11250 results about "Logistics management" patented technology

A wireless communication network for programming and monitoring a plurality of network-managed devices, including electronic-ink based display devices, comprising a network management computer system, a network gateway device, one or more wireless network routers, a plurality of network-managed devices, and a network coordinator. The wireless communication network of the present invention bridges the gap between wireless display networks, wireless sensor networks, and the worlds of passive, active and partially-active RFID and real-time locating systems. The wireless communication network of the present invention allows conventional communication network protocols to operate in more flexible ways in dynamic, diverse, and heterogeneous application environments, in fields including retail, healthcare, transport, logistics, manufacturing, education, etc. At the same time, the wireless communication network of the present invention is preferably based on the IEEE 802.15.4 network layer standard, which offers low-cost wireless network communication between a large number of wireless network end-devices.

A code reading system capable of signaling exception handling procedures for products being handled in a work environment, such as, for example, consumer product being purchased in a retail store or a product or package being sorted by a logistics company. The system includes a system housing containing one or more one or more signal sources for generating distinctive visual and/or audible exception handling signals for special classes of products identified in the environment. Such special products may include: EAS tagged products requiring EAS tag deactivation: alcohol and tobacco products requiring proof of age; controlled products requiring additional customer tracking; age restricted products requiring identification; product purchases requiring personnel to show up and approve or assist in a product transaction; and the like.

An apparatus and method of reserving conveyance, such as taxis and limousines, in which the pickup locations, times, and contract are established and logged electronically. The system is configured to increase the assurance that the conveyance will arrive properly on time and on location, and that the patron will also keep their end of the agreement. The system preferably configured for disincentives for either party to not follow in accord with the contract.

A method and system for piece-picking or piece put-away within a logistics facility. The system includes a central server and at least one mobile manipulation robot. The central server is configured to communicate with the robots to send and receive piece-picking data which includes a unique identification for each piece to be picked, a location within the logistics facility of the pieces to be picked, and a route for the robot to take within the logistics facility. The robots can then autonomously navigate and position themselves within the logistics facility by recognition of landmarks by at least one of a plurality of sensors. The sensors also provide signals related to detection, identification, and location of a piece to be picked or put-away, and processors on the robots analyze the sensor information to generate movements of a unique articulated arm and end effector on the robot to pick or put-away the piece.

A supply chain network where customers, suppliers, logistics providers, carriers, and financial institutions are all connected to a centralized supply chain server. The server receives forecasts for direct material procurement from the customers detailing the orders that the customers desire. These forecasts are analyzed by the supply chain server to ensure that they conform to contractual agreements and do not contain errors. The supply chain server sends the forecasted demands to at least one supplier after determining the forecasts are valid. The supply chain server controls the processes involved in distributing the product from the suppliers to the customers including the generation and payment of invoices. A form of financing the customers' purchases, made possible by the novel supply chain architecture, is also disclosed.

The subject innovation provides for systems and methods to optimize control systems for networked industrial sensors or devices and methods for self sensing, communicating with, monitoring of, controlling and optimizing utilization of networked industrial sensors and related control systems primarily in an industrial automation environment. The invention provides self-sensing and communication with sensors, and integration of control methods and strategies with decision support and logistics systems, to optimize specifically defined operational and performance objectives.

A remote vehicle diagnostics, monitoring, configuration and reprogramming tool is provided. The system includes a fleet of vehicles equipped with wireless mobile communications means that enable fleet managers to remotely diagnose, monitor and reprogram vehicles in their fleet via an Internet Web-based browser environment. Each vehicle within the fleet is equipped with a smart device that is coupled to the data bus within each vehicle. Date commands relating to the vehicle's parameters (e.g., diagnostic parameters such as max road speed, engine RPM, coolant temperature, air inlet temperature, etc.) are sent and received using satellite and terrestrial wireless communications technology. The invention allows users to remotely perform total fleet logistics and eliminates (or reduces) the need to physically bring fleet vehicles to a repair, maintenance or configuration facility.

