JP6986304B1 - Beverage provision method and beverage provision system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beverage providing system capable of appropriately performing health management while ingesting a beverage. SOLUTION: The beverage providing system of the present invention is arranged at a reception unit 21 for receiving the user's identification information and a beverage purchase request from the user, and at a predetermined position of the beverage providing device 1 in response to the purchase request. Based on the providing unit 22 that discharges and provides the beverage to the container, the user's identification information, the provision information indicating the amount of the beverage provided to the user, and the ingredient information indicating the amount of each ingredient contained in the beverage. It is provided with a calculation unit 31 for calculating the amount of ingredients corresponding to the beverage provided to the user, and output units 23 and 32 for outputting the amount of ingredients to the user. Then, the output units 23 and 32 output the component amount of the user corresponding to the identification information when the reception unit 21 receives the identification information of the user. [Selection diagram] Fig. 2

Description

The present invention relates to a beverage providing method and a beverage providing system, and more particularly to a beverage providing method and a beverage providing system that presents information on a beverage providing to a user.

In recent years, beverage providing devices that sell beverages such as hydrogen water, sports drinks, and protein drinks by pouring them into cups and bottles have become widespread. Such a beverage providing device may be installed in a facility used by a user for maintaining or managing health, such as a sports gym. Then, in such a beverage providing device, as an example, as described in Patent Document 1, the beverage is provided to the user as follows. First, the beverage providing device reads the identification information of the user from the IC card presented by the user, receives the purchase request of the beverage from the user, and provides the beverage. Then, the information on the purchase of the beverage by the user is transmitted to the server on the network, and the server associates the purchase information of the beverage with the identification information of the user and manages the billing amount for the user for a certain period. There is.

Japanese Patent No. 6611889

On the other hand, in the beverage providing device as described above, since the beverage is provided in a disposable cup or a bottle brought by the user, it is difficult to recognize the amount of the component of the beverage ingested by the user. As a result, there arises a problem that it is unclear whether the user is properly managing the health even though the user is ingesting the beverage for the purpose of health management.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a beverage providing method and a beverage providing system, which are the above-mentioned problems, in which a user can appropriately perform health management while ingesting a beverage provided by a beverage providing device. There is something in it.

The beverage serving system, which is one embodiment of the present invention, is
A reception unit that accepts the user's identification information and beverage purchase request from the user,
A providing unit that discharges and provides a beverage to a container arranged at a predetermined position of the beverage providing device in response to the purchase request.
Ingredients corresponding to the beverage provided to the user based on the identification information of the user, the provided information indicating the amount of the beverage provided to the user, and the ingredient information indicating the amount of each ingredient contained in the beverage. A calculation unit that calculates the amount and
An output unit that outputs the amount of the component to the user,
Equipped with
When the reception unit receives the identification information of the user from the user, the output unit outputs the component amount of the user corresponding to the identification information.
It takes the composition.

In addition, in the above beverage serving system,
When the reception unit receives the identification information of the user from the user, the output unit outputs the component amount of the user corresponding to the identification information.
After that, the reception unit receives a beverage purchase request from the user.
It takes the composition.

In addition, in the above beverage serving system,
When the reception unit receives the identification information of the user from the user, the output unit outputs the component amount of the user corresponding to the identification information.
After that, the reception unit enables the user to accept the purchase request for the beverage and accepts the purchase request.
It takes the composition.

In addition, in the above beverage serving system,
When the reception unit receives the identification information of the user from the user, the output unit outputs the component amount of the user corresponding to the identification information.
After that, after receiving an input from the user that the amount of the ingredient has been viewed, the reception unit enables the user to accept the purchase request for the beverage and accepts the purchase request.
It takes the composition.

In addition, in the above beverage serving system,
The calculation unit calculates the amount of the component corresponding to the beverage provided to the user in a preset period in the past than when the reception unit receives the identification information of the user from the user.
When the reception unit receives the user's identification information from the user, the output unit outputs the component amount calculated by the calculation unit.
It takes the composition.

