Abstract
Recently, IoT technology, low power networking technology for IoT, and geopositioning systems are very useful tools for future applications. One of the applications is the logistics system, especially for the point to point delivery. The current parcel delivery system is delivered through the logistics hub despite latent economic disadvantages in terms of delivery time and delivery distance. The major disadvantage of current hub and spoke delivery system is that individual parcels must go to the logistics hub first even if the origin and destination are nearby or within a distance that can be delivered through the hub. These sorts of delivery are inefficient and increase total expense of delivery in terms of delivery time and delivery costs. We designed a new delivery system of point to point delivery using IoT technology and end-to-end IoT platform based on ThingPlug and LoRa technology for fast delivery and less cost of delivery. We designed an IoT device that can be part of parcels or attached to parcels, which have various functionalities including the capability to understand current delivery routes with the use of geopositioning systems. In addition, we addressed the difficulties with issues such as linking IoT device into IoT platforms and designing IoT device functionalities. We also showed methods to improve the efficiency of IoT based parcel delivery systems. The proposed system may improve economics of parcel delivery system by reducing travel distance for delivery and dissipation of delivery time.
Highlights
Thanks to the 4th Industrial Revolution, Internet of Things (IoT) technology is expanding and prospering in many industrial sectors
We enhanced our parcel delivery system based on existing IoT platform provided by the SK Telecom (SKT) of Republic of Korea (Seoul, Korea)
We proposed an improved parcel delivery system, which reduces the total delivery distance with IoT technology and improves economic feasibility
Summary
Thanks to the 4th Industrial Revolution, Internet of Things (IoT) technology is expanding and prospering in many industrial sectors. It requires a huge central server that processes and stores data received from a number of devices This requires large administrative costs It wants to improve efficiency by utilizing IoT technology. IoT devices require efficient management of data and the role of the central server is very important because of real-time data processing. To address these problems, distributed networking of IoT is expected in the future [3,4,5] In this case, the central server’s role will be reduced, and the portion of the work handled by the terminal device will increase. There are so many IoT connection protocols such as Sigox, LoRa, LTE-M, NB-IoT, Cat-M1 [15], and so on It can be used up, SKT’s ThingPlug is used as an IoT platform in this paper. We found low speed and power efficient communication and it was LoRa [16,17]
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