Optimized system for tracking the delivery of articles

摘要

A method of tracking the delivery of an article in which an addressee of the article identifies his/her/itself and signs a touch-sensitive display screen of a portable terminal held in the hand of a delivery person, the terminal also including a radio interface for transmitting this identity data and signature to a remote management computer center, the portable terminal also has an image sensor which is used to take an image of an article delivery receipt as previously filled in by the addressee, and the image is transmitted together with the identity and signature data to the management computer center in order to enable them to be consulted remotely via a telecommunications network.