Description:FIELD OF INVENTION

[001] The present invention relates to an automated parcel tracking system. Particularly, the present invention relates to an automated parcel tracking system to avoid shipment missort and monitor the shipment in real time. More particularly, the system prevents a shipment from a delivery hub from being delivered to the wrong destination by sorting the shipment correctly.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[002] In the dynamic landscape of e-commerce, the efficient management of warehousing and shipments stands as a critical pillar for success. With the exponential rise in online retail transactions, warehousing serves as the backbone for storing, processing, and dispatching goods to customers. However, amid this bustling activity, one persistent challenge looms large; the missorting of shipments during the handling and distribution process. This issue poses a significant threat to operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and ultimately, the bottom line of e-commerce business.

[003] E-commerce enterprises heavily rely on warehouses to house their diverse inventory and fulfill customers’ orders promptly. These warehouses receive a constant influx of shipments, each requiring accurate sorting based on destination address, product categories and shipment methods. Among these sorting criteria, none is more crucial than sorting shipments according to postal codes, commonly referred to as pin codes. Accurate pin code based sorting ensures timely delivery, minimize logistical errors, and optimize the overall distribution process.

[004] Presently, the methods employed to tackle the challenge of shipment missorting primarily revolve around manual labor, barcode scanning systems, and rudimentary sorting algorithms. While these approaches have served their purpose to some extent. They exhibit notable limitation in coping with the escalating volumes of e-commerce shipments and ensuring precise sorting accuracy. Manual sorting process, although traditional, are labor intensive, prone to human error, and incapable of meeting the demands of modern e-commerce scalability. Barcode scanning systems, while efficient in some regards, lack the sophistication required to address dynamic sorting challenges in real-time. Moreover, existing sorting algorithms often struggle to adapt to the evolving complexities of e-commerce logistics, resulting in suboptimal routing decisions and an increase in missorting accidents.

[005] There are several patent applications that disclose a system for preventing missort. One such United States patent application US9592983B2 discloses a missort prevention system in a conveying system. The missort prevention system prevents missort in a sortation conveying system. The missort prevention system includes a sensor for detecting the presence of an unexpected article on a chute transitioning articles off of a conveyor and a missort preventer for blocking further passage of the unexpected article on the chute. However, the cited document fails to disclose any means for alarming about missorting. Furthermore, the cited art is not suitable for large warehouses and incapable to handle real time dynamic complexities.

[006] In order to overcome the problem associated with state of arts, there is a need for the development of an efficient system for avoiding shipment missort that can overcome the aforesaid limitations in a more efficient manner.

OBJECTIVE OF THE INVENTION

[007] The primary objective of the present invention is to provide an automatic shipment tracking system for avoiding shipment missort.

[008] Yet another objective of the present invention is to provide an automatic shipment tracking system that detects missort at an early stage, thereby decreasing the bagging time for shipments.

[009] Another objective of the present invention is to provide an automatic shipment tracking system that reduces manpower requirements by detecting missorts before the bagging stage.

[0010] Yet another objective of the present is to provide an automatic shipment tracking system that automatically generates alarm on detecting missort.

[0011] Yet another objective of the present invention is to provide an automatic shipment tracking system that eliminates the manual detection of missort.

