UVeye has partnered with Amazon to deploy its automated vehicle inspection (AVI), an AI-powered system that automates most of the daily inspection process of delivery vehicles, according to a press release from UVeye.
"After a successful pilot program, we're looking forward to the deployment of AVI," said Tom Chempananical, global fleet director, Amazon logistics. "There are over 100,000 Amazon-branded delivery vehicles on the road, bringing 20 million packages to our customers every day. With AVI, we can automate most of the inspection process at scale, to help reduce time spent on this task by DSPs and Delivery Associates, and get packages to customers faster, while improving safety on the road."
AVI detects automotive issues in a matter of seconds, simply scanning a vehicle as it drives through a tunnel of cameras and sensors.
The system has been piloted at select Amazon delivery stations in the U.S. but will soon be deployed in Amazon delivery stations across the U.S., Canada, Germany, and the U.K.
A study of the data shows that AVI finds more defects in hard-to-inspect places, such as damage to the vehicle undercarriage, or nails in the tire tread (35 percent of all issues stem from tires) than when that part of the inspection process was done manually, the press release stated.
By automating part of the vehicle inspection process using computer vision and machine learning, AVI makes inspections faster, more accurate, systematic, and objective. The data analysis also revealed that within weeks, the number of vehicle groundings dropped with improved maintenance of vehicles.
