Method for monitoring temperature-controlled units in a store
AssigneeSimbe Robotics, Inc.
InventorsDurgesh Tiwari, Bradley Bogolea
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Abstract
One variation of a method for monitoring cooling units in a store includes: at a robotic system, during a first scan routine, autonomously navigating toward a cooling unit in the store, recording a color image of the cooling unit, and scanning a set of temperatures within the cooling unit; identifying a set of products stocked in the cooling unit based on features detected in the color image; mapping the set of temperatures to the set of products at a first time during the first scan routine based on positions of products in the set of products identified in the color image; and generating a record of temperatures of the set of products stocked in the cooling unit at the first time.
Claims20
A method for monitoring cooling units in a store comprising:
- at a robotic system, during a first scan routine:
- autonomously navigating toward a cooling unit in the store;
- recording a color image of the cooling unit;
- and
- scanning a set of temperatures within the cooling unit;
- identifying a set of products stocked in the cooling unit based on features detected in the color image;
- mapping the set of temperatures to the set of products at a first time during the first scan routine based on positions of products in the set of products identified in the color image;
- and
- generating a record of temperatures of the set of products stocked in the cooling unit at the first time.
A method for monitoring temperature-controlled units in a store comprising:
- at a robotic system, during a first scan routine:
- autonomously navigating toward a temperature-controlled unit in the store;
- recording a color image and a thermal image of the temperature-controlled unit;
- and
- identifying a set of products stocked in the temperature-controlled unit based on features detected in the color image;
- for each product in the set of products stocked in the temperature-controlled unit:
- retrieving a stored emissivity of a surface of the product from a database based on an identity of the first product;
- selecting a thermal pixel in the thermal image depicting the product;
- and
- calculating a temperature of the product at the first time based on a thermal value stored in the thermal pixel and the emissivity of the surface of the product;
- and
- generating a record of temperatures of products, in the set of products, at the first time.
A method for monitoring temperature-controlled units in a store comprising:
- at a robotic system, during a first scan routine:
- autonomously navigating toward a temperature-controlled unit in the store;
- recording a color image of the temperature-controlled unit;
- and
- broadcasting a query for temperature values from a set of temperature-enabled transmitters coupled to the temperature-controlled unit;
- and
- recording a set of temperature values transmitted by the set of temperature-enabled transmitters;
- identifying a set of products stocked in the temperature-controlled unit based on features detected in the color image;
- accessing locations of the set of temperature-enabled transmitters coupled to the temperature-controlled unit;
- mapping the set of temperature values received from the set of temperature-enabled transmitters to the set of products at the first time based on:
- locations of the set of temperature-enabled transmitters in the temperature-controlled unit;
- and
- locations of the set of products identified in the color image;
- and
- generating a record of temperatures of the set of products stocked in the temperature-controlled unit at the first time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.