Walmart Apollo, LLC

Britto Michaelsamy

Shuvro Chakrobartty

Prasanna Rajendran

Gopi Kishore Danda

Edward H Sherrill

John Michael Humphrey

Matthew Allen Jones

Jadran Sirotkovic

Kalaiselvan Muniyan

Jody P Cook

Asim S Alvi

Christopher R Jescheling

Kshitiz Gupta

Maxwell A Yardley

Auer Don Duncan

Sung H Kim

Rahul S Kala

Kumar Chandan

Peter M Terlecky

Tirui Wu

David T Sayers

Mirko A Arnold

Methods and systems for managing inventory at a retail facility include an image capture device having a field of view that includes a product display shelf of the retail facility, an electronic database that stores a planogram of product display shelves at the retail facility and a computing device. The computing device obtains an image of a product display shelf, detects the individual packages of each of the different products captured in the image, defines different product display areas for the different products on the product display shelf captured in the image, and generates virtual boundary lines that surround each of the defined product display areas. The computing device also determines an identity of a product contained located in each defined product display area, and associates the virtual boundary lines surrounding each defined product display area with an identifier unique to the product contained in the defined product display area.

Systems and methods of defining and identifying product display areas on product display shelves

A system, method and computer readable medium for dynamically determining location-based rules affecting item sales at POS registers for a particular location and for distributing the location-based rules to the POS registers is discussed. A location-based ruleset of rules regulating sales of items at an individual store is created and transmitted to the store along with a rule group to item map file that maps rules and warnings to individual store items. A rules engine at the store provides updated item sale rules and warnings to POS registers based on the location-based ruleset and rule group to item map file. Embodiments thus provide an improved system for updating POS registers at different store locations with location-based rules specific to the store location.

Location based register rules

Systems and methods for analyzing sensor data can be implemented to monitor and correct, malfunctioning, inoperative, and/or inefficient appliances across multiple locations. In embodiments, a system for analyzing sensor data includes a plurality of sensors, a sensor controller unit, a local server, an event preprocessor, an event stream processing engine, a complex event processing engine, an alert and analytic dashboard, a business rules engine, and a database.

Sensor data analytics and alarm management

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