WEB based delivery system with with aotomatic dispatching using PLC

Abstract

Delivery services play an important role for people wishing to send packages to a diff erent location without having to go through the hardship of traveling for long distances. With their help, people can send and receive a package safely and in a short period of time. Another aspect where delivery services are vital is in e-commerce businesses because a good delivery management is the foundation of its success. Our project is a realization of a delivery service agency where we fi rst designed and implemented an automatic package sorting system based on a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) that makes use of barcode technology for the identifi cation of diff erent packages, which was extremely useful not only for the sorting process but also for the automatic updating of the database. We have also developed a web-based application that shows all the features and services our agency has to off er for its customers which was carried out using the standard method for object-oriented (analysis and design) modeling language, Unifi ed Modelling Language (UML). As for its implementation, we have used HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the front-end, PHP and MYSQL for the back- end.