probably they set certain times of day where there will be surge pricing, like around 12-1pm where more people come in for lunch, and around 4-5pmish where people off work.
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phx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s the common way for updating these? I have some similar devices that use Wi-Fi but local stores seem to use some sort of nearby transmitter pointex towards the shelves, maybe infrared/optical
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
They seem to use infrared and or NFC for data exchange. I tried to read the NFC data with a phone app, however the data seems to be either encrypted, or it was some sort of image blob file that is shown on the display. You can read something, but it’s not as trivial as reading other NFC tags.
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It will probably be wifi and mqtt. You don’t need a whole OS to get mqtt, just a TCP/IP stack.