Patent ID: 8222999
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: G08C,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A commodity display position alert system comprising: commodity display shelves; an RFID reader provided in each of the commodity display shelves and configured to read a commodity attribute of a commodity from an RFID tag that is attached to the commodity displayed on the commodity display shelf and stores the commodity attribute of the commodity; a signal output unit configured to output a signal to a reporting terminal; and a system control unit configured to refer to a shelf-rule storing unit, the shelf-rule storing unit including a first storing unit storing a relationship between the commodity attribute of each of commodities and a category to which a corresponding one of the commodities belongs, a second storing unit storing, for each of shelf codes respectively specifying the commodity display shelves, data indicating whether the commodities included in only one of the categories or the commodities included in two or more of the categories should be displayed in a corresponding one of the commodity display shelves, and a third storing unit storing, for each of the shelf codes, one or two more of the categories of which commodities can be displayed in a corresponding one of commodity display shelves, the system control unit being configured to, in association with the shelf code, store display permission information for defining a commodity that should be displayed on the commodity display shelf, compare the commodity attribute read by the RFID reader and the display permission information corresponding to the shelf code of the commodity display shelf to which the RFID reader is attached, and, when it is determined that a commodity other than the commodity that should be displayed on the commodity display shelf is displayed on the commodity display shelf, cause the signal output unit to output a reporting signal for causing the reporting terminal to perform reporting operation.