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EP3311707B1
EP3311707B1 EP17196584.1A EP17196584A EP3311707B1 EP 3311707 B1 EP3311707 B1 EP 3311707B1 EP 17196584 A EP17196584 A EP 17196584A EP 3311707 B1 EP3311707 B1 EP 3311707B1
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47FSPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F3/00Show cases or show cabinets
    • A47F3/04Show cases or show cabinets air-conditioned, refrigerated
    • A47F3/0404Cases or cabinets of the closed type
    • A47F3/0426Details
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25DREFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D27/00Lighting arrangements
    • F25D27/005Lighting arrangements combined with control means
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21LIGHTING
    • F21WINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO USES OR APPLICATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS
    • F21W2131/00Use or application of lighting devices or systems not provided for in codes F21W2102/00-F21W2121/00
    • F21W2131/30Lighting for domestic or personal use
    • F21W2131/305Lighting for domestic or personal use for refrigerators

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  • the present invention relates to the technical field of refrigerated showcases.
  • Such apparatuses are well-known in the art, and are used for the refrigerated storage of goods like food, beverages, medications, etc.
  • the invention relates to a refrigerated showcase according to the preamble of claim 1 comprising a LED bar for lighting such showcases, and further comprising at least a sensor for the detection of temperature, humidity, number of door openings, etc.
  • a refrigerated showcase comprises:
  • WO 2008/064179 discloses systems, apparatus, and methods, which are provided for controlling and optimizing energy used by a cold storage unit, controlling and optimizing the interaction of the various component systems within the cold storage unit by including various controllers, sensors, network interfaces, and networks which enable data capture, control, and reporting on cooling systems or units, lighting systems, fan systems, dehumidifiers, heat exchanges, and related component systems.
  • a problem connected to these apparatuses is the control of temperature and humidity in their inside.
  • Aim of the present invention is providing a lighting system of the goods arranged in the refrigerated showcase, capable of providing additional performances, like providing information such as
  • the system according to the present invention comprises:
  • said information can be transmitted wirelessly to a portable device, such as a smartphone or a tablet.
  • said information can be transmitted wirelessly to a router/gateway, which in its turn transmits them to a remote server, preferably a cloud.
  • the present invention relates to a refrigerated show case comprising at least one Led bar or at least one lighting device.
  • This Led bar or this lighting device comprises a case-like body in which there is housed a processing unit comprising a processor, peripherals such as a memory, a communication interface with a remote control unit, like a smartphone, a PC, or similar devices, an input port for each of the temperature sensors, humidity sensor and accelerometer for sensing the number of door openings.
  • a control program is loaded and executed by the said processing unit coding the instructions for configuring the said processing unit and its peripherals to store in the memory the data related to the measured number of door opening, and/or to the measured temperature and/or to the measured humidity.
  • the control program configuring also the processing unit and its peripherals to reset the stored data about the number of door openings triggered by a command, the said command being available only to selected kind of persons operating the door.
  • the present invention relates also to a method for using a refrigerated show-case showing the features of the above system.
  • Figure 1 shows a refrigerated showcase 11 comprising a body 1 supporting a plurality of shelves 3 for supporting (not shown) goods on sale.
  • Said showcase 11 is provided with a (not shown) cooling system and with a transparent door 2, so that customers can decide which good they want to buy before opening said door 2: this has the advantage of minimizing the time when the door is open, with obvious benefits in term of electric power consumption.
  • the refrigerated showcase 11 comprises at least one or preferably two LED bars for lighting the good supported by shelves 3.
  • Figure 1 shows a preferred embodiment of the present invention, wherein said LED bars 4 are vertical, parallel to the longitudinal axis of the showcase 11 and on the front of the showcase itself. It is apparent that a plurality of bars can be placed in other areas of the showcase, e.g. placed immediately under each shelf.
  • Said LED bars 4 must be electrically supplied to light goods, and therefore can advantageously host one or more sensors, which in their turn need to be electrically supplied.
  • a sensor can detect the temperature inside the showcase 11; a sensor can detect the level of humidity inside the showcase 11.
  • the detecting system can be provided with an acoustic and/or visual alarm, which triggers when the temperature and/or the level of humidity exceeds a predefined threshold.
  • polychromatic LEDs capable of assuming different colours according to the supplied signal are arranged in said LED bar 4.
  • the transmission of wireless data from sensors to a remote system, cloud, portable device, central server can be correlated to a local visual communication associated to said refrigerated showcase and visually recognizable by the user in the form of a coloured light signal by at least a part of the LEDs forming said bar 4.
  • one or more sensor, a portion of reading, processing/interpreting and transmitting electronics of the signal to remote devices, and a portion of visualization of the status of the showcase detected by the sensors and processed by processing electronics are associated to said LED bar 4.
