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RFID Pallet Tracking and Indoor Vehicle Positioning from Peacock Bros
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RFID Pallet Tracking and Indoor Vehicle Positioning, Warehouse Management Solutions
Peacock Bros. have completed development and have started installations of an indoor positioning system that will track, record and monitor the activities of any indoor vehicles within your warehouse. Accurate up to 3 sq cm this revolutionary system will improve greatly the performance and management of forklifts in real-time as they operate within your warehouse or distribution centre. Initial installations have delivered a quick return on investment and dramatic improvement in operational efficiencies.
The solution includes a server and software called OPSman which displays in a CAD drawing format your warehouse with illustrations of your forklifts or other indoor vehicles that move in real-time as your vehicles move. This system is constantly recording and gathering data such as distances travelled without a load, the amount of downtime for each vehicle and when and where impacts have occurred for recall and analyzing.
Using a patented optical image reader called Sky-I, mounted on the top of the vehicle and pointed upwards this tracking solution can determine the position, speed and direction of your vehicles by references to roof suspended Sky-Markers. The Sky-I optical reader can be connected to a vehicle mounted mobile computer such as an Intermec CV30 or Motorola VC5090 connected to any WIFI wireless network.
This indoor vehicle positioning system is completely independent with no ongoing access costs and can be fitted in dark, cold, hot or even exposed warehouses without any interference in operational accuracy. It can manage a single vehicle or your entire indoor fleet no matter what you warehouse or distribution centre layout is.
OPSman software tracks the movements of all your indoor vehicles and produce reports on operational efficiency, downtime, heavy traffic areas and hazard zones. An additional “breadcrumb” feature will show the areas of your warehouse that receive the most traffic so that you can adjust your work areas for maximum efficiency. Constant real-time monitoring without error ensures that your operation can track and trace vehicles and stock at any time and control your operations as the events occur.
Combining this technology with RFID readers mounted on your forklift load backrests and RFID SSCC labels on pallets will give you a system that not only tracks the position of your vehicles, but your pallets as well. You can even leave an RFID tagged pallet of stock in the middle of the floor and it will display the pallets’ exact location. Pallet tracking problems such as missing stock becomes a thing of the past and accurate stock rotation and FIFO is no longer a problem. The pallets can be stored up to 6 bays high or 20 pallets deep and you will continue to have complete visibility.
This is the most advanced pallet tracking solution available anywhere in the world and has proven to provide fast return on investment and immediate improvement of warehouse operational efficiencies.
For 120 years Peacock Bros. have been providing business management solutions throughout Australia and New Zealand. Our Data Division specializes in designing and custom installations of automated inventory management solutions for the Transport, Logistics and Warehousing industries. This indoor vehicle positioning system is a result of our dedication to research and development and understanding of your business needs.