Moving robot for monitoring a shelf, a method for monitoring a shelf, and a system for monitoring a shelf

A shelf monitoring system comprising:

• a shelf monitoring moving robot moving within a store in which a plurality of shelves, including a first shelf and a second shelf facing each other, are disposed and monitoring products and electronic shelf labels provided on the plurality of shelves;
• and
• a server including at least one processor performing computations for controlling the operation of the shelf monitoring moving robot and a memory storing commands and programs for controlling the operation of the shelf monitoring moving robot,
• wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
• control the shelf monitoring moving robot to sequentially move between the first shelf and the second shelf through a plurality of positions closer to the second shelf than to the first shelf,
• control an imaging device of the shelf monitoring moving robot to obtain a plurality of images by taking images of the first shelf sequentially at each of the plurality of positions,
• obtain information about the plurality of positions by wirelessly communicating, at each of the plurality of positions, with an electronic shelf label provided on the second shelf to obtain identification information of the electronic shelf label by the shelf monitoring moving robot, and
• match an image of the first shelf obtained at any one position of the plurality of positions to information about the any one position and store the matched information in the memory.

A shelf monitoring method for a shelf monitoring moving robot to move within a store in which a plurality of shelves, including a first shelf and a second shelf facing each other, are disposed and monitor products and electronic shelf labels provided on the plurality of shelves, the method comprising:

• moving sequentially between the first shelf and the second shelf through a plurality of positions closer to the second shelf than to the first shelf by the shelf monitoring moving robot;
• taking images of the first shelf sequentially at each of the plurality of positions by the shelf monitoring moving robot;
• obtaining information about the plurality of positions by wirelessly communicating, at each of the plurality of positions, with an electronic shelf label provided on the second shelf to obtain identification information of the electronic shelf label by the shelf monitoring moving robot;
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• matching an image of the first shelf obtained at any one position among the plurality of positions to information about the any one position.