US 11,853,834 B2
Electronic shelf labelling system with a shelf edge strip sub-system
Andreas Rössl, Fernitz-Mellach (AT)
Assigned to SES-IMAGOTAG GmbH, Fernitz-Mellach (AT)
Appl. No. 17/617,715
Filed by SES-IMAGOTAG GMBH, Fernitz-Mellach (AT)
PCT Filed Dec. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/086993
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/249251, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/EP2019/065715 (WO), filed on Jun. 14, 2019; application No. PCT/EP2019/065718 (WO), filed on Jun. 14, 2019; application No. PCT/EP2019/065894 (WO), filed on Jun. 17, 2019; and application No. PCT/EP2019/072141 (WO), filed on Aug. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0245368 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. G06K 7/10 (2006.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 7/10297 (2013.01) [H02J 50/10 (2016.02); H04B 5/0056 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic shelf label system (1),
the system (1) comprises a server (5) which is designed to address a multiplicity of shelf labels (2A-2K) individually in order to communicate data with them in an addressed manner, and
the system (1) comprises at least one access point (6) which is connected to the server (5) and is designed for wireless communication of the data with, the shelf labels (2A-2K), and
the system comprises a near-field communication, NFC for short, sub-system on a shelf edge strip (3) of a shelving unit (9), wherein the NFC sub-system is characterized such that
the shelf edge strip (3) comprises an NFC reader (4A-4C) which is designed for wireless communication with the access point (6), and that
at least one conductor loop (L) is provided which is connected to the NFC reader (4, 4A-4C), is formed along the shelf edge strip (3) and is used for NFC communication with an NFC-enabled shelf label (2A-2K), wherein
at least one NFC-enabled shelf label (2A-2K) is attached to the shelf edge strip (3) corresponding to the conductor loop (L), and wherein
the NFC reader (4, 4A-4C) is designed for NFC communication of the data with the shelf label (2A-2K) addressed by the server (5).