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Logistics & fulfilmentGather AI300 to 450 locations per hour per drone; one operator manages 3 drones to process over 900 locations per hour
The company uses machine learning and computer vision on drone-captured images to read barcodes, text, and lot codes, then compares this data against the warehouse management system to identify inventory exceptions and misplaced items.
“from those images actually derive product information, whether it's a LPN or, you know, unique identifier for the palette, as well as going through and conducting potentially a case count, reading text. … using AI to determine all of that information.”
Logistics & fulfilmentGather AIEmpty locations highlighted in yellow
The system uses machine learning to detect empty locations by recognizing what an empty location looks like at specific customer facilities, flagging them in the dashboard to prevent workers from visiting non-existent inventory.
“We also do empty location detection, and those empty locations are highlighted in yellow, and that means not only is this location supposed to be empty, but using machine learning, we're actually able to determine, yes, this is what an empty location looks like at our customers' facilities…”
Logistics & fulfilmentGather AITime reduced from 48 labor hours to under 5 hours; labor reduced from 6 people to 1
An air cargo customer replaced 6 workers and 48 labor hours with 2 drones operated by 1 person, reducing the time to scan 2,000 pallets to under 5 hours and allowing the other 5 staff to perform value-added tasks.
“one of our customers, um, actually goes through their air cargo company … it took 6 individuals, 8 hours a day to go through and actually scan this inventory. We provided 2 drones, and what that's done then is that's allowed one individual in under in under 5 hours to actually go through and scan the whole facility.”
Logistics & fulfilmentGather AIFound $600,000 worth of missing inventory in 2 months
A customer transitioning warehouse management systems used the drone's speed and imaging capability to locate missing inventory within two months, recovering $600,000 in goods that would have taken 3-6 months to find manually.
“one of them had shifted from one warehouse management system to another. And so it lost a significant amount of inventory, just in that transition. And so within the 1st 2 months of using our system, they were actually able to find $600,000 worth of missing inventory.”