In addition, in the above beverage serving system,
When the providing unit provides the beverage to the user, the calculation unit calculates the amount of the component corresponding to the beverage provided to the user in the past preset period including the provided beverage.
The output unit outputs the amount of the component calculated by the calculation unit when the beverage is provided to the user by the provision unit.
It takes the composition.

In addition, in the above beverage serving system,
Output to display the component amount on a display device installed at a predetermined position of the beverage providing device.
It takes the composition.

The present invention is configured as described above, so that the user can appropriately manage the health while ingesting the beverage provided by the beverage providing device.

It is a figure which shows the whole structure of the beverage serving system in 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the beverage serving system disclosed in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the user information stored in the beverage providing system disclosed in FIG. 1. It is a figure which shows an example of the beverage information stored in the beverage providing system disclosed in FIG. 1. It is a figure which shows an example of the information generated and output by the beverage serving system disclosed in FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the operation of the beverage serving system disclosed in FIG.

<Embodiment 1>
The first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6. 1 to 4 are diagrams for explaining the configuration of the beverage serving system, and FIGS. 5 to 6 are diagrams for explaining the processing of the beverage serving system.

[composition]
As shown in FIG. 1, the beverage serving system in the present embodiment includes a beverage serving device 1 and a management device 3 connected via a network N. The beverage providing device 1 is a vending machine installed in a facility such as a sports gym and providing a plurality of types of beverages. As an example, the beverages provided by the beverage providing device 1 include "protein beverages", "sports beverages", "hydrogen water", etc., and in the example of FIG. 1, four types of beverages "drinks A to D" are used. It shall be provided. The beverage providing device 1 may be a beverage providing device that provides any beverage.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the beverage providing device 1 includes a beverage providing unit 10 (providing unit). For example, the beverage providing unit 10 dissolves a predetermined amount of powder, which is a source of a beverage, in a liquid such as a predetermined amount of water to generate a beverage, and as shown in FIG. 1, the bottle B arranged in the discharge region 11 Beverages are discharged from the discharge port 12 to the (container). The discharge region 11 is formed so that a container such as a cup or a bottle B can be placed on the lower portion, and the surface thereof is covered with, for example, a door that can be opened and closed.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the beverage providing device 1 includes a control device 20 composed of an information processing device including an arithmetic unit and a storage device. The control device 20 includes a reception unit 21, a provision control unit 22, and an output control unit 23, which are constructed by the arithmetic unit executing a program. Further, the beverage providing device 1 includes a card reader 15, an operation button 16, a display 40 (display device), and a communication unit (not shown).

As shown in FIG. 1, the reception unit 21 reads the identification information for identifying the user U stored in the memory M mounted on the card C presented by the user U via the card reader 15. Accepts the input of the identification information of the user U. At this time, the card reader 15 reads the identification information stored in the memory M from the card C by using non-contact short-range wireless communication such as RFID. Then, when the reception unit 21 receives the identification information of the user U as described above, the reception unit 21 transmits such information from the communication unit to the management device 3 via the network N, and the user U is registered to purchase the beverage. Check if it is. Upon receiving this, the management device 3 confirms whether or not the identification information of the user U is registered, and notifies the reception unit 21 of the confirmation result, as will be described later. Further, when the user U is registered, as will be described later, the beverage purchased by the user U corresponding to the identification information received by the output unit 32 and the output control unit 23 of the management device 3 in the past. A graph showing the corresponding component amount will be displayed on the display 40 mounted on the beverage serving device 1. The display of the amount of the component will be described later.

