Hainan Shidian UWB Positioning + Collision Avoidance: Driving Intelligent Innovation in Warehouse Logistics

As a crucial link in the circulation of goods, the intelligent transformation of warehousing and logistics has increasingly become a core focus for enterprises and the development of entire industrial chains. Under the national "14th Five-Year Plan" which actively promotes the main theme of digital economy development, leveraging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and mobile information services to reduce enterprise logistics management costs, enhance safety management and work efficiency, and amplify the positive impact of warehousing on environmental and social development has become the prevailing trend.

Currently, for sectors like manufacturing, e-commerce, and third-party logistics, intelligence is a key competitive advantage on the path of warehousing and logistics transformation. Consequently, many large enterprises have set higher requirements for warehouse management and development. In the continuous exploration of new management models to achieve real-time, efficient, and precise warehouse management, several industry-wide typical challenges have been identified:

Low Level of Automation: Heavy reliance on manual management for outbound/inbound/transfer operations, resulting in low efficiency;

Difficulty in Managing Outsourced Personnel: Challenges in tracking attendance and working hours of outsourced staff, making work efficiency hard to evaluate;

Lack of Safety Assurance: High flow of people and vehicles in warehouse areas, prone to collisions between people and vehicles or between vehicles;

Inefficient Dispatch Management: Inability to monitor vehicle location, tasks, and work status in real-time;

Low Forklift Utilization Rate: Uneven distribution of tasks among vehicles, often leading to some being overloaded while others idle, or distant vehicles handling nearby goods, etc.;

To align with the wave of intelligent warehousing and address industry and customer pain points directly, Hainan Shidian has launched a Warehouse Logistics Solution Based on the Innovative Integration of UWB Positioning and Anti-collision Technology. This solution enables seamless tracking, intelligent allocation, and efficient coordination of people, vehicles, and goods within the supply chain. It enhances the automation level of various processes, reduces human errors, improves work efficiency, and brings clarity to warehouse management.

01 Precise Location Data, Revolutionizing Traditional Warehouse Management

Faced with the daily demands of managing diverse products and high-volume inbound/outbound dynamics, Hainan Shidian utilizes location data as a characteristic carrier, integrated with the Warehouse Management System (WMS). This replaces manual processes to automatically sense and track the movement status of every item during turnover. It enables real-time monitoring of material whereabouts, preventing issues like inventory pile-up, difficulty in locating items, and inaccurate stocktaking. This achieves intelligent management of processes including receiving, shipping, moving, counting, and searching for materials.

Furthermore, through UWB precise positioning, statistics on outsourced personnel's on-duty time and headcount can be generated. Management can quickly query the working hours of outsourced staff via the platform, meeting the enterprise's needs for attendance management of outsourced personnel.

02 Accurate Anti-collision Ranging, Flexible Handling of Mixed Pedestrian and Vehicle Traffic

In warehousing and logistics scenarios, the concentrated operation of forklifts, the flow of personnel, and visual blind spots caused by goods pose significant safety risks. To address this, utilizing UWB unilateral ranging enables precise distance measurement between personnel and forklifts, as well as between forklifts, with an average accuracy of up to 10cm. Combined with audible and visual alarms, it forms an anti-collision warning device, implementing collision prevention and warning functions to minimize the occurrence of accidents.

03 Warehouse "Traffic Lights", Enhancing Traffic Management

Large logistics warehouses feature intricate material flow routes with numerous intersections, where accidents often occur due to limited sightlines. Hainan Shidian installs wall-corner tags at warehouse intersections and links them with red/green signal lights. Combined with specific business logic, this enables more orderly, efficient, and autonomous operation of warehouse "traffic lights," ensuring safe passage for both people and vehicles.

04 Vehicle Management, Smoother Integrated Dispatch

The coordinated dispatch management of warehouse forklifts is one of the challenges in intelligent transformation. By deploying a UWB positioning solution and utilizing real-time location information to optimize forklift management, functions such as route optimization and balanced workload distribution for forklift operations are achieved based on principles like proximity and idle vehicle reuse.

For example, when assigning tasks, the platform plans an optimal route considering the start and end points of goods, combined with traffic conditions at intersections, balancing time and distance.

Additionally, by analyzing forklift movement trajectories, statistics on each forklift's operational duration and idle time can be generated, forming a forklift efficiency report to further optimize operational efficiency.

05 Open Data Interfaces, Enabling System Platform Interconnectivity

Hainan Shidian provides rich API interfaces that are simple and convenient to integrate. This helps enterprises break down data silos, achieve data interconnectivity, and safeguards the development of new applications.