Product pallet and method for establishing the position of a product pallet
AssigneeCHEP Technology Pty Limited
InventorMarco Pannicke
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Abstract
The invention relates to a product pallet (10) comprising an autonomous module (20), which has a smartphone-seeking module (24), by which the presence of smartphones in the vicinity of the product pallet (10) can be detected, and a transmission module (22), by which data can be transferred over a data network. The invention also relates to a method for establishing the position of a product pallet (10) in a shop, wherein, in a first step, a module (20) provided on a product pallet (10) detects which smartphones are located in the vicinity of the product pallet (10), and, in a second step, a decision is made in an automated manner as to whether the product pallet (10) is located on a shop floor of a shop or in the shop stockroom depending on the number of detected smartphones.
Claims20
A product pallet comprising:
- a product support plate having a planar top surface for receiving products thereon;
- a plurality of feet provided on an underside of said product support surface;
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- an autonomous device carried by said product support plate and comprising:
- a smartphone-seeking module configured to detect presence of smartphones in a vicinity of the product pallet, and
- a transmission module coupled to said smartphone-seeking module and configured to transmit data over a data network in response to detecting the presence of smartphones in the vicinity of the product pallet, with the detected smartphones being used to determine a location of the product pallet.
A method for establishing location of a product pallet comprising a product support plate having a planar top surface for receiving products thereon, a plurality of feet provided on an underside of the product support surface, and an autonomous device carried by the product support plate, the method comprising:
- operating the autonomous device to perform the following:
- detect presence of smartphones in a vicinity of the product pallet, and
- transmit data over a data network in response to detecting the presence of smartphones in the vicinity of the product pallet, with the detected smartphones being used to determine the location of the product pallet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.