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Decoding Barcode applications for smart cameras

What do rental cars, nuclear waste, and cereal all have in common?

They all use barcodes. Hands down there is no better way track movement of any item than with barcodes. Barcodes, generically referred to as Auto ID Data Capture (AIDC), exploded onto the commercial scene with the adoption in supermarkets, but since 1968 has been a major part of industrial landscape. Traditionally Barcode scanners have been laser, but Smart camera-based identification system have made significant progress due to their unparalleled abilities.

“Growth of the smart camera can be largely attributed to the migration AIDC has made from the warehouses to the core process manufacturing and assembly lines. Until now, the only solution for these applications was high-end vision systems designed for much more complex tasks than simply decoding a symbol.” Susan Snyder from Microscan.

Smart cameras can read everything from low contrast direct part marked codes and two dimensional codes, to handwritten addresses. As a result, the smart camera system becomes both identification and validation system for 100% quality control. With higher scan rates, reduced reading pitch required, the overall product throughput can be increase while manual post-processing shortens.

Unlike traditional barcode scanners, the camera is able to capture information on non-standard packages as well as standard-sized shipments, measuring parcels volume and enabling automatic invoicing thus reducing rising labor costs. Although in sheer brawn smart cameras outperform laser barcode scanners, camera based options lack ease of use and come with an expensive price tag.

Until now, Imaging Diagnostics has developed their newest line of smart USB2.0 cameras to overcome smart cameras shortcoming for performance heavy applications. Whether designing for heavy industrial quality control applications or a simple consumer scanner, Camelot smart cameras combine the best of high performance, simple plug and play usage with standard USB price tag.

Additional USB benefits include:

• eliminates external software and hard drive glitches
• simplifies installation and operation and maintenance

• modular design ensures minute size, and mountablility

Image Diagnostics, a BDR group company and Analog Devices partner, is a vendor of USB/DSP cameras at affordable prices. Visit  WWW.Imagine2d.com to find out how ID can save you money while improving your machine vision application.

About the Author

is the Business Development manager at Imaging Diagnostics, a leading provider of embedded imaging solutions for a wide spectrum of capabilities in industrial and machine vision applications.

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