What are the advantages of smart self-pickup vending machines?

With the rapid development of the unmanned retail industry, vending machines are attracting more and more people who want to start a business with the characteristics of changing and selling. Today we will focus on analyzing some of the advantages and disadvantages of the intelligent self-pickup counters. Everyone knows that vending machines in the modern sense appeared after the second industrial revolution, and the third industrial revolution gave vending machines the wings to take off. But these are all vending machines in the traditional sense. The cargo lanes used are generally S-shaped stacked cargo lanes, drawer spring spiral cargo lanes, drawer crawler cargo lanes, multi-door lattice cabinets, etc. The payment method is also changed from From the traditional paper money and coin cash payment to the novel mobile phone code scanning payment and facial recognition payment by facial recognition in recent years. The advantages of traditional vending machines are that they have to pay before shipping and have a complete risk control plan. During the operation, the loss rate is low, the loopholes are few, and the man-made losses of goods are few. The shortcomings are also obvious. The equipment is complicated and the manufacturing cost is high. Due to the limitation of the cargo lane structure, special machines must be dedicated. For example, the S-shaped stacking lane can only sell bottled and canned drinks but not snacks; the drawer spring spiral cargo lane can sell most of the goods, but Poor heat preservation, high power consumption and high jam rate. In order to solve the problem of the high cost of vending machines, the emerging sharing economy in the past two years gave birth to shared shelves and shared containers without risk control solutions, but this is purely based on the quality of people to operate. It is said that the sharing economy is a mirror of the quality of the masses. This is the case. After a period of time of operation and sharing economy, the loss rate of goods is far beyond people's imagination. Is there a solution that can not only reduce the manufacturing cost of machinery and tools, but also provide a good risk control solution, and the cargo lane does not have much requirement on the size of the product packaging? Through the concerted efforts of major manufacturers in the industry, a new generation of unmanned retail terminal equipment was born-intelligent self-pickup cabinets (smart vending cabinets). This equipment adds a payment system and a monitoring system to the traditional refrigerator, which can be understood as a compromise between the traditional vending machine and the traditional refrigerator. There are only three solutions for smart vending cabinets, namely RFID, weighing, and visual recognition. RFID is to inlay the identification device on the door frame of the smart vending cabinet. Each product will be pasted with a corresponding RFID tag. When the product is taken away, it will be recognized by the identifier when it passes through the door frame. This scheme has a high recognition rate of mature technology, but its defects are also obvious. The cost of RFID materials is high, and the labor cost for separate paste is also huge. The weighing scheme is relatively backward, and the product is identified by weighing. Once the two products have the same weight, it is not good. The defect is relatively large and has been eliminated. The prospect of visual recognition is relatively bright. Relying on the wide-angle camera on each floor of the cargo lane to monitor the goods, with image recognition and artificial intelligence technology for recognition, the solution has gradually matured and has become the mainstream solution for smart vending cabinets. This kind of cabinet has also received an elegant name. Vision Cabinet'. The'visual cabinet' opens the door by swiping the customer's face, and when the product is taken, the visual system can know which products the customer has taken, so that the payment will be automatically settled in the Alipay backstage. Whoever bought what products and what operations were performed on which smart vending cabinet at any time will have a complete video record. Once an abnormality is found, the person can be contacted. The risk control plan is perfect, so I want to be careful to take advantage of the loopholes. It's almost impossible. In the next few years, smart vending cabinets will gradually replace the traditional refrigerators in front of supermarket stores.