Device enabling coffee preparing apparatus to provide user with ordered coffee and method for operating same
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Solution Overview
Problem
Unmanned coffee shops face challenges in ensuring that only the intended user can pick up their ordered coffee, as there is no employee to display or call out the prepared coffee, leading to the possibility of unauthorized users taking the wrong coffee.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates unique identification information for each coffee order, transmits it to user terminals, and upon confirmation, allows the coffee preparing apparatus to provide the ordered coffee to the correct user by matching input identification information with the generated code.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If an unmanned coffee shop uses automated coffee preparation without employee intervention, then labor costs are reduced and operational efficiency is improved, but the risk of unauthorized users picking up wrong coffee increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by generating and transmitting identification information to user terminals before the coffee preparation is complete. This allows users to receive their unique ID in advance, ensuring they can correctly identify and retrieve their own coffee order later, thus preventing unauthorized pickups while maintaining automated operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by requiring users to input the identification information at the coffee pickup station. The system then verifies this input against the recorded order information, providing confirmation or correction feedback to ensure the correct user receives the correct coffee, thereby maintaining reliability in the automated system.
2Reliability
If identification verification system is implemented in unmanned coffee shop, then coffee pickup accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves universality by utilizing existing smartphone devices as user terminals that can receive and display identification information. Instead of requiring specialized hardware, the system leverages the universal functionality of mobile phones already possessed by users, thereby improving reliability without significantly increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a communication network as an intermediary between the coffee preparation system and user terminals. This intermediary facilitates the transmission of identification information and verification data, enabling reliable coffee pickup verification while keeping the overall system architecture simple and modular.
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AI summary
Disclosed are a device enabling coffee preparing apparatus to provide user with ordered coffee and method for operating same, which may enable the coffee preparing apparatus to block a user other than an orderer from picking up the prepared coffee and provide the prepared coffee to the orderer by generating identification information matched to a coffee order requested from each of user terminals to enable picking-up of the coffee corresponding to the coffee order, transmitting the identification information matched to the coffee order requested from each of the user terminals to each of the user terminals, transmitting an identification information input request message to a user terminal requesting a coffee order corresponding to a coffee preparation completion message from the coffee preparing apparatus, comparing identification input from a user of the user terminal in response to the identification information input request message with identification information transmitted to the user terminal, and requesting the coffee preparing apparatus to perform a provision operation on the coffee corresponding to the identification information transmitted to the user terminal when the input identification information is the same as the transmitted identification information.