Innovation Award

Belgium

The proposed solution is called “Lighthouse” and it is a way to functionally give the parcel sorting machine eyes.

It is a stereo camera machine vision system (pictured below) that analyzes every parcel going on the machine and can detect parcel characteristics that were previously invisible for classic sensor systems (such as packaging material and type, state and relative position).

The system is fully integrated with all our current sorting systems, allowing us to optimize in real-time the sorting decisions and to analyze and use this enhanced parcel data to support other departments in decisions where deep and correct knowledge of the product mix is essential.