Hitachi-kokusai Electric Inc.

Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd.

Tanax, Inc.

Katsumasa Kishida

Kiyoshi Kanai

Yoshinori Otani

Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto

Tohru Kaneko

A system with an intelligent shelf () has product display shelves (to) displaying products having RFID tags R. The system includes antennas (to) each having unique antenna numbers and detecting a tag serial number from an RFID tag on a product, human body sensors S disposed on each end of the product display shelf, a tag-product ID registration table storing the tag serial numbers of the RFID tags and the product IDs of the products and a control computer () detecting that a particular product is picked up from and/or returned to a particular product display shelf by combining the input tag serial number and the antenna number of the antenna detecting the tag serial number and analyzing which direction the detected human body has moved based on the difference of the detection times of the human body sensors.

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Shinagawa, Japan

Katsumasa Kishida