Article management system and method thereof

Abstract

An article management system is disclosed, which includes an object detection section detecting an object approaching to a article-placement section composed of a plurality of article-placement areas to place articles thereon and outputting object position information, an RF-tag reading section reading an RF-tag attached to each of the objects and outputting RF-tag read information, and an article position identifying section storing the object position information and the RF-tag read information correlating one information to another, and outputting the correlated information as article position identifying information, wherein the RF-tag reading section has a plurality of antenna sections that communicate with the RF-tags, and wherein communication coverage range of each of the antenna sections is defined to one or more of the article-placement areas. This system can be used to manage article locations in a store premise or a warehouse.

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