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Webcams are fitted to rails along the top of each aisle, angled down to look at the side of the opposite aisle.
Users can connect to the location's website and access a specific camera, then track it along the shelf to see if they have specific products in stock. Pan and tilt might be included.
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avoid privacy issues, anything with a surface temperature above 25C is "greyed out", thus physical customers in the store just appear as grey blobs.
The system operates 24/7, thus acting as an additional deterrent to thieves.
How not to see Ed Milliband
http://classics.mit...hocles/oedipus.html
A tragic end, to a loyal son. [mouseposture, Jun 17 2011]
Here it is.
http://lakecam.engr...ew/indexFrame.shtml
You are now controlling a security camera over the internet. [DIYMatt, Jun 18 2011]
[link]
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How about using store's inventory database ? |
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If the store's inventory database computer were in the middle of the aisle, this could work; you'd move the camera so as to be facing the computer. |
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//anything with a surface temperature above 25C is "greyed out",// |
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So, not very handy for hot-case items, then? |
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Privacy? Webcams are supposed to be income generators. |
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Guys will pay a reasonable sum to use the camera in the cold foods aisles. |
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// store's inventory database ? // |
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Too easy for competitors to go data mining. At least this way it would keep kids in the third world in paid employment. |
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// physical customers in the store just appear as grey blobs // |
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That's pretty much the case for me already. |
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But how are you going to implement that cheaply? |
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And why bother? Actual physical customers can already see the other people that are in the store, so it isn't like an invasion of privacy (if you announce the cameras are there, of course). |
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Coming soon to a theater near you: In an
abandoned ex-soviet CBW lab, the virus is
growing, growing. One day soon, a local teenager,
more reckless than the rest will pry open the
rusted hatch, releasing the scorge which ends
human civilization, turning everyone into grey
blobs. Only [baconbrain], thanks to an incredibly
rare genetic anomaly, is immune. And unaware of
the catastrophe. |
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In the produce aisle, [baconbrain] encounters the
only other human being with the rare genetic
anomaly, who also happens to be incredibly
attractive, and a member of the appropriate sex
(or the inappropriate sex -- whatever floats your
boat). Tragically, to [baconbrain], just another
grey blob. |
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Sadly, everyone else continues to see Ed Miliband ... |
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There used to be a way you could actually do this. Ill try to find it when I get home. |
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If you know way of not seeing Ed Miliband, millions of people
will acclaim you as a God. |
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[8th} Here's how to do it: <link> |
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