What a digital twin is, in plain terms
A digital twin is a working model of your site: a 3D layout of your building, doors, aisles and yard, with trucks arriving, trailers docking and forklifts driving the way they do in real life. Because it behaves like the real site, you can try changes on it first (move fast-moving stock, re-time arrivals, open another door) and see what they would do before anyone moves a pallet.
The hard part is not drawing the building. It is knowing the real numbers: how long trucks actually wait, which doors actually carry the load, how far forklifts actually drive. A twin built on guesses gives confident answers to the wrong question.
Why we start from your camera footage
Your security cameras already record every shift, often for two to four weeks before the recorder overwrites it. Nobody has time to watch that. Computer vision can: we detect and track every truck, trailer and forklift, frame by frame, and turn weeks of footage into measured events with times and places.
- Measured, not assumed. Arrival patterns, dwell at each door, forklift trips per aisle, staging times, by hour and by day.
- Weeks, not hours. A time study sees one morning. Weeks of footage show the Monday peaks, the late carriers and the shift that always runs short.
- No new hardware. You export footage from the recorder you have. We never log in to your network or cameras.
- No faces. No face recognition, no audio; people are blurred and never identified.
How the twin is built and checked
- Discovery call and guided walk-through. We learn your goals and your cameras, then walk the site with you and capture it on video for the 3D layout.
- Measure. AI measures the footage: arrivals, dwell, door use, forklift paths, queues.
- Model. The 3D twin runs on those measured numbers.
- Check. We calibrate on some weeks and replay weeks the model never saw, then show you the model next to what really happened, in an accuracy table.
- Simulate. Changes are tested on the twin, with the time and cost saved, and ranked into a step-by-step plan tied to your goals.
What you can simulate
Layout and slotting
Fast movers next to the busy doors, cleared aisles, new rack zones. See forklift travel before and after. More on layout.
Docks and yard
Appointment times, door assignment, a new door or a drop-trailer lot, and the effect on truck waits and detention. More on docks.
Growth
More volume, another shift, a second building: where the site breaks first, and what to fix before it does.
What you keep
The twin, the findings with the frames behind them, the measured data as spreadsheets, and the plan. No subscription and no lock-in. After you make a change, the same cameras measure it again, so the savings are shown, not promised.