Long-Term Inventory Flow Management System Tracking Using Doorway Monitoring

The standard way to keep track of inventory is through human counting or with a hand-held device and inputting the data into the warehouse management system (WMS). WMS can be quite expensive for small warehouses and human counting is susceptible to errors. Alternatively, we propose an automated way to keep track of inventory by leveraging the surveillance cameras readily available in the warehouses. In practice, there are challenges such as incorrect stock numbers, overfitting issues, and a mundane labeling process. To identify and mitigate those challenges, we present real-world deployment to various warehouses for a period of 4 months with up to 97 percent counting accuracy.