Patent attributes
Systems and methods are provided for drone-based scanning of products in a retail space, for providing location-based services at the retail space. A system may include a drone aircraft or other self-navigating vehicle. The drone or vehicle automatically moves along the shelves of the retail space, after business hours, scanning product identifiers, and feeds product location information to a location-based-services server. The location-based services server may then provide a map of the retail space with product locations on the map that is accessible to a user's mobile device when the user is in the retail space. In this way, users can be guided directly to the current locations of potentially thousands of products that dynamically change locations.