[0012] Other objectives and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein, by way of illustration and example, the aspects of the present invention are disclosed.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0013] The present invention will be better understood after reading the following detailed description of the presently preferred aspects thereof with reference to the appended drawings, in which the features, other aspects and advantages of certain exemplary embodiments of the invention will be more apparent from the accompanying drawing in which:
[0014] Figure 1 illustrates the block diagram of the present invention;
[0015] Figure 2 illustrates a block diagram showing connection of the microcontroller with the slave device and the load cell.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0016] The present invention relates to an automated shipment tracking system to avoid shipment missort and monitor the shipment in real time. The automated shipment tracking system, comprising a master device, a plurality of bins wirelessly connected to the master device for storing a plurality of shipments, a hub management system wirelessly connected to the master device, a handheld device wirelessly connected to the master device and the HMS, and an alarm connected to the master device. Each bin comprises a slave device wirelessly connected to the master device, a plurality of light emitting diodes integrated on the slave device, a load cell wirelessly connected to the master device and wiredly connected to the slave device. The load cell is configured to detect placement of shipments in the bin, and transmit detected value to the master device. The master device comprises a microcontroller, a shipment counting module operated by the microcontroller to maintain number of shipments available in each of the plurality of bins based on received value from the load cell, a database configured to store data of each shipment and value of shipments in each of the plurality of bins in real-time, and the alarm connected to the microcontroller. The microcontroller compare values determined by the shipment counting module for each of the plurality of bins with information stored in the database, and generates an alert through the alarm upon detection of mismatch between value determined by the shipment counting module and the database.
[0017] The present invention also provides a method for automated shipment tracking. The method comprising steps of: (a) wirelessly connecting a master device to a plurality of bins configured to store shipments; (b) detecting placement of shipments in the plurality of bins using a plurality of load cells in each bin; (c) counting number of shipments in each bin through the shipment counting module operated by a microcontroller in the master device; (d) comparing counted number of shipments with pre-fed information stored in the database of the master device; (e) generating an alarm upon detecting a mismatch between counted number of shipments in the bins and pre-fed information stored in the database; (f) wirelessly connecting the hub management system with the master device; (g) wirelessly connecting a handheld device to the hub management system and the master device; (h) scanning barcodes pasted on shipments with the handheld device to receive: pre-fed device linked to the shipments and the bin allotted to specific shipment based on source and destination details received from the master device; (i) placing the shipments in a load cell of the bins based on glowing of led integrated on the bin; (j)increasing count of shipments in the bin upon placement through the shipment counting module; (k) repeating steps (h) to (j) for placing of each shipment in the allotted bin to prevent missorting of the shipments, and generate the alarm in case the shipment is placed in wrong load cell of the allotted bin.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION
[0018] The following detailed description and embodiments set forth herein below are merely exemplary out of the wide variety and arrangement of instructions which can be employed with the present invention. The present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. All the features disclosed in this specification may be replaced by similar other or alternative features performing similar or same or equivalent purposes. Thus, unless expressly stated otherwise, they all are within the scope of the present invention.

[0019] Accordingly, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that various changes and modifications of the embodiments described herein can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. In addition, descriptions of well-known functions and constructions are omitted for clarity and conciseness.

[0020] The terms and words used in the following description and claims are not limited to the bibliographical meanings but are merely used to enable a clear and consistent understanding of the invention. Accordingly, it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the following description of exemplary embodiments of the present invention are provided for illustration purpose only and not for the purpose of limiting the invention.

[0021] It is to be understood that the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” include plural referents unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

[0022] It should be emphasized that the term “comprises/comprising” when used in this specification is taken to specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, or components but does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, components, or groups thereof.

[0023] Accordingly, the present invention relates to an automatic shipment tracking system (100) for avoiding shipment missort. The system (100) prevents the shipment of delivery hub from being delivered to the wrong destination by sorting the shipment correctly. The system (100) is configured to generate alarm on detecting missorting.

[0024] In a preferred embodiment, the system (100) comprises a master device (102), a plurality of bins (108) wirelessly connected to the master device (102) and configured to store shipments, hub management system (116) wirelessly connected to the master device (102), and a hand held device (120) wirelessly connected to the master device (102) and the hub management system (116).

[0025] In an embodiment of the present invention, the master device (102) may be wirelessly connected to the plurality of the bins (108). In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the master device (102) may be connected to the plurality of the bins (108), such as but not limited to 48. The master device (102) is configured to detect the placement of shipment in the plurality of bins (108) through a load cell (114) placed in each of the plurality of bins (108).

[0026] In an embodiment of the present invention, the master device (102) comprises a microcontroller (104), and a shipment counting module (106). The microcontroller (104) is integrated in the master device (102). The microcontroller (104) is configured to receive value of the load cell (114) placed in each of the plurality of bins (108). The microcontroller (104) is configured to compare number of shipment determined by the shipment counting module (106) for each of the plurality of bins (108) with information of a database (118). The microcontroller (104) is configured to generate an alarm upon detection of mismatch between value determined by the shipment counting module (106) and the database (118).

[0027] The microcontroller (104) may be selected from such as, but not limited to STM 32, and the like. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the microcontroller (104) is a 32 bit processor, STM 32.