A system and method for enhancing distribution logistics and surveillance ranges with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and at least one dock in a dock network. The UAV remains in communication with the dock for enhancing distribution logistics of at least one package and increasing the range of surveillance for the unmanned aerial vehicle. From the dock, the UAV delivers the package to a destination point, obtains the package from a pick up point, recharges the unmanned aerial vehicle throughout the network of docks, and increases the range of distribution and surveillance. A logistics software controls the delivery and surveillance. A wireless communication device enables communication between the UAV and the dock. Light indicators indicate status of the package and the operational status of the UAV. A camera captures an image of the package in the dock. A motion detector detects the UAV for regulating access for loading/unloading and docking.

This invention relates to a robot system capable of completing different kinds of kitcheneering affairs automatically by timing. the robot system comprise automatic multifunctional intellectualized subsystem integrated with washing vegetable, dishes, sterilization, storage and perservation; automatic multifunctional vegetable cutter subsystem; automatic intellectualized cooking and compounding subsystem and oil fume pumping system; automatic cooking subsystem; automatic rice cooking subsystem; intellectualized automatic cooking digital menu software controls subsystem. The system establishes an only recognition coding, specifically to a robot system applicable for common household kitchen, restaurant kitchen, logistics kitchen, and automatic snack service. The invention can save time spent on cooking affairs, reduce labor cost, save a great deal of social resource and money spent on cooking affair.

A method for verifying and authenticating additive manufactured products utilizing extraterrestrial communication including generating a product geometry file, recording to a distributed transaction register stored on a server network having a plurality of node servers a first transaction reflecting the product geometry file, the first transaction having a first output associated with the first transaction and including a blockchain address, transmitting the first output between a terrestrial transceiver that is communicatively connected to the server network and an extraterrestrial transceiver that is communicatively connected to the terrestrial transceiver, and printing, with a 3D additive printer, a product that utilizes the product geometry file.

A cargo loading logistics system for verifying cargo loaded on an aircraft receives a desired restraint configuration from a database and determines an actual restraint configuration on the aircraft by receiving data from a plurality of machine readable identifiers corresponding to a plurality of install points and data from a plurality of machine readable identifiers corresponding to a plurality of restraints. The cargo loading logistics system then compares the desired restraint configuration with the actual restraint configuration and determines if the aircraft is properly configured to be loaded for an upcoming flight.

The system describes a collaborative machine social network system with several elements. There is at least one system participant which communicates with the network. The participant's communications include short bursts of information not directed to a particular recipient but rather the network as a whole. The network further includes propagator nodes and integrator nodes to process communications from participants.

Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for planning meetings or conferences. The present invention establishes methods and procedures to define, organize, share, maintain and report essential information especially financial information associated with an individual meeting or a collection of meetings especially the collection of all of a particular organization's meetings. Essential meeting information includes but is not limited to Meeting Logistics, registration, and financial information. The methods and procedures involve a meeting planner gathering information in the various stages of planning a meeting, utilizing the information to plan that stage of the meeting then consolidating the information to manage other aspects of the meeting and to produce reports, especially financial reports, about the meeting then consolidating the meeting information with information about other meetings to produce organization-wide reports, especially financial reports, about all an organization's meetings. The present invention also provides methods and procedures for utilizing consolidated meeting information for business advantage.

The invention relates to a port warehousing logistics technology, in particular to a bulk material yard unmanned stacking/reclaiming technology. Firstly, a database is established; secondly, operation instructions, automatic stacking/reclaiming operation modes and control instructions for automatic stacking/reclaiming operations are generated through input operation kinds of goods and the planning work amount; thirdly, the relevant instructions are sent to a central control PLC and then transmitted to the corresponding local stacker/reclaimer PLC through the industrial network; fourthly, the local PLC controls the operation of all components of the stacker/reclaimer to complete the local operation control. At the same time, a material stack laser scanning device is used to scan the material yard condition, and the scanned result will then be transferred to a central control processing unit through the industrial network; fifthly, the central control processing unit achieves the stack type scan data processing of the stacker/reclaimer to generate new instructions which will then be sent to the corresponding local stacker/reclaimer PLC; sixthly, a handle operating panel arranged inside a central control room can be taken as a backup means of manual operation under special circumstances. The invention can be applied to large-scale raw material yards, such as ports, wharfs, open warehouses, mine stacking yards, as well as iron and steel enterprises.