After that, when the reception unit 21 receives the notification that the user U is registered, the reception unit 21 receives the beverage purchase request input by operating the operation button 16 on the user U. As an example, as shown in FIG. 1, the operation button 16 includes "HOT" and "COLD" buttons for each of the four types of drinks provided. As will be described later, after the component amount is displayed on the display 40 by the output control unit 23, the reception unit 21 enables the operation of the operation button 16 to accept the purchase request for the beverage, and is input by the user U. You may accept the purchase request of the beverage. Further, the reception unit 21 enables the user U to receive the input that the user U has viewed the component amount displayed on the display 40, and then accepts the beverage purchase request, and the user U inputs the input. You may accept the purchase request of the beverage. In this case, for example, the display 40 is a touch panel, the amount of components is displayed on the touch panel, a touch button for inputting what the user has browsed is displayed, and the touch button is touch-operated by the user U. By doing so, the user U may accept the input that the component amount has been browsed. The reception unit 21 may receive a beverage purchase request from the user U while the component amount is displayed on the display 40.

Further, when the reception unit 21 receives the notification that the user U is not registered, the reception unit 21 can accept the beverage purchase request as it is, and may accept the beverage purchase request input from the user U. good. Alternatively, when the reception unit 21 receives a notification that the user U is not registered, the reception unit 21 does not accept the purchase request for the beverage and may prompt the user U to register by displaying the beverage on the display 40 or the like. good.

Then, when the reception unit 21 receives the purchase request for the beverage from the user U as described above, the reception unit 21 transmits the type of the beverage related to the received purchase request to the management device 3 together with the identification information. At the same time, the reception unit 21 notifies the provision control unit 22 of the type of the beverage requested to be purchased. The reception unit 21 may accept the above-mentioned identification information of the user U and the purchase request by any method. For example, the reception unit 21 accepts the facial feature amount acquired by face-recognizing the user U as identification information, and the biometric information such as the fingerprint, vein, and iris of the user U as the identification information of the user U. May be good. Further, when the beverage providing device 1 is provided with an operation panel such as a touch panel, the reception unit 21 may accept the user U identification information and the drink purchase request input from the operation panel.

Upon receiving the notification of the type of beverage for which the purchase request has been made from the reception unit 21, the provision control unit 22 (providing unit) controls the operation of the beverage provision unit 10 to generate the type of beverage for which the purchase request has been made. Then, a full amount of beverage is discharged from the discharge port 12 to the bottle B arranged in the discharge region 11 and provided.

As will be described later, the output control unit 23 (output unit) has a component amount corresponding to the beverage purchased by the user U transmitted from the management device 3 in response to an instruction from the output unit 32 of the management device 3. Is controlled to be displayed and output on the display 40, which is a display device. For example, the output control unit 23 displays the component amounts when the reception unit 21 receives the identification information from the user U and when the purchase request is received from the user U and the beverage is provided, as described above. Output. The output control unit 23 may output other information regarding the purchase of the beverage to the user U.

Next, the configuration of the management device 3 will be described. The management device 3 is an information processing device including an arithmetic unit and a storage device. Then, as shown in FIG. 2, the management device 3 includes a calculation unit 31 and an output unit 32 constructed by the arithmetic unit executing a program. Further, the management device 3 includes a storage unit 33 formed in the storage device.

The storage unit 33 first stores the user information, which is the information of the user U. The user information includes personal information such as the user U's name, address, withdrawal account information or payment credit card information, in addition to the user U's identification information. Further, the user information includes purchase information (provided information) indicating the purchase status of the beverage by the user U (the provision status of the beverage to the user U) in association with the identification information of the user U. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the purchase information includes the purchase date of the beverage, the type of the purchased beverage, the number of purchases (the number of cups purchased) (the amount of the beverage provided). The purchase information is not limited to the above-mentioned information, and may include other information. For example, the purchase information may include information on the amount of money charged by the user U for purchasing the beverage. Further, the purchase information may include information on the amount of ingredients of the beverage purchased by the user U during a predetermined period, which is calculated as described later.

