WO2007022805A1 - Procede et dispositif de reconnaissance d'adresse et de reexpedition d'articles - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif de reconnaissance d'adresse et de reexpedition d'articles Download PDF

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WO2007022805A1
WO2007022805A1 PCT/EP2006/003996 EP2006003996W WO2007022805A1 WO 2007022805 A1 WO2007022805 A1 WO 2007022805A1 EP 2006003996 W EP2006003996 W EP 2006003996W WO 2007022805 A1 WO2007022805 A1 WO 2007022805A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • G06Q10/08—Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management

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  • Sorting of goods are on their surfaces information that can be read and read by a machine.
  • goods are postal items, such as parcels and letters.
  • a sender addresses and franks a letter and throws it, for example, in a mailbox.
  • a parcel is usually addressed by the sender, but posted at a post office.
  • a letter and parcel service such as a logistics company or a national postal company, delivers the letters and parcels to the recipients according to the addresses indicated on the estate.
  • the read address can then be applied on a machine-readable bar code by means of a bar code. After the shipments are sorted, they can be delivered to the recipients.
  • Such automatic systems for address recognition enable flexible forwarding and adapted processing of transported goods.
  • a human-readable address is necessary. For example, when using parcel machines for exporting and delivering parcels, it is possible to have parcels sent directly to parcel machines. However, the address of the respective parcel machine must be printed in plain text on these items. However, it may happen that the sender does not know the address of the parcel machine and that the home or company address of the recipient is used instead. If the address of the parcel machine is not specified, the consignment can not be delivered directly to the parcel machine.
  • One aspect of the present invention therefore relates to a method for processing address information on goods, in which a good is provided with a machine-readable label carrying information identifying the good.
  • the information is collected at a process station.
  • a database is accessed to use the information collected to determine if the asset is redirected. If this is the case, the goods will be processed according to the diversion. If this is not the case, the good is sorted out as wrong.
  • the system includes a transport device for a good that is provided with a machine-readable label carrying information identifying the good.
  • a transmitting and receiving device is equipped to communicate with the label to capture the information.
  • a storage device includes a database that associates an originating destination with a redirected destination.
  • a control system is coupled to the transceiver and the memory means for determining, based on the detected information, whether a diverter is established for the asset. If this is the case, the goods must be further processed according to the diversion. If this is not the case, the good is to be sorted out as wrong.
  • the invention eliminates the problem of transitioning from the automated system to the human.
  • a so-called radio tag or RFID tag Radio Frequency Identification Device
  • This is applied to a good and provided with data.
  • This information can now be automatically detected and displayed at the transition point from the machine to the person.
  • the information is obtained either directly by stored on the RFID tag information or access to a database stored on a storage device (redirection database). This contains the necessary links.
  • the current destination of the good e.g. the place where the recipient wants to receive the goods is then presented to the processor in plain text on a display device. This makes it possible to actually differentiate misdirected goods from redirected goods without having to manually collect the data individually from each asset. It is also possible to generate an alarm in the event of an error.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic overview of an embodiment of a system for address identification and redirection
  • FIG. 2 shows an exemplary process flow which can be carried out with the aid of the system shown in FIG.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic overview of an exemplary embodiment of a system 1 for processing goods.
  • various embodiments will be described with reference to packages that customers can place and pick up at a parcel machine.
  • the invention is not limited to packages or the use of parcel machines, but can be applied to various types of goods that are carried in a processing system and u.U. should be redirected.
  • the system 1 shown has a control system 2 ("CONTROL") connected to a memory device 2 ("DB"), a communication unit 6, for example a display unit (“DISPLAY”) or an acoustic signal unit, and a transceiver 8 1, the direction of movement of the package 10 is indicated by an arrow A.
  • the package 10 contains at least one field 16 with address information Exemplary embodiment, the field 16 contains a radio tag with address information.
  • the package 10 and each further incoming package 8 in the process station 14 are transferred from the transport 12 to another transport.
