Barcode Scanner Seminar Report

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum
K.L.E Societys
B. V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering &

Technology
Hubli-580031
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Project title
ASSIGNMENT
WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER
Report submitted by
Sindhu Bijjal -
ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER
2BV08EE048
WHAT IS A BARCODE SCANNER?

A barcode scanner (which may also be referred to as a barcode reader) is a piece of
electronic equipment that can read printed barcodes. Barcodes are used to manage
and track a wide variety of items, ranging from grocery store items to cars to
insects such as bees. A barcode scanner uses a lens, light source and photo
conductor to translate optical impulses to electrical impulses.
BASIC KINDS OF BARCODE SCANNERS

There are many kinds of barcode scanners based on different technologies. Few
examples are 1) PEN-SCANNER- pen wand is the simplest barcode reader. however, because it has to remain
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in direct contact with the bar code, must be held at a certain angle, and has to be moved over the
bar code at a certain speed.
A SLOT SCANNER- remains stationary and the item with the bar code on it is pulled by hand
through the slot. Slot scanners are typically used to scan bar codes on identification cards.
A CCD SCANNER
AN IMAGE SCANNER: also called a camera reader, uses a small video camera to capture an
image of the bar code and then uses sophisticated digital image processing techniques to decode
the bar code
A LASER SCANNER: either hand-held or stationary an easily read a bar code up to 24 inches
away. To reduce the possibility of errors, a laser scanning may perform up to 500 scans per
second.
BLUETOOTH-SCANNER: it uses bluerooth technology to sacn the data. But Bluetooth has a
lesser range than the other wireless technologies.
The barcode scanners can be either
Attached to computer with a wire

Can be wireless
WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER
Wireless barcode scanner also known as RF

scanner or cordless scanner operates on wireless
frequencies like a cordless phone. Wireless
scanner transmits scanned data to a base station
which is connected to a processor. Wireless
barcode scanners models vary by transmission
distance and battery life.
UNDERSTANDING BARCODING TECHNOLOGY
WHAT ARE BARCODES?

A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows
data about the object to which it attaches. originally barcodes represented data by
varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines. The barcodes can be represented data
by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines (1D) or into rectangles, dots, hexagons and other
geometric patterns (2D).
Fig 2: samples of 1D and 2D barcodes
RETRIEVE INFORMATION FROM BARCODES
There are many types of commercial barcode standardS. HERE Code 3 of 9, or Code
39 is been explained indetail
1) Each Code 39 character consists of 5 black stripes sandwiching 4 white
spaces.
2) Black stripes, as well as white spaces can be both thin and thick.
3) Code 39s encoding scheme is therefore binary, with thick stripes/spaces
representing 1s and thin stripes/spaces representing 0s (shades of the
stripes/spaces do not matter since black and white simply allows us to
differentiate the thickness of stripes/spaces).
4) The following table shows all the available encodings in Code 39.
Fig 2: the representations of the codes of barcode coded as given by39.
For example, the English alphabet, K would correspond to the binary code of
length 9: 100000011 (scanning from left to right according to thickness).
HARDWARE BLOCK DIAGRAM OF A WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

fig 3: block diagram of a complete wireless barcode scanner
Sensor:
Sensor is something which acts as Connection between
external world and internal complex digital circuitry. The scanner reads
data by illuminating a section of the bar code. This is usually done by
laser light. light with the photodetector, which is an analog signal. This
analog signal can then be amplified and conditioned, and optionally
converted to digital format using an ADC before being passed to the
decoder.
Micro-computer:
This is important part of barcode scanner which may contain a

Digital Signal Processor (DSP) or normal Processor. The main function of
this micro-computer is to understand and interpret what actually sensor
read. It is programmable, usually by scanning bar coded programming
commands into the system from a special programming menu included in
the system
Battery and Charging Unit:

This is essential only is barcode reader is a cordless device. It
mainly consists of a charging unit and a lithium ion/lithium polymer
battery. In case of above example (that is Motorola scanner) 5V, 620mA
battery is used. More importantly battery should be light, powerful and
should have higher life cycles.
Flash Memory
Read/Writeable RAM (a.k.a. Non-Volatile RAM)
This is a type of Random Access Memory chip that does not lose its
contents when its power is turned off; however, it can be intentionally
written to, read from, and intentionally erased. It is a type of RAM and,
hence, interacts with the computer or processor as described under RAM
except that it does not lose its contents when power is removed.
Fig 4: wireless barcoder reader application in i-phone

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Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum

B. V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering &

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

WHAT IS A BARCODE SCANNER?

BASIC KINDS OF BARCODE SCANNERS

The barcode scanners can be either

Attached to computer with a wire

WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

Wireless barcode scanner also known as RF

UNDERSTANDING BARCODING TECHNOLOGY

WHAT ARE BARCODES?

Fig 2: samples of 1D and 2D barcodes

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

RETRIEVE INFORMATION FROM BARCODES

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

Fig 2: the representations of the codes of barcode coded as given by39.

HARDWARE BLOCK DIAGRAM OF A WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

This is important part of barcode scanner which may contain a

Battery and Charging Unit:

Fig 4: wireless barcoder reader application in i-phone

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

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