CN110705943A

CN110705943A - Package distribution method and device

Info

Publication number: CN110705943A
Application number: CN201910970069.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 马海燕
Original assignee: Shenzhen Hive Box Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Hive Box Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-10-12
Filing date: 2019-10-12
Publication date: 2020-01-17

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention discloses a parcel distribution method and a device, wherein the method comprises the following steps: when a package locker entering instruction is detected, sending pickup reservation information to a receiver of the package, and determining a pickup site reserved by the receiver according to feedback information of the receiver; when a package delivery finishing instruction is detected, controlling a delivery vehicle to carry out site delivery based on a preset site delivery route, determining a current receiver corresponding to the current site when the delivery vehicle reaches a preset position of the current site, and sending a site pickup notification message to the current receiver; wherein, the current receiver includes: the reserved pickup site is a receiver of the current site, a receiver of the pickup site which is not reserved, and a receiver of the reserved pickup site which has passed and has not picked. By the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention, automatic delivery can be movably carried out, the flexibility of taking the parts and the delivery efficiency are improved, and the user experience is further improved.

Description

Package distribution method and device

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to logistics technology, in particular to a parcel distribution method and device.

Background

With the rapid development of electronic commerce, the express industry is rapidly developed. The delivery efficiency can be improved by arranging the express cabinet. That is to say, the delivery personnel place the parcel in the express delivery cabinet to inform the receiver to get, the receiver is after receiving the notice, takes out the parcel in the express delivery cabinet again, thereby the delivery personnel need not to wait for the receiver to get, has improved delivery efficiency.

However, in the process of implementing the present invention, the inventor finds that at least the following problems exist in the prior art:

present express delivery cabinet often all is fixed in position, for example set up at district gate, school gate department etc. and the receiver must arrive this fixed position department and get the piece, can't effectively realize the portable automatic distribution of last kilometer, greatly reduced delivery efficiency and user experience.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a parcel distribution method and device, which are used for carrying out automatic distribution in a movable mode, so that the pickup flexibility and the distribution efficiency are improved, and the user experience is further improved.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a package distribution method, where the method includes:

when a package locker entering instruction is detected, sending pickup reservation information to a receiver of the package, and determining a pickup site reserved by the receiver according to feedback information of the receiver;

when a package delivery finishing instruction is detected, controlling a delivery vehicle to carry out site delivery based on a preset site delivery route, determining a current receiver corresponding to a current site when the delivery vehicle reaches a preset position of the current site, and sending a site pickup notification message to the current receiver;

wherein the current recipient includes: the reserved pickup site is a receiver of the current site, a receiver of the pickup site which is not reserved, and a receiver of the reserved pickup site which has passed and has not picked.

Optionally, the pickup reservation information includes: the package pickup password and the position and time information of each pickup station to be passed through;

the parcel pickup password is a lock plate opening password corresponding to a lattice where the parcel is located, so that a receiver can pick up the parcel by self based on the parcel pickup password.

Optionally, before sending the site pickup notification message to the current receiving party, the method includes:

determining the target residence time corresponding to the current site according to the number of the current receivers;

and generating a site pickup notification message according to the site position of the current site and the target residence time.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

when the current station is reached, the stop time is used for detecting whether the packages to be taken are stored in the express cabinet;

if so, controlling the delivery vehicle to reach the next station for delivery based on the preset station delivery route;

and if not, controlling the delivery vehicle to return to the preset starting position.

Optionally, controlling the delivery vehicle to reach the next station for delivery based on the preset station delivery route includes:

detecting whether the current station is the last station in the preset station distribution route;

if yes, controlling a delivery vehicle to go to a preset deposit position, sending a package deposit notification message to a deposit party, and sending a deposit position pickup notification message to a receiver corresponding to the package to be picked;

and if not, controlling the delivery vehicle to reach the next station for delivery based on the preset station delivery route.

Optionally, before detecting the package-in-cabinet instruction, the method further includes:

generating a package delivery notification message based on the package delivery position when the package delivery position is received;

and determining a target delivery party bound with the current express cabinet based on a preset binding relationship, and sending the package delivery notification message to the target delivery party.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a package delivery apparatus, including:

the pickup reservation module is used for sending pickup reservation information to a receiver of the package when detecting a package locker entering instruction, and determining a pickup site reserved by the receiver according to feedback information of the receiver;

the system comprises a site distribution module, a delivery vehicle and a delivery vehicle, wherein the site distribution module is used for controlling the delivery vehicle to carry out site distribution based on a preset site distribution route when a package delivery finishing instruction is detected, determining a current receiver corresponding to a current site when the delivery vehicle reaches a preset position of the current site, and sending a site pickup notification message to the current receiver;

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the target residence time determining module is used for determining the target residence time corresponding to the current station according to the number of the current receivers before sending the station pickup notification message to the current receivers;

and the site pickup notification message generation module is used for generating a site pickup notification message according to the site position of the current site and the target residence time.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the package to be taken detection module is used for detecting whether packages to be taken are stored in the express cabinet or not when the package to be taken reaches the stop time of the current station;

the first control module is used for controlling the delivery vehicle to reach the next station for delivery based on the preset station delivery route if the first control module is used for controlling the delivery vehicle to reach the next station for delivery;

and the second control module is used for controlling the delivery vehicle to return to the preset starting position if the delivery vehicle does not return to the preset starting position.

