Smart Warehouses and the possibilities using IoT

Smart warehouses are important because they tend to be large, complex and involve many moving parts. IoT can have a profound effect on every element from the materials, people and machinery. But the real power is when we get all of the elements into a single pane of glass view and use the power of AI and ML to enhance the operation. 

Environmental

Using smart sensors, actuators and the power of IoT we are able to create a total controlled environment that can react to changes in temperature or humidity and even provide end to end storage condition reports and timestamps. 

People

Easily track people movements to ensure efficiency and safety of workers. Understand utilisation of the warehouse space and push information to staff in real time. 

Assets

Track assets such as fork trucks or telehandlers to understand where they are, what they are doing and even things such as live battery state of electric equipment. 

Access

Control access for vehicles or people, allowing IoT to enact unlocking doors or opening screens in preparation of actions. Monitor who or what equipment is in a particular area. 

Vision Cameras

Use cameras and AI to count stock, create waybills or even decide how to load vehicles in real time. Create heat maps of activity for simple utilisation information to be pushed back to operations teams. 

Geofences

Create geofences for safety routes, loading areas or even just places where vehicles are prohibited and use IoT to monitor and police such areas. 

Unified information

Each element of the above is a powerful tool to drive down costs, work better and smarter but the superpower of unified IoT is a single pane of glass view of everything and the ability to work with every element in one system. Better understand how much leaving loading doors open for longer than needed costs in extra heating or other dependencies within your operation. Get every element working in collaboration rather than in single silos that might be working against each other. And then create automations that can send information, create alerts and push information between these formerly disparate systems. That is the power of AssetBook.   

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