When Li Mu was reborn, Huaxia's Internet industry was at its peak, and the concept of Internet + was also booming, which further gave birth to almost all industries in Huaxia at that time were integrating with the Internet as much as possible, and the express delivery industry was the same.

Li Mu in the impression that Shunfeng and Jingdong at that time can provide users with real-time logistics information and real-time location, users can see where their express delivery is, where it is, who will deliver it, and how far away the courier is from him.

Li Mu hopes that Taobao logistics can also have such a ability in this era, in this way, Taobao logistics will be at least eight to ten years ahead of the logistics enterprises in the previous life at the level of informatization, although Li Mu does not know much about hardware, but he himself sorted out some of the key points, I feel that in this era to achieve this, the hardware should have a sufficient foundation, but a new product concept is needed to combine these hardware.

That's why he asked Fang Xudong to bring hardware experts over and put forward some of his ideas to them that were not professional enough but had enough foresight.

Li Mu said to everyone: "I believe that real-time positioning equipment should not be difficult to achieve, because the current GPS satellite positioning module and GSM mobile communication module are ready-made, as long as the two are fused together, the equipment can be through the GSM communication module, real-time transmission of GPS coordinate location information container equipped with real-time positioning information, this should be right?"

As a communication expert, Hu Bo immediately nodded and said: "Now the more popular mobile communication technologies are GSM and CDMA, which can realize the function of real-time data transmission you just mentioned, and although the GPS module is relatively expensive, it has also been popularized in many fields, so it should not be difficult to combine the two into one." ”

Li Mu nodded: "Since these two functions can be realized, then I will talk about my other ideas." ”

After a pause, Li Mu said: "The reason why I need to add RF technology support to these two functions is that I hope that in the future, we will install such equipment on every vehicle, every trailer, and every express package, and then install RF technology reading equipment on all logistics nodes, so as to improve our operation efficiency." ”

"For example, we have loaded ten large parcels into the container of Beijing A555, and these ten large packages will be sent to Shanghai for sorting and transit, so when these ten packages are loaded, they will be automatically read and recorded and uploaded directly through the radio frequency technology in the car, and then the vehicle will be on the road, and we can monitor the location of the carriage in real time through the GPS coordinate data sent by GSM;"

"When the location of the car enters the Shanghai distribution center is still 20 kilometers or 10 kilometers, the system will automatically hang the information of the car to the large screen next to the staff of the distribution center, reminding them that the car is about to enter the site, the staff can see its cargo information in real time, it is loaded with ten large packages, and these large packages are going to which areas around Shanghai business points, the relevant information is also clear at a glance, in this way, the car has not yet arrived, our workers can be ready, and as soon as the car comes in, the radio frequency reading equipment outside the door can immediately determine the identity of the car and the package in the car, directly remind our pick-up workers that the car has arrived, immediately prepare for work, and then immediately transport these ten packages to the loading dock that is about to go to their respective destination business points, so that the overall efficiency should be improved a lot. ”

Li Mu's hardware idea is basically equivalent to a set of GPS trackers, plus a set of equipment similar to highway ETC, but Li Mu is not clear whether the current hardware base research and development of such equipment is realistic.

As a communication expert, Hu Boluo thought about it for a while, and said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, this set of hardware can be realized, let me take it apart first, because the idea of your two sets of equipment includes GPS and GSM, so I will talk about these two pieces first." ”

After a pause, Hu Bo continued: "We can directly purchase GPS modules, GSM modules, and then buy a batch of SIM cards from operators that can run up data, and use their networks to support, which will involve a part of the communication protocol, but it is not a problem, the protocols are open, and the cost is very low, and then the integration of single-chip microcomputer technology, it can be easily realized, the basic structure is GPS chip, GSM chip and single-chip microcomputer." ”

"As for radio frequency technology, because I am not an expert in this area, I am not very sure, but I have heard that there is a non-stop charging system abroad, although it has not been popularized in our country, but there are already a small number of foreign countries in use, this set of technology should be consistent with our needs. ”

The principle is based on a radio frequency technology called RFID, this set of technology generally requires two sets of hardware and a system, a set of hardware in the car, a set of highway toll stations, users do not need to stop when driving into or out of the highway, when it passes through the toll station, the equipment of the toll station will automatically read the information of the equipment in the car, and then record its starting point in the system, and so it arrives at the destination, When leaving the highway, you have to go through the toll station again, and the information is read again, the two data are combined, you can know what time and where the car got on the highway, you can also know what time and where the car got off the highway, and then calculate the amount that needs to be paid, and then carry out a set of cost calculations, I think the principle of this set of technology, it is enough to support the needs you said before, we only need to integrate this function with GPS, GSM module, you can achieve all your needs. ”

Li Mu nodded approvingly, and said with a smile: "It is necessary to use such technology to support, if the technical problems can be solved, then it should not be so difficult to develop such hardware products, right?"

