Powerful Luggage Wrapping Machine IoT Upgrades

ZedIoT
August 15, 2023
4:21 pm
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A new, innovative airport luggage wrapping solution that included PLC development, machine controls, staff monitoring, point-of-sale and cloud data.

Client's Background

Sydney Airport, the busiest airport in Australia, provides services to millions of passengers every year. While you passed check-in part H, you probably noticed the big luggage wrapping machines around. These machines can quickly seal the bags with recyclable clear plastic in 15 seconds. We wrote all the programs to control the big machines, cloud management service, and all related technical points.

System Functions

Device Control

Terminal

Implement device packaging process
Record device operation status
Transfer data to POS for checkout
Adjust device speed and steps

POS Cashier

Terminal

Implement cashiering and statistics
Record employee work time
Packaging records

Remote Management Terminal

Obtain employee work status
Obtain packaging and cashiering status
View abnormal data
Box management and sales records

Technical Points

PLC programming

Collect the sensor information and control the wrapping machine's different motors to work at designated speed and round of times so that the bags can be well wrapped while saving the plastic materials.

Touchable Application Programming

The PLC is controlled by a touchable tablet, and we developed the APP with a control interface to communicate with the PLC collect information, and send it to the cloud server.

Staff management

.Allow staff to check in and check out, calculate the work hours, etc.

Data report and analysis

Develop reports for the daily revenues by staff and time.

Solution

Our team designed a cloud based solution for the project. All data are transferred to the database in the cloud in the real time.

System and Installation operation display

In the software design for this project, we provided clients with both prototypes and design drawings as the basis for development. Through desktop software, users can control the packaging machine to perform packaging operations, and they can use a desktop POS machine to complete the checkout process after packaging. Administrators can view and manage operations across multiple terminals.