A series of automated timber volume measurement systems has been designed, which are suitable for nearly all possible ways of log measurements at timber and log trade enterprises. The most promising are the universal terminals for by-piece and bundle measurements of logs, and portable mobile systems of the same purpose. A complex solution is offered for the end-to-end measurements of timber materials, starting from suppliers and ending with the production floor, through the timber transportation control and record keeping at storage facilities.

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Scandinavian countries, mainly represented by companies from Sweden and Finland, are traditionally regarded as leaders in the development and implementation of timber and log handling and processing technologies. Equipment developed by SKS Vision Systems Oy can be taken as the closest analogs of the proposed systems. The developed systems offer the following competitive advantages: they are in compliance with the Russian national normative documents (recorded in the State Register of Measuring Instruments); their cost is by a factor of four to fve lower than that of analogous products; the systems allow the breed and quality of timber materials to be determined.