Accurate, real-time inventory management is a requirement to almost every institution or operation globally. Warehouse kanban, medical pharmacy depots, retail sales storage and many other applications require accurate inventory tracking where typical systems requiring accurate object counts and/or weights may not exist.
A low power IoT device has been designed by Via Technology for optical tracking of inventory utilizing off-the shelf electronics in a compact design that contains the camera, microcontroller, transceiver, battery and firmware for wireless connectivity that delivers the imaging to web-based servers.