Zebra's Industry Solutions can give your business a competitive advantage by connecting people, assets and data to help you make better decisions.
Scale and energise your retail strategy with a digital backbone that unifies your team, informs priorities and drives results with Zebra's retail technology solutions.
Zebra's healthcare technology solutions provide patient identity management, mobile health devices, and business intelligence data to improve efficiency.
Zebra’s manufacturing technology solutions enable manufacturers to become more agile, optimize plant floor performance and embrace market changes.
Zebra's market-leading solutions and products improve customer satisfaction with a lower cost per interaction by keeping service representatives connected with colleagues, customers, management and the tools they use to satisfy customers across the supply chain.
In today's world, the demands on transportation and logistics companies are higher than ever. Dedicated Warehouse, Fleet and Delivery, and Yard and Terminal solutions enable visibility to every aspect of your business and keep operations running flawlessly around the clock.
Zebra's hospitality technology solutions equip your hotel and restaurant staff to deliver superior customer and guest service through inventory tracking and more.
Empower your field workers with purpose-driven mobile technology solutions to help them capture and share critical data in any environment.
Technology is a key enabler in helping the Public Sector provide their frontline and back office workers automate business process and assets with a digital voice.
Zebra’s mobile computing, scanning, and printing solutions connect each operational area in your warehouse to give you the agility to realize transformational gains.
Zebra's range of mobile computers equip your workforce with the devices they need from handhelds and tablets to wearables and vehicle-mounted computers.
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Zebra's extensive range of RAIN RFID readers, antennas, and printers give you consistent and accurate tracking.
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Zebra's location technologies provide real-time tracking for your organisation to better manage and optimise your critical assets and create more efficient workflows.
Zebra's rugged tablets and 2-in-1 laptops are thin and lightweight, yet rugged to work wherever you do on familiar and easy-to-use Windows or Android OS.
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Zebra's OEM scan engines, imagers, and private label OEM products offer flexible integration and help enhance product development with modern OEM technology.
Zebra's environmental sensors monitor temperature-sensitive products, offering data insights on environmental conditions across industry applications.
Keep labor costs low, your talent happy and your organization compliant. Create an agile operation that can navigate unexpected schedule changes and customer demand to drive sales, satisfy customers and improve your bottom line.
Empower the front line with prioritized task notification and enhanced communication capabilities for easier collaboration and more efficient task execution.
Get full visibility of your inventory and automatically pinpoint leaks across all channels.
Reduce uncertainty when you anticipate market volatility. Predict, plan and stay agile to align inventory with shifting demand.
Drive down costs while driving up employee, security, and network performance with software designed to enhance Zebra's wireless infrastructure and mobile solutions.
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Make the most of every stage of your scanning journey from deployment to optimization. Zebra's barcode scanner software lets you keep devices current and adapt them to your business needs for a stronger ROI across the full lifecycle.
RFID development, demonstration and production software and utilities help you build and manage your RFID deployments more efficiently.
RFID development, demonstration and production software and utilities help you build and manage your RFID deployments more efficiently.
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Advance your digital transformation and execute your strategic plans with the help of the right location and tracking technology.
Aurora Focus™ runs on Zebra’s fixed industrial scanners and VS20/VS40/VS70 smart cameras and comes ready-made for specific tasks like barcode reading and verification, OCR, and presence/absence vision inspection.
Zebra Aurora Focus brings a new level of simplicity to controlling enterprise-wide manufacturing and logistics automation solutions. With this powerful interface, it’s easy to set up, deploy and run Zebra’s Fixed Industrial Scanners and Machine Vision Smart Cameras, eliminating the need for different tools and reducing training and deployment time.
Aurora Imaging Library™, formerly Matrox Imaging Library, machine-vision software development kit (SDK) has a deep collection of tools for image capture, processing, analysis, annotation, display, and archiving. Code-level customization starts here.
Aurora Design Assistant™, formerly Matrox Design Assistant, integrated development environment (IDE) is a flowchart-based platform for building machine vision applications, with templates to speed up development and bring solutions online quicker.
