This is a video of a product demonstration at Hewlett Packard (Singapore) on 29 Aug 2017. The product demonstration of our Infinium Scan drone was conducted in HP Singapore's auditorium.
The green barcodes signifies that the boxes are at the correct locations (as indicated in the WMS). The red barcodes signify that the boxes are at the wrong locations. The misplaced boxes will then be "flagged out" to the warehouse supervisor.
More about Infinium Scan drone:
Drones are flown autonomously using our in-house proprietary indoor navigation technology. A pilot is not needed to fly the drone, unlike most solutions in the market now. There is no need for any man-in-the-loop in the stock-taking process anymore! Either a barcode or RFID reading system can be implemented on the drone system.
Drones can reduce the labor intensive process of checking stocks around the warehouse to one day. It currently takes a month to finish manually for a typical large to mid-sized warehouse. The potential cost savings can be in the $millions/year for a large warehouse operator.
Warehouses are a great fit for drones. Warehouses usually have quite tall ceilings so a drone can easily climb the heights of the ceilings. Drones have short battery lives, so in a warehouse they can fly and recharge and launch again. Drones have difficulty navigating obstacles, so a warehouses familiar layout should make it easy to plot safe routes. Drones are best at flying and taking pictures, and scanning inventory is a natural extension of that.
There are 3 main advantages of using drones/robots to do stock-taking:
1) Reduction of manpower costs
2) Reduce pilferage and loss of goods as cycle-count is taken more regularly
3) Better accuracy and higher visibility of stock levels as time taken for cycle-counting is greatly reduced. This will directly result in higher sales revenue, as operational efficiency is increased.
