Title: An inventive and innovative approach to monitor warehouse with drone and IoT

Authors: G.I. Aswath; Shriram K. Vasudevan; R.M.D. Sundaram; R. Giridhararajan; N. Sowmiya

Addresses: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India ' K. Ramakrishnan College of Technology, Kariyamanikam Road, Samayapuram, Trichy – 621112, India ' Wipro Limited, Lehrer-Wirth-Str. 2, 81829 München, Germany ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India

Abstract: In the recent years, the technology growth in the sector of USVs/UAVs has been enormous. Taking the growth and available facilities, we have attempted to use the quadcopters towards enhancing/increasing the efficiency in monitoring the warehouse through a frugal and cost- effective approach. Through the literature survey, we understood that there is a lot of loss inside a warehouse for inventory monitoring because of inefficient monitoring techniques, which mostly involve human efforts. While manual verification is both times consuming and error prone, we have used drones, data analytics, Android and IoT as the backbone to simplify the process. This approach is found to be affordable, accurate and viable. Our drone will fly inside the warehouse, track the goods and components rack wise and give an alert/update to the store manager. This way, we can track every individual box in the warehouse, while eliminating the chance for it to be lost/untracked.

Keywords: drones; warehouse inventory control; IOT controlled drone; radio frequency identifier; RFID; NFC; Raspberry Pi; Android; intelligent warehouse monitoring.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAIP.2024.139946

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 2024 Vol.28 No.1/2, pp.16 - 35

Received: 01 Jun 2018
Accepted: 22 Jun 2018
Published online: 15 Jul 2024 *

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