Industrial
Automated Gate Displays at Tokmanni's Mäntsälä Logistics Centre
The challenge
The problem to solve
Tokmanni — one of the largest discount retail chains in the Nordics, with over 200 stores in Finland — cut over a new distribution centre next to its existing 2008 facility at Mäntsälä in spring 2024. The new centre handles 150–200 vehicle visits per day, and for that volume to work the gate had to be unmanned, controlled remotely from the manned gatehouse at the existing site. Every driver arriving from a European long-haul shift needed to read the confirmation, routing instruction and unloading dock from the cab, in outdoor weather, in a language they may not share with site staff — with zero-touch reliability.
The solution
What Ampron delivered
Visy Oy delivered the whole access-control chain to Tokmanni: number-plate recognition at approach, data exchange with Tokmanni's yard-management systems for pre-registration, remote gate control from the manned gatehouse at the existing site, and a driver-facing LED display at the gate. Ampron supplied the LED display, a high-brightness, sunlight-readable DR-1040×1040 outdoor unit, and Visy integrated it with its own access-control software.
Outcomes
Results
- ✓ Mäntsälä centre operating without a freight-office team at the new gate — two gatehouses consolidated into one
- ✓ 150–200 daily vehicle visits handled at design volume via driver-facing LED display, not a person
- ✓ Content driven directly by Visy's access-control system
- ✓ First published reference of the Visy–Ampron integrator partnership
Installation photos
From the field
Hardware
