Quadient Technologies France

Thomas Eraud

Gabriel Santangeli

Arnaud Yvoz

An electronic locker system for parcel deposit and pick-up, comprising: a remote shipping system, a long distance communication network, at least one mobile device communicating via the long distance communication network with the remote shipping system, at least one parcel locker constituted of at least one autonomous compartments cluster including at least one compartment equipped with a door and including a locking module, which electronically controls locking and unlocking of the door and which establishes a local communication with the at least one mobile device via a short distance communication, wherein the locking module comprises: an energy management module configured for managing transitions of energy modes and allowing the at least one autonomous compartments cluster to be run in a deep sleep mode or in a sleep mode and regularly allowing a wake-up from said deep sleep mode to said sleep mode, a radio transceiver module equipped with an antenna, and at least one processor running a firmware configured for, while in the sleep mode, regularly emitting with the radio transceiver module a broadcasted short message towards the at least one mobile device.

Parcel locker system with autonomous clusters of compartments

A method and a system for operating an electronic locker system for parcel deposit and pick-up via a network of at least one mobile device, the system comprising: a remote shipping system communicating via a long distance communication network with the at least one mobile device, at least one parcel locker constituted of at least one autonomous compartments cluster including at least one compartment equipped with a door and including a locking module, which controls locking and unlocking of the door and communicates locally with the at least one mobile device via a short distance communication, and comprising an energy management module configured for managing transitions of energy modes and allowing the at least one autonomous compartments cluster to be run in a sleep mode; the method comprising: establishing a communication between the at least one mobile device and the remote shipping system, regularly emitting by the locking module, while in the sleep mode, a broadcasted short message addressed to the at least one mobile device for establishing a short distance communication session with the at least one mobile device, receiving by the at least one mobile device from the remote shipping system an authenticator generated by the remote shipping system and provided in a ciphered form to said at least one mobile device, this authenticator being used for sending by the at least one mobile device to the locking module a request including the authenticator, and deciphering with a secret key stored in the locking module the authenticator for an automatic validation of the request, wherein no authorization code is generated and provided to the locking module for the automatic validation of the request.

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Avignon, France

Thomas Eraud