Sep 10, 2025
In the rapid development of the logistics and warehousing industry, the inventory scale continues to expand, the traditional warehouse management model is facing many challenges. Shortage of personnel leads to low inventory efficiency, inventory update cycle is too long to meet the real-time management needs, the lack of high-frequency security and fire patrols also bring hidden dangers to the warehouse safety. In this context, indoor inspection drones came into being, becoming a key tool to crack the industry's pain points.
The indoor inspection drone has reshaped the warehouse inventory process by virtue of the technology integration mode of "drone + AI + RFID". Take the TSU-2 indoor inspection drone as an example, equipped with a gimbaled camera and RFID reader, it can efficiently traverse all shelves in the warehouse and accurately read the RFID tag information of commodities through automatic planning of flight routes or manual pilotage. Compared with the traditional manual inventory, the indoor inspection drone efficiency is greatly improved, significantly shortening the inventory cycle. At the same time, the compact design of the hangar makes it flexible to deploy, without the need for secondary construction, and can quickly adapt to different warehouse layouts, easily traversing all corners of the warehouse, realizing the rapid collection of cargo information and real-time linkage, and injecting brand new vitality into warehouse management.
The core competitiveness of the indoor inspection UAV stems from a number of key technology breakthroughs. Navigation technology allows the drone to obtain real-time environmental information through sensors in an indoor environment without satellite signals, complete autonomous positioning, trajectory estimation and environmental mapping, and accurately plan flight paths; hybrid identification technology uses a combination of flexible metal-resistant RFID tags and high-contrast dynamic two-dimensional barcode, prioritizing the reading of RFID tags with higher efficiency, and automatically switching to AI two-dimensional barcode identification in the event of identification failure. With the three-level error tolerance system of AI multi-model voting verification and real-time comparison of system data, the error rate is strictly controlled at a low level; autonomous flight technology realizes accurate hovering, rotating, and photo-taking of the drone indoors by converting the LIDAR position information into GPS format, which, combined with the automatic charging function, achieves the high-frequency unattended inspections. In addition, the application of infrared camera allows the drone to have fire warning capability, real-time monitoring of the warehouse temperature, and immediately triggering the alarm when abnormalities are detected, escorting the safety of warehousing.
With the continuous maturity of technology, indoor inspection drones have been deeply integrated into the warehouse management platform, building a full-process intelligent management system. Warehouse management platform through the visualization of the Kanban board, real-time presentation of the use of the state of the warehouse, the operation of equipment, in and out of the warehouse statistics and other key data, managers can view inventory information at any time, based on the data to make scientific decisions. Driven by innovation, drones have become the new favorite of indoor inspection. The image, temperature, cargo information and other data collected by the drone during inspection will be uploaded to the cloud and synchronized to the management system in real time, forming a complete inventory database, supporting historical data query and analysis, and helping to optimize inventory layout and reduce inventory costs. At the same time, the platform also has an exception handling function, when the drone detects problems such as cargo displacement and equipment failure, it will quickly freeze the relevant cargo space, generate emergency task orders and push alert information to ensure timely resolution of the problem and safeguard the stability of warehouse operations.
How to choose a quality indoor inspection drone manufacturer? When choosing an indoor inspection drone manufacturer, you need to comprehensively consider various factors. First, pay attention to technical strength, give priority to manufacturers with independent R&D capabilities and mature solutions in core technology areas such as SLAM navigation, RFID identification, AI algorithms, etc., and assess the stability and advancement of the technology by examining their technical patents and project cases. Secondly, pay attention to product performance and adaptability, understand the flight time, load capacity, recognition accuracy, environmental adaptability and other parameters of the drone, to ensure that the product can meet the scale, layout and special storage needs of their own warehouses, for example, whether it can fly stably in the narrow aisles, and whether it is equipped with additional functions such as temperature and humidity monitoring. Furthermore, examine the manufacturer's after-sales service system, perfect after-sales support including equipment installation and commissioning, operator training, regular maintenance and rapid response to failures, which directly affects the long-term stable operation of the equipment. Reference to the industry reputation and customer reviews, through the exchange of other enterprises using the manufacturer's products, select the manufacturer with a good reputation for the intelligent upgrading of warehouse management to provide a reliable guarantee.