Prime Vision graduate wins Red Dot Design Award with Third Vision System
Last November our trainee Oscar Javier Reyes Acosta won a Red Dot Design Award in a design competition of the Red Dot Institute. Oscar graduated in July 2009 and enjoyed the competition with his graduation project “Third Vision System”. Read more.
In sorting centres manual handling can never be completely avoided, there will always be odd shape parcels that can not be placed in the main conveyor, for this reason human operators are needed. It takes 3 operators and 20 seconds to sort just one parcel and manually keying the postcode and address create the biggest bottle neck for the sorting processes.
The current hand held scanners used by the operators recognize only bar code or they are attached to fixed points by cables.
Prime Vision felt that there was a lot to gain in this area and started the development of the Third Vision System, together with the Industrial Design faculty of the Technical University Delft.
The Third Vision System is an intelligent machine for image processing. It consists of a Third Eye cam and the Third Vision software. The Third Eye cam is a wearable head held camera designed to gather images of the parcels’ surfaces from the operators’ point of view using hand gestures to control the camera. The Third Vision software is developed to recognize framing hand gestures in front of the camera. The system is able to locate and read address labels at parcels during the manual handling of parcels. It is a wireless solution to be used in sorting centres, warehouses and every industrial environment where human labour is needed to sort goods (packages) while gathering the postcode, address and client data written or printed on the parcels’ labels.
The Third Vision system has a lot of advantages.
During the first tests it became clear that the sorting time can be reduced up to 7 seconds! But apart from this the system will make the handling of parcels a more encouraging, motivational and challenging activity with less stress.