Optionally, the first control module is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the package delivery notification message generation module is used for generating a package delivery notification message based on the package delivery position when the package delivery position is received;

and the package delivery notification message sending module is used for determining a target delivery party bound with the current express cabinet based on a preset binding relationship and sending the package delivery notification message to the target delivery party.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an unmanned vehicle-mounted express delivery cabinet, including:

the express delivery cabinet comprises a plurality of grids, and is arranged on the body of an unmanned delivery vehicle, wherein each grid is used for storing packages;

a controller for implementing a package distribution method as provided in any of the embodiments of the present invention.

In a fourth aspect, the embodiments of the present invention further provide a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, where the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements a package distribution method as provided in any of the embodiments of the present invention.

The embodiment of the invention has the following advantages or beneficial effects:

when detecting that the package is put into the cabinet, sending pickup reservation information to a receiver of the package, so that the receiver can reserve a site which the receiver wants to pick up the package based on the pickup reservation information, and can directly pick up the package at any site without reservation, thereby improving the flexibility of pickup. When detecting that the parcel delivery finishes the instruction, can control the delivery vehicle based on presetting website delivery route, movably carry out automatic delivery to every website, the receiver that this website corresponds is determined to the developments when arriving every website, need not to establish the mapping relation between website and the receiver in advance, and send website to every receiver and get a notice message, in order to remind the receiver in time to get the website, thereby realized that the express delivery cabinet movably carries out automatic delivery, delivery efficiency has been improved, and then user experience has been promoted.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a package distribution method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a package distribution method according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a package delivery apparatus according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of an unmanned vehicle-mounted express delivery cabinet according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is an example of a front view and a side view of an unmanned vehicle-mounted express delivery cabinet according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is an example of a plan expanded view of the unmanned in-vehicle courier cabinet of fig. 5.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not limiting of the invention. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only some of the structures related to the present invention are shown in the drawings, not all of the structures.

Example one

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a parcel distribution method according to an embodiment of the present invention, which is applicable to a case where a plurality of stations are distributed with parcels in a mobile manner, and in particular, is applicable to a scenario where stations are automatically distributed in a mobile manner in distribution areas such as colleges and universities and industrial parks. The method can be executed by a package delivery device, which can be implemented by software and/or hardware, and is integrated in a delivery cabinet with a delivery vehicle, for example, an unmanned vehicle-mounted delivery cabinet. The method specifically comprises the following steps:

and S110, when a package locker entering instruction is detected, sending pickup reservation information to a receiver of the package, and determining a pickup site reserved by the receiver according to the feedback information of the receiver.

The package locker instruction may be an instruction generated when a package drop-in person delivers the package to an express cabinet. Exemplarily, the parcel delivery personnel can aim at the camera on the express delivery cabinet with the waybill bar code on the parcel and scan to make the express delivery cabinet obtain parcel information, and control opens the cabinet door of express delivery cabinet, thereby the parcel delivery personnel can post the parcel to the express delivery cabinet in, and close the cabinet door when finishing delivering, when detecting that the cabinet door is closed, generate the parcel and go into the cabinet instruction. The recipient of the package may refer to a user, such as a recipient, who receives the package. The pickup reservation information may be related information for reserving a pickup site. For example, pickup reservation information may include, but is not limited to, the location, site arrival time, and site dwell time of each pickup site within the delivery area. The pickup site may refer to a location where the recipient receives the package. The pickup station can be at least two. The specific positions and the number of the pickup stations can be set based on the actual situation and the business requirements of the areas to be distributed. The receiver feedback information may refer to reservation feedback information transmitted by the receiver based on the pickup reservation information.

Specifically, when detecting a package in-cabinet instruction, a control system in the express delivery cabinet may determine a receiving party corresponding to the package based on package information obtained in advance, generate pickup reservation information based on preset pickup site information, and send the pickup reservation information to a client of the receiving party, so that the receiving party may select a suitable pickup site for reservation based on a self condition, a position of each pickup site, and time information of a site of arrival, for example, select a pickup site closest to the position of the receiving party as a reserved pickup site, so as to save pickup time of the receiving party. Illustratively, the pick-up reservation information can be sent to the receiver in a manner of pushing a short message address link, and the receiver can reserve a pick-up site by clicking the address link. After the receiving party reserves the pickup site, the client of the receiving party sends feedback information of the receiving party to the express delivery cabinet, and the pickup site reserved by the receiving party can be obtained based on the feedback information of the receiving party.

It should be noted that, if the express delivery cabinet does not receive the feedback information of the receiving party, it indicates that the receiving party does not make a site reservation, and at this time, the receiving party may be set to access any site to take the package. That is, when receiving the pickup reservation information, the receiving side may reserve a site to be picked based on the pickup reservation information, or may directly pick up a pickup at any site without reservation, thereby improving flexibility of pickup.

