Automatic Product Information Acquisition for Supermarkets Using Internet and RF Wireless Network

As now, an e-business platform has been spread all over the world by using Internet to sale products. A heuristic questionnaire collect system (QCS) will be introduced in this paper. The QCS includes a questionnaire analysis machine (QAM) and a questionnaire collect sub-system (QCSS). QCSS, which is assembled by questionnaire echo machine (QEM), questionnaire collect machine (QCM), and questionnaire collect sub-machine (QCSM), is built in different supermarket or department store. The QEM is usually put inside the exhibition area. It will show and speak to buyers the product information and some questionnaires from the LCD monitor and from speaker respectively, when the buyer presses its key pad. QEM will send an echo signal to the QCM via radio frequency (RF) transceiver after buyers give an echo by pressing the key pad of the QEM. It will be easy, quick, and automatic data mining technology.