Smart Darkstore
A digital platform for quickly finding orders and optimizing logistics within a retail outlet.
The Digital Darkstore is a comprehensive solution designed to digitize order-picking processes and optimize operations across pickup points, retail outlets, warehouses, and darkstores.
The system integrates indoor navigation, video analytics, machine learning, and intelligent process management, transforming the retail space into a fully controllable and efficient environment.
The smart darkstore also addresses key retail challenges: it cuts picker travel distances in half, improves picking accuracy and speed, provides transparent analytics, and helps stores accelerate customer service—even during periods of high demand.
Capabilities of the INP smart darkstore platform
Optimization of routes and picking sequences
The system generates the shortest and most logical travel paths, reducing transit time and increasing order-picking speed. Routes can be defined for different user groups, such as pickers, couriers, trainees, cleaners, and so on.
Customized itineraries
Each collector gets his own route. The system adapts to the person: evaluates his skills and pace to offer the most convenient path. All tips are displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal - just follow them to complete orders quickly even on the first working day.
Simultaneous picking of multiple orders
The INP GIS platform enables the simultaneous picking of multiple orders along a single route, boosting staff productivity and increasing order fulfillment speed, even during peak hours.
Video analytics for retail outlet monitoring
A smart dark store analyzes shelf status, aisle congestion, and the accuracy of product placement, ensuring real-time, comprehensive monitoring of the floor and shelving units.
Workload forecasting
Algorithms analyze employee and shelving workloads, frequent routes, and popular products to provide recommendations for the even distribution of goods.
Integration with information systems
A flexible API for integrating retail IT systems, support for various devices (handheld terminals, fixed terminals, carts), and hardware-independent architecture.
Functional modules of a digital dark store
The traditional order-picking process often suffers from low efficiency: staff waste time on suboptimal routes, workloads are unevenly distributed, and order fulfillment times are nearly impossible to predict. All this leads to slower speeds, an increased error rate, and, consequently, customer dissatisfaction.
Digital map of the dark store and shelving units
An interactive 3D map of a smart dark store showing the layout of all shelving units and their shelves. It supports product search and route planning across various devices, with role-based access control.
Analysis of routes and goods movements
The platform demonstrates how changes to routes, product placement, and planograms impact time savings, order picking speed, and staff operations within a retail space utilizing a smart dark store system.
Recommendations for rearranging shelving units
The system analyzes demand and suggests the optimal shelving layout, reducing the distance pickers travel and increasing order fulfillment speed.
Heat map of the room and shelving unit
An interactive visualization of product popularity on shelving units, enabling a quick understanding of which zones or shelves are used most frequently and where bottlenecks occur.
Optimizing shelving within the rack unit
Recommendations for moving popular products to a more convenient level—for example, from lower to upper shelves—to speed up access and improve ergonomics.
INP Smart Dark Store Implementation Scheme
Map and digitalization of the retail space
Mapping of shelving units and storage and distribution zones, followed by the creation of an accurate digital map for navigation and analysis.
Configuring build optimization algorithms
Configuration of routing logic, item picking sequence, and item placement ergonomics, tailored to the specific characteristics of the retail outlet.
Integration with IT systems and testing
Connecting the digital dark store module via API, verifying route accuracy, picking times, and analytics, and testing system performance under real-world conditions.
Staff training and performance analytics
Training pickers and managers, gathering feedback, and making targeted adjustments to achieve maximum efficiency.
Advantages of the Smart Dark Store
An integrated platform combining navigation, AI algorithms, and analytics makes processes predictable and transparent while boosting the efficiency of retail locations.
Its innovation, scalability, and deep integration make the digital pickup point an ideal solution for retailers seeking to increase delivery speed, reduce errors, and improve customer service quality.
Route reduction and faster assembly
Optimizing workflow paths and parallel assembly increase productivity and reduce order fulfillment times.
Product popularity analytics
The digital map shows which products are most in demand, where bottlenecks are occurring, and helps make decisions about shelving moves.
Shelf display optimization
The system suggests rearranging products and shelves based on geolocation data, easing the workload for pickers and speeding up the process.
Assessment of location effectiveness
Ритейлер получает недельный отчёт по тому, насколько изменения улучшили логистику внутри торговой точки.
Faster order assembly in large retail stores
The time savings are most noticeable with large volumes, and especially for orders containing a large number of line items.
Support for various equipment
The platform runs on any hardware, integrates easily into network infrastructure, and scales rapidly to meet new requirements.
Smart Darkstore by Indoor Navigation — the future of digital warehouse logistics in retail.
Reduction of order picking time
–30%
Reduction of the total route length
–75%
Improving order picking accuracy
+90%
Warehouse navigation
In a modern warehouse, you can lose not only cargo, but even a person. These huge complexes may consist of several storage rooms and loading areas.
Thematic publications on our blog
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