A service that allows you to easily check the congestion in and around the store May 6 at 6:01
In order to avoid so-called "3 crowd" at supermarkets and restaurants, a service that allows you to check whether the inside of the store or the surrounding area is crowded with a smartphone has started.
Among them, the service started by a venture company in Tokyo installs a camera and a sensor in a restaurant and displays the congestion level in the store with an application.
If crowded, users can also order food for takeout through the app.
Even if the spread of new coronavirus infections subsides, the company believes that more people will choose stores while avoiding "3 dense", and would like to increase the number of target stores.
"VACAN," Takeshi Kono, said, "I thought it necessary to have a mechanism that would allow users to understand the store's efforts not to make" dense ". Even after economic activities gradually resumed, I would like you to use it so that you can spend it in the store in mind. "
Venture companies in Tokyo have also developed a "shopping congestion map" that makes it possible to see at a glance whether or not there are lines in the vicinity of supermarkets, drug stores, etc. based on the location information of smartphones, and so-called "3 denseness" is avoided. Services that provide information to do so have begun one after another.