Methods and systems for an electronic shelf label system

A method for providing an electronic shelf label system, the method comprising:

• providing a plurality of electronic shelf labels within a building, each electronic shelf label including a processor, and one or more radiofrequency communication modules configured to transmit data at different power levels to control a range of communication of the one or more radiofrequency communication modules;
• providing a central computing system configured to transmit data transmissions via one or more Wireless access points to the plurality of electronic shelf labels;
• periodically activating a candidate electronic shelf label from the plurality of electronic shelf labels from a sleep mode;
• identifying, by the candidate electronic shelf label, whether there is an existing master electronic shelf label from the plurality of electronic shelf labels via a transmission by the one or more communication modules at a second power level;
• in response to failing to identify an existing master electronic shelf label based on the transmission, determining, by the candidate electronic shelf label based on a first set of specified conditions associated with the candidate electronic shelf label, whether to become a new master electronic shelf label to transmit programming instructions received from the central computing system to one or more electronic shelf labels at the second power level or to transmit status data received from the one or more electronic shelf labels to the central computing system via the one or more wireless access points at a first power level;
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• in response to identifying the existing master electronic shelf label, determining, by the candidate electronic shelf label based on a second set of specified conditions associated with the existing master electronic shelf label, whether to become another master electronic shelf label to transmit the programming instructions received from the central computing system to the one or more electronic shelf labels at the second power level or to transmit status data received from the one or more electronic shelf labels to the central computing system via the one or more wireless access points at the first power level.