Method, system, and device for determining a location of micro digital signage devices

#Labels and tags are used by retail stores to display price and product information to nearby consumers. For each product being sold, a separate label or tag is typically affixed to the front edge of the shelf upon which the product is located. The information (e.g., price, description, barcode, stock-keeping unit number, etc.) displayed on a shelf label or tag is static and typically embodied as physical print on a substrate medium such as a paper, plastic, or canvas. Manually managing that information for each of the products is time consuming and prone to errors.

#Micro digital signage devices are also used to display price and product information to nearby consumers. Unlike shelf labels and tags embodied as physical print on a substrate medium, micro digital signage devices may be configured to display digital content received from a server. As a result, the information (e.g., a product price) displayed by a micro digital signage device may be dynamically changed. Micro digital signage devices may also be configured to gather data about consumers, which may be analyzed by the server to detect different consumer patterns. To do so, the server must be able determine the micro digital signage device and the location from which the data was gathered. However, in environments wherein a larger number of micro digital signage devices are deployed, manually configuring location information for each micro digital signage device may be time consuming and prone to errors. In addition, because of the close proximity of micro digital signage devices to one another, detecting location information for each of the micro digital signage devices using radio frequency triangulation, global positioning coordinates, or other location determination mechanisms is also difficult.

#The concepts described herein are illustrated by way of example and not by way of limitation in the accompanying figures. For simplicity and clarity of illustration, elements illustrated in the figures are not necessarily drawn to scale. Where considered appropriate, reference labels have been repeated among the figures to indicate corresponding or analogous elements.

#FIG. 1 is a simplified block diagram of at least one embodiment of a system for determining a location of micro digital signage devices and managing micro digital signage devices;

#FIG. 2 is a simplified block diagram of at least one embodiment of a micro digital signage device of FIG. 1;

#While the concepts of the present disclosure are susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof have been shown by way of example in the drawings and will be described herein in detail. It should be understood, however, that there is no intent to limit the concepts of the present disclosure to the particular forms disclosed, but on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives consistent with the present disclosure and the appended claims.

#References in the specification to “one embodiment,” “an embodiment,” “an illustrative embodiment,” etc., indicate that the embodiment described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but every embodiment may or may not necessarily include that particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one skilled in the art to effect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described.

#The disclosed embodiments may be implemented, in some cases, in hardware, firmware, software, or any combination thereof. The disclosed embodiments may also be implemented as instructions carried by or stored on a transitory or non-transitory machine-readable (e.g., computer-readable) storage medium, which may be read and executed by one or more processors. A machine-readable storage medium may be embodied as any storage device, mechanism, or other physical structure for storing or transmitting information in a form readable by a machine (e.g., a volatile or non-volatile memory, a media disc, or other media device).