[0028] In an embodiment of the present invention, the shipment counting module (106) are pre-fed instructions operated by the microcontroller (104) based on pre-fed instructions. The shipment counting module (106) in the master device (102) is configured to maintain number of shipment present in each of the plurality of bins (108) based on received value of the load cell (114). The shipment counting module (116) in the master device (102) is configured to increase or decrease number of shipments for each of the plurality of bins (108) based on detection of shipment by the load cell (114).

[0029] In an embodiment of the present invention, the plurality of bins (108) are wirelessly connected to the master device (102). The plurality of bins (108) are configured to store shipments. Each of the plurality of bins (108) are mapped with a pre-fed instructions, such as but not limited to a code of conduct (Coc) code. Each of the Coc code is mapped to pin codes. The coc codes are pre-fed information comprising of source and destination details of the shipment, where the coc codes are configured to be imprinted on the bag as bag tracking id.

[0030] In an embodiment of the present invention, each of the plurality of bins (108) comprises a slave device (110) wirelessly connected to the master device (102), light emitting diodes (112) integrated on the slave device (110), and the load cell (114) wirelessly connected to the master device (102), wiredly connected to the slave device (110) and configured to detect placement of shipment in the plurality of the bins (108).

[0031] In an embodiment of the present invention, the slave device (110) is installed on each of the plurality of bins (108). The slave device (110) is wirelessly connected to the master device (102). The wireless connection between the slave device (110) and the master device (102) may be selected from such as, but not limited to a local area network, a personal area network, a metropolitan area network, a wider area network, and the like. The local area network may be selected from such as, but not limited to a Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity), networking between two computers, and the like. The personal area network may be selected from such as, but not limited to a Bluetooth, and the like. The wider area network may be selected from such as, but not limited to a cellular network, an internet, and the like.

[0032] The slave device (110) may be configured to transmit the detected value of the load cell (114) to the master device (102). The master device (102) and the slave device (110) may be configured to communicate through higher layer protocol. The higher layer protocol may be selected from such as, but not limited to COAP, HTTP, MQTT protocol, and the like. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the higher layer protocol may be MQTT protocol.

[0033] The higher level protocol or MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport), is a lightweight, publish-subscribe based messaging protocol designed for resource-constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency, or unreliable networks. MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) protocol communication takes place among MQTT broker and a plurality of MQTT clients.

[0034] In an exemplary embodiment, MQTT Client may be any application or device running the MQTT client library. MQTT client connects to MQTT broker over a network. For example, an instant messaging app that uses MQTT is a client, various sensors that use MQTT to report data are a client, and various MQTT testing tools are also a client.

[0035] In another exemplary embodiment, MQTT Broker may handle client connection, disconnection, subscription, and unsubscription requests, and routing messages. A powerful MQTT broker can support massive connections and million-level message throughput.

[0036] In yet another exemplary embodiment, MQTT Client and MQTT broker communicates through publish–subscribe pattern. Publish–subscribe pattern differs from the client-server pattern in that it separates the client that sends messages (publisher) from the client that receives messages (subscriber). Publishers and subscribers do not need to establish a direct connection, and the MQTT Broker is responsible for routing and distributing all messages. For example, the temperature sensor connects to the MQTT Broker as a MQTT client and publishes temperature data to a topic (e.g., Temperature), and the MQTT broker receives the message and forwards message to all MQTT client subscribed to the Temperature topic.

[0037] In the MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) protocol, MQTT Clients initiate a connection to the MQTT broker using TCP/IP, with optional TLS/SSL encryption for secure communication. MQTT Clients provide authentication credentials and specify a clean or persistent session. MQTT Clients either publish messages to specific topics or subscribe to topics to receive messages. Publishing MQTT clients send messages to the MQTT broker, while subscribing MQTT clients express interest in receiving messages on particular topics. The MQTT broker receives published messages and forwards them to all MQTT clients subscribed to the relevant topics.

[0038] In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the shipments are pasted with a unique barcode pre-fed with details of the shipment. Upon scanning of barcode through the handheld device, the light emitting diodes (112) of one of the slave device (110) installed on each of the plurality of bins (108) glows to indicate placement of shipment in the allotted bin (108) to the operator/ user.