Further, the storage unit 33 stores component information indicating the amount of each component contained in the beverage. Ingredient information includes the ingredient name and the amount contained in a serving of the ingredient in relation to the type of beverage. For example, in the example of FIG. 4, as the component information of the type of beverage "drink A", each component name included is "protein", "lipid", "carbohydrate", "vitamin B1", and "calcium". Includes the amount (g) of each component contained in the hit. The component information shown in FIG. 4 is an example and may include other information, and the amount of the component may be stored in another unit.

As described above, the calculation unit 31 stores the identification information of the user U who made the purchase request and the type of the beverage related to the purchase request, which are notified from the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1. The purchase information included in the user information in the unit 33 is stored. That is, the calculation unit 31 adds the purchase date and the type of beverage related to the purchase request to the purchase information as shown in FIG. 3 corresponding to the notified identification information of the user U, and sets the number of purchases to ". 1 ”add.

Further, the calculation unit 31 calculates the amount of the component corresponding to the beverage purchased by the user U by using the purchase information as shown in FIG. 3 and the component information as shown in FIG. As described above, the calculation unit 31 said that when the user U received the identification information from the user U before purchasing the beverage and when the user U purchased the beverage. When a purchase request is received from the user U, the amount of beverage purchased in the past preset period from that time is calculated. Specifically, the calculation unit 31 first calculates the amount (for example, the number of cups) of each type of beverage purchased by the user U during a preset period, using the purchase information of the user U. Then, the calculation unit 31 calculates the amount of the component corresponding to the calculated amount for each type of beverage by using the component information. As an example, the calculation unit 31 calculates "one drink A and one drink B" as the amount of each type of beverage for "one day" such as "August 1" of the user U. The amount of each component for one cup of drink A and the amount of each component for one cup of drink B are added up for each component and totaled. As another example, the calculation unit 31 sets the amount of each type of beverage for "one week" such as "August 1st to August 7th" of the user U as "two drinks A, drinks". "1 cup of B" is calculated, and the amount of each component for 2 cups of drink A and the amount of each component for 1 cup of drink B are added and totaled for each component. At this time, as shown in the graph of the amount of each component for one day in the upper figure of FIG. 5 and for one week in the lower figure of FIG. Aggregate so that the amount of each component can be distinguished. However, the calculation unit 31 may calculate the amount of beverage purchased at any time and for any period. Further, the calculation unit 31 is not limited to totaling the amount of each component of the beverage purchased in a predetermined period so as to be distinguishable for each type of beverage and for each cup of beverage, but also aggregates each component collectively. You may.

The calculation unit 31 is not limited to the amount of ingredients corresponding to the beverage purchased by the user U, but also proposes information such as the amount of ingredients to be ingested in the future, the type of beverage corresponding to the amount of ingredients to be ingested, and the number of cups. May be calculated. At this time, the calculation unit 31 uses information such as the gender, age, height, weight, and health management request of the user U registered in advance as user information, and the amount of the component of the beverage ingested so far. , The ideal amount of ingredients to be ingested in the future, the type of beverage, the number of cups, and other suggested information may be calculated.

The output unit 32 outputs the amount of the component corresponding to the beverage purchased by the user U calculated as described above to the user U. At this time, the output unit 32 receives the identification information from the user U as described above, and before the user U purchases the beverage, the output unit 32 determines the amount of the component calculated before the current purchase. Output. Further, the output unit 32 receives a purchase request from the user U and provides the beverage, and after the user U purchases the beverage, the component amount calculated including the beverage purchased at this time is included. Is output.

Specifically, the output unit 32 receives a confirmation request as to whether or not the user U is registered from the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1 as described above before the user U purchases the beverage. Then, it is checked whether the identification information of the user U notified in accordance with the confirmation request is stored in the storage unit 33. Then, when the notified identification information of the user U is stored in the storage unit 33, the output unit 32 confirms the registration of the user U with the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1. At the same time as notifying, the component amount calculated by the calculation unit 31 as described above is output. That is, in this case, the output unit 32 outputs the amount of each component of the beverage purchased in a predetermined period before the user U makes a purchase request for the beverage. Further, when the user U makes a purchase request for a beverage, the output unit 32 includes the beverage requested by the user U at this time and is calculated by the calculation unit 31 as described above. Output the amount of each component in the period.