Exemplarily, when the express delivery cabinet in this embodiment is an express delivery cabinet that gets by oneself, when the parcel was put into the cabinet, every parcel all can generate a corresponding parcel and get a password to the receiver gets a password by oneself based on this parcel, need not other people and participates in, thereby the cost of using manpower sparingly. Accordingly, pickup reservation information sent to a recipient of the package may include: the package pickup password and the position and time information of each pickup station to be passed through; the parcel pickup password is a lock plate opening password corresponding to the lattice where the parcel is located, so that the receiver can pick up the parcel by self based on the parcel pickup password. For example, when a parcel delivery person selects a lattice matched with the parcel size on a display interface of the express delivery cabinet, the express delivery cabinet can control the locking plate of the selected lattice to be opened so as to place the parcel in the lattice, and simultaneously generate a locking plate opening password corresponding to the lattice to serve as a parcel pickup password. The receiver can be through getting a password by this parcel of input on showing the interface for the jam plate of corresponding check is opened, takes away the parcel, thereby need not other people and participates in, has realized getting a piece by oneself.

And S120, when the package delivery finishing instruction is detected, controlling a delivery vehicle to deliver the site based on a preset site delivery route, determining a current receiver corresponding to the current site when the delivery vehicle reaches a preset position of the current site, and sending a site pickup notification message to the current receiver.

The package delivery completion instruction may be an instruction triggered by the package delivery personnel after all packages to be delivered are delivered. For example, after the parcel delivery personnel have delivered all parcels to be delivered, a parcel delivery completion instruction can be generated by clicking a delivery completion button in a display interface of an express delivery cabinet. The preset site delivery routes may be preset based on business needs and actual scenarios, which may include, but are not limited to, delivery order of each pickup site and arrival time and dwell time of each pickup site in the delivery area. The delivery vehicle may be a vehicle on which the express delivery cabinet in this embodiment is mounted. The delivery vehicle may be an autonomous vehicle, i.e. an unmanned vehicle, to further reduce the labor cost and achieve automatic delivery. The current station may refer to a pickup station to which the delivery vehicle is to arrive at the current time. The preset position of the current station can be the position of the current station or a position which is away from the current station by a certain length, so that a receiver can be reminded in advance to take a pickup. The current receiver may refer to a person who needs to go to the current site to receive the package, i.e., the current pickup. The current receiver may be one or more. The current recipient may include: the reserved pickup site is a receiver of the current site, a receiver of the pickup site which is not reserved, and a receiver of the reserved pickup site which has passed and has not picked. The site pickup notification message may refer to a message notifying that the site is going to pick up, which may include, but is not limited to, location information, arrival time, and dwell time of the current site.

Specifically, when detecting a package delivery completion instruction, the control system in the express delivery cabinet indicates that each package to be delivered has been put into the cabinet, and at this time, a preset site delivery route input in advance in the express delivery cabinet system may be sent to the control system of the delivery vehicle carrying the express delivery cabinet, so that the delivery vehicle may be controlled to reach each site for delivery based on the preset site delivery route. When the current station reaches the preset position, all current receivers needing to go to the current station to pick up the parts are dynamically determined, namely, the reserved part picking station is taken as the receiver of the current station, the receivers of the part picking stations which are not reserved and the receivers which have passed the reserved part picking station and have not picked the parts are taken as the current receivers. In this embodiment, the receiving party corresponding to each pickup site dynamically changes based on the pickup condition, so that the corresponding receiving party needs to be dynamically determined when the preset position of each site is reached, a mapping relationship between the sites and the receiving party does not need to be established in advance, and the pickup flexibility is greatly improved. When determining every current receiver, can send the website to current receiver and get a notice message to remind current receiver in time to go to the current website and get, avoid current receiver to forget to get, thereby realized that the express delivery cabinet movably carries out automatic delivery, improved the delivery efficiency, and the user can reserve the website based on self condition and get or directly get, satisfied user's individualized demand, promoted user experience greatly.

If the current receiver reserving the current site to take the parts does not take the parts within the staying time, the current receiver is taken as the receiver of the next site, so that the current receiver can take the parts from the previous site to the next site. In this embodiment, the receiver corresponding to each site is dynamically determined, and only the receiver of the site sends the site pickup notification message, and the site pickup notification message is not sent to the receiver of the reserved pickup site, which is not the current site, so that the notification cost can be saved, and the harassment situation caused by reminding all receivers of each site to pick up the parts is avoided. And for the receiver who does not reserve to get a website, the requirement of getting a file at any website when the position of the receiver moves can be met, so that the receiver can get a file at the nearest website, the requirement of getting a file to the nearest website in the moving process of the receiver in a fixed place is met, and the flexibility of getting a file is greatly improved.

Exemplarily, after S120, the method may further include: when the time of staying at the current station is reached, detecting whether packages to be taken are stored in the express cabinet or not; if so, controlling the delivery vehicle to reach the next station for delivery based on the delivery route of the preset station; and if not, controlling the delivery vehicle to return to the preset starting position.

The preset departure position may be a starting position of the delivery vehicle. Illustratively, the preset departure location may be a warehouse location where the package is stored. Specifically, since the receiving side may reserve any site to pick up the package, or may directly pick up the package at any site without reserving the site, there may be a case where all packages have been delivered when the delivery vehicle has not yet reached the last site. For this reason, when the stop time of each station is reached, that is, when the express delivery cabinet is going to go to the next station, it needs to be detected whether packages to be taken are stored in the express delivery cabinet, that is, whether all the packages are not delivered completely, if yes, the express delivery cabinet arrives at the next station for delivery based on a preset station delivery route; if not, the fact that all the packages are delivered in advance is indicated, and the delivery vehicles can be controlled to directly return to the preset starting positions so as to carry out delivery of the next batch, so that the delivery time is saved, and the delivery efficiency is further improved.

