摘要 |
PURPOSE:To simply collect and totalize data from plural automatic vending machines by a single handy terminal equipment. CONSTITUTION:Plural automatic vending machines each provided with memory which stores its own data as well as the data on other vending machines and a specific small power radio equipment 2 which transmits the data stored in the memory to the vending machines of higher order, are installed in a specific area and the data received by the vending machine of the highest order are collected and totalized by a handy terminal(H/T) equipment that contains an equipment 2. In such a constitution of a data collector, the equipment 2 is provided with a communication control means 4 which designates a vending machine for the communicating destination, a received data storage means 6 which stores the data that are repetitively collected by the means 4, and a data totalizer means 8 which totalizes the data stored in the means 6. |