Smart Cooler Door Display for Adaptive In-Store Advertising
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional retail product containers, such as coolers and freezers, lack effective advertising and promotion capabilities, making it difficult for brands to conduct impactful 'on-the-spot' advertisements and promotions, leading to limited market penetration due to outdated and inefficient display management.
Innovation Solution
A smart, movable closure system equipped with electronic components that include cameras, proximity sensors, and displays, allowing for personalized and dynamic advertisements based on customer presence, product inventory, and environmental conditions, enabling targeted promotions and optimized in-store messaging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional retail product containers are used, then device simplicity is maintained, but advertising and promotion capabilities are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The retail product container is transformed into a multi-functional device by integrating advertising displays, customer detection sensors, and communication systems. The container door becomes a versatile platform that combines product display, digital advertising, customer interaction, and data collection functions, thereby significantly enhancing advertising capability while managing complexity through integrated design.
2Productivity
If static advertisements are displayed, then energy consumption is low, but customer engagement is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The advertising system transitions from static displays to dynamic, adaptive content delivery. The display content changes based on customer presence detection, proximity, viewing time, and interaction behavior. This dynamic adaptation enhances customer engagement by providing relevant, timely information while optimizing energy consumption by activating high-power displays only when customers are present.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates customer detection sensors and interaction tracking that provide real-time feedback about customer presence and behavior. This feedback loop enables the advertising content to adapt dynamically, adjusting display activation, content selection, and interaction opportunities based on actual customer engagement patterns, thereby improving productivity while managing energy use efficiently.
3Loss of information
If full screen advertisements are displayed continuously, then brand visibility is high, but product information visibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display system implements periodic alternation between full-screen advertisements and product information displays. Advertisements are shown during periods when no customer is present or just approaching, while product information is displayed when customers are in close proximity and actively viewing. This periodic switching ensures both brand visibility and product information accessibility without compromising either function.
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AI summary
A smart, movable closure system that allows access to the interior from the exterior of the cabinet, is disclosed. In some embodiments, the movable structure may be coupled with a cabinet interior that is adapted to be kept at a temperature cooler than the exterior cabinet ambient temperature, for example, to store perishable consumer goods in a retail setting. In particular, the smart, movable closure system may include electronic components that display graphical renderings corresponding to one or more products stored in the retail product container. In addition, the smart, movable closure system may include a controller that, before a user opts-in, generates an opt-in invitation at the smart, movable closure system, wherein the user may interface with the system with a wireless communication device.