According to the technical scheme, when the package is detected to be put into the cabinet, the pick-up reservation information is sent to the receiver of the package, so that the receiver can reserve a site which the receiver wants to pick up the package based on the pick-up reservation information, and can directly pick up the package at any site without reservation, and therefore the pick-up flexibility is improved. When detecting that the parcel delivery finishes the instruction, can control the delivery vehicle based on presetting website delivery route, movably carry out automatic delivery to every website, the receiver that this website corresponds is determined to the developments when arriving every website, need not to establish the mapping relation between website and the receiver in advance, and send website to every receiver and get a notice message, in order to remind the receiver in time to get the website, thereby realized that the express delivery cabinet movably carries out automatic delivery, delivery efficiency has been improved, and then user experience has been promoted.

On the basis of the above technical solution, before sending the site pickup notification message to the current receiver, the method may further include: determining the target residence time corresponding to the current site according to the number of the current receivers; and generating a site pickup notification message according to the site position and the target residence time of the current site.

Specifically, when the express delivery cabinet cannot support multiple receivers to take the express delivery at the same time, each receiver arriving at a site needs to queue in sequence to take the express delivery, so that the residence time of each site can be dynamically determined based on the number of receivers corresponding to the site, and the situation that the express delivery service cannot be provided due to the fact that the number of the receivers is large and the residence time is short is avoided. For example, if the number of receivers of a certain station is larger, the target stay time of the station is set to be longer. And generating a site pickup notification message according to the dynamically determined target residence time matched with the current site so as to remind the receiving party of the target residence time of the delivery vehicle, so that the receiving party judges whether the delivery vehicle can arrive at the site within the target residence time to pick up the delivery vehicle based on the self condition, the user requirement is further met, and the user experience is improved.

For example, after the current station is reached and before the stop time of the current station is not reached, whether each current receiver corresponding to the current station finishes taking the part or not can be detected in real time, if yes, the current station does not need to be stopped continuously, and the delivery vehicle can be controlled to move forward to the next station in advance, so that the delivery time is further saved, and the delivery efficiency is improved; if not, continuing to stay at the current site for waiting for the current user to take the parts until the stay time of the current site is reached and moving to the next site.

On the basis of the above technical solution, before S110, the method may further include: generating a package delivery notification message based on the package delivery position when the package delivery position is received; and determining a target delivery party bound with the current express cabinet based on the preset binding relationship, and sending a package delivery notification message to the target delivery party.

The package delivery position may refer to a position where a delivery person delivers a package, and may be preset based on a business scenario, for example, a warehouse exit position is set as the package delivery position. The package drop notification message may refer to a message notifying the drop party to proceed to the package drop location for delivery. The preset binding relationship may refer to a mapping relationship between each express cabinet and the drop party. Each express cabinet in the embodiment can be bound with one delivery party in advance, so that only the delivery party is allowed to deliver, delivery errors are avoided, and management is facilitated.

Specifically, the operator may create a closed delivery area, such as a campus, a garden, etc., in advance at the background, create each pickup station in the delivery area, allocate one or more delivery vehicles carrying express cabinets, and establish a binding relationship between each express cabinet and the drop party. For each express cabinet, when a control system of the current express cabinet receives a set parcel delivery position, a delivery vehicle can be controlled to reach the parcel delivery position, a parcel delivery notification message is generated based on the parcel delivery position, and the parcel delivery notification message is sent to a bound target delivery party, so that the target delivery party can go to the parcel delivery position to conduct parcel delivery cabinet entering operation, for example, the target delivery party can log in an account number in a display screen of the express cabinet and then conduct parcel delivery cabinet entering operation, therefore, accurate delivery of a parcel can be guaranteed through a mode of setting authority, and delivery management is facilitated.

Example two

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a package distribution method according to a second embodiment of the present invention, and in this embodiment, based on the above embodiment, the "controlling a distribution vehicle to reach a next station for distribution based on a preset station distribution route" is optimized, wherein explanations of the same or corresponding terms as those in the above embodiment are not repeated herein.

Referring to fig. 2, the package distribution method provided in this embodiment specifically includes the following steps:

s210, when a package locker entering instruction is detected, sending pickup reservation information to a receiver of the package, and determining a pickup site reserved by the receiver according to feedback information of the receiver.

S220, when the package delivery finishing instruction is detected, the delivery vehicle is controlled to carry out site delivery based on a preset site delivery route, when the current site reaches a preset position, a current receiver corresponding to the current site is determined, and a site pickup notification message is sent to the current receiver.

S230, detecting whether packages to be taken are stored in the express cabinet or not when the express cabinet reaches the stop time of the current station; if yes, go to step S240; if not, the process proceeds to step S270.

The residence time of the current site can be preset fixed residence time or dynamic residence time set in real time based on the number of current receivers of the current site, so that distribution flexibility is improved, and user pickup experience is improved.

S240, detecting whether the current station is the last station in the distribution route of the preset stations; if yes, go to step S250; if not, the process proceeds to step S260.

Specifically, when it is detected that the parcel to be taken is stored in the express delivery cabinet, it indicates that the delivery is not completed currently, and at this time, it is required to detect whether the current station is the last station in the delivery route of the preset station, so as to determine the delivery mode of the delivery vehicle.

