What are Bluetooth Wireless Barcode Scanners

With the fast and expanding technology we are becoming wireless day by day. The reason behind this is to increase mobility and portability and reduce the use of wires in our homes or offices in order to make our business more productive. In all these things Bluetooth has played the important role to reduce wires. Talking about Bluetooth Wireless Barcode Scanners we see their great popularity especially in the retails and service related industries. They have formed the major part of the business operations.

The Bluetooth wireless barcode scanners use the popular Bluetooth technology and this technology provides wireless coverage at lower cost. It is also very easy to implement. These wireless barcode scanners can easily scan the barcodes of various items and products in the big shopping malls, factories, investigation departments etc. Their main application is found in the fields of merchandising, parcel delivery, field force automation and sales force automation.

Let us look deep into its details and know its advantages in the technological world.

Light
Bluetooth wireless barcode scanners are light thus allowing the operator to move easily from one place to another.

Their function
These scanners allow the operators to scan and upload the data wirelessly into the inventory software of computer without the need of the tangling wires or synchronizing the data manually with a terminal. Thus wireless barcode scanners transmit information from scanned product to a computer wirelessly using Bluetooth or proprietary radio communication. No data is lost while scanning the products.

Portable
Since they can be taken wherever we want so it becomes really very easy to scan the heavy and bulky items which are immovable.

Range
But the main disadvantage found in them is that they have range of about 50 meters which is good for small retail shops and warehouses. But their new models are getting improved.

CCD barcode scanner
There are various kinds of Bluetooth wireless barcode scanners such as CCD based barcode scanners which use optical cameras to capture barcode images and then translate that to barcode information. These are mainly used in the fixed or static barcode scanning places such as retail shops where distance is not a problem as these barcode scanners canning distance is shorter.

Laser barcode scanner
Laser barcode scanners use a laser to capture the barcode information. Their advantage is that they have a longer scanning distance and can even scan a curved surface. Most of the Bluetooth wireless barcode scanners are laser-based.

Cost
These scanners were very costly in the early times but now their price has been reduced.

These Bluetooth wireless barcode scanners are gaining popularity in every retail or industrial areas in order to give the perfect satisfaction to their customers while selling out their products.