Innovative Drone for Warehouse Monitoring - Enhanced Implementation.

Shriram KV

Bengaluru, Karnataka

We propose to solve a huge problem of tracking the warehouse components, real-time. Our solution is important for the following reasons: 1. Human inventory checking is a cumbersome process 2. Typically in a warehouse, to check all the inventories it takes hours to go through all the racks and it is all done by humans.In Large warehouse taking control of all the inventories present inside is tedious and takes more time to check all those. 3. It is a fact that all of as prone to mistakes and so, there is a chance that a human can miscount or forgot to count an inventory. 4. Reaching the highest racks inside a warehouse is also a problem and its a risk for the labor to do that. 5. Warehouse control robots are also introduced to manage the warehouse, but the current robots can go and take the reading of inventory only at a particular height limit. (Even that is not possible with few robots) 6. Statistics reveal that each year billions of dollar are lost due to missing inventories inside a large warehouse. 7. Manufacturers don’t have any visibility to their product after it reaches a warehouse. Therefore a warehouse manager has the full responsibility for taking care of the inventory items. In large warehouses, without adequate insight into location, pickers take longer time to find the items. Therefore, the loss in time will eventually increase the cost. 8. In large warehouses without adequate insight into location, pickers take a longer time to find the items. Therefore due to the loss in time will eventually increase the cost. Placing humans under each section to find the products in time will also increase labor cost. 9. Typically Cycle Counting is done only once in a year. And in some warehouse which spends a good amount of money does cycle counting twice a month. Doing Cycle Counting reduces the number of missing inventories. But Still it costs much and there are also drawbacks when doing this only twice a month and once in a year. 10. While scanning a Barcode the user needs to keep the reader in right pinpoint position. And when an inventory stays for a long-term inside a warehouse, definitely barcode will be damaged, leading to miscount or missing inventory in a warehouse. 11. Warehousing is often a variable cost, meaning it fluctuates based on how much product you’re storing. When you store too much product at once or end up with a product that’s difficult to sell, your storage costs will go up. Avoiding this will save you money. 12. “First-in, first-out” is an important principle of inventory management. It means that your oldest stock (first-in) gets sold first (first-out), not your newest stock. This is particularly important for perishable products so you don’t end up with unsellable spoilage.(a slow-moving product takes up all your storage space) ...learn more

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Mobile, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence

Intel Technologies
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