Circumventing Wi-Fi Instability In Material Handling

Material handling operations have improved vastly since manufacturing and distribution facilities started looking for ways to make once fully manual operations more efficient. Originally seen as a necessary but wasteful and expensive activity, automated material handling solutions—like using autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)—have improved not only how efficiently materials are transferred but also how drastically they reduced costs. However, material handling operations are now experiencing a new obstacle: Wi-Fi instability.

Leveraging robust sensor technology for instant communication between ROEQ’s top rollers — conveyors on top of mobile robots — and stationary conveyors, this solution replaces cumbersome, Wi-Fi-dependent 3rd party setups that often cause delays and mismanagement in the transfer of goods between mobile robots and conveyors.

GuardCom is a seamless communication solution that enables Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) AMRs equipped with ROEQ’s top rollers to communicate directly with the conveyor stations to initiate the transfer of goods between mobile robots and conveyors.

The solution consists of two products: GuardCom installed on the stationary conveyor station and GuardCom Connect installed on the autonomous mobile robot. Multiple GuardCom Connects can work with the same GuardCom and vice versa. GuardCom is compatible with all stationary conveyor stations, replacing 3rd party wireless devices.