By Cypher Robotics
Cypher Robotics is back home after a highly successful trip to the Mobile World Congress (MWC26) show in Barcelona. It’s one of the world’s largest showcases for connected devices – everything from robots operating over private 5G networks through to the growing number of smart IoT devices we have in our homes. Regardless of the innovation, it’s all about connectivity and achieving greater efficiencies by gathering and transmitting data through wireless networks.
That’s why it was the perfect venue for us to display our Captis cycle counting and inventory management solution.
Captis is a fully autonomous, automated system that captures inventory in even the largest warehouses in one of two ways. Captis Aerial integrates a tethered drone with an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) to scan inventory even at the highest bins (saving humans from working at height) while transferring all data in real time into the client’s Warehouse Management System (WMS). A second configuration, Captis RFID, autonomously scans RFID tags. Captis can operate non-stop on missions lasting up to eight hours before autonomously returning to its base for a wireless recharge.
Cypher Robotics attended the show at the invitation of Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions. Ericsson is deploying its Ericsson Private 5G (EP5G) Networks at a number of global companies as they transition fully into the Industry 4.0 era. Solutions like Captis are a tangible way of demonstrating the power those networks enable.
Above: Captis Aerial, demonstrating how its tethered drone captures inventory in real time at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Below: Crowds gather to watch Captis in action.
ACCURACY, AUTONOMY, EFFICIENCY
The Captis system is not a work-in-progress. It’s a fully functioning system deployed in multiple locations around the world. It saves clients money (and saves employees from dreary, sometimes dangerous manual scanning) with unprecedented accuracy and speed.
That’s an easy thing to say – but we have the data to back up that statement. In one of our locations, we worked in tandem with the client (Leon’s, one of Canada’s largest furniture and appliance retailers) to carefully track the benefits of the Captis system. The results are impressive. Our system achieved:
- Industry-leading accuracy of 99.8 per cent – eliminating human error
- Elimination of downtime by ending the need to close down warehouse aisles for manual cycle counts
- 90 per cent reduction in the amount of time required for weekly cycle counts in one warehouse (two hours with Captis vs 20 hours manually)
And those are just the highlights. You can read the complete case study on Leon’s right here.
REACTION
A big show like the MWC has a lot of displays competing for eyeballs. Our Captis system attracted a *lot* of attention throughout the exhibition, with constant crowds watching the solution operate.
“It really captured the imagination of a lot of the attendees,” says one of our reps at the show. “One thing worth noting is this is a solution that’s deployed today – and has delivered significant business impact.”
Also worth mentioning is that while Captis is sending accurate real time data to a company’s WMS, it’s also pulling data from that system and looking for any discrepancies between the two datasets.
“So we can truly compare what we actually have on hand with what we thought we had on hand. And the variance report that’s created through our software allows companies to really increase the accuracy of their inventory.”
Below: A look at the two Captis systems in action
CYPHER’S VIEW
It was a privilege to demonstrate the capabilities of the Captis system before an audience from around the globe – and we were very gratified by the response. People intuitively understood the immense value proposition the moment they saw Captis in action.
“Captis is gaining immense traction as companies seek efficient, autonomous solutions to cycle counting and inventory management,” says Peter King, Founder and CEO of Cypher Robotics. “It was an honour to have Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions once again select Cypher Robotics as a means of demonstrating the real-world power of its EP5G networks with our Captis system.”
Interested in learning more about what Captis can do for your enterprise? Contact us here.