Intelligent War Preparedness Warehouse Management System

Intelligent War Preparedness Warehouse Management System

In recent years, with the continuous acceleration of our military's technological process, a modern military has taken shape, but compared with developed countries, the logistics support of the troops is still relatively backward. Modern warfare is a typical high consumption war, with an unprecedented increase in the consumption of military materials. According to our statistics, the average material consumption of a soldier in combat during World War I was 6 kilograms. By the time of Iraq, this number had increased to 500 kilograms, and military material consumption had grown nearly 100 times. It can be seen that modern warfare is largely a competition of logistical support capabilities.

The current turbulent international environment and the necessity of anti secession war remind us to always be prepared for combat. How to establish a comprehensive wartime support system to relieve our military's worries is a problem that needs to be solved in front of our military. During the Iraq War, the logistics supplies of the US military were tracked throughout the entire process, and all demand chains were clearly visible, all of which stemmed from the use of Radio Frequency Identification (ZIGBEE) technology by the US military. At present, our military supply support is far from achieving true "visualization", which requires us to make up for this gap in the shortest possible time. The United States completed the successful application of ZIGBEE in 12 years and now has valuable experience to learn from. We are ready to achieve the visualization of military supply support in 3 years.

Therefore, we must prioritize the establishment of a management system for combat readiness warehouses, starting from the application of this system, and gradually realize the intelligence of logistics support for the entire army.

Traditional warehouse management generally relies on a non automated, paper-based system to record and track incoming and outgoing goods, which is entirely implemented manually within the warehouse. Therefore, the efficiency of warehouse management is extremely low. For this, we utilize a warehouse intelligent management system based on ZIGBEE wireless radio frequency technology, which can enhance the accuracy and speed of warehouse operations, reduce losses caused by illegal inbound and outbound, misplacement, theft, and inventory and outbound errors due to inadequate management of the entire combat readiness material inventory, and minimize storage costs to ensure the safety of combat readiness materials.

The warehouse management system is mainly used for automated management of the entry and exit of combat readiness materials. It consists of ZIGBEE electronic tags installed on the outer boxes of combat readiness materials, fixed readers, handheld readers, management center network management equipment and its management software. When vehicles and military supplies carrying ZIGBEE electronic tags pass through the radio frequency induction area set in the warehouse, the system uses ZIGBEE electronic tags to achieve automated inventory, pickup, rapid inventory and material monitoring operations in the warehouse. The placement of the card reader should be reasonable to ensure that each label is within the signal coverage range of the card reader. Through scientific coding, it is also convenient to dynamically manage the batch and origin of items, as shown in the figure. By utilizing the storage location management function of the system, it is possible to timely grasp the current location of all inventory combat readiness materials, which is conducive to ensuring the safety of combat readiness materials and improving the efficiency of warehouse management.

The ZIGBEE electronic tag installed on the combat readiness materials actively sends codes written in a certain format to the fixed reader/writer at a certain frequency. In the database of the upper computer, the corresponding detailed information of the combat readiness materials is recorded, such as material name, quantity, batch, origin, etc. The reader/writer sends the received data to the control center, which can perform real-time positioning and inventory of the materials in the inventory.

Material positioning management: On the visualization platform of the monitoring center, the information and status of different shelves and materials are clearly displayed. In modern rapid warfare, accurate material allocation has been ensured, maximizing time savings.

Inventory of materials: Manual inventory is the most pressing issue in warehouse management. Although paperless has been achieved, repetitive physical labor and time waste still constrain the improvement of military management efficiency. The use of ZIGBEE for warehouse inventory operations significantly reduces time. With just a handheld reader/writer, all material information can be easily added, deleted, and updated during the inventory process.

Real time supervision of materials: The supervision of warehouse materials mostly adopts the methods of human standing guard and cameras, but both methods may lead to missed inspections and negligence. Taking cameras as an example, there are numerous military preparedness warehouses and a large number of cameras. In the control center, it is impossible to achieve full-time monitoring of every area. Generally, scrolling and looping playback are used. Using ZIGBEE's warehouse management system, the status of materials is continuously sent to the control center at a certain frequency. Therefore, any illegal movement or outflow of materials can be identified and notified to management personnel in the form of sound and light alarms by the software management platform in a timely manner.

2.1 Schematic diagram of material storage location management

The material inventory management system based on ZIGBEE truly realizes paperless and intelligent material inventory management, maximizing labor and time savings. Suitable for the management of any material, such as boxed materials, large single item materials, irregular materials, etc., to meet the diverse needs of military materials in various forms.
Material warehousing: For new materials entering the warehouse, assign regular codes to the materials, assign tags to the codes, and update the database based on the materials. The addition, deletion, and update of databases can be implemented on the upper computer or remotely scanned through PDA, modified on PDA, and transmitted over long distances via satellite. Finally, place the materials that have completed coding and information entry on the designated shelves according to the rules, and complete the warehousing process. For the re storage operation of outgoing materials, the battlefield consumption of materials can be updated in the database anytime and anywhere through PDA. When the materials are transported back to the warehouse, the material read by the reader/writer automatically completes the storage operation. Finally, the installation rules are placed on the agreed shelves to complete the storage.
Material outflow: As the war is about to break out, it is not possible to register for outflow again when the war comes. This means that every time the materials are outflow, the warehouse must be rechecked and checked, and the usage of the materials brought into the battlefield is even more unknown. Using the ZIGBEE inbound and outbound system, the outbound of materials does not require registration or passive scanning, as labeled materials continuously generate data. When the control center no longer receives information about a certain material, the upper computer can determine that the material is in an outbound state and automatically modify its status.

2.2 Schematic diagram of material inventory management

Simple manual inventory:

1. The warehouse manager holds a PDA and scans the labels on the shelves and boxes of the warehouse one by one;

2. The label contains relevant information about the goods, and the PDA displays the relevant information of each label;

3. The warehouse administrator sends the inventory data from the PDA to the system terminal.

1)Real time monitoring of the storage of combat readiness materials to ensure the safety of their inbound and outbound operations

2)Improve the supervision of combat readiness materials, reduce and eliminate the illegal outflow of combat readiness materials

3)Real time positioning and tracking management of combat readiness materials and vehicles

4)The accuracy of tag recognition is high, reducing human error input;

5)Increase the accuracy of inventory;

6)Effective inventory management and control, rapid and efficient circulation of combat readiness materials;

7)Effective utilization of inventory space to reduce operating costs;

8)Statistical reports on various current and historical affairs of war preparedness materials provide decision-makers with accurate and useful information

9)The connectivity of data exchange interfaces enhances the management of existing application systems for combat readiness materials;

10)Record the time spent by material administrators to complete their work, grasp the work efficiency of material administrators, and enhance the management of material administrators;

11)The completed combat readiness material warehouse management system will provide more valuable and timely analytical data for the command and decision-making of combat readiness materials;

12)Converting the large amount of paper text information required for combat readiness material documents into electronic data simplifies the query process. By simply entering the query criteria, the required records can be found, greatly accelerating the query speed;

13)Improve the speed and accuracy of data statistics on combat readiness materials, and reduce the difficulty of summarizing and compiling personnel's work;

14)Paperless operation reduces the cost of paper.

▎ Product Introduction

Active material label Ht-zhr- 125		RFID passive tag HT-FWR-102

Desktop label dispenser HT-ZRF-210	UHF Four Channel Card Reader HT-XC-RF812	UHF card reading antenna HT-TX8-RF812	Handheld RFID reader/writer HT-YRD-105

Omnidirectional monitor HT-WAM-ZH10		Directional monitor HT-WAM-ZL10

▎ Software interface