  • the process station 14 represents a transition point from the machine to the person at which, for example, an employee can transfer the package 10 into a specific compartment or delivery vehicle, from where the subsequent delivery of the package 10 takes place.
  • the process station 14 may be an internal transfer point from which further processing occurs in another subsystem.
  • the storage device 4 contains a database which links an original destination with a redirected destination. That is, in one embodiment, the database stores a plurality of address pairs. Each address pair contains the original address of the customer and a redirect address, where the customer the good would like to receive.
  • the database is also called diversion database in the following.
  • the redirection database includes criteria by which to redirect. Examples of such criteria are size, weight or sender of the goods. For example, a customer can specify that only goods over a certain size are diverted, for example to a parcel station.
  • the radio tag (also called RFID tag or RFID tag) present in field 16 may contain information, such as e.g. Save address information.
  • the RFID tag can be mounted generally on or in the estate.
  • the package 10 may be externally mounted on a surface, in or under the package.
  • the packaging should be chosen so that it is permeable to electromagnetic waves.
  • a label with a bar code coding the information also called bar code label
  • an RFID tag and a bar code label can also be present.
  • the RFID tag is an integral part of a package tag that is adhered to the outside of a package.
  • the RFID tag can store information identifying the good.
  • the information may include an identification code or the address information of the item or both.
  • the information may be stored on the RFID tag, for example, at the beginning of processing (eg, already at the time the goods are unloaded or unloaded) or during processing (e.g., when automatically reading the address information).
  • the transmitting and receiving device 8 emits electromagnetic waves with specified parameters (frequency, energy, communication protocol). If the package 10 is within reach, energy is supplied to the RFID tag by the electromagnetic waves. In response to this, the RFID tag sends out the stored information that the transmitting and receiving device 8 receives and forwards to the control system 2.
  • specified parameters frequency, energy, communication protocol
  • the control system 2 is designed to control the processes taking place in the system 1. This includes, for example, the reception of the forwarded by the transmitting and receiving device 8 information. Depending on the information received, the control system 2 controls access to the redirection database and controls the communication unit 6.
  • FIG. 2 shows an exemplary process flow which can be carried out with the aid of the system 1 shown in FIG.
  • a customer deposits a good at a parcel machine.
  • the customer attaches the address details of the recipient in plain text on the goods, for example by filling a label to be adhered to the shipment.
  • the customer can enter the recipient address via a keypad on the parcel machine. If the customer knows the parcel machine to which the recipient wants to receive parcels, for example, the customer also enters their number.
  • the details of the customer eg name and address, can be stored on a customer card with which the customer pretends to be a registered user at the parcel machine.
  • a step S2 the information characteristic of the goods, such as recipient and sender information and possibly the number of the receiving parcel machine, on a radio tag (also called RFID tag or RFID tag) or a label with a bar code label encoding the information called), or transferred to an RFID tag and bar code label.
  • a radio tag also called RFID tag or RFID tag
  • a label with a bar code label encoding the information called or transferred to an RFID tag and bar code label.
  • an RFID tag is applied to the goods in addition to a bar code label.
  • the information is stored on the storage device 4.
  • the database also contains redirection information, indicating where a customer wants to receive a good.
  • a customer can tell a logistics company or a national postal service that he does not want to receive goods generally or only certain (e.g., over a certain size) at his home address, but at a delivery address, such as at a particular parcel post.
  • the database may be linked to another database containing the redirection information.
  • a step S4 the goods are transported by the logistics company or national postal company to a logistics center. There, the estate is processed along with a variety of other goods according to its characteristic information, eg sorted. At the end of the processing process, the good is sorted out according to its destination in a step S5.
  • a step S6 it is determined whether there is an RFID tag on the goods. For this purpose, the material is moved past the transmitting and receiving device 8, which emits a signal to activate the RPID label for transmitting a response signal. Carries the good an RFID tag, the transmitting and receiving device 8 receives the response signal, which contains the address information of the goods in an exemplary embodiment. In another embodiment, the response signal may include an identification code of the RFID tag associated with a particular address.
