Peacock Bros now exclusively offers “Sky-trax”, an indoor positioning system that will track, record and monitor the activities of any indoor vehicles such as forklifts and pallet stackers.
Accurate up to 3 sq cm, the system can increase the performance and aid management of indoor vehicles as they operate within a warehouse or distribution centre.
According to the company, initial installations have delivered a quick return on investment and improvements in operational efficiencies.
The Sky-trax system includes a server with software called OPSman, which displays the warehouse in CAD display format with illustrations of forklifts or other indoor vehicles that move in real-time as the vehicles move.
Sky-trax constantly records and gathers 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 analysing.
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 vehicles by references to roof suspended Sky-Markers.
The Sky-I optical reader communicates with a vehicle-mounted mobile computer, such as an Intermec CV30 or Motorola VC5090 connected to any WIFI wireless network.
Sky-trax is independent with no ongoing access costs and can be fitted in dark, cold, hot or even exposed warehouses without any interference in operational accuracy, Peacock Bros says.
It can manage a single vehicle or an entire indoor fleet no matter what the warehouse or distribution centre layout is.
The OPSman software tracks the movements of all the indoor vehicles and produce reports on operational efficiency, downtime, heavy traffic areas and hazard zones.
An additional “breadcrumb” feature will show the areas of the warehouse that receive the most traffic so that work areas can be adjusted for maximum efficiency.
Constant real-time monitoring without error ensures that the operation can track and trace vehicles and stock at any time and control operations as the events occur.
Combining this technology with RFID readers mounted on forklift load backrests and RFID SSCC labels will provide a system that not only tracks the position of vehicles, but the inventory as well. An RFID tagged pallet of stock in the middle of the floor and it will display the pallets’ exact location.
Pallets can be stored up to 6 bays high or 20 pallets deep with complete visibility.
Missing stock becomes a thing of the past and accurate stock rotation is no longer a problem.
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