WEBROOMING WITH RFID-SCANNING ROBOTS

摘要

The present invention relates to systems, methods, and devices for using RFID-tagged items for omnichannel shopping and automatically reading and locating those items. Robots for automated RFID reading are disclosed. The present invention discloses Webrooming 2.0 (WR2.0) which will offer shoppers new views and tools. WR2.0 offers shoppers a bird's eye view of equivalent items in local retail stores. WR2.0 tools empower shoppers with preemptive purchasing power: the ability to redirect their online purchases from any online web store to a local retail store.

主权项

1) An inventory locating system comprising:
a plurality of RFID tags attached to retail items; a high gain antenna attached to a platform; means for the RFID tags to respond to a radio frequency interrogation signal from the antenna; positioning means for autonomous positioning of the antenna in a scan pattern; platform locating means for determining the position of the antenna relative to remotely positioned reference points; tag locating means for determining the location of the RFID tags relative to the reference points; reading means for reading a unique item identifier from each of the plurality of RFID tags; product search means for a web-based product search; and means for relating the unique item identifiers from the plurality of RFID tags to the web-based product search.