KR20100064290A - System and method for dispatching parcels - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A parcel route division system and a method are provided to effectively arrange allocated parcels to each delivery person by a delivery route and load the arranged parcels to vehicles thereby the delivery people are able to distinguish addresses of each parcels. CONSTITUTION: A barcode reader unit(110) extracts bar code information by reading a bar code included in parcels. The barcode reader unit generates reader sequence number in order which the bar code is read. An information transceiver(130) transmits the bar code information to the information system. An information transceiver receives address information corresponding to the bar code information. A regular route information storage unit stores route information according to each address. A regular route generator(150) generates delivery route information.

Description

System and method for dispatching parcels

The present invention relates to vesicle sorting systems and methods.

The present invention is derived from a study conducted as part of the postal technology R & D project of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Ministry of Information and Communication Research and Development. [Task management number: 2006-X-001-03, Task name: Real-time postal logistics element technology development].

Currently, for small letter-postal items, an order divider is used to automatically classify mails assigned to individual deliverymen (or deliverymen) according to the order of delivery. Dedicated separators are also used for parcels, but it is difficult to solve the spatial and temporal limitations due to the volume of parcels.

Parcel separators are usually used to classify parcels into large areas of administrative units. Parcels divided by region are divided by delivery team or individual person by hand, and parcels divided by delivery team are divided by delivery person. Parcels classified by delivery person for delivery are sorted by delivery person and loaded in a vehicle, and then delivered.

Currently, parcel couriers usually deliver about 100 to 150 parcels a day. Before delivery, they read the registered barcodes of parcels assigned to each courier to create delivery information for the parcel delivery. In addition, since the address attached to the parcel is identified by eye and classified by region and order of delivery, it takes a lot of time.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a system and method for supporting the classification of the parcels assigned to each delivery person in order of delivery.

The system for distinguishing the delivery sequence of the parcel, which is one feature of the present invention for achieving the technical problem of the present invention,

A barcode reader unit for reading barcodes included in the parcel, extracting barcode information, and generating reader sequence information in the order of reading the barcodes; An information transmitting / receiving unit which transmits the barcode information extracted by the barcode reader unit to an information system and receives address information corresponding to the barcode information from the information system; An order information storage unit which stores information in order of previously generated addresses; And a sequence generation unit for generating delivery sequence information of the parcel based on the leader sequence number information, address information, and sequence information.

Method for distinguishing the delivery sequence of the package is another feature of the present invention for achieving the technical problem of the present invention,

Extracting barcode information from a barcode included in the parcel, and generating reader sequence number information; Receiving address information corresponding to the barcode information; And providing delivery order information of parcels included in delivery information based on order information corresponding to the address information, the address information, and the reader order number information.

According to the present invention, since the parcels allocated by the delivery person for parcel delivery can be effectively arranged according to the delivery sequence, the parcels can be loaded in the vehicle, thereby reducing the time required to identify the individual parcels by visually identifying the parcels by region and delivery order. Can be.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, it means that it can further include other components, without excluding other components unless specifically stated otherwise. In addition, the terms “… unit”, “… unit”, “module”, and the like described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which may be implemented by hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software. Can be.

In the present specification, a terminal is a mobile station (MS), a mobile terminal (MT), a subscriber station (SS), a portable subscriber station (PSS), a user equipment (User Equipment). It may also refer to a user equipment (UE), an access terminal (AT), and the like, and may include all or some functions of a mobile terminal, a subscriber station, a portable subscriber station, a user device, and the like.

Hereinafter, a system and method for sorting according to an order according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a structural diagram of a parcel ordering system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the parcel order classification system may be largely classified into a delivery terminal 100 and an integrated information system 200.

The terminal 100 generates the necessary information for effectively classifying the parcels allocated by the delivery person by the order of delivery, the delivery information storage unit 120, the barcode reader unit 110, the information transmitting and receiving unit 130, the order generation unit 150 and the order information storage 140. The integrated information system 200 that transmits and receives information with the terminal includes a reception information storage unit 210.