  • said LED bar 4 comprises an accelerometer capable of detecting acceleration that, through a suitable algorithm can be converted identifying the number of opening/closing of the door 2 and a memory capable of recording the number of door openings in a unit time and to transfer to portable or fixed devices.
  • store staff must open the door in order to supply the showcase with goods.
  • store staff can reset the memory containing the number of door openings, so that the counted number of openings concerns only the openings performed by customers.
  • a sensor can detect that the door 2 remained open, and transmit this datum to the memory contained in the showcase 11.
  • said parameters are sent through a wireless device to a portable device like a smartphone or a tablet inside a predefined distance from the refrigerated showcase 11, e.g. within 5 metres, and provided with an app capable to perform a query on the detecting system of showcase 11.
  • Said app is a software capable of receiving said information, showing them on the display of the portable device, and saving statistics concerning said information.
  • the same information can be sent wirelessly to a fixed device like a router and/or a gateway, which in its turn transmits them to a remote server, preferably a cloud.
  • cloud indicates a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.
  • configurable computing resources e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services
  • the cloud itself comprises a software capable of receiving said information, showing said information on the display of an informatic device like e.g. a personal computer, and saving statistics concerning the information itself.
  • an informatic device like e.g. a personal computer
  • Said information can be sent in a continuous way both to said portable device and to the fixed device, or can be saved in a memory placed inside the showcase itself.
  • the information saved in the memory are transmitted to the portable device or to the fixed device as an answer to a query.
  • the group of the sensors and the device for transmitting information are placed inside LED bar 4 and are electrically supplied by the same wires supplying said LED bar 4.
  • the sensor group and the device for transmitting information are electrically independent from LED bar 4 and can optionally be electrically supplied through a battery.
  • a simplified block diagram is shown of a Led bar 4, comprising a case body 104 and a printed circuit board 204 carrying the LED sources 304 and the electronic circuit driving the LEDs 304.
  • a power source and control unit 404 feeds the driving power for the LED 304 and the controls for driving the LED 304.
  • the power unit 504 feeds also the processing unit 5 which is housed within the case 104 of the LED bar 4.
  • the processing unit 5 is connected to a memory 105 in which a control program is loaded which control program contains the instructions coded in machine readable code which configures the processing unit 5 to carry out the functions according to the present invention and particularly receive at an input port 205 the data from the different sensors measuring the temperature, the humidity or other functional parameters of the show case, receive the data from an accelerometer associated to the door of the show case and the data relating to the functional conditions of the show case 11, particularly the data about malfunctioning events. Such data is stored in a dedicated memory or a dedicated memory area 305.
  • a communication interface 405, preferably operating according to a wireless communication protocol allows the processing unit to connect to a remote control device such as a portable pc or a smartphone opr similar in which an app is loaded allowing to exchange data and commands with the processing unit.
  • This portable remote control unit can automatically be detected by the processing unit when it comes nearer to the showcase than a certain distance and the portable control unit can signal or be identified as being carried to a person having specific tasks, such as service persons allowing the service person to carry out some tasks which are not available to other persons or user of the showcase.
  • the service person is either automatically recognized or recognition takes place by actively sending a signal to the processing unit 5.
  • One of the tasks to which the service person is authorised relates to resetting the memory 305 in relation to the registered number of opening or closing actions of the door. Alternatively the reset can be limited to cancel only the opening and/or closing actions performed by the authorised service person.

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Claims (12)

  1. Vitrine réfrigérée (11) comprenant un corps (1), au moins une étagère (3) pour soutenir des marchandises, une porte transparente (2), au moins une barre LED (4), un système de refroidissement, caractérisée en ce que:
    elle comprend en outre:
    - un capteur de température et/ou,
    - un capteur d'humidité et
    - un accéléromètre détectant le nombre d'ouvertures de porte (2), ladite barre LED (4) comprenant
    - une mémoire (305) enregistrant le nombre d'ouvertures de porte et
    - une interface de communication (405) permettant à une unité de traitement de se connecter à un dispositif de commande à distance permettant d'échanger des données et des commandes avec l'unité de traitement.
  2. Vitrine réfrigérée (11) selon la revendication 1, comprenant en outre une unité détectant les paramètres fonctionnels de la vitrine et fournissant des données sur les conditions de dysfonctionnement, un dispositif sans fil et une application pour transmettre les données mesurées par ledit capteur de température, par ledit capteur d'humidité, par ledit accéléromètre pour détecter le nombre d'ouvertures de porte et par ladite unité pour détecter des données sur les conditions de dysfonctionnement à un appareil mobile tel qu'un smartphone ou une tablette située à une distance prédéfinie de ladite vitrine (11).
