Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: a shelf-label control unit connected to plural shelf label terminals, which are arranged in predetermined positions in a store, and configured to transmit instruction information for instructing predetermined operation to each of the shelf label terminals; an information collecting unit connected to the plural sensor terminals, which are arranged in the predetermined positions in the store, and configured to collect environment information around the arrangement positions acquired by the sensor terminals; and a collection control unit configured to cause the information collecting unit to start the collection of the environment information with response information from the shelf label terminals, which responds to an instruction signal transmitted from the shelf-label control unit, as a trigger.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.