ARCA provides smart, autonomous parcel lockers designed for high-density urban areas, enabling couriers to make secure, traceable first-time deliveries while residents retrieve packages at their convenience. The system includes a web app for couriers, unique digital keys for recipients, and free locker access for local shops, supporting community engagement and reducing delivery emissions.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Urban delivery faces persistent inefficiencies from missed deliveries, repeated courier attempts, and inconvenient drop-off points that are far from recipients. These issues increase operational costs, fuel consumption, and emissions while creating friction for both carriers and customers who struggle to receive packages on time.
Solution
ARCA deploys a network of smart, autonomous lockers positioned within 50 meters of residences, providing a dense urban delivery infrastructure that boosts efficiency and lowers emissions. Couriers use a web app to securely deposit items, then share a unique key with any chosen contact for retrieval, ensuring secure and traceable handoffs. The system eliminates multiple delivery attempts by offering reliable first-time drop-off points, and it supports local shops with free locker use and exclusive service and product discounts. ARCA also provides carriers with local MicroHubs that enable night-time and next-day delivery, guaranteeing 100% success rates while reducing the need for long trips to distant drop-off locations.
Target Audience
Primary customers are urban delivery carriers and logistics companies seeking to reduce failed delivery attempts, as well as local shops and residents who benefit from convenient, secure parcel pickup points.
Features
- Autonomous lockers placed at high urban capillarity, within 50 meters of residences for convenient access
- Web app for couriers to deposit items securely and generate unique retrieval keys for recipients
- API and WebApp integration for traceable, secure package hand-offs and delivery management
- MicroHubs that support night-time and next-day delivery scheduling to guarantee first-attempt success
- Free locker access for local shops, with exclusive service and product discounts to foster community support