And S250, controlling the delivery vehicle to go to a preset deposit position, sending a package deposit notification message to a deposit party, and sending a deposit position pickup notification message to a receiver corresponding to the package to be picked up.

The preset registering position may refer to a position where a package which is not delivered is registered, and may be set in advance based on a service scenario. Illustratively, the preset register location may be a location where the representative receiving point is located. The depositor may refer to a person who receives the package instead of the recipient, such as a representative. The parcel deposit notification message may be a message notifying the depositor to go to a preset deposit position for collection. The deposit location pickup notification message may be a message for picking up the article by the receiver going to a preset deposit location.

Specifically, when the parcel to be taken exists and the current station is the last station in the distribution route of the preset stations, the distribution vehicle can be controlled to directly go to the preset deposit position, and a parcel deposit notification message is sent to the deposit party to notify the deposit party to take out the parcel to be taken which is not distributed yet from the express cabinet at the preset deposit position, so that secondary distribution is avoided, meanwhile, the distribution vehicle is prevented from stopping at the station for a long time and delaying other normal distribution tasks, and therefore distribution efficiency is improved. Through to waiting to get the receiver that the parcel corresponds and send the deposit position and get a notice message for the receiver can get the piece to preset deposit position department based on self idle time, for example, the receiver is when arriving preset deposit position, need show the parcel and get a password the side can take out corresponding parcel, avoids the condition of mistake getting, improves the security of getting the piece.

It should be noted that, when the current station that arrives is the last station, before sending the station pickup notification message to the current receiver corresponding to the current station, the station pickup notification message may be generated based on the preset registration position, the position information of the current station, the arrival time, and the stay time, so as to prompt the receiver to go to the preset registration position for pickup if the current station does not pickup, so that the receiver selects based on its own condition, and further meets the user requirement.

And S260, controlling the delivery vehicle to reach the next station for delivery based on the preset station delivery route.

Specifically, when there is a package to be taken and the current station is not the last station in the preset station delivery routes, the position of the next station may be determined based on the preset station delivery routes, so that the delivery vehicles may be controlled to continue to deliver to the next station in front of the next station.

And S270, controlling the delivery vehicle to return to the preset starting position.

Specifically, when detecting that no parcel is to be taken in the express delivery cabinet, the delivery is finished at present, and the delivery vehicle can be directly controlled to return to the starting position, so that when the current position is not the last stop, the effect of returning to the starting position in advance can be achieved, and the delivery efficiency is improved.

The technical scheme of this embodiment, through storing in the express delivery cabinet and waiting to get the parcel, and when the current website is the last website in the website delivery route of predetermineeing, control delivery vehicle goes to predetermineeing the deposit position, place the parcel of waiting to get that will not deliver the completion in predetermineeing the deposit position, inform the receiver to go to predetermineeing deposit position department and get the piece by oneself, thereby can avoid carrying out the secondary delivery, and avoid the delivery vehicle to stop the website for a long time and delay other normal delivery tasks, thereby delivery efficiency has been improved.

EXAMPLE III

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a package delivery apparatus according to a third embodiment of the present invention, which is applicable to a case where package delivery is performed on multiple stations in a mobile manner, and in particular, is applicable to a scenario where automatic delivery is performed on stations in a mobile manner in a closed area such as a college, an industrial park, and the like. The device specifically includes: a pick-up reservation module 310 and a site delivery module 320.

The pickup reservation module 310 is configured to send pickup reservation information to a recipient of the package when detecting a package locker entering instruction, and determine a pickup site reserved by the recipient according to recipient feedback information.

The package locker instruction may be an instruction generated when a package drop-in person delivers the package to an express cabinet. Exemplarily, the parcel delivery personnel can aim at the camera on the express delivery cabinet with the waybill bar code on the parcel and scan to make the express delivery cabinet obtain parcel information, and control opens the cabinet door of express delivery cabinet, thereby the parcel delivery personnel can post the parcel to the express delivery cabinet in, and close the cabinet door when finishing delivering, when detecting that the cabinet door is closed, generate the parcel and go into the cabinet instruction. The recipient of the package may refer to a user, such as a recipient, who receives the package. The pickup reservation information may be related information for reserving a pickup site. For example, pickup reservation information may include, but is not limited to, the location, site arrival time, and site dwell time of each pickup site within the delivery area. The pickup site may refer to a location where the recipient receives the package. The pick-up stations may be at least two for mobile distribution. The specific positions and the number of the pickup stations can be set based on the actual situation and the business requirements of the areas to be distributed. The receiver feedback information may refer to reservation feedback information transmitted by the receiver based on the pickup reservation information.

Specifically, when detecting a package in-cabinet instruction, the pick-up reservation module 310 in the express delivery cabinet may determine a receiver corresponding to the package based on package information obtained in advance, generate pick-up reservation information based on each pre-set pick-up site information, and send the pick-up reservation information to a client of the receiver, so that the receiver may select a suitable pick-up site for reservation based on a self condition, a position of each pick-up site, and time information of a site of arrival, for example, select a pick-up site closest to the position of the receiver as a reserved pick-up site, so as to save pick-up time of the receiver. Illustratively, the pick-up reservation information can be sent to the receiver in a manner of pushing a short message address link, and the receiver can reserve a pick-up site by clicking the address link. When the receiving party reserves the pickup site, the client of the receiving party sends the feedback information of the receiving party to the pickup reservation module 310, and the pickup reservation module 310 can obtain the pickup site reserved by the receiving party based on the feedback information of the receiving party.

