ProMat 2025: Aurora Velocity Scan Tunnel Provides Modular, Scalable Automation for Sorting & Routing

    March 27, 2025
    Zebra's Aurora Velocity Scan Tunnel uses identification, inspection, and dimensioning capabilities to deliver a vision-based scan tunnel system that increases throughput, reduces errors, and controls costs.
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    Zebra Technologies' Aurora Velocity Scan Tunnel with packages being scanned on the roller conveyor belt

    The Aurora Velocity scan tunnel creates automated, efficient, error-free package sorting and routing for warehouse operations.

    Velocity uses centralized processing to deliver fast and accurate barcode reading, while its scalable architecture allows combining multiple machine vision capabilities in a single scan tunnel. Capabilities include dimensioning, AI-powered HAZMAT/Dangerous Goods label detection, optical character recognition (OCR), and package damage inspection. Velocity can also integrate additional functionality such as RFID, weighing, and print and apply.

    The Aurora Velocity Scan Tunnel was unveiled at ProMat 2025 in booth #S637.

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    The scan tunnel provides high-throughput scanning to identify, inspect, and dimension, error-proofing supply chain operations.

    The Velocity scan tunnel offers low upfront hardware costs, low incremental costs to extend functionality beyond scanning, and a modular architecture that makes it easy to maintain, update, and reconfigure as your operational needs change.

    Optional hardware:

    • Integrate RFID solutions into your Velocity scan tunnel to read RFID tags and barcodes for maximum inventory visibility. Zebra's fixed RFID readers automatically read tagged assets as they move along the line, improving workflow accuracy while eliminating the need for a separate tunnel setup.
    • Whenever a non-read event occurs, the Velocity platform captures and stores video to offer complete visibility into your supply-chain operations. This event-capture system provides insights for identifying and resolving potential bottlenecks and inefficiencies to improve quality control.
    • Add print-and-apply automation to your Velocity solution to improve traceability and reduce labor costs by eliminating manual labeling. Zebra's industrial printers speed up order fulfillment and improve throughput.
    • Velocity's scalable vision-based platform integrates Zebra 3D sensors and third-party scales to add inline dimensioning, damage detection, and a weighing system. Improve shipping cost accuracy, optimize space utilization, minimize shipping errors, and improve quality control and overall operational performance.

    Features:

    • Read rates of up to 660 ft/min (200 m/min)
    • Compatible with third-party hardware & software solutions, including all major WMS
    • Coordinate multiple cameras and devices from a single industrial vision controller
    • Event-based analytics improves performance metrics without compromising processing speed
    • Easily add additional cameras, RFID readers, 3D sensors, and other components in a single tunnel
    • Modular design makes it easy to add or remove components
    • Use your organization's IT-compliant computer image with fewer IP addresses for fewer vulnerable endpoints

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