REFY APP - A warehouse management app

Summary

A mobile application for warehouse management, levering image recognition for a more efficient operation.

Keywords

Angular, Firebase, Web, Android, iOS

Goal

The goals of the warehouse inventory management system are to;

1. ... be simple. Every volunteer should immediately understand how to use the system. It also should be simple from a technological standpoint.
2. ... increase efficiency. Currently Refy volunteers must go through the warehouse and check every label to know what is available.

Starting position

Refy is a non-profit organisation that provides logistical support to other non-profits. Its main service is making the transportation of donated goods from one location to another more efficient and simpler. They achieve this by bundling supplies into standardised containers and shipping them in bulk. They also hide the actual logistics required for such a service from other non-profits. To successfully execute this mission Refy requires a warehouse inventory management system.

Results

A working prototype of the warehouse management system is available and due to be rolled out soon. Automatic label detection is possible in controlled environments but becomes unreliable outside of these. The GS1 identification system is successfully embedded in the system.

Detecting selected icons on a label and saving them to a database.
Finding corners of a label to crop for the recognition process.

Projectdata

18. September 2017 - 19. January 2018, 360 labour hours, 2 persons

Client

Benefactor: GS1, Thomas Boegli, Michael Ottiker

Beneficiary: REFY, Alex Vollmer

Projectteam

David Schlebusch
Roger Siegenthaler

Contact

Dominik Gruntz
Christoph Stamm

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