2022 to 2023, AI vision

Picked from hundreds of startups to pitch to Saab and Toyota

Stock-taking in a warehouse usually means people walking the aisles with clipboards. LabelDetector does it with cameras: smart pan-tilt-zoom cameras read the labels that are already on the pallets, from a distance, and keep a live inventory. There is nothing to rebuild, no new labels and no hardware on each pallet.

The camera view, with every pallet label identified
What the camera sees: every pallet label found.

1 of 4startups picked from hundreds, which led to pilots with Toyota

What I built

I developed the core machine learning models: the AI vision that finds every label and reads the article numbers, order numbers, locations and quantities, even in bad light, on damaged labels and at strange angles. The inventory syncs with the business system and flags anything that doesn't match.

Together with Toyota Material Handling, Eboss and Almi.

The pilot at Eboss

We proved it at Eboss, in a real production facility, with a live link to their Monitor G5 business system. Almi's Inkomst 4.0 programme helped fund the pilot.

A LabelDetector camera mounted and running at the pilot
A LabelDetector camera on duty at the pilot.

Toyota and the forklifts

Out of hundreds of European tech startups, LabelDetector was one of four picked to pitch to Saab, Siemens Energy, Väderstad and Toyota Material Handling Europe, through Indx at Science Park in Linköping. The pitch turned into pilots with Toyota Material Handling, where we put the cameras on forklifts so every trip through the warehouse counts the stock. It automated a lot of manual work for them.

A pallet label read into supplier, delivery and product details
One label, read and sorted into supplier, delivery and product.

In the press

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