Real-Time Warehouse Monitoring with Ceiling Cameras and Digital Twin for Asset Tracking and Scene Analysis
Background: Effective asset tracking and monitoring are critical for modern warehouse management. Methods: In this paper, we present a real-time warehouse monitoring system that leverages ceiling-mounted cameras, computer vision-based object detection, a knowledge-graph based world model. The system is implemented in two architectural configurations: a distributed setup with edge processing and a centralized setup. Results: Experimental results demonstrate the system’s capability to accurately detect and continuously track common warehouse assets such as pallets, boxes, and forklifts. This work provides a detailed methodology, covering aspects from camera placement and neural network training to world model integration and real-world deployment. Conclusions: Our experiments show that the system achieves high detection accuracy and reliable real-time tracking across multiple viewpoints, and it is easily scalable to large-scale logistics and inventory applications.
Authors
- Connor Verhulst (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4801-0764)
- Steven Sagaert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1141-8352)
- Abdellatif Bey-Temsamani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8198-0965)
- Merwan Birem (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8068-2213)
- Jean-Edouard Blanquart (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9124-1253)
- Jianqiao Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5080-3691)
- Marc Mertens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5480-167X)
- M. M. Deshmukh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2682-5516)
- Erwin Rademakers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3024-3700)
- Shannon Van De Velde (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5534-0991)
- Pieter De Clercq (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1896-4807)
- Neel Broekx (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3043-6380)
Institutions
- Flanders Make (Belgium) (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Logistics
- Published
- 2025-10-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/logistics9040153
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Neural Network Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00