Development of the system and method for delivery using Radio Frequency Identification (I-BOX)

Abstract

Balikbayan boxes sent by OFW's abroad are delivered by freight forwarders to their rightful recipients. But before arriving at the recipient's residence these packages pass through a series of transfers and transactions (foreign forwarder, shipping company, Bureau of Customs, local forwarder, etc.). In every transaction and transfer, the balikbayan box is vulnerable to different circumstances. The security of the items inside is at stake. I-Box (Innovated Balikbayan box Operation Express) is an innovation to the common delivery system that tracks and monitors the condition of the balikbayan box for secured delivery thus solving the flaws of the normal delivery system. A point to point implementation of this design enhances the monitoring and tracking of the boxes. The realized design uses RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags to monitor and track the exact location of the box that is unique to every box making the identification of the box non-reproducible.