| 摘要 |
A platform for urban logistics that can be used by the general public, individuals, and/or companies, to receive, send, store, share and/or exchange items.;The novel platform results from a combination of a distributed discrete network of public and/or private lockable cabinet arrays. Each array may contain a plurality of individual cabinets that may be of different sizes and that are equipped with plurality of accessing and security means. A local computer control unit, having management software, enables a plurality of functions, including transaction management and auditing, and it is connected to other arrays and users via the Internet. |
| 主权项 |
1. A logistics platform to facilitate deposit, retrieval, sharing, exchange, and storage of an item, the logistics platform comprising:
at least one cabinet array comprising of at least two lockable cabinets; a cabinet array computer, disposed in the at least one cabinet array, communicatively connected to each of the at least two lockable cabinets, capable of selectively permitting independent access to one of the at least two lockable cabinets, capable of monitoring the contents or lack thereof of each of the at least two lockable cabinets, capable of selecting one from at least two lockable cabinets according with an item's dimensions suitability, managing a plurality of users and the at least two lockable cabinet usage database, interfacing with a user through an audiovisual input device, selecting one from the at least two lockable cabinets, and generating an individual transaction code for each access to each of the at least two lockable cabinets; a central server computer, communicatively connected to the cabinet array computer, capable of managing a plurality of users and the at least two lockable cabinet usage database, synchronizing its database with the database of the cabinet array computer, communicatively connected to other third party computers, generating an individual transaction code for each access to one of the at least two lockable cabinets and transmitting the individual transaction code to a user to permit its access to the one of at least two lockable cabinets; and a power supply, to furnish continuous uninterrupted power to the cabinet array computer, the central server computer, and to each lockable cabinet. |