It should be noted that, if the pickup reservation module 310 does not receive the feedback information of the receiving party, it indicates that the receiving party does not make a site reservation, and at this time, the receiving party may be set to perform pickup to any site. That is, when receiving the pickup reservation information, the receiving side may reserve a site to be picked based on the pickup reservation information, or may directly pick up a pickup at any site without reservation, thereby improving flexibility of pickup.

The station distribution module 320 is configured to, when detecting that the package delivery is finished, control the distribution vehicle to perform station distribution based on a preset station distribution route, and when reaching a preset position of the current station, determine a current receiver corresponding to the current station, and send a station pickup notification message to the current receiver.

Specifically, when the station distribution module 320 in the express delivery cabinet detects that the package delivery completion instruction indicates that each package to be distributed has been put into the cabinet, at this time, a preset station distribution route input in the express delivery cabinet system in advance may be sent to the control system of the distribution vehicle carrying the express delivery cabinet, so that the distribution vehicle may be controlled to reach each station for distribution based on the preset station distribution route. When the station delivery module 320 detects that the current station is reached to the preset position, it dynamically determines all current receivers that need to go to the current station to pick up the parts, that is, the reserved pickup station is the receiver of the current station, the receivers that do not reserve the pickup station, and the receivers that have passed the reserved pickup station and have not picked up the parts are all taken as the current receivers. In this embodiment, the receiving party corresponding to each pickup site dynamically changes based on the pickup condition, so that the corresponding receiving party needs to be dynamically determined when the preset position of each site is reached, a mapping relationship between the sites and the receiving party does not need to be established in advance, and the pickup flexibility is greatly improved. When determining each current receiver, the station delivery module 320 can send a station pickup notification message to the current receiver to remind the current receiver to go to the current station in time to pick up, and avoid the current receiver forgetting to pick up, thereby realizing mobile automatic delivery of the express cabinet, improving the delivery efficiency, and the user can make a reservation for the station pickup or directly pick up based on the self condition, satisfying the personalized requirements of the user, and greatly improving the user experience.

If the current receiver reserving the current site to take the parts does not take the parts within the staying time, the current receiver is taken as the receiver of the next site, so that the current receiver can take the parts from the previous site to the next site. The site delivery module 320 dynamically determines the receiver corresponding to each site, and only sends the site pickup notification message to the receiver of the site, but does not send the site pickup notification message to the receiver of the reserved pickup site, which is not the current site, so that the notification cost can be saved, and the harassment situation caused by reminding all the receivers to pick up the parts at each site is avoided. And for the receiver who does not reserve to get a website, the requirement of getting a file at any website when the position of the receiver moves can be met, so that the receiver can get a file at the nearest website, the requirement of getting a file to the nearest website in the moving process of the receiver in a fixed place is met, and the flexibility of getting a file is greatly improved.

According to the technical scheme of the embodiment, when the pick-up reservation module 310 detects that the package is put into the cabinet, the pick-up reservation information is sent to the receiver of the package, so that the receiver can reserve a site which the receiver wants to pick up based on the pick-up reservation information, or directly pick up the package at any site without reservation, and therefore the pick-up flexibility is improved. When detecting that the package delivery is finished, the station delivery module 320 can control the delivery vehicle to automatically deliver to each station based on a preset station delivery path, dynamically determine the receiver corresponding to the station when reaching each station, without pre-establishing a mapping relation between the station and the receiver, and send a station pickup notification message to each receiver to remind the receiver to timely pick up the package from the station, thereby realizing the mobile automatic delivery of the express cabinet, improving the delivery efficiency, and further improving the user experience.

On the basis of the technical scheme, the device further comprises:

the package to be taken detection module is used for detecting whether packages to be taken are stored in the express cabinet or not when the package to be taken reaches the stop time of the current station; the first control module is used for controlling the delivery vehicle to reach the next station for delivery based on the delivery route of the preset station if the first control module is used for controlling the delivery vehicle to reach the next station for delivery; and the second control module is used for controlling the delivery vehicle to return to the preset starting position if the delivery vehicle does not return to the preset starting position.

The preset departure position may be a starting position of the delivery vehicle. Illustratively, the preset departure location may be a warehouse location where the package is stored. Specifically, since the receiving side may reserve any site to pick up the package, or may directly pick up the package at any site without reserving the site, there may be a case where all packages have been delivered when the delivery vehicle has not yet reached the last site. For this reason, when the stop time of each station is reached, that is, when the express delivery system is going to go to the next station, the to-be-taken package detection module needs to detect whether to-be-taken packages are stored in the express delivery cabinet, that is, whether all the packages are not delivered completely, if yes, the first control module can control the express delivery system to reach the next station to deliver the packages based on the preset station delivery route; if not, the fact that all the packages are delivered in advance is indicated, and at the moment, the second control module can control the delivery vehicle to directly return to the preset starting position so as to carry out delivery of the next batch, so that the delivery time is saved, and the delivery efficiency is further improved.

