A control circuit is configured to use monitored-crop information from a crop-monitoring airborne drone to automatically facilitate changes to the fresh produce display of one or more retail shopping facilities. The crop-monitoring information can include, for example, one or more of information regarding crop maturity, weed infestation, insect infestation, a plant disease indicator, parched conditions, irrigation status, land-area yield, temperature conditions, conflicting neighboring crops, and post-harvest waste. Using such crop-monitoring information the control circuit can assess at least the likelihood that a particular crop of a particular produce item will be available for display in the fresh produce display by a particular date, in a particular volume, and having a particular quality. This same information can also serve to determine a distance that such crops must travel to reach the retail shopping facility and hence whether the produce items are fairly characterized as being locally sourced.
Method and Apparatus to Automatically Facilitate Changes to a Fresh Produce Display
2017-03-02
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | G06Q Datenverarbeitungssysteme oder -verfahren, besonders angepasst an verwaltungstechnische, geschäftliche, finanzielle oder betriebswirtschaftliche Zwecke, sowie an geschäftsbezogene Überwachungs- oder Voraussagezwecke , DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / H04W WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS , Drahtlose Kommunikationsnetze |
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