[0039] Upon scanning of barcode pasted on shipment, the hand held device (120) is configured to receive notification of pre-fed information/ Coc code linked to the pin code of the scanned barcode of the shipment, from the database (118). The shipment may be placed in one of the plurality of bin (108) that is linked to Coc code of scanned barcode.

[0040] In an embodiment of the present invention, the load cell (114) may be installed in each of the plurality of the bins (108). Further, the load cell (114) is wiredly connected to the slave device (110) and wirelessly connected to the master device (102).

[0041] The load cell (114) detects placement of shipment in the plurality of bins (108). The load cell (114) have a first end and a second end. The first end is secured to a frame or base. The shipment may be placed on the second end.

[0042] When weight of shipment is applied to body of the load cell (114), the body of the load cell (114) may flex slightly under the strain. To measure the deformation, strain gages may be tightly bonded to the body of the load cell (114) at pre-determined points, causing strain gages to deform in unison with the body of the load cell (114). The resulting movement alters the electrical resistance of the strain gages in proportion to the amount of deformation caused by the applied load of shipment. The electrical resistance of the strain gages may be measured with the resulting signal being output as a weight reading or shipment detection reading.

[0043] In an exemplary embodiment, the load cell (114) may be selected from such as, but not limited to a pneumatic load cell, a miniature load cell, an s-beam load cell, a compression load cell, a canister load cell, and the like.

[0044] Further, the present invention comprises the hub management system (116). The hub management system (116) is wirelessly connected to the master device (102) and the hand held device (120). The hub management system (116) comprises the database (118) for storing data of each shipments. The database (118) may be configured to store pre-fed information/ Coc code of each shipment comprising source to destination details of the bag. The database (118) is further configured to store number of shipment present in each of the plurality of bins (108).

[0045] In the database (118), each barcode pasted on shipment may be linked to a particular shipment. The database (118) stores address detail of each shipment with pin code. Each of the pin code is linked to a Coc code and each Coc code is linked to one of the plurality of the bin (108) in the database (118).

[0046] The database (118) may be selected from such as, but not limited to a centralized database, a distributed database, a cloud database, a network database, an object oriented database, a relational database, and the like.

[0047] The system further comprises the hand held device (120) wirelessly connected to the master device (102) and the hub management system (116). The hand held device (120) scans the barcode pasted on the shipments. Upon scanning of barcode pasted on shipment, the hand held device (120) receives the pre-fed information/ Coc code linked to the pin code of the scanned barcode of the shipment, from the database (118). The shipment may be placed in one of the plurality of bin (108) that is linked to Coc code of scanned barcode.

[0048] In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, barcode pasted on each shipment is scanned using the hand held device (120). Upon scanning barcode, the hand held device (120) receives Coc code of an allotted bin in which shipment is to be placed, from the database (118). Once the hand held device (120) receives Coc code, the shipment is placed in the allotted bin (108). The load cell (114) of the bin (108a) sends information to the master device (102) and the shipment counting module (106) increases the number of shipments in the bin (108a), one by one. The microcontroller (104) compares value of number of shipment determined by the shipment counting module (106) with the information of the database (118) and generates alarm on detecting the mismatch between the value of numbers of shipment present in each of the plurality of the bin (108) determined by the shipment counting module (106) and the database (118).

[0049] In a preferred embodiment Figure 1 illustrates the block diagram of the present invention. The automated shipment tracking system (100), comprises: the master device (102); the plurality of bins (108) wirelessly connected to the master device (102) for storing a plurality of shipments; the hub management system (HMS) (116) wirelessly connected to the master device (102); the handheld device (120) wirelessly connected to the master device (102) and the HMS (116); an alarm connected to the master device (102). Further, each bin (108), comprises: the slave device (110) wirelessly connected to the master device (102); the plurality of light emitting diodes (112) integrated on the slave device (110); and the load cell (114) wirelessly connected to the master device (102) and wiredly connected to the slave device (110), confirgured to detect placement of shipments in the bin (108), and transmit detected value to the master device (102). Moreover, the master device (102), comprises: the microcontroller (104); the shipment counting module (106) operated by the microcontroller (104) maintains number of shipments available in each of the plurality of bins (108) based on the received value from the load cell (114); and the database (118) configured to store data of each shipment and value of number of shipments in each of the plurality of bins (108) in real-time. The microcontroller is pre-set to detect placement of shipment in the allotted bin based on pre-fed information of source and destination details of each of the shipments received from the hub management system wherein the microcontroller (104) of the master device (102) communicates to the slave device (110) through a higher layer protocol, selected from but not limited to, COAP, HTTP, MQTT (message queuing telemetry transport) protocol.

