Scanvue® price checker / verifier
Retail solutions: ScanVue® price verifier and checker

NRT’s retail expertise and broad vision of integration ideas contributed to the development and implementation of a price verifier for a major Canadian retail chain. This NRT-developed and customized iSeries application features a language toggle (English or French), product description, price verification, and, at the same time, displays other available products, services, and promotions.

The NRT price verification solution brings full-colour graphic advertising and customer entertainment to the in-store price checker. Our solution improves customer service and productivity of store personnel by displaying both text and graphics to the consumer on a 5.5"-LCD colour display. Our solution allows the retailer to display marketing messages and advertising (with full graphics) while the system is not in use. Retailers can even group the units to deliver targeted departmental messages.

IEE's ScanVue® is a new type of price checker / verifier that also includes dynamic point-of-purchase (POP) advertising capabilities between price scans. We offer this product at a competitive price compared with nongraphical, price checkers / verifiers that do not have advertising capabilities. In most cases, the ScanVue will cost less!

ScanVue’s eye-catching colour display will capture your customer’s attention with a dazzling array of POP advertising messages. ScanVue is ideal for graphic product advertising, promotional announcements, and customer entertainment. Your imagination is free to present your company, products, and promotions in a myriad of new ways.

ScanVue® products provide the retailer with the tools to captivate consumers and drive home profits. The visual impact of full-colour displays creates excitement with alluring graphics designed to generate new impulse sales, personalize the purchasing process through self-serve options, and make a striking statement. Additionally, retailers can explore new revenue schemes, develop new business partners, get cooperative funding, or sell screen time to suppliers.

Technical highlights

Price checker and verifier

  • ScanVue® ¼ VGA active matrix LCD (diagonal: 5.5”)
  • Available in bright, easy-to- read 4 x 20-5 mm Vacuum Florescent Display (VFD)
  • Omnidirectional Class IIA scanner
  • Microprocessor-based smart display
  • Controller is a single-board computer
  • Reads and transmits product scan data
  • Fully compatible with IEE protocols
  • Ethernet 10 Base T interface with software for displaying GIF digital graphic files
  • Optional 2.4Ghz RF interface to host application

Specifications

Processor

Type                             

X86, 32-bit, 128 Mhz

Memory

Flash                           

16 MB (expandable to 256 MB)

RAM

32 MB (expandable to 256 MB)

Communications

Ethernet                      

10 Base T

RF

Wi-Fi compliant 2.4Ghx, 11 Mbps (802.11b) [various manufacturers]

Display options

Vacuum fluorescent  

4 x 20-5 mm VFD

Active matrix LCD

¼ VGA colour graphics with active matrix liquid crystals

Type

Colour graphics

Size

5.5” diagonally

Format

320 x 240 pixels

Backlight

300 CD/m2

Software

Operating system     

Linux

Communications

TCP/IP over Ethernet: 10 Base T

                                        RF 802.11b

Software interface

Type                             

IEE-provided software developer’s kit

Environmental

Ambient temperature  

0º to 50ºC / 32º to 122ºF

Humidity range

90% relative humidity (non-condensing)

Storage

-20º to +70ºC / -4º to 158ºF

Drop shock

6-foot drop on concrete (in shipping carton)

Vibration

20 - 500 Hz

Power requirements

Input voltage               

11-29 VDC

9 W maximum

Scanner

Type                             

Omnidirectional

Speed

1,000 lines per second

Pattern

5 fields of 4 lines

Depth

0 - 7 inches

Decode

UPC/EAN/JAN Code 128, Code 3 of 9, Interleaved 2 of 5

Dimensions

Width                            

7.0"

Depth

8.6"

Height

8.5"

Weight

7.7 lbs

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