Method for monitoring temperature-controlled units in a store
AssigneeSimbe Robotics, Inc.
InventorsDurgesh Tiwari, Bradley Bogolea
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Abstract
One variation of a method for monitoring cooling units in a store includes: at a robotic system, during a first scan routine, autonomously navigating toward a cooling unit in the store, recording a color image of the cooling unit, and scanning a set of temperatures within the cooling unit; identifying a set of products stocked in the cooling unit based on features detected in the color image; mapping the set of temperatures to the set of products at a first time during the first scan routine based on positions of products in the set of products identified in the color image; and generating a record of temperatures of the set of products stocked in the cooling unit at the first time.
Claims17
A method for monitoring cooling units in a store comprising:
- at a robotic system, during a first scan routine:
- autonomously navigating toward a cooling unit in the store;
- recording a color image of the cooling unit;
- and
- scanning a set of temperatures within the cooling unit;
- identifying a set of products stocked in the cooling unit based on features detected in the color image;
- mapping the set of temperatures to the set of products at a first time during the first scan routine based on positions of products in the set of products identified in the color image;
- and
- generating a record of temperatures of the set of products stocked in the cooling unit at the first time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.