The Need
Order picking is the process that helps the Warehouse managers and staff to locate and extract products that Customers ask for in a timely and cost-effective way. Typically, about 55% of the total operation cost of a Warehouse is for Order picking. Hence the limitations and errors in this area resulting in un-necessary cost and operational loses.
Our client was looking for a technology solution to address this challenge.
Impacts Delivered
- Efficiency and accuracy improvement of the order fulfilment processes at the warehouse and enabled savings in operational cost with enhanced customer experiences
- Eliminated time wasting errors such as:
- Not finding the correct items in the locations
- Takes longer to complete an order fulfillment due to manual processes involved
- Picking the wrong items or quantities
- Unaddressed half picked orders
Our Solution
- Developed an AR based solution along with wearable Industrial grade smart glasses, Computer Vision and voice guided solution to offer hands-free and faster order picking.
- The system uses smart glasses that merge virtual images and information with a picker’s surrounding environment.
- The combination of real-world and virtual information provides speed and accuracy
Components of the Solution
- WMS Interface to download relevant data for the orders to fulfilled
- Indoor location of Assets – BLE based location of asset of up to ~1 to 2m
- Path-planner (Auto-navigation) module – calculate the shortest path to collect all the items in the set of orders and based on indoor location of asset.
- Wearable smart-glass that guide visually and helps in hands free scanning of barcode and picking items
Solution Overview
- The positioning system works based on BLE 5.0 Technology.
- Each assets is tagged with a detachable BLE tag.
- The BLE Gateway placed in the warehouse will read the data transmitted from BLE tags and send to edge gateway via Wi-Fi or LAN.
- The edge gateway will determine the position of the asset using state-of-the-art algorithms.
- The Accuracy of positioning : 1 to 2 meters.
- The smart glass is equipped with QR code/barcode scanning to verify the asset.
Tools & Technologies
- Augmented Reality (AR), CV
- Smart Glass
- Microservices, Kubernetes, Dockers, Agile and DevOps.
- BLE 5.0