Traditional volume measurement tools and methods include visual inspection, traveling wheels, bucket or truck load counting, which are not only inefficient, costly and inaccurate. As a result, many processing industries such as food, feed, and pharmaceuticals are turning to automation, using high-tech and non-contact sensors to measure the volume of materials. Sensor technologies such as tof camera can improve the volume measurement system through data-driven decision-making, measure in real time, and realize digitization.
Why use tof camera to measure volume?
Accurate three-dimensional reconstruction and volume calculation are essential in many applications, such as the terrain assessment of buildings and the amount of materials taken from mines or stored in warehouses. Many non-contact sensors, such as single-point lasers, are useful in certain situations, usually for level measurement or object counting. However, for volume measurement, the entire surface needs to be scanned to detect changes in the material accumulation surface. In contrast, a single-point laser can only measure one point, and multiple measurements can get the same information. 3D tof camera can scan the entire environment, it can generate spatial data on the surface of the object in real time, accurate to the millimeter, and can detect all changes on the surface of the stacked material.
