Systems and methods for automating monitoring of the contents of a container

A beverage monitoring system for allowing a user to monitor usage of a collection of beverage bottles and a point-of-sale (POS) system generating POS data, comprising:

• a scale assembly configured to support each beverage bottle and produce scale data;
• a cloud based application server communicatively linked to the scale assembly and configured to:
• receive the scale data from the scale assembly in real-time;
• populate a pour queue with the received scale data;
• receive the POS data from the POS system in real-time;
• populate a POS queue based on processed POS data;
• reconcile the pour queue against the POS queue to identify any irregularities between the pour queue and the POS queue in real-time;
• generate an inference about the cause of each irregularity in the reconciled data;
• compare the generated inference for each irregularity against a set of allowances to determine whether a given irregularity may be validated as a transaction that is not considered to be an irregularity;
• generate an alert queue comprising all unvalidated irregularities;
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• push the generated alert queue to a user in real-time as an alert message;
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• a front-end application communicatively linked to the cloud based application server and configured to receive the pushed alert message, wherein the front-end application is configured to:
• allow the user to review the alert queue in real-time;
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• provide the user with an option to change a validation status of any unvalidated irregularity.