| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To construct a POS system that is intended for automatic vending machines by storing specific data on the individual automatic vending machines, such as sales quantities of beverage commodities and the like, shortages of items, shortages of changes, alert notice of malfunctions and troubles in a home server from the automatic vending machines at desired timing.SOLUTION: An information gathering system gathers specific data such as sales quantities from automatic vending machines via a public communication line. In the system, a communication terminal device is connected with a control device in an automatic vending machine, transmits a command signal to obtain the specific data to the control device, and thereby information corresponding to the command signal is gathered from the automatic vending machine. A data management center sets a command signal giving an instruction on necessary data gathering in advance to the communication terminal device provided in the automatic vending machine, and the communication terminal device transmits the command signal to the automatic vending machine, and the specific data such as sales quantities is made obtained.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 |