Illustratively, the first control module is specifically configured to:

detecting whether the current station is the last station in a preset station distribution route; if yes, controlling the delivery vehicle to go to a preset deposit position, sending a package deposit notification message to a deposit party, and sending a deposit position pickup notification message to a receiver corresponding to the package to be picked; and if not, controlling the delivery vehicle to reach the next station for delivery based on the preset station delivery route.

The residence time of the current site can be preset fixed residence time or dynamic residence time set in real time based on the number of current receivers of the current site, so that distribution flexibility is improved, and user pickup experience is improved. The preset registering position may refer to a position where a package which is not delivered is registered, and may be set in advance based on a service scenario. Illustratively, the preset register location may be a location where the representative receiving point is located. The depositor may refer to a person who receives the package instead of the recipient, such as a representative. The parcel deposit notification message may be a message notifying the depositor to go to a preset deposit position for collection. The deposit location pickup notification message may be a message for picking up the article by the receiver going to a preset deposit location.

Specifically, when the parcel to be taken exists and the current station is the last station in the distribution route of the preset stations, the first control module can control the distribution vehicle to directly go to the preset deposit position and send a parcel deposit notification message to the deposit party so as to notify the deposit party to take out the parcel to be taken which is not distributed yet from the express cabinet at the preset deposit position, so that secondary distribution is avoided, meanwhile, the distribution vehicle is prevented from stopping at the station for a long time and delaying other normal distribution tasks, and therefore distribution efficiency is improved. Through to waiting to get the receiver that the parcel corresponds and send the deposit position and get a notice message for the receiver can get the piece to preset deposit position department based on self idle time, for example, the receiver is when arriving preset deposit position, need show the parcel and get a password the side can take out corresponding parcel, avoids the condition of mistake getting, improves the security of getting the piece.

It should be noted that, when the current station that arrives is the last station, the station delivery module 320 may generate the station pickup notification message based on the preset registration position, the position information of the current station, the arrival time, and the staying time before sending the station pickup notification message to the current receiver corresponding to the current station, so as to prompt the receiver to go to the preset registration position for pickup if the current station does not pickup, so that the receiver selects based on its own condition, and further meets the user requirement.

On the basis of the technical scheme, the device further comprises:

the target stay time determining module is used for determining the target stay time corresponding to the current site according to the number of the current receivers before sending the site pickup notification message to the current receivers; and the site pickup notification message generation module is used for generating a site pickup notification message according to the site position and the target residence time of the current site.

Specifically, when the express delivery cabinet cannot support multiple receivers to take the delivery at the same time, each receiver arriving at the station needs to queue in sequence to take the delivery, so that the target residence time determining module can dynamically determine the residence time of each station based on the number of the receivers corresponding to the station, and the situation that the delivery service cannot be provided due to the fact that the number of the receivers is large and the residence time is short is avoided. For example, if the number of receivers of a certain station is larger, the target stay time of the station is set to be longer. The station pickup notification message generation module generates a station pickup notification message according to the dynamically determined target residence time matched with the current station, so that the receiver is reminded of the target residence time of the delivery vehicle, the receiver judges whether the delivery vehicle can arrive at the station within the target residence time to pick up the delivery vehicle based on the self condition, the user requirement is further met, and the user experience is improved.

Illustratively, the apparatus further comprises: the third control module is used for detecting whether each current receiver corresponding to the current station finishes taking the parts or not in real time after the current station is reached and before the stop time of the current station is not reached, if so, the third control module does not need to continuously stop at the current station, and at the moment, the third control module can immediately control the delivery vehicle to move ahead to the next station in advance so as to further save the delivery time and improve the delivery efficiency; if not, continuing to stay at the current site for waiting for the current user to take the parts until the stay time of the current site is reached and moving to the next site.

On the basis of the technical scheme, the device further comprises:

the package delivery notification message generation module is used for generating a package delivery notification message based on the package delivery position when the package delivery position is received; and the package delivery notification message sending module is used for determining a target delivery party bound with the current express cabinet based on the preset binding relationship and sending a package delivery notification message to the target delivery party.

Specifically, the operator may create a closed delivery area, such as a campus, a garden, etc., in advance at the background, create each pickup station in the delivery area, allocate one or more delivery vehicles carrying express cabinets, and establish a binding relationship between each express cabinet and the drop party. For each express cabinet, when the package delivery notification message generation module of the current express cabinet receives the set package delivery position, the delivery vehicle can be controlled to reach the package delivery position, and meanwhile, a package delivery notification message is generated based on the package delivery position. The parcel delivery notification message sending module sends the parcel delivery notification message to the bound target delivery party, so that the target delivery party can go to the parcel delivery position to wrap the parcel delivery position and enter the cabinet operation, for example, the target delivery party can wrap the parcel after the login account number is successful in the display screen of the express cabinet and enter the cabinet operation, and therefore accurate delivery of the parcel can be guaranteed in a mode of setting authority, and delivery management is facilitated.

Example four

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of an unmanned vehicle-mounted express delivery cabinet according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 4, the unmanned on-vehicle express delivery cabinet may include: a courier cabinet 410 containing a plurality of bays, and a controller 420.

