Container
AssigneePelipod Ltd
InventorJonathan DOYLE
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Abstract
A secure container for storing a package, comprising: a lock for locking the container; a sensor for sensing that the secure container is unlocked; a transceiver for communicating with a telecommunications network; a controller configured, in response to the sensor sensing that the secure container is unlocked, to communicate, by means of the transceiver, an alert to a network device via the telecommunications network.
Claims14
A secure container for storing a package, comprising:
- a lock for locking the container;
- a sensor for sensing that the secure container is unlocked;
- a transceiver for communicating with a telecommunications network;
- a controller configured, in response to the sensor sensing that the secure container is unlocked, to communicate, by means of the transceiver, an alert to a network device via the telecommunications network;
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- an alarm, wherein the controller is further configured to trigger the alarm in response to the sensor sensing that the secure container is unlocked.
A method of operating a secure container for storing a package, the secure container comprising an alarm and being configured to communicate with telecommunications network, comprising the steps of:
- sensing that the secure container is unlocked;
- in response to the sensing that the container is unlocked, communicating an alert to a network device via the telecommunications network and triggering the alarm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.