Warehouse Asset Tracking: How YT-Helix 310 Supports Autonomous Kiosks

The Challenge: Reducing Asset Loss on the Warehouse Floor

In high-volume logistics centers, handheld scanners and tablets are difficult to track across shifts, loading areas, and charging points. The project required a kiosk platform that could authenticate users, manage device checkout, and keep charging bays connected to the central asset system.

The environment created practical engineering constraints:

• Particulate Ingress: High-velocity sorting lanes create dust levels that shorten the life of fan-cooled office PCs.
• Operational Heat: Non-climate-controlled loading docks can reach elevated summer temperatures during peak shifts.
• Space Constraint: Kiosk enclosures offered limited depth for the computing core.

The Solution: YT-Helix 310 Edge Node

Yantronic engineered a deployment centered around the YT-Helix 310, powered by Intel's industrial Elkhart Lake architecture.

Why YT-Helix 310?

1. Fanless Reliability: The solid-aluminum chassis draws heat away from the CPU while keeping dust-sensitive moving parts out of the kiosk.
2. Compact Form Factor: The low-profile system fit behind the biometric touch panel of the ARC asset retrieval kiosk.
3. Industrial I/O: USB and LAN connectivity supported fingerprint scanners, charging bays, and local network backhaul.

Technical Architecture

The YT-Helix 310 acts as the control node for the ARC kiosk:

• Biometric Integration: Processing fingerprint data for secure employee authentication.
• Smart Charging Control: Monitoring the charge status of connected handhelds through the kiosk control layer.
• System Synchronization: Logging checkout events and user IDs to the central asset management database over a secure network connection.

Deployment Outcomes

The deployment helped the warehouse team move from manual sign-out sheets to controlled device checkout:

• Asset Visibility: Each scanner or tablet was tied to a user, checkout time, and charging bay status.
• Management Efficiency: Floor managers could review device status from the kiosk workflow instead of searching across shifts manually.
• Maintenance Fit: The fanless enclosure reduced exposure to dust and service interruptions inside the kiosk.