Intelligent high-speed, high-variant automation of universal coin sorting for charity organizations

For the exact sorting of more than 300 tonnes and 2000 different categories of old and used coins with almost 100 percent recognition, a unique intelligent high-speed, high-variant automated coin sorting machine needed to be developed. Named after another money counting specialist, the machine we have developed is called "Dagobert". Based on optical recognition, different coins from about 100 countries have to be classified and sorted with a speed of up to 10 coins per second. In addition to information about the logistics, hardware and software components, control system and database, the story behind the collection of this large amount of money and the results of two years of production are also discussed