Video Coding

The BEUMER Group Video Coding System (VCS), is an add-on to your existing system that provides the option to perform the manual handling process for NO READ and NO BSM bags by viewing one or more images of the bag from a convenient office environment and without diverting the bag to a manual handling station.

According to industry statistics approximately 2-3 percent of bag tags are unreadable, with higher rate of NO READ for transfer bags. No BSM is also a challenge where DCS system fail to send the BSM to the BHS in a timely manner.

Manual handling by a human operator is still the best solution where technology fails. However physical diversion to Manual Encoding Station (MES) is time consuming resulting in bags in short connection missing the connection flight.

Diversion to a physical Manual Encoding Station also means that skilled and costly human operators are placed in one specific location, dedicated to one specific task and normally also subject to less optimal working condition on production floor.

The beumer group vcs

The BEUMER Group VCS brings the advantages and capabilities of the human operator but eliminate the need for physical diversion, improve the utilization of the human resources, and reduce the manual encoding time.

With BEUMER Group VCS, camera based scanners capture multiple images of each bag from different angles.  The images are brought to an operator’s computer screen while the bag never leaves the sorting system. The operator selects the best images,  zoom and rotate the images as required and encode either the LPN or Flight information.

Incremental search in a BSM database is performed as the operator keys in the LPN, which enable the operator to identify the right BSM even in cases where only part of the LPN is visible or readable.

Optional advanced AI based features allow the system to perform image prioritization and even  highlight “area of Interest” on the bag tags.

The system can work with any camera that can to be integrated with the sortation system and provide the images over a network interface. If the system already uses camera based barcode scanners, the images provided by these cameras can normally be used for video coding as well, so no new cameras are required.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

An optional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) function can further enhance the process and further reduce the amount of manual handling.

With OCR option enabled, prior to sending a bag to Video Coding by an human operator the system can use OCR technology and attempt to “Machine Read” the printed data on the bag tags,

The solution can recognize IATA 10 digits codes and Airport codes and match the information to BSM data to resolve also multi-destination tags. With typical bag tag quality, it is expected that around 50% of  cases could be encoded automatically by the OCR

Video coding architecture