This invention relates to a method of scheduling delivery of goods from a Logistics Company Depot (LCD) (2) to a customer having a customer communications device (3) having an associated customer account and being capable of receiving and transmitting a text message in a system comprising a scheduling computer (4) having a scheduling memory and a communications network. The geographic location of the customer communications device (3) is determined at a predetermined initial time and depending on the distance between the customer communication device and the pre-agreed delivery drop off location, a further text message either canceling or confirming the delivery is sent. Dark house calls are avoided by predicting whether a customer is likely to be present at the agreed delivery time at the location.

Motion-based management of a logistics container uses elements of a wireless node network including a container node associated with the logistics container and equipped with a motion sensor. The motion sensor detects a motion status (e.g., moving, stationary, accelerating, decelerating) for the logistics container. The container node compares the motion status to a prior motion status, and then identifies a changed motion condition for the logistics container based upon the comparison. In response to the changed motion condition, the container node alters a broadcast profile used by the container node in communicating with other nodes in the wireless node network. The container node may be deployed as an apparatus within a logistics container, be considered together with the logistics container as a motion sensing container node apparatus, and be considered with multiple package ID nodes as a motion-based management system for the logistics container.

In one embodiment, a process for managing information technology (IT) infrastructure of an enterprise includes: (1) capturing and storing IT infrastructure information regarding the IT infrastructure of the enterprise; (2) defining a plurality of roles within the enterprise, each role specifying a particular job function within the enterprise; (3) associating items of IT infrastructure with roles within the enterprise such that each role is associated with one or more predetermined items of IT infrastructure; (4) assigning roles to one or more employees of the enterprise such that each of the one or more employees is associated with one or more roles and is assigned the one or more predetermined items of IT infrastructure associated with each of these one or more roles; (5) automatically modeling a change in the IT infrastructure for one or more impacted employees; and (6) automatically initiating deployment of one or more IT infrastructure assets for the one or more impacted employees by organizing delivery of the one or more IT infrastructure assets to the one or more impacted employees to implement the change modeled.

An apparatus includes a logistics manager that includes a processor. The logistics manager is communicably coupled to at least one of a first wireless communication module onboard a first vehicle and a second wireless communication module onboard a second vehicle. The logistics manager is configured to: receive, via the first wireless communication module, first data regarding the first vehicle, where the first data is provided by a first sensor module onboard the first vehicle; receive, via the second wireless communication module, second data regarding the second vehicle, where the second data is provided by a second sensor module onboard the second vehicle; and provide navigational commands to at least one of the first vehicle and the second vehicle based on a cost and benefit analysis in response to at least one the first data and the second data.

A container for locally determining a container state using a state device. The state device detects unexpected events by comparing expected event information with actual event information related to a container condition. The container condition includes, for example, environmental conditions, logistical or location conditions, and physical or security conditions. Thus, the container is able to intelligently monitor its state and raise an alert without intervention from a central system. The container can also be programmed and reprogrammed with updated logic, states, and/or expected event information. A sensor in the state device gathers input information for comparison to expected event information. A communication port in the state device receives event information. For example, a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver can determine a current location for comparison to an expected location at the current time. In another example, an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) receiver and transmitter automatically uploads state information to a central system.

