Gather AI
Gather AI announced two new capabilities -- inferred case counting and location occupancy -- designed to enable warehouses to get automated, digitized counts and location utilization reports.
“Our mission is to bring unprecedented real-time inventory insights to warehouse operators. Our computer vision and AI analyze inventory images offering warehouse operators access to a richer source of information than barcodes. Our new inferred case counting and location occupancy capabilities push the art of what’s possible while solving for error-prone, labor-intensive tasks for our customers,” says Gather AI CEO and co-founder Sankalp Arora.
Key takeaways:
- With the Gather AI solution, warehouses can scan up to 900 pallets per hour. Drones take pictures of each location. The artificial intelligence (AI) analyzes the pictures, reading multiple barcodes and text and detecting empty locations.
- The solution will show inferred case counts for full and partial pallets and location occupancy percentages on the customer web dashboard, reducing the time and labor of verifying case counts.
- Using the digitized counts capability, warehouse operators can reduce the time spent on manual counts by 90%. Computer vision and AI compare information extracted from images to estimate the number of cases on a pallet with what’s stored in the warehouse management system (WMS). Pallets with few cases are flagged so they can be replenished before items run out and shipments are missed. Warehouse operators can prioritize labor by having people count only the pallets that are off from what the WMS expects.
- The location utilization capability lets warehouse operators know where to consolidate pallets, increase space utilization, and improve fixed expense efficiency. Computer vision and AI reads images to measure the space available on a pallet. The solution will identify consolidation opportunities.