For example, as shown in FIG. 1, the output unit 32 displays and outputs the amount of the component represented by the graph as shown in FIG. 5 on the display 40 which is a display device provided in the beverage providing device 1. , Instruct the beverage providing device 1. In response to this, the output control unit 23 of the beverage providing device 1 controls to display and output a graph of the amount of components on the display 40 as shown in FIG. At this time, the output unit 32 may instruct to display the amount of the component for one day shown in the upper figure of FIG. 5, or may instruct to display the amount of the component for one week shown in the lower figure of FIG. , The amount of ingredients in other periods may be displayed. The output unit 32 is not limited to controlling the component amount to be displayed and output as a graph as shown in FIG. 5, but may be controlled to output a numerical value or output such a numerical value by voice.

Further, the output unit 32 is not limited to instructing the display 40 provided in the beverage providing device 1 to display the calculated component amount, and transmits the calculated component amount to a destination such as a user U's e-mail address or an SNS account. Therefore, it may be instructed to display and output to the information processing terminal operated by the user U. When the calculation unit 31 calculates the proposal information such as the amount of the component to be ingested in the future as described above, the output unit 32 operates the proposal information by the display of the beverage providing device 1 or the user U. You may instruct to display it on the information processing terminal and output it.

[motion]
Next, the operation of the beverage serving system described above will be described mainly with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, the user U who purchases a beverage holds the card C over the card reader 15 mounted on the beverage providing device 1. Then, the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1 receives the identification information of the user U from the memory M of the card C of the user U via the card reader 15 (step S1).

Then, the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1 transmits the received identification information of the user U to the management device 3 via the network N, and requests confirmation of the user U. When the identification information of the user U is registered in the user information of the storage unit 33, the management device 3 determines that the user U is registered as a user who can purchase, and confirms the registration. Is returned to the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1 (step S2). At the same time, the management device 3 reads out the purchase information of the beverages provided so far for each user U, and calculates the component amount of the beverages purchased in a predetermined period based on the purchase information (step S3). In this case, the management device 3 calculates the amount of the component of the beverage purchased in the predetermined period in the stage before the purchase this time. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the management device 3 calculates the component amount of the beverage for the user U so far for "one day" and the component amount of the beverage for the past "one week". Then, the management device 3 transmits the calculated component amount to the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1 and instructs the control device 20 to display the calculated component amount to the display 40 which is a display device in the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1. The amount of the component is displayed and output (step S4). For example, on the display 40, as shown in FIG. 5, the amount of the component purchased by the user U during a predetermined period is displayed by a graph. The management device 3 is not limited to calculating the component amount at the timing when the identification information is received, but the component amount is calculated and stored in advance and stored at the timing when the identification information is received. You may instruct to display and output the amount.

As a result, the display 40 of the beverage providing device 1 displays the amount of the ingredient of the beverage purchased by the user U in the predetermined period before purchasing the beverage, and the user U has ingested the amount of the ingredient so far. Can be easily confirmed. Therefore, the user U can easily determine whether or not to subsequently purchase the beverage by recognizing the amount of the component so far.

Then, the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1 displays a graph showing the amount of the component of the beverage purchased by the user U in the past on the display 40, and then the operation button 16 is operated by the user U. The input beverage purchase request is accepted (step S5). At this time, the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1 makes it possible to accept the beverage purchase request after receiving the input from the user U that the user U has viewed the component amount displayed on the display 40. , The purchase request for the beverage entered by the user U may be accepted. Then, the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1 transmits the received purchase request to the management device 3 via the network N, generates a beverage for one cup of the type requested for purchase, and discharges the beverage. The bottle B arranged in the region 11 is discharged from the discharge port 12 and provided (step S6).