Hubo said: " It mainly depends on what kind of hardware and solutions are used, and then integrated, and also need to write a single-chip microcomputer program, in addition to industrial design at the same time, industrial design is simple, but it is actually more troublesome, such as mobile phones, we have to repeatedly find a way to reduce the size of the motherboard, and the appearance design of each other to run in and compromise, and finally hit a final disgust, and then find a foundry for mold production, but if we are just for our own use, the industrial design can not be so refined, so that our entire process can be a lot faster。 ”

Li Mu said: "This piece of equipment is mainly installed in truck tractors, trailers, containers, and express parcels, so there is no need for too cumbersome industrial design, as long as it is reliable and practical." ”

Speaking, Li Mu said: "However, the courier I just said is handheld terminal, which involves our corporate image, so it is still necessary to design better, have a sense of science and technology, and a sense of high-end." ”

Hu Bo said: "The handheld device you said, in addition to the GPS and GSM module just mentioned, also need a set of code scanning equipment, but this is not a problem, the code scanning equipment our current system has been fully supported, the code scanner will quickly identify the code and upload it to the server, this problem we have long solved, even if it is replaced with a handheld device, it is not very troublesome, that is, the data is transmitted from the network cable to GSM mode wireless transmission. ”

Li Mu nodded: "Theoretically, this is true, but we can't just develop a blind general code scanning device for our courier, we have to give him a screen, give them a set of systems, so that they can have more operating space, for example, we add a mobile phone screen on this set of equipment, he can choose whether to do pickup and scan the code, or do the code scanning before delivery, or scan the code after delivery;"

"At the same time, we also want to make this equipment a remote business processing terminal, for example, a user in our building places an order online, fills in the address here to send a courier, then our server after receiving his order demand, we must immediately find the nearest courier through the location of the terminal equipment on our courier, and then send him a pickup notice, and at the same time transmit the order information to him in the form of SMS. ”

"Or, we automatically screen the delivery process of the courier through the code scanning record of the express mail carried by the courier when he departs, if the courier A is still far away from here at this time, but he carries the express delivery destination in this building, and it has not been delivered, we can determine that the courier A has a delivery business in this building, so he will inevitably come to this building, so that we can give priority to the task of picking up the parcel to him, so that we can minimize our labor waste and make the whole process more efficient." 。 ”

Fang Xudong immediately said: "Mr. Li, I will organize a new project team today to tackle the hardware equipment you mentioned." ”

Li Mu nodded: "Communicate with my colleagues in the patent department, and don't let go of all the patents that can be applied for in the research and development process." ”

"Understood. ”

Li Mu said: "This matter is regarded as the first key research and development project of our hardware laboratory, you are developing GSM and GPS modules combined at the same time, on the one hand, to make these two sets of modules more compatible and adaptable, on the other hand, to think more about the effect they can produce when combined with other devices, GSM, GPS and single-chip microcomputer, as long as the three are well integrated, we can make all possible things access to the Internet, which is the future era of the Internet of Things." ”

The Internet of Things is still just an ethereal abstract concept in this era, and even Western countries have not embarked on the real research and development of the Internet of Things, so when Li Mu talked about the Internet of Things, everyone present was at a loss, although they had heard of this concept, but they didn't know how to implement this concept in their minds.

Li Mu said: "The set of equipment we installed on the vehicle is actually the basic 'Internet of Things', but the future of the Internet of Things should not be just a one-way transmission of information, it should have more. The actual wisdom function, to give you an example, if I ask you to develop a new type of bicycle lock, this lock does not have a keyhole, but through the GSM module and the single-chip microcomputer module, to control a set of miniature relays, and then access the GPS module, with a lithium battery as the power supply, in this way, equipped with this bicycle lock, itself has been connected to the Internet. ”

Li Mu wanted to use the concept of remote unlocking of shared bicycles as a case of the Internet of Things to make a popular science for several people, but there is a very big problem that there is no smart phone now, and there is no mobile phone scanning code, so Li Mu modified the logic and changed the link of scanning the code of the smartphone to an ordinary mobile phone to send text messages through GSM.

Subsequently, Li Mu continued: " I give this bicycle a unique ID, and in the server to retain the matching information, and then throw the bicycle on the street, for our specific users to use freely, the specific logic is: if the ID of the car is 6666, then when the user sees the car, only need to send the number of 6666 to our server by SMS, the server will verify that his mobile phone number has the qualification to unlock, will pass through the GSM module, send an unlocking instruction to the lock on the bicycle, and then the GSM module will receive the instruction to the microcomputer, and then the microcomputer will control the relay, you say, what will happen？”

Fang Xudong said excitedly: "The single-chip microcomputer received the zhi command to power on the relay and open the lock in an instant!"

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