Honeywell & Stereolabs Partner to Modernize Supply Chains

Honeywell and Stereolabs Join Forces to Revolutionize Supply Chain Logistics

In an exciting new breakthrough for the logistics industry, Honeywell has announced a strategic alliance with Stereolabs. With this alliance, these two innovative companies are developing a groundbreaking mobile solution that will allow companies to easily and efficiently manage logistics across the supply chain. This first-to-market solution will provide improved delivery times and significant cost savings on shipping for businesses worldwide.

A Mix of Cutting-Edge Technology

This collaboration will entail the marrying of Stereolabs' premium stereoscopic cameras – through a high-level vision-based artificial intelligence perception system to accurately gauge the size of various products – with Honeywell's powerful SwiftDecoder software. Honeywell's software is especially designed to read critical barcode information and other crucial written information. By merging these two technologies into a single easy, intuitive mobile solution, logistics providers will have never-before-seen power. They will be able to make more informed choices regarding truck loading, determine the exact number of vehicles required to ship, and effectively track the goods in transit across the supply chain.

Addressing Key Pain Points in Logistics

David Barker, Honeywell Productivity Solutions and Services President, neatly captured the issue with most in the business: "Products sitting in a warehouse and riding on a truck hold a treasure trove of information, from weight and dimensions to the product name, expiration date and warning sticker on the box.". Recognizing a way to record this data in one place and use it effectively in order to streamline processes is the problem that most operations are presented with. This concerted effort of Honeywell and Stereolabs directly answers these significant pain points. A considerable number of warehouses and logistics operators today still rely on manual processes, taking advantage of simple tools like tape measures and weigh scales to measure product size and weight before they are transported. While others are operating fixed systems or scanning tunnel on conveyor belts, such practices are typically not as efficient. Honeywell and Stereolabs' new mobile solution offers a much more agile method of carrying out everyday activities in distribution centers.

Streamlining Operations with Real-Time Information

The groundbreaking joint solution integrates the Stereolabs ZED stereoscopic camera calculator and Honeywell's SwiftDecoder barcode-decoding software. This powerful combination enables fast and accurate monitoring of vital weight and dimension data. This critical data, once monitored, is automatically sent to a central database. Access to real-time data enables companies to have total understanding of box and pallet quantities and contents being shipped by trailer. Thus, they are able to make strategic, informed decisions regarding the most efficient and economical means of transporting, loading, and de-stocking goods.

A Seamless Integration to Enhance Efficiency

Stereolabs' Chief Product Officer Olivier Braun was delighted with the collaboration, stating, "It was an easy and efficient integration to combine Honeywell's SwiftDecoder software with our ZED cameras and perception stack." He further detailed the full functionality of the new solution: "We can now offer a dense, end-to-end data capture solution—uniting product dimensions, barcode data, optical character recognition (OCR) data and high-quality images—that is natively ready to be imported into any warehouse management system." The native integration will significantly increase efficiency and accuracy for logistics processes.