[0050] Figure 2 illustrates a block diagram showing connection of the microcontroller (104) with the slave device (110) and the load cell (114). The microcontroller (104) of the system is wirelessly connected to the slave device (110) and the load cell (114), so as to receive the wireless communication from the master device (102) regarding the source and destination coc code of the shipment, enabling easy placement of the shipment in the allotted bin. In an exemplary embodiment, the microcontroller (104) is installed with a wireless communication module such as, but not limited to a wireless fidelity module, a bluetooth module, or a global positioning system.

[0051] The alarm connected to the microcontroller (104) compare values determined by the shipment counting module (106) for each of the plurality of bins (108) with information stored in the database (118), and generates an alert through the alarm upon detection of mismatch between value determined by the shipment counting module (106) and the database (118).

[0052] The plurality of bins (108) of the system (100) are mapped to pre-fed information of source and destination details of each of the shipments, not limited to a coc code, each of the pre-fed code is mapped to a pin code and each of the pin code is mapped to barcode pasted on the shipment.

[0053] The hand held device (HHD) (120) of any operator/ user is configured to scan the barcode pasted on the shipment, and receive the Coc code from the hub management system (116) based on scanned barcode of the shipment so as to place the shipment in one of the plurality of bins (108) that is mapped to the Coc code mentioned on the screen of the hand held device (120).

[0054] In an embodiment, the light emitting diodes (112) of one of the plurality of bins (108) glows in order to indicate placement of shipment of the scanned barcode in that one of the plurality of bins (108).

[0055] In an exemplary embodiment, the load cell (114) is a transducer configured to detect shipment.

[0056] The slave device wirelessly connected to the master device (102) and integrated with light emitting diodes (112) allows an operator to place shipments in bins where the LED (112) of the slave device (110) glows, preventing need to see the bin number.

[0057] In an embodiment a method for avoiding shipment missort comprises the following steps:

a. wirelessly connecting the master device (102) to the plurality of bins (108) configured to store shipments;
b. detecting placement of shipments in the plurality of bins (108) using the plurality of load cells (114) in each bin (108);
c. counting number of shipments in each bin (108) through the shipment counting module (106) operated by the microcontroller (104) in the master device(102);
d. comparing counted number of shipments with pre-fed information stored in the database (118) of the master device (102);
e. generating an alarm upon detecting a mismatch between counted number of shipments in the bins and pre-fed information stored in the database (118);
f. wirelessly connecting the hub management system (116) with the master device (102);
g. wirelessly connecting a handheld device to the hub management system (116) and the master device (102);
h. scanning barcodes pasted on shipments with the handheld device(120) to receive: pre-fed device linked to the shipments and the bin (108) allotted to specific shipment based on source and destination details received from the master device (102);
i. placing the shipments in a load cell of the bins (108) based on glowing of led integrated on the bin (108);
j. increasing count of shipments in the bin (108) upon placement through the shipment counting module (106);
k. repeating steps (h) to (j) for placing of each shipment in the allotted bin (108) to prevent missorting of the shipments, and generate the alarm in case the shipment is placed in the wrong load cell (114) of the allotted bin (108).
[0058] In an embodiment the advantages of the present invention are enlisted herein:
? The present invention detects missort at an early stage, thereby decreasing the bagging time for shipments.
? The present invention reduces the manpower requirement by detecting missort before the bagging stage.
? The present invention automatically generates alarm on detecting missort.
? The present invention that eliminates the manual detection of missort.
? The present invention eliminates manual error in placement of shipment as operator does not need to see bin number in the hand held device. The operator can place the shipment in a bin in which the light emitting diodes (LED) of the slave device glows.

