iBeacon enabled indoor positioning for warehouse management

Zhao, Zhiheng; Fang, Jianxin; Huang, George Q.; Zhang, Mengdi

doi:10.1109/iscbi.2016.7743254

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“…The results from experiments show that the method can acquire live monitoring of the working state information of the forklift and can assist the management personnel to extensively manage the forklift. In [14], Authors designed an iBeacon enabled indoor positioning solution for management system of warehouses in a real-life industrial case. Indoor positioning techniques which estimate object locations like eye recognition, trilateration and fingerprinting methods are implemented for application in numerous warehouses.…”

Section: Changes In Forklift and Pallet Recognition Systemsmentioning

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Pallet Recognition for Forklift: A Literature Review

Pawar¹,

Sande²,

Kondalkar³

et al. 2023

IJRASET

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Forklift trucks are essential tools for manual pallet handling. Storage heights at high rack storage areas often reach up to 12 meters in which bulky Cargo can hide the view of forklift operator. Pallet recognition is afundamental issue for Industries & warehouses, Particularly, a pallet recognition approach is presented to recognize pallets in the warehouses, based on calculating the degree of similarity at each location of the palette. Once a pallet has been recognized, it is matched that data with stored data. Transporting and handling pallets in a storage area is the essential function of a forklift truck. The view of the forklift truck driver is limited during his work by the lift pole, the fork, and the roof of the forklift truck. If a pallet is loaded the view is additionally hindered by its load. When the storage rack is not at a ground level or near to it the pallet handling becomes more difficult because of the distance between the forklift truck driver and the storage rack. To support the forklift truck driver during his work, there is need to advance theforklifts with different technologies and systems which provide diversity in Working and safety, security for forklift operator and other workers. This paper shows various results from research on different pallet recognition and forklift operation systems.

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Section: Changes In Forklift and Pallet Recognition Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pallet Recognition for Forklift: A Literature Review

Pawar¹,

Sande²,

Kondalkar³

et al. 2023

IJRASET

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“…An example of BLE related work for asset tracking in a warehouse was proposed by Lee et al (2019). Moreover in other work, (IPS) for use in a warehouse was proposed using iBeacon technology which is BLE based technology and was released by Apple Inc. (Zhao et al, 2016).…”

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Cost Effective and Easily Configurable Indoor Navigation System

Taha

qadir

2021

UKH J SCI ENG

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With the advent of Industry 4.0, the trend of its implementation in current factories has increased tremendously. Using autonomous mobile robots that are capable of navigating and handling material in a warehouse is one of the important pillars to convert the current warehouse inventory control to more automated and smart processes to be aligned with Industry 4.0 needs. Navigating a robot’s indoor positioning in addition to finding materials are examples of location-based services (LBS), and are some major aspects of Industry 4.0 implementation in warehouses that should be considered. Global positioning satellites (GPS) are accurate and reliable for outdoor navigation and positioning while they are not suitable for indoor use. Indoor positioning systems (IPS) have been proposed in order to overcome this shortcoming and extend this valuable service to indoor navigation and positioning. This paper proposes a simple, cost effective and easily configurable indoor navigation system with the help of an optical path following, unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) robot augmented by image processing and computer vision deep machine learning algorithms. The proposed system prototype is capable of navigating in a warehouse as an example of an indoor area, by tracking and following a predefined traced path that covers all inventory zones in a warehouse, through the usage of infrared reflective sensors that can detect black traced path lines on bright ground. As metionded before, this general navigation mechanism is augmented and enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) computer vision tasks to be able to select the path to the required inventory zone as its destination, and locate the requested material within this inventory zone. The adopted AI computer vision tasks that are used in the proposed prototype are deep machine learning object recognition algorithms for path selection and quick response (QR) detection.

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“…Their solution is a mobile indoor positioning system based on iBeacon to estimate patients’ real-time locations [ 14 ], so doctors and nurses can find their patients conveniently. Zhao et al used iBeacon for warehouse management that improves the performance of the order-picking and stock-taking process with high accuracy [ 15 ]. Specifically, the items kept in the warehouse are attached with beacon transmitters, and the beacon receivers are deployed in the warehouse.…”

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An Interactive Real-Time Locating System Based on Bluetooth Low-Energy Beacon Network †

Lin

2018

Sensors

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The ubiquity of Bluetooth-enabled smartphones and peripherals has brought tremendous convenience to our daily life. In recent years, Bluetooth beacons have also been gaining popularity in implementing a variety of innovative location-based services such as self-guided systems in exhibition centers. However, the broadcast-based beacon technology can only provide unidirectional communication. In case smartphone users would like to respond to the beacon messages, they have to rely on their own mobile Internet connections to send the information back to the backend system. Nevertheless, mobile Internet services may not be always available or too costly. In this work, we develop a real-time locating system based only on the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) technology to support interactive communications by combining the broadcast and mesh topology options to extend the applicability of beacon solutions. Specifically, we turn the smartphone into a beacon device and augment the beacon devices with the capability of forming a mesh network. The implementation result shows that our beacon devices can detect the presence of specific users at specific locations, and then the presence state can be sent to the application server via the relay of beacon devices. Moreover, the application server can send personalized location-based messages to the users, again via the relay of beacon devices. With the capability of relaying messages between the beacon devices, it would be convenient for developers to implement a variety of interactive applications such as tracking VIP customers at the airport, or tracking an elder with Alzheimer’s disease in the neighborhood.

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iBeacon enabled indoor positioning for warehouse management

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

Pallet Recognition for Forklift: A Literature Review

Pallet Recognition for Forklift: A Literature Review

Cost Effective and Easily Configurable Indoor Navigation System

An Interactive Real-Time Locating System Based on Bluetooth Low-Energy Beacon Network †

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