Abstract:
Modern technology of using embedded systems has taken root in almost every sector in
Uganda today and this is because of advancement in technology. Much as Posta Uganda
has tried to improve most of its services and it has not yet catered for the post office box
rental services in a sense that the service still requires the presence of the box owner in
order to find out the status of their box. The owner has to make probability trips to the
postal office station to find out whether they have mail or not. And for the cases where
they don’t find any mail in their box, they become frustrated since they have wasted their
time coming to check. Therefore, there was a need for a system that can inform them
whether they have received mail or not so that they come with the assurance that they
have mail. Therefore, having been interested in solving this problem came up with an
automated post office box detection and notification system that can notify the owner of
the box with an SMS that they have received mail together with the weight of the mail
they have received. All the information in this report was gathered from the internet and
consultations from Posta Uganda counter personnel. The system was designed in Proteus
ISIS software and code written in Arduino using C++. The system was tested using the
following tools Arduino Uno board, serial monitor, and digital multimeters. The system
was then validated and verified to see if it’s actually doing what it is supposed to do. This
project was developed in a period of 5 months.
