Amazon is researching a process to automate identification of items in its supply chain.
The e-tail behemoth is researching how to automate inventory identification using multimodal identification, or MMID. This process uses multiple modalities of information, such as extracting the appearance and dimensions of an item from an image of that item, to automate identification.
Amazon is already piloting MMID systems in fulfillment centers in Hamburg, Germany and Barcelona, Spain, where it is being used on conveyor belts to flag trays with what Amazon calls virtual-physical mismatches, or instances where the items in a tray don’t match the ones listed by the inventory system.
Source: Chain Store Age
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