Supply Chain News: Amazon Files Patent for Augmented Reality Putaway, Critics Again Erroneously Worry about Big Brother
SCDigest is not sure how Amazon could claim an invention here – other companies such as 3PL DHL and a number of technology vendors have been developing real AR applications for a number of years before the Amazon patent filing...
The patent describes a "wearable computing device" that would overlay turn-by-turn directions on the goggles' screen, showing employees where to out awat certain objects in one of Amazon's fulfillment centers. "
The goggles would connect to a computing device that's worn on the employee's body, which powers the turn-by-turn data.
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Of course, as almost anyone who knows anything about how a distribution center works understands, such activity and productivity tracking at a detailed employee level has been around for more than two decades.
Most modern DCs use wireless terminals, often called radio frequency (RF) devices, for associates to confirm via a bar code scan that they are in the right location for say an a order pick or a product putaway.
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