Accurate and on-demand volume data

Volume Monitoring

Accurate level sensing and volume monitoring are essential for effective inventory and supply chain management across various industries. Blickfeld’s 3D LiDAR technology offers precise, on-demand measurements for applications such as stockpile monitoring, silo level sensing, and logistics optimization. By providing real-time data and remote access across multiple locations, our solution ensures efficient material management while helping customers identify available storage space for unloading materials.

Digital Volume Monitoring with 3D LiDAR Technology

Support in daily business operations

By providing highly current and reliable insights into asset quantities present in value streams, plant managers, dispatchers and accountants are supported in their daily tasks, reducing the effort and cost related to measuring and reporting of volumes.

Digitalization of the whole value chain

With accurate Volume Monitoring providing 24/7 overview of material stocks, users gain overall control of their facility, creating transparency for various relevant departments involved.

Efficient trading of materials

Accurate stock data enables better forecasting of resources and leveraging of storage capacity. Therefore, supply chain processes can be triggered in time and automatically, ensuring the ability to meet contractually promised volumes and timelines.

Avoidance of production interruptions

The automation of manual processes prevent human errors in estimating volumes, ensuring smooth (production) processes and avoiding revenue losses caused by missing supplies.

Blickfeld SOLUTION

Stockpile Volume Monitoring

Find out how Blickfeld’s LiDAR-based Stockpile Volume Monitoring solution captures 3D volume data in real-time.

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Solution Architecture

3D LiDAR Sensor

Blickfeld’s high-resolution 3D-LiDAR sensors continuously collect data and produce point clouds that map the sensor environment in 3D.

On-Device Software

The associated software analyzes this data on-device and outputs exact volume information on-demand.

Blickfeld Dashboard

Blickfeld offers a customized dashboard that displays volume data in a user-friendly way. This data can be accessed anytime, anywhere, and from any device.

Industries

Waste Recycling

Continuously determine waste situations in bunkers in real-time and with high accuracy – Blickfeld’s digital solution enables efficient waste disposition and economical plant operation. The 3D volume data not only improves the utilization of materials recovery facilities but also provides the accounting and logistics departments with a reliable source of data to more easily comply with material storage regulations. With on-demand data access, waste companies can better forecast resources and leverage more storage capacity. This not only helps to plan the throughput of material better but also optimize internal logistics processes across sites.

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Agriculture

Just a small number of sensors can bring you a big advantage: Strategically placed in your storage depot, they continually monitor the amount of material like animal feed or fertilizer, even in remote warehouses. Never run out – always be on top of the ordering process!

The solution also supports you in ensuring your product is stored in the best possible way and enables yield monitoring while harvesting on the field.

Applications

Volume monitoring with the Blickfeld LiDAR solution enables a host of applications.

Stockpile Volume Monitoring

Accurate and precise stockpile measurement is essential for on-time planning, manufacturing, and delivery in various industries. With Blickfeld’s stockpile monitoring solution, volumes can be continuously monitored in real-time, enabling digital management of inventories and triggering supply chain processes across multiple locations.

Silo Volume Monitoring

Accurate level sensing, e.g., suitable for silo applications, ensures that companies are always aware of the exact amounts of available material. This accurate overview enables better stock management, forecasting of resources as well as efficient trading of materials influencing overall supply chain and material distribution management.

Volume Monitoring for Pallet Dimensioning

Real-time volume dimensioning of pallets digitizes organizations, making cargo-handling processes, warehousing, and inventory management smarter and more efficient. This automation of manual processes prevents human failure and, at the same time, ensures smooth logistics planning to leverage more storage capacity and improve overall warehouse productivity.

Stockpile Monitoring

Silo Volume Monitoring

Pallet Dimensioning

Service & Support

Consulting

Blickfeld’s solutions extend beyond LiDAR sensors and software. Our consulting services are tailored to help our customers optimize their technology investment. We provide feasibility studies that consider factors such as environmental conditions and mounting possibilities. Our team of experts designs the optimal sensor layout to ensure maximum coverage and accuracy. We offer data architecture concepts and guidance on data provisioning to streamline your workflows. And, we provide remote maintenance support to minimize downtime and keep our customer’s solutions running smoothly.

Customer support

At Blickfeld, we take customer support seriously. We offer a range of support services to ensure that our customers get the most out of their Blickfeld solutions. Our remote installation and commissioning support ensures the solution is up and running quickly, while our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level customer service provides prompt and effective support for any issues or questions. We also offer site visits to provide hands-on assistance.

