DroneScan as a solution

REDUCE MAN HOURS AND RISK

DroneScan is less labour intensive, reducing occupational hazards, eliminating human error and saving the business hundreds of man hours.

NO EXPENSIVE SET UP COSTS

The simplicity of the DroneScan system means that there are no expense infrastructure costs needed to set up a warehouse.

FIND MISSING STOCK

DroneScan helps reduce stock outages, picking delays and stock obsolescence by finding missing items.

LIVE REPORTING

An on-drone visual display is mounted on the drone to allow for operator feedback during scanning and is easily seen from the ground while the drone is in flight.

PORTABLE AND SEAMLESS INTEGRATION

Seamless integration with warehouse management systems. Portable and can be used across multiple warehouses.

Physical Inventory

When conducting stocktake (inventory), staff are traditionally lifted up to the high shelves using a forklift, reach truck or scissor lift where they manually scan each barcode and pallet. This process is time consuming, costly, dangerous and energy inefficient.

The DroneScan system provides a revolutionary robotic solution to scanning products and pallets in warehouses. The drone allows for airborne capturing of data while the operator receives live feedback as it scans. Inspecting the condition of products or verifying the contents of pallets can be easily achieved as the drone is also fitted with a camera.

Live FEEDBACK

The DroneScan base station communicates via a dedicated RF frequency (not WiFi or Bluetooth) and has a range of over 100m. A Windows touch screen tablet allows the operator to  receive live feedback both on screen and from audible cues as the drone scans and records data.

A high visibility display is mounted at an angle on the drone providing instant feedback of the BIN location, incremental scan number, battery life and information about the scanned item, this allows the operator to focus on the drone without needing to glance down at the tablet. The drone also emits an audible beep and flashes a light as a scan success indicator.

The tablet is pre-loaded with status and reconciliation reports and the operator can view and export them at any time.

Integration

The drone logs information into the DroneScan database and combines it with customer information loaded in via Excel or other file types or by directly calling an API to the customer's systems. The imported data is used to re-build a virtual map of the warehouse so that the location of the drone can be determined. 

All aspects of the imported data are customisable by modifying scripts, the customisation changes the way the system works and how the scanned data is processed.

The DroneScan software uploads scanned data and drone position information to the cloud (Azure IoT), to the customer systems (web services, RFC's API's or BAPI's) and exports the data to Excel.