What is the difference between wireless scanners and wired scanners
Wired scanners, as the name suggests, are connected to a computer or POS machine through a data cable data transmission.
Wireless scanner, also known as cordless scanner. Generally, data is transmitted through bluetooth, wifi, etc., and the data can be transmitted without the limitation of the length of the data cable, which is more convenient to use. In terms of price, wireless scanner guns are many times higher than wired guns.
Wireless scanners are divided into high, medium and low-end products. The price mainly depends on the type of barcode scanned (one-dimensional or two-dimensional), followed by the fineness of barcode scanning. For example, if a small barcode needs to be scanned, then The decoding capability of the decoder is very high, and its price is relatively high.
The main purpose of the wireless scanner is to scan the barcode and transmit it to the computer without the need for a cable. At present, the mobile phone can also scan the barcode. There are already some free mobile phones on the market to scan the barcode and send it to the computer. The mobile phone software can achieve the effect of wireless scanning gun.
BA10 wireless barcode adapter, the main feature is bluetooth transmission, but also adds the function of scanning data to mobile phone or PDA.
BA200 wireless barcode adapter can turn any scanner into a wireless long-distance scanner, and the transmission distance can reach 100m-200m.
Application fields of wireless scanners
1. Logistics express
It can be used in the collection and recording of consigners’ waybill data, and the data collection and recording of transit yards/warehouses. By scanning the express bar code, the waybill information can be directly transmitted to the back-end server through the 3G module, and related services can be realized at the same time. Information query and other functions.
2. Logistics and distribution
Typical tobacco distribution, warehouse inventory, postal distribution, and terminal distribution of major daily necessities manufacturers that are worth developing , drug distribution, in-plant logistics in large factories, logistics company warehouse-to-warehouse transportation.
3. Chain store/store/counter data collection
It is used for store purchase, sale, storage, inventory, transfer, cancellation, subscription and membership management The collection and transmission of other data can also realize the inventory inventory of the store.
4. Shoes and Apparel Order Fair
It is used for wireless order fair in the shoe and apparel industry, based on WIFI wireless communication technology, by scanning barcodes with wireless scanners Make on-site orders, wirelessly transmit the order data to the background order fair system, and at the same time, it can realize the functions of query, statistics and analysis.
5. Card management
Used to manage various IC cards and contactless IC cards, such as identity cards, membership cards and so on. Card management, as the name implies, is to manage various contact/contactless IC cards, so the main extended function of the scanner used is contact/contactless IC card reading and writing.
6. Ticket management
It is used for data collection of ticket checking units such as cinema tickets, train tickets, scenic spot tickets, etc.