Automated Stocktaking and Inspection with Autonomous Drones

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Autonomous drones as a future of warehouses

Drones are the future of both indoor and outdoor warehouses. Fully autonomous devices with high-resolution cameras and sensors can handle multiple tasks from data collection to regular stocktaking and autonomous regular inspections.

Fly higher, count faster

Inventory checks are carried out on a regular basis in many companies and warehouses, but they are time-consuming and often exhausting for employees. Potentially, there can be many human errors and also a danger if an employee has to count the goods at heights in a man basket attached to a forklift.

Inventory requires:

Regular allocation of human resources to activities without added value
Challenging implementation deadline planning with an impact on key production and warehouse activities
Staff overload and increase in wage supplements for possible overtime work
Emphasis on the safety of employees at exposed locations
Challenging technical equipment for work at heights
Time-consuming constraints of inventory space
Check for possible human error

Our solution with usage of autonomous drone enable:

Automatic stocktaking indoors and outdoors on pallet racks, in an area, or an estimation of the volume of bulk material and materials within the area (e.g., wood)
Regular stocktaking to ensure control of actual stocks to minimize errors that cause downtime and prolonged material retrieval
Expediting the stocktaking process from few days to few hours
Working outside the usual working hours and save workforce
Eliminating risks or injuries at the workplace while working at heights

Safe storage of goods is important

Modern warehouses are effective in storage that saves space, but sometimes goods are incorrectly placed in positions and could be dangerous to employees. How to avoid such a risk?

Our solution for inspection with usage of autonomous drones:

Autonomously inspect how securely materials, for example, rolls, are stacked, or how securely goods are placed on shelves
Take high resolution photos and save the data
Autonomously evaluate incorrect storage of goods that may fall, causing injury
Send a notification of potential risks and specify a hazard area
Work within a hazard area

How does autonomous drone work?

The flight route is generated automatically during the flight by scanning QR codes at the individual positions in the warehouse
A drone has predefined departure time for the route and arrive back to the initial position
Autonomous drone has a task to take photos of QR codes at the goods positions or photos of correct storage of the bale/roll axis on the rack

Sending and saving the photos to the system automatically
The system automatically assigns goods to individual positions in the warehouse according to the decoded labels (QR codes)
The system automatically evaluates the correctness of storage of goods and prompts employees to fix the incorrect ones
Possibility to check the history of correct stocking of goods through a web interface