Some embodiments relate to a device for checking the presence of articles on a shelf, that includes a detector circuit for detecting the presence of at least one article placed in at least one area of the shelf, the detector circuit being capable of switching between an article detection state, wherein it detects the presence of at least one article in the area, and an article non-detection state, wherein it does not detect any article in the area, and an RFID tag connected to the detector circuit and capable of reading and storing the article detection state or article non-detection state, of the detector circuit, the RFID tag further including an identification code for identifying the shelf area and being arranged to communicate the identification code and the state of the detector circuit to a remote RFID reader.