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Alfredo Pastor Tella
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Inventory Audit Autonomous Warehouse Drones (or simply ware drones) play a key role in smart warehouses thanks to sophisticated navigation and obstacle avoidance sensors.
Drones are one of the most important warehouse automation trends aiming to reduce non-value-added tasks.
For example, big players like Amazon are investing in drones as "Amazon delivery robots" for cutting last-mile delivery costs.
Warehouse drones, also known as UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), are aerial robotics platforms used in Smart Warehouses for inventory management. Warehouse drones perform tasks such as inventory audits, cycle counting, stock finding, etc.
They fly autonomously, identify and count the material stocked in the warehouse and compare it with the data stored “virtually”, enabling safe and cost-saving inventory operations.
Most of the warehouses and distribution centers struggle for twice-yearly or quarterly full counts of their inventory.
Moreover, to properly track the inventory, many companies perform cyclical counting, thus a more frequent inventory management activity where a small sample of inventory is counted instead of the entire population of inventory.
It means a lot of work and costs that not all companies can afford. All these headaches lead to the introduction of drones, also known as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), into warehouse management.
Drones are a new kind of warehouse robot technology that has been recently developed thanks to the improvements in the technology required to fly safely and the capacity to “navigate” reliably indoors without a GPS signal.
Accordingly, to WinterGreen Research the Logistics Drone Market (not only the inventory one) was estimated at USD 351 million USD in 2021 and is projected to reach USD 3316 million by 2027.
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To fly safely in warehouses, the drones must have robust obstacle and collision avoidance systems, capable navigation sensors, and robust onboard processing power.
The key difference between warehouse drones from normal ones is the ability to fly without GPS signals. GPS is unavailable for drones because they must fly in indoor areas where the GPS signal could be weak or nonexistent.
Because they fly indoors, warehouse drones don’t have to comply with aviation regulation rules such as Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS), better known as Part 135 certification, in the United States.
A common misconception that tends to crop up is that drones can completely replace manual stock takes. This is neither possible nor intended. It is more reasonable to view drones as another kind of tool used in warehouse automation, a powerful one for minimizing inventory variance and cycle counting issues.
Recognizing this opportunity for warehouse drones, numerous companies have sought to pursue it – not only Silicon Valley startups and university spinoffs, but even those who were offering RFID, WMS, or other solutions to the supply chain industry.
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