TÜBİTAK
ASTELD / STOKU
Smart glove and inventory management system. Reduced barcode scanning time from 12 seconds to 3 seconds.
- Industry
- Logistics / IoT
- Region
- Türkiye
- Technology
- IoT · Embedded · Bluetooth · .NET
- Outcome
- 75% shorter scanning time
OVERVIEW
From need
to outcome.
ASTELD / STOKU combines a wearable barcode scanner with inventory management. Its starting point was a repeated interruption: picking up and putting down a separate scanner while handling goods.
Fit the tool to the movement
We considered holding, scanning and placing a product as one sequence. Moving barcode reading to a glove aimed to reduce the extra movements involved in using a separate device.
Connecting hardware and inventory
The TÜBİTAK-supported project connected a wearable reader to inventory management. Embedded software, Bluetooth communication and a .NET application work together to turn a physical scan into a digital record.
- Scan the product with the wearable reader.
- Transfer the barcode information to the inventory system.
- Associate the warehouse movement with its stock record.
Why improving one step matters
The project’s recorded example reduced scanning time from 12 seconds to 3 seconds: a 75% reduction in that step, not a general productivity figure for an entire warehouse. The broader lesson is to design hardware around how people actually work.