concept
Contactless grocery store
Imagine a visit to the supermarket feels like a walk. During this walk you point to the products you would like to take with you. At the same time, a shopping basket driving behind you collects everything you want for you. The checkout process takes only a second before you leave the store with your products in your bag.
Key goals
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Make shopping more imperceptible
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Improve hygiene during shopping
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Make shopping more enjoyable
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Preserve social contact
What does a visit to such a supermarket look like?
As soon as you enter the supermarket and head for the shelves, a small shopping basket starts driving behind you. It recognizes you by various external features and follows you from now on self-driving with a little distance.
How does it work?
Identifying and assigning a specific person can be done, for example, using several small cameras.
Ultrasonic sensors can determine the exact position of a person, recognize the distance to a person and detect obstacles.
The various measurement data are then combined and converted into an impulse to the wheels of the shopping basket.
+ contact with products is avoided and thus also with viruses and bacteria
+ time saving and queue prevention
A short gesture in front of a product is enough to signal that this product should be added to your shopping basket. The basket moves to the respective interface on the shelf and picks up the product.
Contact between you and a product is only established when a product is put back.
How does it work?
Various sensors on the shelf can detect a gesture in front of a specific product and tell the associated shopping basket to move to a specific interface.
The product is moved to the shopping basket and the shelf adds it to the invoice of the relevant shopping basket ID.
+ contact with products is avoided and thus also with viruses and bacteria
+ convenient selection of products using hand gestures alone
With the help of augmented reality, products can be found very easily and quickly, no matter how far away or on which shelf they are located.
It is also possible to highlight an entire shopping list in order to have all products for a particular recipe conveniently and quickly at hand.
How does it work?
Augmented Reality makes it possible to highlight one or more products e.g. in colour, so that desired products or departments can be found easily. This is also helpful, for example, if you are looking for alternatives to a certain product.
You can also display an entire shopping list with AR, so that you can find all products for a recipe quickly and easily without having to search.
+ time saving
Ingredients etc. of products can be viewed with your own smartphone. It is sufficient to hold the smartphone briefly close to a product.
The advantage of this digital solution is that the smartphone shows directly whether a product contains an unwanted ingredient, for example.
How does it work?
NFC chips near each product allow immediate recognition of a smartphone. A view can thus be called up within seconds. Alternatively, this can be done using QR codes and without the need for a special app.
On the other hand, an app can help by allowing you to specify various unwanted ingredients and then being notified immediately as soon as a product contains one of these ingredients.
+ practical for people with food intolerances
+ contact with products is avoided and thus also with viruses and bacteria
+ fast detection of unwanted ingredients
