Development of pick-to-light communication middleware

Pick-to-light has been applied in logistics to support goods picking. Usually, the equipment supplier provides the goods application to the users. But with the development of the user business, the system will be required to be adjusted to meet the needs of the new goods pick work flow, especially to support multi ways of goods picking. This paper studied the low level communication between pick-to-light and monitor workstation, and developed a set of middleware to meet the pick-to-light picking system modification. The middleware is developed with Java language, and can be reused freely. With the middleware, the programmer can develop the pick system according to the adjustment of goods pick work flow. It is very convenient for logistics enterprises and education organizations to construct the goods picking system based on pick-to-light.