In 1974, two Drexel University students found that an oscillating mirror laser could scan and read barcodes, their solution for more efficient grocery store management. Quick-response codes, or QR ...

Sensors and automatic identification have already transformed supply chains. RFID tags and scanners, barcodes, QR codes, and handheld or fixed position scanners and imagers generate real-time data ...

The initiative by the standards organization could bring traditional 1D barcodes into the 2D world of data matrix and QR-codes. After five decades of barcode use at the point of sale, the technology ...

Quentin Hanich receives funding from various international foundations, development organisations and research bodies, and is a Principal Investigator with the Nereus Program. Any analysis or opinion ...