AI-Powered Inventory Management System: Revolutionizing Stock Monitoring with Real-Time Alerts & Visual Recognition
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Store businesses face a persistent challenge in ensuring that shelves are adequately stocked and products are available for customers all the time on racks. manual checks are inefficient and often leads to delay in stock refilling, this leads to customer dissatisfaction and potential loss of sales. To address this, we propose an AI-based smart monitoring system, designed for real-time detection of products displayed on racks. This solution is a low-cost design and can be deployed as an on-premise system. The solution uses yolo model trained on customized data to detect the products and classify them into three simple categories: in stock, low stock, and out of stock. This classification triggers timely alert notifications to staff members which leads to accelerated restocking procedures and enhanced shelf maintenance. This solution is built to be scalable and easy to integrate with a dashboard of stock inventory management. This system ensures minimum operational cost while offering significant improvements in inventory management. By automating the kiosk display monitoring system, the solution helps to improve the stock refill at right time without any delay ultimately changing a traditional manual method with smart ai powered automated stock-check methods. The system includes real-time image acquisition and YOLO-based model inference as well as a strong data collection and preprocessing module to provide high-quality input for model training and deployment. The stored images undergo preprocessing steps including resizing and normalization and augmentation to boost model accuracy before being placed in a centralized database. Items are divided into in-stock, low-stock, and out-of-stock divisions by the decision engine using predetermined stock thresholds. Using visual displays on kiosk screens, voice signals for prompt staff action, and email notifications for shop manager inventory tracking, the system creates multi-modal warnings. The closed-loop system enables proactive shelf replenishment which decreases stockout occurrences while enhancing customer satisfaction.
Authors: Vasireddy Surya, Rooma Tyagi, Vineel Sai Kumar Rampally, Vivek Rajah, Shirish Kumar Gonala
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4410163426