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 -
2BV08EE048
ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER
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 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.
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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

ASSIGNMENT WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

UNDERSTANDING BARCODING TECHNOLOGY

Fig 2: samples of 1D and 2D barcodes

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

RETRIEVE INFORMATION FROM BARCODES

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

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

HARDWARE BLOCK DIAGRAM OF A WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

fig 3: block diagram of a complete wireless barcode scanner

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

Battery and Charging Unit:

Fig 4: wireless barcoder reader application in i-phone

ASSIGNMENT ON WIRELESS BARCODE SCANNER

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