Objectives

A smart factory produces various products and these products are stored in the warehouse. In order to monitor how many products are stored in the warehouse, the easiest approach is to record each product and its container in a system, so that the added products can be tracked by this system.

In this study, our focus is to figure out how many products are available in a container without recording them in the system but by utilizing the load sensors instead. Basically, the load sensor measures the total load once a product is added in the container. Assuming that all products are the same in terms of the weight and form, we will be able to detect the number of the products in the container in the end of this study.


Achievements

  • Learning the characteristics of the sensors to be integrated

  • Hands-on experience with a single board computer, breadboard, and wiring

  • Experiencing with a programming language and a communication protocol

  • Assembling Raspberry Pi Scale and using hx711 load cell amplifier for building an object detecting weight scale

  • Visualizing weight sensor data

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Figure 1: Stock Monitoring Test Environment

 

Required Material & Installing Circuit Diagram 


Table 1: Required Material

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