Designed for experienced programmers proficient in vision applications, Aurora Vision Library provides the same sophisticated functionality as our Aurora Vision Studio software but presented in programming language.
Aimed at machine and computer vision engineers, Aurora Vision Studio software enables users to quickly create, integrate and monitor powerful machine vision applications without the need to write a single line of code.
Adding innovative tech is critical to your success, but it can be complex and disruptive. Professional Services help you accelerate adoption, and maximise productivity without affecting your workflows, business processes and finances.
Zebra's Managed Service delivers worry-free device management to ensure ultimate uptime for your Zebra Mobile Computers and Printers via dedicated experts.
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What is the difference between Multi-Modal and Voice-Directed Picking?
How Does Multi-modal Differ from Voice-directed Solutions?
Multi-modal solutions provide users with multiple modes of interacting with a system, whereas a voice-directed system allows one voice-directed mode.
Thus multi-modal allows users to select the modes they find most efficient. For example, users can opt to listen to voice-only direction, view text-on-screen direction — or both. In a multi-modal speech-directed workflow, users can take a picture of their work process and submit a report, allowing supervisors to respond immediately with next-step instructions. With voice-directed activity, workers can still capture barcodes, RFID tags, photos, and print labels. However, they can only submit a single report; therefore, supervisors cannot respond immediately and must walk to the warehouse floor to assess damage in person to determine the next steps.
Due to the additional multi-modal capabilities, manufacturers, suppliers, and businesses are starting to implement multi-modal solutions within their warehouses.
Should I Implement Multi-modal Solutions in My Warehouse?
Whether you have a distribution center that specializes in high velocity picking, or a warehouse full of pallets and cases, multi-modal picking allows you to benefit from both speed and accuracy in either situation. Using the power of voice, scanning and visual cues, workers can perform hands-free tasks and dramatically increase speed without sacrificing accuracy. Additionally, workers can receive a response from their supervisors within minutes. The section below will walk you through a wide range of benefits that could be available to you upon implementing multi-modal solutions in your warehouse.
Next-Generation Voice Recognition Engine
As the multi-modal solution’s primary function is to deliver unprecedented speech recognition capability, the incorporated recognition software must be best-in-class. This ensures that the system can accurately transcribe spoken words, and enable seamless voice commands, transcription services, voice-controlled applications and more, ultimately enhancing user experience and revolutionizing the way humans interact with technology.
Real-Time Dynamic Vocabulary for Lightning Fast Response Times and Highest Voice Recognition Accuracy
This Zebra-only feature delivers unparalleled performance by enabling the creation of dynamic vocabularies on the fly. For example, when a worker logs on and states the work zone for the day, the vocabulary that the user requires for that day is created on the fly. Spoken words are then compared to a small set of words instead of the complete library.
Controllable Text-to-Speech Speed Shaves Seconds off Workflows
Zebra’s multi-modal solutions enable you to increase the speed of assessing non-relevant words in a prompt for faster delivery of the relevant information workers need to execute the task.
Incorporate Multiple Languages Within a Single Prompt
Unique to Zebra, this feature allows a workflow in one language to accommodate the name of an item in another language. For example, a workflow in English can accommodate a Spanish book title.
Powerful Mobile Device Remote Control for Training and Support
Provide warehouse supervisors with virtual-reality style visibility and control of any worker’s Zebra Android mobile device. Supervisors can listen to the audio of system prompts and user responses, view text-on-screen information and perform data entry for trainees. This feature is device agnostic, allowing supervisors to use any supported Zebra mobile computer to remotely control different models.
Flexible Mobile Computer Choices
Different types of workgroups need different types of devices to optimize daily performance. That is why Zebra's multi-modal solutions provide you with a greater range of personalization options. You simply create your multi-modal application once and the software can run on any supported Zebra Android mobile computer, regardless of display size differences — from handhelds and wearables to gun-style devices.
Integrates Easily with Your Existing Applications
Incorporate the data your workers need from any backend application, including your Warehouse Management System (WMS) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application. There are three flexible ways to connect: direct, via a connector to simplify integration and provide exhaustive logging information, and VoiceXML — the latest host integration method.
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