Smart Warehouse - when voice is enhancing workflows
Voice First. Seamless Operations.
As smart warehouses evolve, integrating innovative solutions becomes crucial for enhancing operational efficiency and accuracy. Among these advancements, voice technologies have emerged as a powerful tool in the logistics sector. By enabling hands-free operations and real-time communication, voice technologies streamline workflows, improve worker productivity, and reduce errors. In the following sections, we will explore how voice is revolutionizing logistics and contributing to the overall effectiveness of smart warehouse systems.
Voice-directed warehousing offers several benefits to the supply chain, helping businesses optimize their processes and reduce costs. By utilizing real-time data, these systems provide accurate and immediate instructions to workers, ensuring that missions are completed correctly and promptly. This not only enhances the overall efficiency of the warehouse but also improves customer satisfaction by ensuring orders are fulfilled accurately and on time.
Order Picking
- Scenario: In a large orders fulfillment center, workers are responsible for picking items from shelves to fulfill customer orders.
- Implementation: Workers use voice-directed picking systems to receive verbal instructions through a headset, guiding them to the exact location of products and specifying the quantity to pick.
Receiving and put-away
- Scenario: A distribution center receives large shipments that need to be sorted and stored efficiently.
- Implementation: Voice commands guide workers to appropriate storage locations and instruct them on where to place objects.
Inventory management
- Scenario: A warehouse conducts regular cycle counts to maintain accurate inventory records.
- Implementation: Workers use voice-directed systems to receive instructions on which items to count and provide verbal confirmations of quantities.
Shipping & loading
- Scenario: In a logistics center, workers need to load things onto trucks for delivery.
- Implementation: Voice-directed systems provide instructions on the sequence and location of items to be loaded onto trucks.
Cross-docking
- Scenario: In a cross-docking operation, items are unloaded from incoming trucks and directly loaded onto outbound trucks with minimal storage time.
- Implementation: Voice-directed systems guide workers through the unloading and loading process, ensuring items are moved efficiently from one truck to another.
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Voice technologies for logistics industry
Also known as voice recognition, and Automatic Speech Recognition – ASR.
Workers can interact directly with the warehouse’s system and focus on the task at hand since they don’t have to look at a screen or paper. Users can ask the system where the next product is, indicate when an action is done and finally give the final approval when an order is completed.
Usually, equipment is shared between workers, and in order to have a personalized experience, voice biometrics allow the identification of users. That way the machine knows exactly what orders to give to specific users.
Users can get vocal feedback from the equipment, allowing all actions to be eyes-free and removing screen and paper.
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How can Voice be Implemented?
Wristbands
Smart Glasses
Headsets
Tablets
AI and machine learning continue to significantly improve voice recognition systems by enhancing accuracy and contextual understanding. These technologies enable systems to better interpret and respond to voice commands, even in noisy environments.
Voice can also enhance other workflows, such as the order fulfillment through robotic systems and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs). Voice control is being increasingly integrated with robotic systems and AGVs to enhance their flexibility and performance. This allows warehouse workers to use voice commands to control and interact with robots, streamlining operations. This integration improves the coordination between human workers and robots, leading to more efficient material handling and reduced labor costs.
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Our customers' feedbacks regarding our solutions
“Vivoka’s technologies have been integrated into our solutions dedicated to Human Factors in industry, guaranteeing performance and data confidentiality.”
Guillaume Jégou
Head of the Human Factors Technology Laboratory
"Vivoka’s solutions can run offline, on-device, to operate anywhere, anytime and with a broad language support capability which is for our products a distinct competitive advantage."
Paul Travers
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
"We partnered with Vivoka on several innovative projects on embedded Linux system, and delivered, in a very short time, multi-lingual natural voice interactions fully running “at the edge” to our customers."
Cédric Vincent
VP of Technology
NEW! Discover our latest version of our Voice Development Kit!
Vivoka’s solutions come in one and only software: Voice Development Kit. Our VDK is sheltering many solutions to integrate voice in each step of your workflow. Our Studio is the interface our customers use to develop their projects.
Before, our customers were downloading a unique SDK that was only C++ or Java. Now, they get an EXEcutable allowing seamless integration with any programming language, eliminating the need for specific SDKs.
You can use your desired programming languages with our REST API.
Increased Flexibility
This update provides developers with the freedom to choose the best tools and languages for their projects without worrying about compatibility issues. The VDK Service acts as a universal REST interface, making VDK’s robust features more accessible than ever before.
Runs on Embedded Devices, Remains Offline
Despite being a web server binary, the VDK Service is designed to run efficiently on embedded devices. It remains completely offline, ensuring that your voice interaction capabilities are secure and do not depend on an internet connection.
Simplified Integration
By utilizing the VDK Service, we've significantly reduced the complexity of integrating voice interaction capabilities. It not only saves development time but also minimizes potential errors and compatibility concerns.
Learn more about Voice control in Logistics
Voice solutions optimize various warehouse processes, from picking and inventory management to shipping and order fulfillment. By automating tasks and providing crucial data, these technologies enhance the management of warehousing operations, making them more efficient and accurate. This integration fosters a smart, technology-driven approach to inventory management and supply chain optimization, ensuring that warehouses can operate at peak efficiency.
The adoption of automated solutions in warehousing processes leads to notable productivity gains, with increases of over 35% in efficiency and up to 25% more accurate operations. This technological transition empowers employees rather than replacing them, fostering a more effective and collaborative work environment. As AI and machine learning continue to enhance voice recognition capabilities, the potential for these technologies to further revolutionize warehousing operations is immense.
Ultimately, the integration of voice in smart warehouses paves the way for a more integrated, efficient, and human-centric approach to modern logistics. These advanced solutions ensure that both technology and human labor work in harmony to achieve optimal results, transforming the landscape of inventory management and warehouse automation for the better.
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