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Teremware × MAI

An existing warehouse system. A different way to put it in someone’s hands.

Working proof of conceptAndroid · Intents · WMS integration · ProGlove MAI
Problem
Bring terminal-based warehouse picking to a back-of-hand device.
My part
Architected the Android bridge and its Intent-based device communication.
Outcome
A working proof of concept showing orders, picking prompts and error feedback.
MAI device showing an order summary with customer, lines and cases
Order summary on the physical MAI device. These are supplied photographs of the integration, not interface mockups.
Teremware terminal showing a location and check-digit prompt
The terminal-side workflow translated for the wearable. These screens show related workflow examples, not a synchronised capture of the same transaction.
MAI device showing pallet and product information with step 2 of 3
Picking: pallet, product and progress on the hand-mounted display.
MAI device displaying Wrong Check digit
Feedback: the device also displays a check-digit error, not just the happy path.

The integration boundary · Explanatory diagram

  1. Existing WMSTerminal-style warehouse workflow.
  2. Teremware + Android bridgeTranslate the workflow and communicate through Android Intents.
  3. MAI devicePresent picking information and carry device interaction back into the flow.

What I owned

Teremware translates an older terminal-style warehouse system into modern picking workflows. The next requirement was back-of-hand picking rather than only voice interaction.

I architected the Android application that connected this workflow to the hand scanner through Intents. That meant working within an existing system while designing the new device-facing integration.

The useful part is the translation

The operator needs a clear next action, not an entire terminal screen squeezed onto a small display. The photographs show three concrete states: an order overview, pallet/product picking information and a check-digit error.

The bridge brings those workflow states to the wearable. The device and warehouse system remain distinct components; my contribution was the Android integration architecture.

What the photographs establish

The proof of concept reached physical hardware. The visible error state is particularly useful evidence: feedback from the workflow can reach the operator on the device.

The next step beyond this proof of concept is validating the wider production integration and its failure handling.

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