Application of Smart Phone for Industrial Barcode Scanner

Abstract

The barcode system is used in various purpose. In industrial sector, barcode is used for identifying product in the manufacturing process. However, the barcode systems in industrial factory requires special barcode reader and the industrial barcode reader is more complicated and expensive than the conventional barcode reader.Recently, all smart phone can be applied for barcode reader application but there is no study how to use the smart phone barcode reader application in industrial factory. Therefore, this study would consider how to use the smart phone for industrial barcode reader system. The Android smart phone was used to develop barcode reader application by cooperating with the barcode reader library and the barcode reader system in manufacturing process was simulated. The barcodes for this experiment were ID barcode and QR code. Moreover, the damaged barcodes were tested in the experiments and each experimental was continue tested nonstop for 24 hours.The result found that smart phone can read ID barcode and QR code. The readable rates of ID barcode (complete and damage barcode) were 100%. The readable rates of QR code at 30 and 50 photos per minute were 92.5% and 85%. Thus, the smart phone has an opportunity to use as ID barcode reader in industrial factory. For QR code, the readable rate result is low. However, there are many advantages to use smart phone for barcode reader such as price, flexibility, easy to use and reinstall. So, it is a challenge to use smart phone for industrial barcode reader.