The express delivery cabinet 410 is arranged on the body of an unmanned delivery vehicle, and each grid is used for storing packages; the controller 420 is configured to implement the package distribution method according to the first embodiment or the second embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein, express delivery cabinet 410 can set up to the unilateral check mouth, also can set up to two side check mouths, and the left and right sides of express delivery cabinet all is provided with independent check mouth promptly to improve parcel capacity, promote delivery ability. Exemplarily, fig. 5 shows an example of a front view and a side view of an unmanned vehicle-mounted express delivery cabinet. Fig. 6 is an example of a plan expanded view of the unmanned in-vehicle courier cabinet of fig. 5. The unmanned vehicle-mounted express cabinet in fig. 5 is arranged on the body of an unmanned distribution vehicle, so that the effect of mobile automatic distribution is achieved through the unmanned distribution vehicle. A display screen or the like (not shown in fig. 5 and 6) of the courier cabinet 410 may be provided behind the unmanned delivery vehicle. The unmanned delivery vehicle may include a vehicle head, a vehicle body, four wheels, a vehicle controller, and the like. Wherein, the vehicle head can be provided with but not limited to a controller 420, a laser radar, a binocular camera and the like. The automobile body can be provided with express delivery cabinet 410, mutual display screen, face identification camera, loudspeaker, card reader, scanning head, printing face list export, industrial computer, power and flow card etc.. It should be noted that, in this embodiment, specific positions of all hardware in the unmanned vehicle-mounted express delivery cabinet are not limited, and may be set reasonably based on business requirements and scenes.

This embodiment is through making up unmanned delivery vehicle and express delivery cabinet, carries on the express delivery cabinet on unmanned delivery vehicle, forms unmanned on-vehicle express delivery cabinet to reach the effect that automatic delivery was carried out to the express delivery cabinet portably. And unmanned delivery vehicle and express delivery cabinet can share vehicle bottom panel, sharing camera monitored control system to unmanned delivery vehicle and express delivery cabinet can carry on same industrial computer jointly, thereby have practiced thrift the hardware cost. The vehicle controller in the unmanned delivery vehicle and the controller in the express delivery cabinet can be respectively and independently deployed and developed, and flexibility and ductility are achieved.

The unmanned vehicle-mounted express cabinet in the embodiment can send pickup reservation information to a receiver of a package when detecting that the package is put into the cabinet, so that the receiver can reserve a station which is required to pick up the package based on the pickup reservation information, and can directly pick up the package at any station without reservation, thereby improving the flexibility of pickup. When detecting that the parcel delivery finishes the instruction, can control the delivery vehicle based on presetting website delivery route, movably carry out automatic delivery to every website, the receiver that this website corresponds is determined to the developments when arriving every website, need not to establish the mapping relation between website and the receiver in advance, and send website to every receiver and get a notice message, in order to remind the receiver in time to get the website, thereby realized that the express delivery cabinet movably carries out automatic delivery, delivery efficiency has been improved, and then user experience has been promoted.

EXAMPLE five

This fifth embodiment provides a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which when executed by a processor performs the steps of a package distribution method according to any of the embodiments of the present invention, the method comprising:

when a package delivery finishing instruction is detected, controlling a delivery vehicle to carry out site delivery based on a preset site delivery route, determining a current receiver corresponding to the current site when the delivery vehicle reaches a preset position of the current site, and sending a site pickup notification message to the current receiver;

wherein, the current receiver includes: the reserved pickup site is a receiver of the current site, a receiver of the pickup site which is not reserved, and a receiver of the reserved pickup site which has passed and has not picked.

Computer storage media for embodiments of the invention may employ any combination of one or more computer-readable media. The computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium. The computer-readable storage medium may be, for example but not limited to: an electrical, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any combination thereof. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer readable storage medium would include the following: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. In the context of this document, a computer readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

A computer readable signal medium may include a propagated data signal with computer readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated data signal may take many forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof. A computer readable signal medium may also be any computer readable medium that is not a computer readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

Program code embodied on a computer readable medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to: wireless, wire, fiber optic cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

Computer program code for carrying out operations for aspects of the present invention may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, Smalltalk, C + + or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the case of a remote computer, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet service provider).

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the modules or steps of the invention described above may be implemented by a general purpose computing device, they may be centralized on a single computing device or distributed across a network of computing devices, and optionally they may be implemented by program code executable by a computing device, such that it may be stored in a memory device and executed by a computing device, or it may be separately fabricated into various integrated circuit modules, or it may be fabricated by fabricating a plurality of modules or steps thereof into a single integrated circuit module. Thus, the present invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

It is to be noted that the foregoing is only illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and the technical principles employed. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the particular embodiments described herein, but is capable of various obvious changes, rearrangements and substitutions as will now become apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention. Therefore, although the present invention has been described in greater detail by the above embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and may include other equivalent embodiments without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is determined by the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. A package distribution method, characterized in that the method comprises:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the pickup reservation information comprises: the package pickup password and the position and time information of each pickup station to be passed through;

3. The method of claim 1, prior to sending a site pickup notification message to the current recipient, comprising:

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

5. The method of claim 4, wherein controlling the delivery vehicles to reach the next stop for delivery based on the preset stop delivery route comprises:

6. A package dispensing device, comprising:

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the pick-up reservation information comprises: the package pickup password and the position and time information of each pickup station to be passed through;

8. The apparatus of claim 6, further comprising:

9. The apparatus of claim 6, further comprising:

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the first control module is specifically configured to: