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Computer vision + AWS cloud

AI warehouse vision and inventory detection platform

An asynchronous AWS computer-vision pipeline that processes warehouse image missions, detects barcodes, text, licence plates, and bin boundaries, then reconciles the results with inventory records.

Platform foundation

PythonAWS LambdaSageMakerS3SQSDockerComputer visionCloudWatch

The challenge

Manual review of large warehouse image batches was slow, inconsistent, and difficult to audit. The workflow needed dependable orchestration across image storage, queueing, model inference, detection, matching, and result publishing, with no silent failures when a batch was retried.

The solution

We worked on a serverless pipeline where every image mission moves through explicit stages with its own state. Inference runs asynchronously so large batches never block a request, and each stage records enough evidence for an operator to audit the outcome later.

End-to-end workflow

How the product moves work forward

  1. 01

    Ingest images

    Accept warehouse image missions into cloud storage and register a job with its metadata.

  2. 02

    Orchestrate jobs

    Serverless functions queue work, acquire distributed locks, and guard against duplicate processing.

  3. 03

    Run inference

    SageMaker asynchronous endpoints process large image batches without blocking the caller.

  4. 04

    Detect and read

    Barcode, QR, text, and licence-plate detectors extract structured values from each frame.

  5. 05

    Reconcile inventory

    Multi-image bin analysis matches detections to inventory and publishes structured API results.

Detailed capability map

What was designed into the platform

Vision pipeline
  • Asynchronous image-batch processing
  • Barcode and QR detection
  • Text and OCR extraction
  • Licence-plate recognition
  • Multi-image bin-boundary analysis
Cloud orchestration
  • AWS Lambda job coordination
  • SageMaker asynchronous inference
  • S3 image and result storage
  • Queue-backed retries
  • Distributed job locking and cleanup
Inventory reconciliation
  • Detection-to-record matching
  • Bin and location validation
  • Discrepancy flags for review
  • Structured API result publishing
  • Per-mission audit trail
Production readiness
  • Docker-based validation
  • Automated test coverage
  • Defensive input validation
  • CloudWatch monitoring
  • Cost-aware inference configuration

Roles and permissions

The right workspace for every participant

Permissions support the real operating model instead of giving every user the same controls.

Warehouse operator

Captures image missions and reviews the detections raised for a bin or location.

Inventory controller

Investigates reconciliation discrepancies and confirms or corrects stock records.

Platform engineer

Monitors pipeline health, inference cost, retries, and queue depth.

Operational value

  • Replaces manual review of large image batches
  • Keeps inference asynchronous so batch size does not break the workflow
  • Makes every detection traceable back to its source image
  • Surfaces stock discrepancies instead of hiding them in a report

Growth opportunities

  • Confidence-based human review queues
  • Real-time streaming from handheld devices
  • Damage and packaging condition detection
  • Warehouse heatmaps and dwell analytics

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