High-quality real-time data is the foundation of automated, AI-driven processes in warehousing. Handheld scanners simply can’t deliver: their error rates are too high. To bring AI into intralogistics, the manual scanner must be replaced with cutting-edge solutions. Laser localization and real-time tracking allow Artificial Intelligence to take charge.
Data is the currency of future technologies. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can only optimize warehouse processes when supplied with high-quality, real-time data. Since the first Wrigley’s chewing gum was scanned in a U.S. supermarket in 1954, scanners have been central to capturing data. Barcodes have found their way into intralogistics. They are still an essential part of data collection. “New scanning innovations such as wearables, scan gates, and imagers are still celebrated by the industry, despite being rooted in decades-old technology,” says Martin Welp, Managing Partner at IdentPro, reflecting on this year’s industry events. However, the idea that the future is largely “scan-free” has yet to gain widespread acceptance. Real-time laser localization integrates goods information with geo-positioning, automatically capturing goods movements via sensors mounted on material handling equipment. This promises solutions to pressing warehouse bottlenecks and lays the groundwork for automated data processing in line with lean management principles…
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