[0059] While this invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the scope of the appended claims.
, Claims:WE CLAIM:
1. An automated shipment tracking system (100), comprising:
a. a master device (102);
b. a plurality of bins (108) wirelessly connected to the master device (102) for storing a plurality of shipments;
c. a hub management system (HMS) (116) wirelessly connected to the master device (102);
d. a handheld device (120) wirelessly connected to the master device (102) and the HMS (116);
e. an alarm connected to the master device (102);
wherein,
I. the each bin (108), comprises:
i. a slave device (110) wirelessly connected to the master device (102);
ii. a plurality of light emitting diodes (112) integrated on the slave device (110);
iii. a load cell (114) wirelessly connected to the master device (102) and wiredly connected to the slave device (110), confirgured to detect placement of shipments in the bin (108), and transmit detected value to the master device (102);
II. the master device (102), comprises:
i. a microcontroller (104);
ii. a shipment counting module (106) operated by the microcontroller (104) maintains number of shipments available in each of the plurality of bins (108) based on received value from the load cell (114);
iii. a database (118) configured to store data of each shipment and value of shipments in each of the plurality of bins (108) in real-time;
iv. the alarm connected to the microcontroller (104) compare values determined by the shipment counting module (106) for each of the plurality of bins (108) with information stored in the database (118), and generates an alert through the alarm upon detection of mismatch between value determined by the shipment counting module (106) and the database (118).
2. The system (100), as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of bins (108) are mapped to pre-fed information of source and destination details of each of the shipments, not limited to a coc code, each of the pre-fed coc code is mapped to a pin code and each of the pin code is mapped to barcode pasted on the shipment.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the microcontroller (104) is pre-set to detect placement of shipment in the allotted bin based on pre-fed information of source and destination details of each of the shipments received from the hub management system (116).

4. The system (100), as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hand held device (HHD) (120) configured to scan the barcode pasted on the shipment, and receive the Coc code from the hub management system (116), based on scanned barcode of the shipment so as to place the shipment in one of the plurality of bins (108) that is mapped to the Coc code mentioned on the screen of the hand held device (120).

5. The system (100), as claimed in claim 1, wherein the light emitting diodes (112) of one of the plurality of bins (108) glows in order to indicate placement of shipment of the scanned barcode in that one of the plurality of bins (108).

6. The system (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the load cell (114) is a transducer configured to detect shipment.

7. The system (100) as claimed in claim1, wherein the slave device wirelessly connected to the master device (102) and integrated with light emitting diodes (112), allowing an operator to place shipments in bins where the LED of the slave device glows, preventing need to see the bin number.

8. A method for automated shipment tracking (100), comprising:
a. wirelessly connecting a master device (102) to a plurality of bins (108) configured to store shipments;
b. detecting placement of shipments in the plurality of bins (108) using a plurality of load cells (114) in each bin (108);
c. counting number of shipments in each bin (108) through a shipment counting module (106) operated by a microcontroller (104) in the master device(102);
d. comparing counted number of shipments with pre-fed information stored in a database (118) of the master device (102);
e. generating an alarm upon detecting a mismatch between counted number of shipments in the bins and pre-fed information stored in the database (118);
f. wirelessly connecting a hub management system (116) with the master device (102);
g. wirelessly connecting a handheld device to the hub management system (116) and the master device (102);
h. scanning barcodes pasted on shipments with the handheld device(120) to receive: pre-fed device linked to the shipments and the bin (108) allotted to specific shipment based on source and destination details received from the master device (102);
i. placing the shipments in a load cell of the bins (108) based on glowing of led integrated on the bin (108);
j. increasing count of shipments in the bin (108) upon placement through the shipment counting module (106);
k. repeating steps (h) to (j) for placing of each shipment in the allotted bin (108) to prevent missorting of the shipments, and generate the alarm in case the shipment is placed in wrong load cell (114) of the allotted bin (108).

9. The method for automated shipment tracking (100) as claimed in claim 8, wherein the microcontroller (104) of the master device (102) communicates to the slave device (110) through a higher layer protocol, selected from but not limited to, COAP, HTTP, MQTT (message queuing telemetry transport) protocol.

10. The method for automated shipment tracking (100) as claimed in claim 8, wherein each of the plurality of bins (108) are mapped to a pre-fed information Coc code, each of the Coc code is mapped to a pin code and each of the pin code is mapped to barcode pasted on the shipment.