The invention discloses a container logistics real-time monitoring system and a method based on an internet of things and cloud computing. The system and the method can achieve intelligent, automated, networked and real-time monitoring of the logistics. The system comprises a plurality of sets of multi-parameter wireless sensing systems, an intelligent monitoring terminal, a cloud server and a monitoring dispatching centre; each set of multi-parameter wireless sensing systems are arranged in a container, and are connected with the intelligent monitoring terminal; the intelligent monitoring terminal is connected with the cloud server through a mobile communication network; the cloud server is connected with the monitoring dispatching centre; the intelligent monitoring terminal is used for reading sensing information of the multi-parameter wireless sensing systems, transmitting the sensing information to the monitoring dispatching centre through the cloud server by utilizing the mobile communication network, and receiving and displaying prompt information and a dispatching command from the monitoring dispatching centre; and the cloud server is used for integrating and storing the sensing information, and modeling the sensing information and calculating a numerical value, and providing an information interactive service and a decision-making consulting service for the monitoring dispatching centre.

An antifalse system based on radio frequency technology comprises storage with electronic countermark of radio frequency identification, reader / writer and antifalse information service system. The said storage is divided to be four regions of basic information region, digital signature region for storing digital signature generated by ciphering with private key of manufacture, product history region for recording basic data of logistics tracking information, antifalse certifying server address indexing region for storing server address and address offset amount.

The invention discloses an intelligent scheduling system for tail-end instant logistics. The intelligent scheduling system comprises an order receiving module, an order processing module, a deliveryman searching module, an order combination module, a merchant portrait module, a deliveryman portrait module, an order dispatching decision-making module, and a deliveryman examination module. On the basis of position information of a merchant and a user as well as positioning information generated by a deliveryman terminal APP, global optimal matching is carried out on an order and a deliveryman by considering the current position of the deliveryman, the order executed by the deliveryman, portrait image of the merchant and the deliveryman, and the requirement on allocation time by the user comprehensively and then an optimal deliveryman is determined finally to complete a delivery task. On the basis of the intelligent order dispatching way, optimal order distribution is carried out at a global angle to realize optimal utilization of the whole transport capacity; the need of instant logistics and the transport capacity supply can be balanced well; the logistics delivery efficiency can be improved; the logistics delivery cost can be lowered; and the service quality of the tail-end instant logistics can be improved.

A machine learning algorithm is trained to learn to cluster a plurality of original-destination routes in a network for transporting cargo into a plurality of clusters based on similarities of the original-destination routes, and to learn to cluster the plurality of clusters into a plurality of subgroups based on customer behavior. Influencing criteria associated with each of the subgroups may be determined and based on the influencing criteria, a price elasticity curve for each of the subgroups may be generated. Based on the price elasticity curve and current network traffic, cargo transportation price associated with each of the subgroups may be determined.

An aircraft integrated support system (ISS) downloads Integrated Vehicle Health Management System (IVHMS) data from an aircraft, processes the downloaded data to infer a status of aircraft systems and displays maintenance information via an Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM). The ISS integrates a maintenance and support environment to bind the information flow among the various aircraft and logistics networks for a fully integrated systemic approach which optimizes aircraft operation, maintenance, and support through data collection and analysis to maximize aircraft readiness.

The invention relates to a park unmanned express-delivery vehicle dispensing system and an automatic dispensing method thereof. The system comprises a data management and scheduling center, a park navigation reference station, a park unmanned express-delivery vehicle and wireless communication equipment; and includes an environment sensing layer, a cognition and decision layer, a control layer and a function application layer. The system and method can be used to solve the problems in unmanned logistics automatic dispensing in the last kilometer of a park, district and the like; automatic dispensing schemes from establishment of the automatic dispensing system of the park, the automatic dispensing method, automatic driving of the vehicle, information pushing and identity recognition of an owner of an express are all included; and technical coverage is comprehensive, the system and method are conducive to popularization and application and the user experience is good.