The barcode reader unit 110 sequentially reads barcodes of parcels assigned to each delivery person and sequentially arranged in a predetermined space, extracts barcode information, and generates reader sequence number information in the read order. The reader sequence number information is generated in the order that the parcel deliverymen read the barcodes of the parcels arranged at random.

The delivery information storage unit 120 stores the bar code information generated by the bar code reader unit 110, the reader sequence number information, and address information corresponding to the bar code information received from the information transmitting / receiving unit 130. If only the parcel ID for identifying the parcel is included in the bar code information extracted by the bar code reader 110, address information corresponding to the parcel ID is received and stored from the reception information storage unit 210 to be described below. On the other hand, when the address information is included in the barcode information, the address information may be stored in the delivery information storage unit 120 without receiving separate address information. In the embodiment of the present invention, the case where only the parcel ID is included in the barcode information is described as an example, but is not necessarily limited thereto.

The information transmitting and receiving unit 130 transmits the barcode information recognized by the barcode reader unit 110 to the integrated information system 200, receives delivery address information corresponding to the barcode information from the integrated information system 200, and stores delivery information. Transfer to section 120. In this case, transmission and reception of information may be performed by any method of wired or wireless.

The sequence generation unit 150 generates the reader sequence number information generated by the barcode reader unit 110 and stored in the delivery information storage unit 120 and the address information received from the reception information storage unit 210 and stored in the delivery information storage unit 120. And the delivery order information, which is the delivery order information of all the parcels allocated, using the order information stored in the order information storage unit 140.

The generated delivery order information is displayed on the terminal 100 so that the delivery person can confirm the delivery information. In this case, the delivery order information means a delivery order for all parcels assigned to the delivery person.

The order information storage unit 140 stores the order information for each address, and may transmit the order information when requested by the order generation unit 150 to generate the order information on the day's delivery. If the order generation unit 150 generates a delivery order by simply having an address instead of order information matching the address, the order information storage unit 140 may not be used.

The reception information storage unit 210 of the integrated information system 200 that transmits and receives information with the terminal 100 stores address information corresponding to the parcel ID included in the barcode information collected by the terminal, and at the terminal 100. Upon request, address information corresponding to the parcel ID is transmitted to the delivery information storage unit 120 through the information transmitting and receiving unit 130 of the terminal 100. The address information is information input by a user when a barcode is generated.

A method of classifying parcel delivery routes using the parcel order classification system described with reference to FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of classifying parcels according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, barcodes assigned to parcels assigned to deliverymen and arranged in an arbitrary order are read using the terminal 100. Then, the barcode reader unit 110 extracts and collects barcode information from the barcode (S100), and simultaneously generates reader sequence number information. In addition, by requesting the address information corresponding to the collected bar code information to the integrated information system 200 receives the address information from the reception information storage unit 210 (S110). The barcode information extracted by the barcode reader unit 110, the generated reader sequence number information, and the address information received from the reception information storage unit 210 are stored in the delivery information storage unit 120.

Then, the order generation unit 150 generates delivery order information, that is, delivery order information using the leader order number information, address information, and order information stored in the order information storage unit 140 (S120). The delivery order information is displayed to provide information so that the deliveryman can load the parcel in the vehicle based on the delivery order information (S130).

Next, a method of arranging parcels that are currently arranged in order in a predetermined space again according to the order of delivery based on the order of delivery information generated according to the order of order in the order generating unit 150 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3A. It will be described with reference to Figure 4b.

3A and 3B are exemplary views for arranging parcels according to the order of delivery according to the order of delivery according to the embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 4A and 4B show parcels according to the order of delivery according to the order of delivery according to the embodiment of the present invention. It is an example figure to align.

3A and 3B provide information by arranging the order information in ascending order, and finding the parcels currently arranged in order in a predetermined space one by one by referring to the leader order information and moving them to the corresponding delivery order of each parcel. It shows how to generate the information. 4A and 4B provide information by arranging leader order information in ascending order and generating information so that parcels currently arranged in a predetermined space can be moved from the first to the corresponding delivery order. Indicates.

