Electronic shelf tag and electronic shelf tag system

Abstract

To provide a technique of enabling the low power consumption of an electronic shelf tag. In order to achieve this purpose, in the electronic shelf tags which are arranged corresponding to articles and display the article data on the corresponding articles, a sleep operation for suspending a predetermined function for a predetermined period of time is repeatedly performed at intervals and the predetermined period of time is prolonged if no data is received for a given length of time.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an electronic shelf label that is arranged corresponding to a product and displays product data of the corresponding product, and an electronic shelf label system including the electronic shelf label. Background technique [0002] Generally, in stores such as supermarkets and convenience stores, prices of products in the stores are collectively managed based on product basic information (master) stored in a POS system or the like. On the other hand, price communication to customers (consumers) is often accomplished by paper-medium shelf labels placed at product positions. In the case of using such a paper-medium shelf label, management of the shelf label has to be done manually, and human errors such as selling price errors are likely to occur. Therefore, there is a possibility that an erroneous selling price different from the selling price at the time of settlement by the cash register (register) of the POS system is...

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Problems solved by technology

In the case of shelf labels using such paper media, since the management of shelf labels has to rely on manual labor, human errors such as selling price errors are prone to occur

Thereby, it is possible to convey to the customer a wrong selling price different from the selling price when the cash register (register) of the POS system is settled.

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