Development of Drone-based Inventory Auditing System

Magic Information Systems Inc.(MIS)成立于1996年，是一家总部位于多伦多的软件开发商，专门从事集成管理信息系统，旨在提高用户的运营效率。他们提供广泛的解决方案，包括他们的旗舰产品“eWholesale”，这是一个全面的企业资源规划(ERP)软件。这一模块化和高度灵活的解决方案帮助公司监控其运营的各个方面，从订单输入到采购、到库存控制，再到会计和工资。他们的客户大多是中小型企业，特别是批发商、出口商和进口商、分销商和灯具制造商。这些公司的共同点是，仓库运营是其业务的重要组成部分。管理大型仓库最具挑战性和最昂贵的方面之一是维护有关库存数量和位置的准确信息。管理信息系统认为这是一个向客户提供增值服务并创造额外收入的机会。管理信息系统正在与Seneca合作，利用无人机建立自动化库存审计系统的概念验证，作为手动方法的替代方案。一旦这项研发工作完成，设计和技术挑战得到解决，新的基于无人机的库存审计解决方案将为管理信息系统客户节省大量运营成本，使公司能够增加和多样化其收入来源，并提高市场渗透率。拟议的技术适用于许多行业，没有固有的地域限制，因此有可能在全球范围内取得成功，从而创造新的高薪工作岗位，帮助将加拿大人才留在加拿大。

Founded in 1996, Magic Information Systems Inc. (MIS) is a Toronto-based software developer specializing in integrated management information systems aimed at improving operational efficiencies for their users. They offer a broad range of solutions including their flagship product, "eWholesale", a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. This modular and highly flexible solution helps companies to monitor all aspects of their operations, from order entry, to purchasing, to inventory control, to accounting and payroll. Their clients are mostly small and midsize businesses in particular wholesalers, exporters and importers, distributors and light manufacturers. The common thread for these companies is that warehouse operations are a vital part of their businesses. One of the most challenging, and costly, aspects of running a large warehouse is maintaining accurate information about stock quantity and location of inventory. MIS sees this as an opportunity to provide a value-added offering to its customers, and to generate additional revenue. MIS is partnering with Seneca to build a proof of concept for an automated inventory audit system using drones, as an alternative to the manual approach.Once this R&D undertaking is complete and the design and technical challenges are resolved, the new drone-based inventory auditing solution will provide MIS clients with significant operating cost savings, allowing the company to increase and diversify its revenue stream and increase market penetration. The proposed technology is applicable across many industries, has no inherent geographic limits and as such has the potential of being successful globally resulting in new, high paying jobs, helping to keep Canadian talent in Canada.