JP3245672U - Smart mailbox and its smart mail label - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a smart mailbox and its smart mail label. A smart mailbox is used to transmit mail information to a scanner and is equipped with packaging materials and smart mail labels. The smart mail label includes a chipset. The chipset is installed in the packaging material and includes a storage element and an electronic label element. The storage element is used to store mail information. The electronic label device has a signal connected to a storage device and a scanner, and is used to transmit mail information to the scanner. [Selection diagram] Figure 1

Description

The present invention relates to a smart mailbox and smart mailing label thereof, and more specifically, to a smart mailbox and smart mailing label thereof for conveniently transmitting email information to the outside. be.

A sticker with a 2D barcode (QR code) printed on it is attached to a typical postal parcel, and a post office staff operates a 2D barcode reader to scan the 2D barcode and send the mail data. Accessing the record page, the employee verifies the postal parcel's destination data (eg, recipient's name, contact number, address).

However, when post office employees operated 2D barcode readers, they could only scan one 2D barcode at a time using the 2D barcode reader. For this reason, when employees process a large number of parcels, they have no choice but to read the two-dimensional barcodes on each parcel one by one, which takes a lot of time and effort.

Therefore, the inventor of the present invention believed that the above drawbacks could be improved, and as a result of extensive study, the inventor of the present invention realized that the destination information can be transmitted to the outside at high speed, allowing post office staff to conveniently obtain destination data, and saving work time and effort. There was a need to provide a new mailing device that would save money.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and an example of an object to be solved is to solve the above-mentioned problems. That is, an object of the present invention is to provide a smart mailbox that conveniently transmits mail information to the outside.

In order to solve the above problems, a smart mailbox, which is one aspect of the present invention, is used to transmit mail information to a scanner, and includes a packaging material and a smart mail label. The smart mail label includes a chipset. The chipset is installed in the packaging material and includes a storage element and an electronic label element. The storage element is used to store mail information. The electronic label device has a signal connected to a storage device and a scanner, and is used to transmit mail information to the scanner.

According to one aspect of the present invention, the chipset further includes a blockchain tracer, the signal being connected to the storage element and the blockchain network, for transmitting email information to the blockchain network.

According to one aspect of the invention, the chipset further includes a positioning element having a signal connected to the storage element.

According to one aspect of the invention, the smart mail label further comprises a battery having a signal connected to the chipset.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a smart mail label that conveniently transmits mail information to the outside.

To achieve the above object, another aspect of the present invention is a smart mail label applied to a smart mail box containing packaging material, and the smart mail label is used to transmit mail information to a scanner. Smart mail labels are equipped with a chipset. The chipset is installed in the packaging material and includes a storage element and an electronic label element. The storage element is used to store mail information. The electronic label device has a signal connected to a storage device and a scanner, and is used to transmit mail information to the scanner.

Other objects, configurations, and effects of the present invention will become clear from the following section of embodiments of the invention.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a smart mailbox according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of a smart mailbox according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

First, an embodiment of a smart mailbox and its smart mail label according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a smart mailbox according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of a smart mailbox according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, in this embodiment, a smart mailbox 900 is used to package mail or items to be mailed by a sender and transmit the mail information to the scanner 100. The scanner 100 is a gate-type scanning device with a built-in electronic label reader, and a conveyor on which a smart mailbox 900 can be placed is installed below the gate-type scanning device of the scanner 100. By doing so, the scanner 100 can scan the smart mailbox 900 passing below the gate-type scanning device of the scanner 100 and receive data returned by the smart mailbox 900. The smart mailbox 900 includes packaging material 910 and a smart mail label 1. The packaging material 910 is, for example, an envelope, a cardboard box, or a mail bag for packaging mail or articles sent by a sender. The smart mail label 1 includes a chipset 20 and a battery 80.

In this embodiment, the chipset 20 is installed in a packaging material 910 and includes a blockchain tracer 21, a positioning element 22, a memory element 23, and an electronic label element 24. The blockchain tracer 21 is an arithmetic chip whose signals are connected to the blockchain network 400 and the storage element 23. The blockchain tracer 21 is used to transmit the email information stored in the storage element 23 to the blockchain network 400, and due to the traceability and tamper-resistant characteristics of blockchain, it can track the distribution history of the smart mailbox 900. Record and track. The positioning element 22 is a Global Positioning System chip for positioning the smart mail label 1 and determining the current position of the smart mail label 1. The storage element 23 is a memory for storing mail information of the smart mailbox 900. The electronic label element 24 uses the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) method to identify the recipient's name, contact telephone number, and address of the smart mailbox 900, the sender's name, contact telephone number, destination address, and smart mailbox. 900. Record mail information such as postage costs. The information to be recorded on the electronic label element 24 may be input by the external computer 200 and the electronic label reader 300 connected thereto, or may be read by an electronic label reader built into the scanner 100. However, the specific contents of the mail information of the smart mailbox 900 are not limited to those described above, and can be modified according to design demands. The battery 80 has a signal connected to the chipset 20 and supplies power to the chipset 20 so that the chipset 20 can operate normally. Incidentally, the electronic label reader 300 is used to input data into the electronic label element 24, but since this is not the focus of the present invention, its description will not be repeated here.

