摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make purchasable commodities from an automatic vending machine by using a portable telephone set, etc. SOLUTION: The automatic vending machine 1 is provided with the controller for automatic vending machine, which consists of a built-in telephone set 11, a control means 12 and a packet transmitting part 13. In the case of purchasing commodities from the machine 1, a purchaser makes a call to the set 1 from the portable telephone set 2, etc. The means 12 reads the ID of the set 2, etc., on the basis of a signal received by the set 11, and the telephone set ID, the ID of the automatic vending machine 1 and purchased commodity and the data of its amount are transmitted by a packet signal to a communication network 3 from the part 13. The network 3 transmits the received signal to a terminal 4 for management of the owner of the machine 1 and the received signal is recorded. The owner of the network 3 later charges the holder of the telephone set commodity purchase price on the basis of signal contents transmitted from the set 2, etc., and the owner of the machine 1 collects the commodity purchase price from the owner of the network 3 on the basis of the data of the terminal 4. |