Warehouse Bridge Hardware
Directed Put-Away
A pallet comes off the truck. Your receiver scans. A Banner location light at the correct storage location turns on. They drop it and confirm. No floor maps, no guessing, no lost pallets.
A pallet of new inventory comes off the truck. Your receiver scans the ASN or item barcode. A Banner location light at the correct storage location turns on. They drive there, drop it, confirm. The WMS is updated in real time. No floor maps. No three-week training period. No "lost" pallets sitting in the wrong aisle for a month because someone guessed wrong.
Put-away is the system most operators under-invest in because it doesn't feel like a customer-facing problem — and then they spend the next quarter hunting for inventory in the wrong slots, throwing pickers off, and rebuilding their slotting from scratch. Directed put-away enforces your slotting strategy at the moment of receiving. Velocity-based, family-grouped, hazmat-segregated — whatever your rules are, the lights enforce them. Receivers stop guessing. Pickers stop hunting. Cycle counts stop bleeding.
The system
Three layers. One operator-visible result.
Same three-layer stack as the rest of the hardware family. Your WMS — Camelot today, plus other WMS on request — receives the ASN. When a receiver scans a pallet, the WMS asks the Warehouse Bridge controller: where should this go? The controller applies your slotting rules (velocity, family, hazmat zone, lot, expiry) and resolves it to a target location.
The controller writes the target down to a Banner gateway on the rack frame. The gateway is the per-zone unit, IP67, 24V industrial DC. One gateway covers a zone's worth of locations on industrial-grade daisy-chain cabling.
At each receiving location is a Banner location light — same family as pick-to-light, same daisy-chain, same spare in your maintenance cabinet. The light lights up. The receiver drives the pallet to that lit position. They press the button to confirm the drop. The press flows back up through the gateway and the controller to the WMS, which updates inventory in real time. Banner builds the lights. We build the bridge.
What you get
Ships in one consolidated order.
- One Warehouse Bridge controller — pre-configured with your slotting rules
- N Banner gateways — one per receiving zone or aisle
- One Banner location light per pallet location — daisy-chained on industrial cabling
- Wireless handheld scanners — integrated to the controller
- The WMS integration — Camelot direct today; other WMS via CSV/API on request, with native integrations on the roadmap
- Rule engine — velocity-based, family-grouped, hazmat-segregated, lot-aware, expiry-aware
Why this combo
Banner builds the lights. We build the bridge.
Banner builds the lights. We build the bridge. The Banner light family is the same across pick-to-light, put walls, and put-away — one spare in the cabinet, one cable type, one replacement order from an industrial distributor. Banner has been making industrial indicators since the 1960s; the failure rate on a Banner light in a warehouse environment is not the thing that's going to keep you up at night.
What we own is the slotting rule engine and the WMS integration. That's where the real put-away value lives — not in the light itself, but in deciding which light to turn on. The Warehouse Bridge controller applies your velocity tiers, family groupings, hazmat segregation, and lot/expiry constraints to every incoming SKU in real time. That ruleset is yours; we just enforce it on the floor.
Install & commissioning
A day per zone. No engineering firm in the middle.
A single put-away zone installs in a day with two people:
- Controller on the rack. Same Warehouse Bridge controller that runs your other hardware — if you already have PTL or put walls, this is the same controller. One Ethernet to your switch.
- The Banner gateway mounts at the head of each receiving aisle. 24V DC power, Ethernet back to the controller. One gateway per zone is typical.
- Banner location lights mount on the racking at each pallet position. Industrial cable daisy-chains them to the gateway.
- Slotting rules loaded. You tell us your velocity tiers, family groupings, hazmat zones, lot rules — we load them into the controller's rule engine. Or you load them yourself through the operator dashboard.
- Commissioning runs itself. Press the button on each location light to bind it to its WMS location code. Walk the aisle, done.
Key specs
What you’ll get on day one.
| Component | Spec |
|---|---|
| The controller | Pre-configured appliance, slotting rule engine, plug-and-play, mounts in your rack |
| The gateway | Banner-built, industrial-grade, IP67, 24V DC industrial |
| The location lights | Banner-built, one per pallet location, industrial-grade, multi-colour indication, IP67, industrial daisy-chain cabling |
| Receiving throughput | 40–50% faster vs manual put-away |
| Accuracy | 99%+ (vs 90–93% manual) |
| Receiver training time | 80% reduction |
| Rule support | Velocity tier, family, hazmat zone, lot, expiry, size class |
| Install | Under a day per zone |
| Pricing | Quoted per zone — send rack location count and WMS |
FAQ
The questions operators ask first.
What does directed put-away cost? Quoted per zone — rack location count and WMS shape it. Benchmark: a comparable 50-location zone from a traditional integrator typically quotes $40–80k upfront with a 10–15%/year maintenance contract on top. We come in materially below that, with hardware that ships in days and you install yourself. Payback on accuracy alone — not the speed — usually clears it inside one quarter for any 3PL where pickers spend time hunting for stock.
How is this different from the WMS's directed put-away module? Most WMSes have a directed put-away function on paper. In practice it generates a label, the receiver glances at it, and at peak they put it wherever's closest. The light at the correct location is what closes that gap — the rule fires on the floor, not on a screen the receiver isn't looking at.
Can we change the slotting rules without a deployment? Yes. Rules live in the controller and can be edited through the operator dashboard. A change to your velocity-tier breakpoints, or adding a new hazmat zone, takes effect on the next scan.
Which WMSes do you support? Camelot direct today. Other WMS platforms via CSV/API on request, with native integrations on the roadmap.
Pairs with
Software-integrated, not standalone.
Warehouse Heatmap — the Heatmap recommends optimal slotting and the put-away lights enforce it. That's the loop most operators have never had: software decides where, hardware enforces where.
Talk to us about your warehouse.
Send us a few photos of your floor, your pick volumes, and what your WMS is. We’ll tell you which of these — if any — actually makes sense for you. No deck, no quote until we agree there’s a fit.