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Application US20180181909
Published 2018-06-28
Systems And Methods For Monitoring Item Distribution
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring item distribution. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for monitoring item distribution including: a camera system comprising a plurality of cameras configured to capture a plurality of video streams along a distribution chain; an item record database comprising one or more monitored items; and a control circuit configured to: receive the plurality of video streams; identify a monitored item of the one or more monitored items; extract video data associated with the monitored item from at least one of the plurality of video streams; aggregate the video data to form an item distribution record; associate the item distribution record of the monitored item with a customer order for the monitored item in the item record database; and provide the item distribution record to a user associated with the customer order via an item record user interface.
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- 1. A system to monitor a retail item along a distribution chain, comprising:
a camera system comprising a plurality of cameras configured to capture a plurality of video streams along a distribution chain, the plurality of cameras comprises at least one distribution center camera system and at least one on-vehicle camera system configured to capture images of a storage compartment of a transport vehicle; an item record database comprising one or more item distribution records corresponding to each of multiple different monitored retail items; one or more sensors along the distribution chain operatively coupled to a control circuit, the one or more sensors configured to provide sensed data to the control circuit; and the control circuit coupled to the item record database and the one or more sensors, the control circuit being configured to:
access the plurality of video streams throughout the distribution chain, the plurality of video streams are captured by the camera system;
detect one or more events based on the plurality of video streams and the sensed data;
identify, in the plurality of video streams, a monitored item of one or more monitored items based on the detected one or more events;
extract video data associated with the monitored item from at least one of the plurality of video streams;
aggregate the video data to form an item distribution record recording a movement of the monitored item along the distribution chain;
associate the item distribution record of the monitored item with a customer order for the monitored item in the item record database; and
provide the item distribution record to a user associated with the customer order via an item record user interface.
- 11. A method for monitoring a retail item along a distribution chain, comprising:
receiving a plurality of video streams from a camera system comprising a plurality of cameras configured to capture the plurality of video streams along a distribution chain, the plurality of cameras comprises at least one distribution center camera system and at least one on-vehicle camera system configured to capture images of a storage compartment of a transport vehicle; receiving sensed data from one or more sensors along the distribution chain; detecting one or more events based on the plurality of video streams and the sensed data; identifying, with a control circuit, a monitored item in the plurality of video streams based on the detected one or more events; extracting, with the control circuit, video data associated with the monitored item from at least one of the plurality of video streams; aggregating, with the control circuit, the video data to form an item distribution record recording a movement of the monitored item along the distribution chain; associating the item distribution record of the monitored item with a customer order for the monitored item in an item record database; and providing the item distribution record to a user associated with the customer order via an item record user interface.
- 21. An apparatus for monitoring a retail item along a distribution chain comprising:
a non-transitory storage medium storing a set of computer readable instructions; and a control circuit configured to execute the set of computer readable instructions which causes to the control circuit to:
receiving a plurality of video streams from a camera system comprising a plurality of cameras configured to capture the plurality of video streams along a distribution chain, the plurality of cameras comprises at least one distribution center camera system and at least one on-vehicle camera system configured to capture images of a storage compartment of a transport vehicle;
receiving sensed data from one or more sensors along the distribution chain;
detecting one or more events based on the plurality of video streams and the sensed data;
identify a monitored item in the plurality of video streams based on the detected one or more events;
extract video data associated with the monitored item from at least one of the plurality of video streams;
aggregate the video data to form an item distribution record recording a movement of the monitored item along the distribution chain;
associate the item distribution record of the monitored item with a customer order for the monitored item in an item record database; and
provide the item distribution record to a user associated with the customer order via an item record user interface.
