The Guinness committee announced on January 11th "the most electronic locking parcel lockers in one single venue is 1,182, granting the creators of the project with the "Officially Amazing" Guinness World Record certificate.

It took 115 professionals and 87,000 work-hours to develop the electronic system which enabled the installation of the biggest parcel of automated lockers in the world. The station had 1,182 automated cells, 5 management units, and was setted up at the National Expo Center in Kiev.

At the station, more than 1,400 children received free Christmas gifts from 1,182 automated lockers, and over 1,000 visitors used the locker's "click and collect" technology to buy and deliver their own gifts between December 22nd, 2018 and January 14th of this year.

The largest number of locking parcel lockers station was developed by Omnic, an international tech group based in San Francisco, together with the support of the Kiev-based business accelerator Omni Campus.

"Our aim with the project was to introduce children to new technologies and showcase our novel state-of-the-art automated process of receiving goods, which together with the Guinness record break, has proved to be a great success," said Ann Snitko, Omnic Regional Director.

The evidence for the Guinness record commission was provided by the international auditing companies Baker Tilly and PSP Audit, who attested the complete autonomous operation of the lockers with a fault level of no less than 00,32%.

Automated lockers technology is growing rapidly across the globe under the IoT and automation trends, becoming an essential component of the logistics behind internet purchases.

"Omnic attempts to be at the forefront of automated lockers technology. We have invested $3.45M in R&D and developed the technology with the support of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Satarja," explained Snitko.