  • an employee recognizes in a step S8 that it is a good with a "wrong" address, that is, the employee reads the address details on the goods and realizes that this address is not actually in his Therefore, without further help, he does not recognize whether it is a wrongly sorted good, and therefore it has to be returned to the sorting process, or a diverted commodity, and therefore it actually If available, the employee can scan the barcode label to still receive the address details of the goods.
  • step S9 it is determined whether the address information obtained by the bar code label in step S7 or step S8 is correct.
  • a "correct address" is determined by an access to the redirection database If this address is assigned a delivery address (eg a specific parcel station), the system recognizes that the goods have been diverted and thus correctly sorted , a signal is generated in a step S10, which notifies the employee of this event.
  • the address is "wrong," i.e., the address is not assigned a delivery address in the redirection database, since the recipient does not want to redirect, the good has been mis-sorted.
  • the notification can be made in various ways that are perceptible to the employee.
  • the message is visible, for example by an optical display (LCD display).
  • the message is audible, for example, by a simple tone or by a voice signal.
  • the communication can also be a combination of visible and audible communications.
  • the message can communicate not only the event "correct address", but also additional information about how the good should be forwarded.
  • a step S1 the item is forwarded with the correct address following the step S1O, for example according to the additional information from step S1O.
  • the forwarding may in one embodiment be a storage in a vehicle.
  • This vehicle may be a delivery vehicle of the logistics company whose delivery route includes the address of the goods.
  • the good is e.g. from the logistics company to the recipient.
  • step S9 If it has been detected in step S9 that the good has an incorrect address, it will not be delivered for the time being. Instead, it is returned to the sorting process in a step S 14.
  • an automatic readout of the data and / or subsequent representation is realized at the transition point from the machine to the person, whereby the bottleneck disappears at the transition point.
  • the redirection of the packages to a parcel machine is enabled, even without direct addressing.
  • an alarm is generated which indicates to the employee the data required for the correction.
  • the system also allows for automatic detection of incorrect loading on delivery.
  • an RFID antenna is required in the delivery vehicles at the loading device (door). This automatically detects whether a package is intended for this vehicle / route or not.
  • a visual display indicates to the operator in which vehicle the corresponding good has to be introduced. In the event of an error, an automatic alarm occurs.
  • this system can be used during delivery.
  • the current position of the delivery vehicle eg by means of a navigation system (GPS or similar)
  • GPS navigation system
  • this system can be used during delivery in conjunction with a navigation (GPS) or fleet management system.
  • address information recognized by the system is transmitted to the navigation or fleet management system in order to carry out an optimized delivery route planning.
  • the current position of the delivery vehicle and the transmitted address information are linked to identify during delivery the goods that are to be delivered to the current position of the vehicle.
  • an alarm can also be generated here. This reduces the probability of error to a minimum.
  • the goods to be delivered at the current position can be visibly or audibly identified.
  • a mobile barcode reader is used at the transition point from the system to the human being, with which the goods that do not correspond to the destination located there are scanned.
  • the barcode attached to the goods is read out by the operator using a barcode reader and indicates to the user whether the goods have been sorted correctly or incorrectly at this point. If the goods have been identified as correct, further processing can be displayed with the help of the above-mentioned optical display system.

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L'invention concerne un procédé de traitement de données d'adresse sur des articles. Selon ce procédé, un article (10) est pourvu d'une étiquette (16) lisible par machine, cette étiquette (16) comportant des informations identifiant ledit article. Ces informations sont détectées au niveau d'un poste de traitement. Une banque de données est consultée pour déterminer, à l'aide des informations détectées, si une réexpédition est spécifiée pour l'article (10), auquel cas ledit article (10) est traité conformément à cette réexpédition. En revanche, s'il ne s'agit pas d'une réexpédition, l'article (10) est trié comme étant incorrect.
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