Behind bars – a technological overview of the most pervasive of coding systems

8th January 2019

BEING UBIQUITOUS IN INDUSTRY HASN'T STOPPED BARCODE READER MAKERS FROM INNOVATING.

By Gareth Powell, Strategic Marketing Manager at Teledyne e2v

Even with the holidays behind us (the seasonal peak in consumer retail/on-line spending, logistics and transport, manufacturing, and distribution), there are still more than 5 billion barcodes are scanned every day. Considering that the first barcode was scanned in the 70s on a packet of chewing gum, it's clearly a formidable method of providing machine-readable UPC (Universal Product Code) that has evolved relatively little since. The systems that identify and decode barcodes on the other hand have come a long way and continue to advance to offer faster, smaller, cheaper and more robust readers.

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