Barcode scanning technology—The evolution of transformation and development of future enterprises

In 1970, the U.S. Supermarket Commission established the Universal Production Code, or "UPC" for short.

In 1976, supermarkets in the United States and Canada began to use the UPC product barcode application system.

In 1983, well-known supermarket brands were the first to use barcode scanners in retail.

Barcode scanning technology brings higher efficiency and lower cost to the supermarket retail industry, allowing them to boldly tell consumers in various media that they can provide the lowest price products. This also directly made this supermarket brand the No. 1 retail industry at that time.

Obviously, the invention and application of UPC and barcode scanners have greatly reduced labor costs and improved the efficiency of business operations.

Up to now, the requirements of business development for barcode scanners are not limited to improving the efficiency of cash registers, improving customer experience, and making mobile payments better, and promoting the digital transformation of enterprises is also a top priority for merchants.

With the development and progress of social science and technology, barcode technology has become more and more popular in all fields of life. The barcode scanner provides the industry with efficient data collection and transmission, which doubles its work efficiency. increasingly important role.

Barcode scanners can help companies improve work efficiency and adapt to a variety of work environments. Now the use of barcode scanners is more and more common. With barcode scanners, people do not need to manually enter information, and can complete the scanning work in an instant, can automatically handle product storage, and can automatically reduce inventory. The specific core advantages are as follows:

Fast input speed: Compared with keyboard input, the speed of barcode scanner is 5 times that of keyboard input, and it can realize "real-time data input".

High accuracy: The error rate of keyboard input data is 1/300, the error rate of using optical character recognition technology is 1/10,000, and the error rate of using barcode recognition technology is less than 1/100,000.

Large amount of data collection, convenient and fast: traditional 1D barcodes can collect information of dozens of characters at a time, and 2D barcodes can carry information of thousands of characters and have certain automatic error correction capabilities.

Flexible and practical: Barcode identification technology can be used alone as a means of identification, or it can form a system with relevant identification equipment to realize automatic identification and can also relate to other control equipment to realize automatic management.