A plugin framework to control electronic shelf labels

Abstract

Nowadays, more and more electronic displays are integrated into modern supermarkets in order to display advertisement or to act as price tags referred to as electronic shelf labels (ESL). Due to the low power consumption, wireless accessibility and appropriate resolution, these displays represent an alternative to state-of-the-art paper printed price labels. Nevertheless, there are several types of displays regarding size, resolution and communication channel. In this paper, we present a framework to automatically generate display content for different display types. Besides the connection to the displays, the framework also includes the possibility to generate the content to be displayed based on application plugins. The plugin approach facilitates both the integration of new display types and the creation of new applications. We explain the prototypical implementation of several plugins as well as the application at an instrumented shopping environment.

The path-to-purchase is paved with digital opportunities: An inventory of shopper-oriented retail technologies

“…Some examples are the Mobile Productlens (IRL, 2014), or the Lambent Shopping Trolley (Kalnikaite et al, 2011). The remaining 74 technologies pertain to the class of fixed touch screen displays or in-store totems and comprise examples such as the Monopulse System of RFID-equipped Fitting Rooms(Parada et al, 2013), orKahl's (2013) ACES application for Electronic Shelf Labels. This dual classification into fixed versus hybrid retail technologies is open for further elaboration to enrich our insights from a HCIperspective, which is one of this study's objectives.…”