The invention discloses a carryable shelf warehousing system based on an automatic carry trolley, belongs to the technical field of physical distribution warehousing systems and solves such problems of the existing physical distribution operation as high labor cost of sorters in a fruit-picking type picking method and high management cost in a seeding type picking method. The carryable shelf warehousing system comprises a plurality of carryable shelf units and at least one automatic carry trolley which is connected with the carryable shelf units. The carryable shelf warehousing system integrates the advantages of fruit-picking type dismounting picking and seeding type dismounting picking, and not only can implement single-order-picking, but also can implement bulk-goods-picking.

An online trade-in system comprises: a pricing guide module, an affiliates module, a marketplace listing module, a trade-in website module, a transaction processing module, an inventory handling module, a database and a marketplace manager. The marketplace manager creates an online trade-in system that accesses the other modules to complete a trade-in transaction. The pricing guide module is used to define the items that are acceptable by the merchant for trade-in as well as a price for each item. The marketplace manager uses information from the pricing guide module and provides it to the transaction processing module along with user input to begin and create a trade-in transaction. The marketplace manager uses also controls the inventory handling module to generate a reverse logistic label that can be used by the user to send the trade-in goods back to the merchant, and track the trade-in goods as well as initiate the process to list the item on an online marketplace. The present invention also includes a number of novel methods including: a method for performing an online trade-in, a method for creating a pricing guide, a method for handling inventory, a method for item record creation, a method for dynamic pricing of trade-in goods, and a method for performing trade-ins for affiliates.

The invention discloses a personal information encryption method in a logistics system based on two-dimensional codes. The personal information encryption method in the logistics system based on two-dimensional codes is characterized by comprising the following steps that: step 1. object sending information is encrypted: the encryption is finished by senders, or collectors in the field, or objects are sent back to a logistics company and are encrypted; step 2. object sending information is encrypted by utilizing a system public key of a logistics company, and encryption two-dimensional codes are generated and are printed; packages are packed, encryption two-dimensional codes are only reserved externally, and no plaintext information is reserved; and step 3. signing is carried out after receiving. According to the invention, two signing modes are selectable, one is a two-dimensional code signing mode, and the other one is a random code signing mode; and if the two-dimensional signing mode is adopted, a receiver needs to have an ID number and public and private key pairs in the system. The personal information encryption method in the logistics system based on two-dimensional codes provided by the invention has the advantages that the encryption and safety of the user private information are ensured; packages are protected from being falsely received by other people, and denying of receiving is avoided after signing; off-line check can be realized, network support is not required, and the application is much flexible; and identity theft is also avoided.

The invention provides an intelligent lock monitoring system based on Internet of Things (IOT). The system comprises a server, a communication terminal and an intelligent lock which are in intercommunication connection. The intelligent lock comprises a mechanical lock module, an electronic lock module, a communication module, an information acquisition module, a switch processing module and a reporting processing module. The information acquisition module is used for acquiring lock status information of the intelligent lock. The switch processing module is used for carrying out electronic switching operation on the intelligent lock after receiving a switch command from the server and/or the communication terminal. The reporting processing module is used for sending the lock status information of the intelligent lock to the server and/or the communication terminal after receiving a monitoring command from the server and/or the communication terminal. Then, functions such as remote opening, dynamic supervision, real-time location query, automatic switch numeration, vandal-proof alarm, interactive application and the like can be realized on the intelligent lock in logistics. Thus, better safety guarantee is provided for safety of good under the modern logistics system.

A method for delivering and shipping parcels using a secure receptacle. The secure receptacle has an access device that controls a lock which is used to secure the contents of the receptacle from unauthorized access. One or more carriers are provided with authorized identification codes that are entered via the access device. Carriers can unlock the receptacle to place a parcel inside and then secure the receptacle to deliver the parcel whether a person is at the delivery location to receive the parcel or not. To ship a parcel, a sender places a parcel in the secure receptacle and notifies the carrier, who accesses the receptacle as described above. The carrier then takes the parcel and delivers it to the specified destination. When parcels are placed in or removed from the secure receptacle, a scanner positioned inside the secure receptacle reads a label on the parcel and sends the information to the carrier or a central processing station for the purposes of tracking parcels and payment transactions.