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Date
2024
Authors
Dana Aqel
Aya Jabali
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A substitution for a human worker to check out items and compute their bill before sending them to be packaged and shipped out is proposed by this project at a warehouse/inventory of an online business. The need for human labor is aimed to be reduced, which, in turn, results in a reduction of time and effort spent before orders are shipped out. This is achieved by having items scanned and their bills computed by the system, after which they are sorted into either of two bins: “scanned and ready to be packaged,” or “unscanned and in need of rescanning or replacement,” depending on the reason for the initial lack of scanning. This way, when multiple systems are implemented, one for each replaced human worker, multiple orders can be prepared for packaging simultaneously without requiring human intervention. The system incorporates a barcode scanner for detecting item barcodes, which, in turn, are used for bill computation. Infrared sensors are employed to determine the presence and position of items on the system’s belt, as well as control the system’s auto shut-off in the absence of items on the main belt, and motors are responsible for propelling the main belt of the system as well as moving the bins to capture the designated items. An LCD is used to showcase the process and its updates, as well as the bill and current number of items in each bin. Following extensive testing, the system demonstrated accurate performance of scanning and sorting items up to 90% of the time; explanations for the margin of error will be later addressed in the constraints section of this report.