Dignity. Technology. Sustainability. — Redefining the Afterlife Industry.
Dignity. Technology. Sustainability. — Redefining the Afterlife Industry.
Smart Funeral Home
Intelligent Body Transfer System
Moving a body through the facility is the most direct contact any funeral-home worker has with the deceased. The transfer system removes that contact from the routine path, from purification room to cremation hall, without a hand on the trolley.
Laser SLAM or magnetic trackGuidance
±10 mmPositioning
Online under-floorCharging
01 What it solves
Funeral-home work has a specific physical hazard that most buildings do not: the repeated, routine handling of bodies by staff. A conventional transfer path means that every movement between the purification room, the mortuary, the cosmetics room, the memorial area and the cremation hall is performed by a person pushing a trolley.
The brief for this system was to eliminate direct contact from the routine path. Bodies are transferred by automated guided vehicle, guided along a defined route, receiving instructions and reporting status back to the management console.
02 What the solution includes
Guided transfer vehicle
An automated guided vehicle capable of following a defined navigation path with safe obstacle handling and load-transfer functions.
Two guidance options
Laser guidance with precise reflectors along the route, or magnetic track positioning. The choice is made against the building's layout and tolerance.
Laser guidance accuracy
Reflectors are positioned precisely along the route; the vehicle emits a laser beam and reads the reflection, computing its position by continuous triangular geometry. Theoretical error is within ±10 mm.
No floor works required
Laser guidance needs no other positioning hardware in the floor, which keeps installation simple and lets the route be changed later.
Obstacle detection
Safety sensors detect obstacles in the direction of travel, raise an alarm for the obstacle to be cleared, and restart automatically once it is. Two to four metres of protective distance, 270° protective angle, four protection zones and eight warning zones, with selectable resolution for hands, arms or body.
Vehicle control system
An in-house developed laser-navigation on-board control system handles motion control, communicates with the management console over WLAN, accepts dispatch instructions and reports vehicle status.
Battery system
Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO₄) batteries: smaller and lighter than lead-acid, with a cycle life typically above 1000 cycles and a theoretical life well beyond 2000. They do not ignite or explode under the abuse conditions tested, and contain no heavy metals.
Online charging
A fast charger, ground charging plate and vehicle-mounted charging block. When the ground plate and the vehicle block meet, the battery charges automatically — supporting genuinely unattended operation.
03 How it works
The transfer path follows the service flow of the facility, with the vehicle moving between fixed stations and the information system passing it instructions and receiving status.
01
Receive the body
The vehicle collects from the purification room where the body has been sterilised.
02
Transport
It travels the defined route to the next required station.
03
Store
It deposits the body into the mortuary freezer and reports the slot.
04
Prepare
It delivers the body to the embalming and cosmetics station.
05
Present
It moves the body to the observation area for the family.
06
Cremate
After the viewing it collects the body and transfers it to the cremation hall.
One operator, for the whole path
The end-to-end transfer is initiated and monitored by a single operator, which reduces the physical workload on staff and removes the routine direct-contact exposure.
04 Technical basis
Two vehicle generations are available, differing in guidance technology and dimensions. Both use the same on-board control system and charging architecture.
- Generation 1
- Magnetic-track positioning, 2375 × 820 mm, lift height 700–1850 mm, DC
- Generation 2
- Laser SLAM, 1710 × 820 mm, lift height 700–1850 mm, DC
- Positioning accuracy (laser)
- ±10 mm theoretical
- Protective distance
- 2–4 m
- Protective angle
- 270°
- Protection zones
- 4 protection zones, 8 warning zones
- Wireless
- IEEE 802.11b/g/n, up to 50 m, 0–60 °C operating range
- Battery
- LiFePO₄, typically > 1000 cycles
- Charging
- Online under-floor charging, automatic on contact
| Standard / feature | Subject |
|---|---|
| GB 50016-2019 | Fire protection design for buildings |
| GB 50303-2015 | Acceptance of electrical installation |
| Safety performance | Puncture, crush, vibration, short-circuit, over-charge and over-discharge tests within national limits — no ignition, no explosion |
| Environmental performance | No heavy metals or rare metals; no hazardous materials in manufacture or use |
05 Where it applies
The system is scoped to the transfer path rather than to a single room, because its value comes from covering the whole route.
Purification roomMortuary & cold storageEmbalming & cosmeticsObservation areaCremation hallAsh handling
Buildings with difficult geometry, multiple floors or heavy traffic in shared corridors need the route surveyed before the guidance technology is chosen.
06 Selected references
Shanghai Baoxing Funeral HomeShanghai — intelligent transfer system in operation
Shenzhen Funeral HomeGuangdong — intelligent transfer project
Charging system deploymentIn use across multiple company projects
References drawn from the company's delivered portfolio.
08 Questions buyers ask
Laser guidance or magnetic track — which should we choose?
Laser guidance needs no floor works and keeps the route flexible, so it suits buildings that may be rearranged. Magnetic track is simpler in tight, highly repetitive routes. Both are decided at survey stage against your layout.
What happens if someone walks into the vehicle's path?
The safety sensors detect the obstacle within a 2–4 m protective distance over a 270° angle, raise an alarm for the obstacle to be cleared, and restart the vehicle automatically once the path is clear.
Is a person needed to supervise the transfer?
One operator initiates and monitors the route. The movement itself is unmanned, including return and automatic charging.
Does the system integrate with our information management system?
Yes. The on-board control system communicates over WLAN with the management console, accepting dispatch instructions and reporting vehicle status back.
Where to go next
Scope this solution for your project.
Send the site, the zones and the stage you are at. We reply with what we would deliver, which interfaces we would own and the standards we would build to.