In parallel with the beverage providing process by the beverage providing device 1 described above, the management device 3 stores the purchase information of the beverage provided for each user U and calculates the component amount of the beverage purchased in a predetermined period (). Step S7). In this case, the management device 3 calculates the component amount of the beverage purchased in the predetermined period so far, including the beverage requested to be purchased this time. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the management device 3 calculates the component amount of the beverage for "one day" of the user U and the component amount of the beverage for "one week".

After that, the management device 3 transmits the calculated component amount to the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1 and instructs the control device 20 to display the calculated component amount to the display 40 which is a display device in the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1. The amount of the component is displayed and output (step S8). For example, on the display 40, as shown in FIG. 5, the amount of the component purchased by the user U during a predetermined period is displayed by a graph. The management device 3 controls to display and output the calculated component amount to the information processing terminal operated by the user U by transmitting the calculated component amount to a destination such as the user U's e-mail address or SNS account. You may.

As described above, according to the present invention, the user U can easily confirm the amount of the component of the beverage purchased by the beverage providing device 1. In particular, the user U can confirm the amount of the component of the beverage purchased in the predetermined period so far immediately before and immediately after the purchase of the beverage. As a result, the user U can appropriately perform health management, such as refraining from purchasing a beverage immediately before the purchase and considering a subsequent purchase plan after the purchase. Here, in the above, the output of the component amount is performed twice, immediately before and immediately after the purchase by the user U, but only one of them may be output.

The processing by the management device 3 described above may be performed by the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1, or may be performed by another information processing device. That is, the functions and information included in the management device 3 described above may be provided in the control device 20 of the beverage providing device 1 or may be provided in another information processing device.

Although the present invention has been described above with reference to the above embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments. Various changes that can be understood by those skilled in the art can be made to the structure and details of the present invention within the scope of the present invention.

1 Beverage supply device 10 Beverage supply unit 11 Discharge area 12 Discharge port 20 Control device 21 Reception unit 22 Provision control unit 23 Output control unit 3 Management device 31 Calculation unit 32 Output unit 33 Storage unit B Bottle C Card M Memory U User

Claims (4)

A reception unit that accepts the user's identification information and beverage purchase request from the user,
A providing unit that discharges and provides a beverage to a container arranged at a predetermined position of the beverage providing device in response to the purchase request.
Ingredients corresponding to the beverage provided to the user based on the identification information of the user, the provided information indicating the amount of the beverage provided to the user, and the ingredient information indicating the amount of each ingredient contained in the beverage. A calculation unit that calculates the amount and
An output unit that outputs the amount of the component to the user,
Equipped with
The calculation unit calculates the amount of the component corresponding to the beverage provided to the user in the past than when the reception unit receives the identification information of the user from the user.
When the reception unit receives the identification information of the user from the user, the output unit outputs the component amount of the user corresponding to the identification information .
After that, the reception unit enables the user to accept the purchase request for the beverage and accepts the purchase request.
Beverage serving system. The beverage providing system according to claim 1.
When the reception unit receives the identification information of the user from the user, the output unit outputs the component amount of the user corresponding to the identification information.
After that, after receiving an input from the user that the amount of the ingredient has been viewed, the reception unit enables the user to accept the purchase request for the beverage and accepts the purchase request.
Beverage serving system. The beverage providing system according to claim 1 or 2.
The calculating section further when providing a beverage to a user by the provider, and calculating the amount of components corresponding to beverages provided to the user in the past including the provided beverage,
The output unit further outputs the amount of the component calculated by the calculation unit when the beverage is provided to the user by the provision unit.
Beverage serving system. The beverage providing system according to any one of claims 1 to 3.
The output unit outputs the amount of the component to a display device installed at a predetermined position of the beverage providing device.
Beverage serving system.

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