The UAV carried out inventory in a warehouse of EFKO Group

On June 25, 2019 there took place test flights of the UVL Robotics UAV on one of EFKO Group warehouse in Alekseyevka. Specialists analyzed possibilities of autonomous warehouse inventory using the drone and also estimated expediency of investment into a startup.

The UAV carried out inventory in a warehouse of EFKO Group

Test flights took place in the normal mode. During tests the UVL Robotics drone equipped with electronic vision system consistently flew about 10,000 cargo Palette, scanned barcodes and sent data to the server. In parallel the device recorded video for integrity checking and completeness of packagings. All information came to a warehouse management system of EFKO Group in real time.

'Traditional methods of inventory take long time and have restrictions on accuracy. On average, drones carry out inventory 50 times faster, than people, with an accuracy of 100%. The risk of 'a human factor' is excluded. As the result – is not present the missed profit and the frozen assets', – Syomin Vasily, the development director of UVL Robotics noted.

Specialists of EFKO Group confirmed prospects of use of UAVs in warehouses and defined the directions of upgrade of development. They are connected with features of warehouse – humidity, conditioning, air temperature. So, for example, the intensive air flow on one of avenues of a warehouse affected efficiency of scanning of barcodes.

'Use of new technologies is not a craze. Innovations should work, increase efficiency of business processes. And in HSC digitalization is necessary as the breath of life. EFKO Group is always open for interesting and reasonable experiments', – Nenakhova Anna, the director of the department of corporate innovations of EFKO Group noted.