In this embodiment, when a sender mails an item using the smart mailbox 900 according to the present invention, the item is packed in the packaging material 910, the data of the recipient and the sender are written in the packaging material 910, and the The mail is sent via mailbox 900. A post office employee first inputs the recipient and sender data written on the packaging material 910 into the external computer 200, operates the electronic label reader 300 connected to the external computer 200, and then inputs the data written on the packaging material 910 into the external computer 200. Mail information such as recipient and sender data and postage charges are input into the electronic label element 24. The electronic label element 24 transmits the received mail information to the storage element 23, and the storage element 23 stores the mail information. Next, the post office staff transports the plurality of smart mailboxes 900 received by the post office to the collection and delivery center, and the scanner 100 installed at the collection and delivery center passes the plurality of smart mailboxes 900 under the gate-type scanning device of the scanner 100. To easily and quickly receive mail information returned by a plurality of smart mailboxes 900 by scanning mailboxes 900. In this way, the staff at the collection and delivery center can quickly receive the email information returned by the plurality of smart mailboxes 900 using the scanner 100, and can also quickly classify the destination area of the smart mailboxes 900 based on the destination address of the email information. Then, smart mailboxes 900 to be mailed to each destination area are distributed to each postal vehicle.

In the process of mailing the smart mailbox 900 by a postal vehicle, the positioning element 22 positions the smart mail label 1 to determine the current position of the smart mail label 1, so that if the address is incorrect, the smart mailbox 900 can be immediately searched. I have to.

Additionally, the post office staff operates the external computer 200 to input email information to the blockchain tracer 21, and the blockchain tracer 21 records the email information in the blockchain network 400. All mail information and the like corresponding to the smart mailbox 900 are recorded in the blockchain network 400 using the blockchain's goods distribution history tracking function. By doing so, the distribution history and mail information of the destination and recipient of the smart mailbox 900 can be clearly recorded and managed due to the traceable and tamper-resistant characteristics of the blockchain.

The design of the smart mailbox 900 according to the present invention makes the smart mailbox 900 diversified and has various convenient functions. For example, by clearly recording and managing the distribution history and mail information of the destination and recipient of the smart mailbox 900, positioning the smart mailbox 900, and determining the current location of the smart mailbox 900, the post office can Employees can conveniently and quickly obtain email information, saving work time and effort.

The above explanation is for explaining the present invention, and should not be construed to limit the invention described in the claims of the utility model registration or to restrict the scope thereof. Furthermore, it goes without saying that the configuration of each part of the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, but can be modified in various ways within the technical scope of the claims for utility model registration.

1 Smart mail label 20 Chip set 21 Block chain tracer 22 Positioning element 23 Memory element 24 Electronic label element 80 Battery 100 Scanner 200 External computer 300 Electronic label reader 400 Block chain network 900 Smart mail box 910 Packing material

Claims (8)

A smart mailbox for transmitting email information to a scanner,
packaging materials and
Equipped with smart email labels,
Here, the smart email label is
including a chipset installed in the packaging material,
The chipset includes:
a storage element for storing the email information;
A smart mailbox comprising: an electronic label element having a signal connected to the storage element and the scanner to transmit the mail information to the scanner. The chipset further comprises a blockchain tracer connected to the storage element and the blockchain network to transmit the email information to the blockchain network. smart mailbox. The smart mailbox of claim 2, wherein the chipset further comprises a positioning element having a signal connected to the storage element. The smart mailbox of claim 3, wherein the smart mail label further comprises a battery having a signal connected to the chipset. A smart mail label for applying to a smart mailbox containing packaging material and transmitting mail information to a scanner, the smart mail label comprising:
Here, the packaging material includes a chipset installed in the packaging material,
The chipset includes:
a storage element for storing the email information;
A smart mail label comprising: an electronic label element having a signal connected to the storage element and the scanner to transmit the mail information to the scanner. 6. The chipset further comprises a blockchain tracer connected to the storage element and the blockchain network to transmit the email information to the blockchain network. Smart email labels. 7. The smart mail label of claim 6, wherein the chipset further comprises a positioning element having a signal connected to the storage element. The smart mail label of claim 7, wherein the smart mail label further comprises a battery having a signal connected to the chipset.

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