Hitachi, Ltd.

Yohei Kawada

Kojin Yano

Yoshihiro Mizuno

Naohiro Yuasa

Daisuke Shibata

A sensor device for detecting product quality conditions is attached to each product to be delivered, and constant monitoring is performed on quality conditions of stock products in a storage room of a delivery center for quality assurance. For products in a storage room of a delivery truck, constant monitoring is also performed on quality conditions thereof in the same manner. If a quality abnormality is found in a product in the storage room, information regarding product sensing items and information regarding the current location of each delivery truck are processed to select a replacement stock product less susceptible to recurrence of a similar quality abnormality at the time of redelivery.

Product delivery system

An identifier such as an IC tag attached to a commodity is read by an antenna connected to a display rack or an information terminal. A server receives the read result, analyse the purchase action of the customer from the identifier ID, the antenna position information, etc, and proposes a totalization result. For example, detailed information of purchase actions for each customer such as a read result for each commodity and a commodity simultaneously read is displayed on terminals for the manager of the shop and managers at headquarters. The totalization result is displayed for the customer as a popular or good selling commodity of the shop on an information terminal inside the shop.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Yohei Kawada