Method for controlling an electronic shelf label
AssigneeVusionGroup GmbH
InventorsTarik Filali Ansary, Andreas Rössl, Steven Thomas
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Abstract
A method of controlling an electronic shelf label that is attached to a shelf rail at a position along the shelf rail and controlled by a local rail controller at the shelf rail, wherein the rail controller stores a list of display data, wherein an element of the list of display data is intended to be submitted to an electronic shelf label and represents the information that shall be displayed there, and detects the attachment of an electronic shelf label to the shelf rail or the removal of an electronic shelf label from the shelf rail, and triggers an action based on the detection of the attachment or the detection of the removal of an electronic shelf label under consideration of the list of display data.
Claims18
A method of controlling an electronic shelf label that is attached to a shelf rail at a position along the shelf rail and controlled by a local rail controller at the shelf rail, wherein
- the rail controller
- stores a list of display data, wherein an element of the list of display data is intended to be submitted to an electronic shelf label and represents the information that shall be displayed there, and
- detects the attachment of an electronic shelf label to the shelf rail or the removal of an electronic shelf label from the shelf rail, and,
- based on the detection of the attachment or the detection of the removal of an electronic shelf label, triggers an action under consideration of the list of display data,
- wherein the rail controller is physically attached to the shelf rail and separate from the electronic shelf label.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.