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Automation Transforming Offices, Hotels, and Homes

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Applied Innovation

Automation Transforming Offices, Hotels, and Homes

Automation refers to technological applications in which human involvement is minimized. Basic automation automates simple and fundamental operations. This degree of automation is concerned with digitizing labor by utilizing technologies to expedite and consolidate everyday operations. Basic automation includes business process management (BPM) and robotic process automation (RPA), IT automation, and personal applications such as home automation, and others.

Types of Automation

Process automation increases productivity and efficiency in firms by providing new perspectives on corporate difficulties and delivering solutions. Process automation includes workflow automation and process mining.

Another form is integration automation, in which computers replicate human jobs and repeat the behaviors once the machine rules are defined by people. People have characterized digital employees in recent years as software robots trained to collaborate with humans to execute certain jobs.

With the introduction of AI in automation, robots can now learn and make decisions based on previous scenarios that they have experienced and studied. Virtual assistants powered by AI, for example, are widely employed to save costs while empowering both consumers and human agents.

Automation is being implemented at Home, Office, and Hotel Automation as it offers several advantages like effective management from one place, maximizing security, and Increased energy efficiency. It also helps improve appliance functionality by providing management insights.

Home automation

Smart gadgets are now assisting in the development of the best home robotization frameworks and controls. Home automation technologies are altering how people live and interact with their houses.

The “Internet of Things,” or IoT, is made up of home automation systems and controls. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system that allows smart devices to communicate with one another. This system uses the internet and wireless connections to sync devices and conduct tasks. Smart devices are ordinary home items that have sensors and connectivity built in. These sensors assist the device in gathering information about how people use it. The gadget then sends the data it has gathered to other smart devices to help them with its work. This information exchange is what gives rise to the Internet of Things.

Office Automation

Office automation is used to meticulously create, store, control, and transfer office data and information that is required for basic automation and goals. It enables business associations to improve their efficiency and recognize simpler ways to collaborate in benefits. Office automation, which began primarily as a data handling and word processing device, now includes more modern and complex tasks such as coordinating front-office and back-end systems. It aids in the advancement of current office strategies by saving time, money, and human effort. Office automation also provides various benefits such as better data storage and manipulation, data management, data exchange, accuracy, time and resource savings, and cost savings.

Hotel Automation

Hotels are just the most recent area to join administration offices to improve client experience and productivity as a result of automated innovation. Hotels can incorporate the use of automated processes in a variety of ways. Automation in the hotel industry is quickly becoming a must in order to provide competent yet high-quality service. Reasons to use a Hotel Automation System include lower management expenses, increased safety, and comprehensive control over the building.

We have solutions for home, office, and hotel automation solutions to transform any property into a smart, luxurious place and to significantly improve users’ living comfort and well-being while reducing energy consumption and achieving a sophisticated high-performance property.

We custom-integrate the most advanced electronic hardware and software to deliver superior-quality automation solutions that allow you to easily perform complex tasks – literally putting room control at your fingertips.

For additional information on such solutions and emerging use cases in other areas, as well as cooperation and partnership opportunities, please contact us at open-innovator@quotients.com

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Warehouse Automation for Quick Commerce

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Warehouse Automation for Quick Commerce

Automation, use of technology to perform tasks with reduced human assistance, is becoming more and more prevalent in the industries such as manufacturing, robotics, and automotives. It offers many benefits like increase in productivity, reduction in risk related to labor.

Warehouse automation i.e. blending of stores and warehouses and the use of warehouse robotics, conveyors and automation technologies in e-commerce, is also seen as having a lot of potential. These systems can eliminate labor-intensive and time-consuming duties hence free workers up to focus on more value-added tasks, like quality control.

Quick commerce, a unique business model where the delivery of goods and services is done within 10-30 minutes of ordering, has expedited need for automation. The complexity of the Indian warehouses given their density, smaller size, and abundantly available cost-effective labor, present another challenge.

Goods to Person (G2P) warehouse automation holds the potential satisfy the needs of their demanding consumers. G2P robotics are Goods to Person robots such as Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), Automatic Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs).

Autonomous Mobile Robots – use on-board sensors and processors to autonomously move materials within a warehouse, without the need for wires, markers, or strips. AMRs can learn their environment and plan the route considering it, other AMRs, blocked pathways, and humans.

Automated Guided Vehicles – driverless, mobile vehicles guided by wires, magnetic strips, or sensors and restricted to following fixed routes. They can detect other robots, humans, or objects in front of them but must wait until the obstacle has cleared before they can continue.

Automated storage and retrieval systems: AS/RS, are made of a variation of computer-controlled systems that automatically place and retrieve loads from set storage locations in a facility with precision, accuracy and speed. Some of the systems that are used are: Vertical carousels, horizontal carousels, and Vertical Lift Modules (VLMs), Stacker Cranes, Pallet shuttles, Miniload systems, Cube based storage and Collaborative robots.

Automated Warehouses claim to allow deployment that is on average 10x faster with negligible installation capex and generate 3x higher ROI vs. competition. It also increases productivity by 3X, throughput by up to 50 percent, and space optimisation by up to 30 percent along with ensuring timely delivery of consumer orders.

A startup ecosystem is developing around this use case across the world. Warehouse Automation is one of the interesting new themes which are gaining popularity.