MOBILIZED LAUNDRY SERVICE SYSTEM

摘要

A distributed laundry system having mobilized laundry vehicles, including true laundry conveyors in the vehicles, and including a specialized distributed computer network in the vehicles to handle the circumstances of mobile laundry operations, such as special laundry instructions. In addition, procedures and operations which allow the vehicles to cooperate to provide efficient pickup and drop off services at locations of the customers' choices (such as at home or work), including flexible territories for the trucks, customer user interfaces on mobile devices such as cell phones, mobile computing devices and the like, and precise time estimates of pick-up and drop-off times.

主权项

1. An electronic laundry vehicle network for carrying out normal laundry operations such as dry-cleaning, laundry, housekeeping, alteration, leather, the electronic laundry vehicle network comprising:
a plurality of laundry vehicles; each of said laundry vehicles having a location tracking device, a central processing device and a non-volatile digital memory device; a cargo compartment having a hanging conveyor; at least one hanger carrier upon such rail, a hanging laundry compartment hanging from the hanger carrier, the hanging laundry compartment different from the cargo compartment and hanging within the cargo compartment; the hanging compartment having therewithin a bar dimensioned and configured to hold laundry hangers, the hanging compartment dimensioned and configured to accept such laundry therewithin; whereby such laundry hangs protected within the compartment each of said non-volatile digital memory devices having a plurality of modules for use by said central processing devices; a customer access service operative to receive a specific first customer location, said modules including; an in-vehicle network interface module operative to maintain data exchange between each of said laundry vehicles and said network; an in-vehicle address and laundry instruction module operative to receive said specific first customer location; an in-vehicle precise time estimate module operative to immediately provide a precise time for one of said laundry vehicles to reach said specific first customer location; an in-vehicle pickup/scheduling/routing module operative to efficiently route one of said laundry vehicles among a plurality of customer locations; an in-vehicle master laundry module operative to control functionality of said modules; said in-vehicle address and laundry instructions module further operative to receive specific laundry instructions and associate them with said specific first customer location; said pickup/scheduling/routing module further operative to monitor locations of each of said laundry vehicles and efficiently route one of said laundry vehicles to said specific first customer location.