US 12,453,434 B2
Parcel locker bank system with improved autonomous clusters of compartments
Christophe Cubilier, Le Kremlin Bicetre (FR); and Arnaud Yvoz, Taillades (FR)
Assigned to QUADIENT TECHNOLOGIES FRANCE, Bagneux (FR)
Filed by QUADIENT TECHNOLOGIES FRANCE, Bagneux (FR)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/383,561.
Claims priority of application No. 22306614 (EP), filed on Oct. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0130552 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0225335 A9, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. A47G 29/14 (2006.01); G07C 9/00 (2020.01)
CPC A47G 29/141 (2013.01) [G07C 9/00174 (2013.01); G07C 2009/00769 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A locker system for parcel deposit and pick-up, comprising:
a parcel locker bank 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 said door, and
a mobile device configured to establish a local communication with said locking module via a short-distance communication,
wherein said locking module comprises:
an energy management module that manages transitions of energy states and allows said at least one autonomous compartments cluster to be run in a very low energy state or in a low energy state and regularly allows a partial wake-up from said very low energy state to said low energy state, wherein in said very low energy state said locking module cannot communicate with said mobile device and said locking module cannot be wakened up by said mobile device,
a broadcasting timer that triggers a transition from a very low energy state to a low energy state,
a radio transceiver module equipped with an antenna, and
at least one processor running a firmware that, while in said very low energy state or in said low energy state, regularly emits via said radio transceiver module a broadcasted short message towards said at least one mobile device,
wherein said locking module switches from a slow sleep mode associated with a slow repetition time period to a sleep mode associated with a repetition time period, which is shorter than said slow repetition time period, the slow repetition time period and the repetition time period specifying respective time periods at which messages are broadcasted in respective ones of the slow sleep mode and the sleep mode.