Smart Mailbox

The topic of “smart engineering” is slowly becoming established in our everyday lives and many of the household appliances are already equipped with “intelligence” to make life as easy as possible for humans. These include, for example, “smart thermostats”, which regulate the heat automatically or controllable surveillance cameras on your smartphone.In order to fully understand and advance the topic, our team has generated a large number of product ideas for objects, which benefits would increase by an additional „intelligent“ function.

For our first “Smart Engineering” project, we have implemented the idea to build an intelligent mailbox. It detects the letter insert with the aid of infrared light sensors inside the mailbox and notifies the end user on his smartphone of a newly arrived letter.

For this purpose, two different versions have been developed:

A module that can be installed in traditional mailboxes to make a regular mailbox “smart”. This version runs on batteries or a rechargeable battery.

The second version is a completely redesigned mailbox, which can be powerer by a power adapter. This version brings the advantage of being able to fulfill additional functions, since these can be considered in the design.