  3. Vitrine réfrigérée (11) selon la revendication 1, une unité détectant les paramètres fonctionnels de la vitrine et fournissant des données sur les conditions de dysfonctionnement, un dispositif sans fil et une application pour transmettre les données mesurées par ledit capteur de température, par ledit capteur d'humidité, par ledit accéléromètre pour détecter le nombre d'ouvertures de porte et par ladite unité pour détecter des données sur les conditions de dysfonctionnement à un appareil fixe tel qu'un router ou une passerelle pouvant transmettre lesdites données à un nuage.
  4. Vitrine réfrigérée (11) selon les revendications 1-3, comprenant en outre un dispositif de réinitialisation associé à la vitrine ou à la barre LED et réinitialisant le nombre d'ouvertures de porte enregistré dans la mémoire (305) après qu'un opérateur humain ait approvisionné la vitrine (11) avec des marchandises.
  5. Vitrine réfrigérée (11) selon les revendications 1-4, dans laquelle lesdits capteurs et ladite mémoire (305) sont placés dans la barre LED (4) elle-même et sont alimentés électriquement par les mêmes fils électriques alimentant ladite barre LED (4).
  6. Vitrine réfrigérée (11) selon les revendications 1-4, dans laquelle au moins certains desdits capteurs et la mémoire sont un groupe distinct desdites barres LED (4) et sont éventuellement alimentés électriquement par une batterie.
  7. Vitrine réfrigérée (11) selon l'une ou plusieurs des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle la barre LED comprend un corps en forme de boite dans lequel est logé une unité de traitement comprenant un processeur, des périphériques tels qu'une mémoire, une interface de communication avec une unité de commande à distance, telle qu'un smartphone, un PC ou des dispositifs similaires, un port d'entrée pour chacun des capteurs de température, pour le capteur d'humidité et pour l'accéléromètre pour capter le nombre d'ouvertures de porte et un programme de commande codant les instructions pour configurer ladite unité de traitement et ses périphériques pour enregistrer dans ladite mémoire (305) les données relatives au nombre mesuré d'ouvertures de porte, à la température mesurée et à l'humidité mesurée, le programme de commande configurant l'unité de traitement et ses périphériques pour réinitialiser les données enregistrées concernant le nombre d'ouvertures de porte déclenchées par une commande, ladite commande n'étant disponible que pour le type sélectionné de personnes actionnant la porte.
  8. Méthode d'utilisation de la vitrine réfrigérée selon l'une ou plusieurs des revendications précédentes comprenant les étapes suivantes:
    Mesurer le nombre d'ouvertures et/ou de fermetures de la porte de la vitrine;
    Enregistrer le nombre d'ouvertures et/ou de fermetures de la porte de la vitrine;
    Identifier, automatiquement ou sur commande, la personne opérant la porte par rapport à une classification de personnes prédéfinie;
    Autoriser une personne spécifiquement liée à la classification en tant que responsable pour l'exécution d'intervention sur la vitrine pour réinitialiser le nombre enregistré d'ouvertures ou de fermetures de porte ou pour effacer uniquement le nombre d'ouvertures ou de fermetures de porte effectuées par ladite personne autorisée;
    Faire reprendre l'enregistrement du nombre d'ouvertures ou de fermetures de porte après que la personne autorisée ait signalé d'avoir terminé l'intervention sur la vitrine et/ou la réinitialisation de la mémoire pour enregistrer ledit nombre d'ouvertures et/ou de fermetures de la porte.
  9. Méthode d'utilisation de la vitrine réfrigérée (11) selon les revendications 1-7 et la revendication 8, dans laquelle un opérateur humain muni d'un dispositif portable tel qu'un smartphone ou une tablette se place à une distance prédéfinie de la vitrine réfrigérée (11) elle-même et effectue une requête a l'unité de traitement (11) et/ou ses périphériques placés dans la vitrine pour des informations sur l'état fonctionnel de la vitrine, telles que la température mesurée, l'humidité mesurée, le nombre détecté d'ouvertures de porte, et des événements de dysfonctionnement en utilisant une application dédiée.
  10. Méthode d'utilisation de la vitrine réfrigérée (11) selon les revendications 1-7, dans laquelle les informations telles que la température, l'humidité, le nombre d'ouvertures de porte, les dysfonctionnements sont transmises sans fil à un dispositif fixe tel qu'un router ou une passerelle, qui les transmets à son tour à un nuage.
  11. Méthode d'utilisation d'une vitrine réfrigérée (11) selon la revendication 8 ou 9, dans laquelle les informations concernant la température, l'humidité, le nombre d'ouvertures de porte, les dysfonctionnements sont enregistrées dans une mémoire à l'intérieur de la vitrine (11), et transmises à un dispositif portable ou fixe suite à une requête.
  12. Méthode d'utilisation d'une vitrine réfrigérée (11) selon les revendications 8-11, dans laquelle est fournie la mémoire pour enregistrer le nombre d'ouvertures de porte (2) et ladite mémoire est réinitialisée par un opérateur humain après qu'il/elle ait approvisionné ladite vitrine (11) avec des marchandises.
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