ITEM POSITIONING

Tracking Stock
Made Easier

Track your item’s position, movements and availability. Reduce misplaced or lost products. Improve delivery time & logistics. Increase profits with accurate data.

STOCKBOT

RFID and Robotics for your inventory

Discover how we integrated RFID technology into our robotic solution StockBot to help retailers perfect their inventory management.

HIGHLIGHTS

What you retailer can do with this?

Tracking

Find items and their position, movements and availability.

Optimise online orders

Have your Click & Collect orders ready for customer collection.

Delivery & Logistics

Harmonise logistics and delivery time to refill required stock.

Stock

Optimise stock by taking into account misplaced and lost items.

ROI

Increase your profit per square metre with accurate data.

Map Views

See the results of the inventory in 2D and 3D and clustering per product or family of products.

Stockbot

Components

UHF Tags

Tags are placed on all items in the store that are for sale. The tag stores information that is tracked by readers and antennas within the RFID robot.

RFID Readers

Transmit and receive modulated signals, complying with country regulations, in order to detect UHF passive tags.

RFID Antennas

Antennas are usually on the RFID robot’s sides with beams to detect tags and amplify the readers’ signals to improve tag detection and position accuracy.

How it works

Discover how StockBot identifies and accurately tracks all the items on your shop floor and warehouse.

Tag reading

The system used for item localisation in a retail store involves RFID tags that are read by two RFID readers, each connected to 4 antennas at each side of the robot.

EPC identification

When activated, tags send a signal with an Electronic Product Code (EPC) that uniquely identifies items; decoded data is sent to the robot via a Low-Level Reader Protocol (LLRP).

Position Estimate

The computer estimates the relative position of the tag with respect to the robot. Then, as the robot location in the map of the environment is continuously updated by the onboard SLAM and AI algorithms, the tag location in map coordinates is also known.

Position Confirmation

As the robot keeps moving the same tag can be detected multiple times and combining the estimated distances a more accurate position can be calculated.