First, the sequence number described in FIG. 3A describes the delivery information generated by the sequence generation unit 150, and the reader sequence number describes the reader sequence number generated while reading the barcode of the parcel by the barcode reader unit 110. . The registration number indicates the parcel ID included in the barcode information, and the address indicates address information corresponding to the parcel ID received from the reception information storage unit 210. 3A and 3B illustrate that information is provided by arranging the order in ascending order, it can be seen that the order is sorted in the order of " R1, R2, R3, R4, ... ".

The number of each cell described in the left table of FIG. 3B means the alignment position and leader order of the parcel, and the number of each cell described in the right table means the position according to the delivery order of the parcel. If each parcel is moved according to the delivery sequence, the parcel of the leader sequence corresponding to each delivery sequence number is moved to the corresponding position of the right table of FIG. 3B.

In addition, if the parcel is to be loaded directly into the delivery vehicle instead of being arranged in a predetermined space according to the order of delivery, the order is provided in descending order to provide information. Then, the parcels which are currently arranged in order in a certain space are found one by one with reference to the leader number and loaded into the vehicle.

That is, as shown in FIG. 3B, the number R5 is delivered for the fifth time when the parcel is delivered, which means that R5 is the parcel in which the barcode is read for the 25th time according to the delivery order information generated by the order generating unit 150. . Therefore, the deliveryman needs to move the parcel currently aligned 25th to the first position of the reordering place.

In the case of FIG. 4A, unlike FIG. 3A, an example of generating delivery information for moving a parcel position according to a reader sequence number is provided. You can see that they are sorted in the same order as ”. The sequence number information of each parcel is described in correspondence with the reader sequence number in which the barcode is read according to the delivery sequence information generated by the sequence generation unit 150.

Then, as shown in the left table of FIG. 4B, the delivery person can grasp the parcel delivery order position of the parcel based on the alignment position of the parcel and the leader order number. For example, in the case of the fifth-read parcel, since the delivery order information is R80, the parcel arranged in the fifth is now moved to the 80th position of the rearranged place.

The embodiments of the present invention described above are not only implemented by the apparatus and method but may be implemented through a program for realizing the function corresponding to the configuration of the embodiment of the present invention or a recording medium on which the program is recorded, The embodiments can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art from the description of the embodiments described above.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.

1 is a structural diagram of a parcel ordering system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of classifying parcels according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A and 3B are exemplary views of arranging parcels by delivery order in order of order according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4A and 4B are exemplary views for arranging parcels by delivery order according to a leader sequence number according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (5)

In the system which distinguishes the delivery order of parcels, A barcode reader unit for reading barcodes included in the parcel, extracting barcode information, and generating reader sequence information in the order of reading the barcodes; An information transmitting / receiving unit which transmits the barcode information extracted by the barcode reader unit to an information system and receives address information corresponding to the barcode information from the information system; An order information storage unit which stores information in order of previously generated addresses; And A sequence generation unit for generating delivery sequence information of the parcel based on the leader sequence number information, address information, and sequence information; Ordering system comprising a. The method of claim 1, Delivery information storage unit for storing the barcode information extracted from the barcode reader unit, the generated reader sequence number information and the address information received by the information transceiver Ordering system comprising a. The method of claim 1, The integrated information system, Reception information storage unit for storing the address information corresponding to the bar code information received from the information transmission and reception unit, and transmits to the information transmission and reception unit Ordering system comprising a. In the method of classifying the delivery order of parcels, Extracting barcode information from a barcode included in the parcel, and generating reader sequence number information; Receiving address information corresponding to the barcode information; And Providing delivery order information of parcels included in delivery information based on order information corresponding to the address information, the address information, and leader order number information. Ordering method comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein Providing the delivery order information, Sorting any one of the leader order information and the order information; And Providing updated parcel information based on the sorted information so that the parcel is loaded Ordering method comprising a.

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