Our support team is available during German working days and hours, from 9 am to 5 pm CET, to provide the help our customers need, when they need it.

Trials & Pilots

At Blickfeld, we understand that trying new technology can be intimidating. That’s why we offer trials and pilots to help our customers evaluate our solutions and ensure that they meet all needs. Our team will help with designing a trial or pilot program that suits our customers’ specific use case.

Case Studies

LiDAR technology is used in various applications every day. Find a selection of customers who use Blickfeld technology to make their business safer, smarter and more efficient.

Precise CO₂ Tax Calculation in Cement Clinker Storage

Volume Monitoring

Accurate clinker storage monitoring with LiDAR ensures precise CO₂ tax calculations and improves inventory management.

Prevention of material accumulations at risk of collapse

Volume Monitoring

MVV Industriepark Gersthofen GmbH: Ensuring safe detection and demand-based control of waste streams to avoid the risk of material collapse in the RDF cogeneration plant through LiDAR-based volume monitoring

Efficient waste storage management

Volume Monitoring

Quvo – Levenseat Renewable Energy: Optimized waste material management thanks to volume monitoring with LiDAR

Waste Stream Management

Volume Monitoring

EEW Energy from Waste GmbH: Demand-driven waste stream management in incineration plants based on volume monitoring with LiDAR

In the past, the fill level of the bunker was determined by lowering a waste gripper multiple times, while cameras were used to get a look inside. However, the data collected was often inaccurate, and, in particular, accumulations of material at the walls, the so-called cornices, sometimes remained undetected due to the harsh environmental conditions. Thanks to the introduction of LiDAR-based Volume Monitoring, we receive not only precise data but also a 3D visualization of the bunker content in real-time. This allows us to plan more effectively and react proactively to such potential problems.

Up till now, we were doing an estimate of the material in the hall, and it turned out not to be accurate. Now we have real-time data, and it's on demand. We can view the data as and when required. We have better control of the incoming material. If we put too much material in the hall, we can reduce the loads for that day until the process catches back up. It gives us so much more control over our incoming material.

We were looking for a solution to provide continuous and accurate data on our waste stockpile levels to optimize our processing efficiency. With the Blickfeld Volume Monitoring Solution, we have found one solution that helps us to solve multiple issues. It not only enables us to better plan the throughput of material but also optimize internal logistics and accounting accuracy.

PARTNERSHIP

Shaping the future of volume monitoring together

Our LiDAR-based Volume Monitoring Solution is transforming industries by enhancing efficiency and accuracy in material management. We collaborate with forward-thinking partners to bring cutting-edge technology to a wide range of applications.

Ready to join the success? Become our partner and revolutionize Volume Monitoring with us.

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WHITEPAPER

How to efficiently manage your material with LiDAR-based Volume Monitoring

Companies with inaccurate data on their material inventories run the risk of selling too much or too little. A volume monitoring solution based on 3D LiDAR data can solve this problem.

Find out how to incorporate this solution into your warehouse structures in five simple steps in our whitepaper.

Get in Touch

Interested in learning more about how 3D LiDAR technology can enhance volume monitoring, including stockpile monitoring, silo measurements, and pallet dimensioning? Get in touch! Reach out via our contact form for more details.

Alternatively, feel free to contact one of our representatives directly!

Akram Ben Youssef
Junior Sales Manager
Region: Europe
+49 89 230 69 35 60
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sales@blickfeld.com

Patrick Pylypuik
President, Blickfeld North America Inc.
Region: North America
+1 734 223 9683
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Dirk Rathsack
VP Business Development & Sales
Region: Rest of World
+ 49 174 230 3357
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a trial available to test the Blickfeld Dashboard?

Yes, we offer demonstrations of Blickfeld’s Volume Monitoring Dashboard to interested customers. Contact our sales team to inquire about trial options and schedule a demo: https://www.blickfeld.com/contact/

Do Blickfeld sensors work in dusty environments?

Blickfeld LiDAR sensors are offered with IP6X-rated housings, which are dust-proof. Additionally, dust can affect the performance of the sensor in two ways. In the air, dust can increase the false detection rate of LiDAR sensors. However, Blickfeld sensors perform very well in such scenarios, as long-term installations inside waste facility bunkers, silos, and similar locations have shown. Additionally, dust can settle on the optical aperture of the sensor, which decreases the detection range. However, this is only a problem in extreme cases, such as inside silos containing powdered substances. For such cases, Blickfeld offers a weather protection roof that can be mounted onto the sensor’s top.

Do I need additional software to operate the sensor?

No additional software is needed to configure and operate the sensors except for a recent internet browser.