Mobile barcode matching application: prove your control!

After just a few hours on the job, shipping and logistics operators see similar item numbers: are mixed parts being shipped to customers? You need to compare barcodes quickly and reliably, and prove control!

Give your operators mobile code-matching software: the barcode coder to reduce customer complaints due to product mix-ups. It tests that two or more strings of numbers and letters are identical.

To be installed on a rugged, high-speed, close-reading Android terminal for production, or a simple smartphone (slow, close-reading). Avoid mixing up parts for shipping. It’s a kind of digital poka-yoke.

Video demo in 1mn 20s:

The advantages of our Android mobile app over a wireless “douchette “.

Both are “scanners” indeed. Our main advantage in choosing Android is memory and programming, while retaining the ruggedized, low-cost replaceability of Android over Apple’s IOS. In fact, memory will provide proof and history of comparisons made, with their time and date stamps. The memory will enable the reference to be compared several times in a row. Programming will provide the flexibility to set parameters, decode complex formats and give the user an understandable response.

Multilingual: GB / FR /IT /D: English, French, Italian, German!

For all Android terminals. Try it out!

Options for improving operational excellence:

• contains reference = can compare strings of letter-numbers of different sizes with a suffix or prefix, provided you enter the smallest string first.

• traceability key, history = local backup of BL / purchase order traces, history to prove to a customer the correct and unique execution of the control (with date and time).

• logins = restrict access to the app, and to track who performed the check using the historiqui option.

Meet the need for operational excellence and reduce customer complaints:

You’d like to install an easy-to-use visual and audio tool that lets users test the correspondence between two or more complicated or long barcode references printed on a BL (bill of lading), an OF (production order), a product, a case or a box, and avoid confusing item references.

Our application compares linear (1D) barcodes such as 128, EAN or QR-code (Qr-codes, Qr-codes, Flashcode), Datamatrix (2D) with each other, depending on your barcode reader terminal, enabling factories, warehouses and logistics departments to improve quality testing and reduce delivery errors.

This software compares barcodes 2 by 2, or even 1 by n (“n” taking the value you set) or in infinite succession (configurable option), and checks that they are identical, displaying the last two and indicating with a green or red color whether their values are identical or not, or whether one of the values in the chain has been different (orange border).

In “string” mode, similar to the “n by n” option, the application is tested continuously: as long as the code is identical to the previous one, it remains green, but warns you as soon as the code is different. This string option can be used to test sheets of labels, printed matter or pharmaceutical leaflets.

The truth table is as follows, depending on the options: (1 = positive=green, 0=negative=red, “A”, “B”, “C” are scanned barcodes)

Choice:

• in n per n cycle, here n=2

• in n per n cycle, here n=3

• in chain

Provide proof of control! (history options, logins)

To provide customers with proof that their order has been properly verified, the order code, BL or other key can be entered on a regular basis, or modified on request, before each chain of comparisons (logs of good and bad scans). The trace is dated for each scan, and the history is saved on a local file on the terminal/smartphone, so that it can be extracted and saved in the event of a claim, and thus prove your good faith.

Ergonomic screen design

in a single screen, the user simply scans in line: the colored display in the corner of the eye informs the user of the correspondence between the last two scans and the entire cycle (in the case of more than 2 comparatives). A different audible alarm is emitted depending on the case, and is particularly interesting for different codes.

A success rate indicator and the number of comparisons made are also added.

Some rugged terminals with different ergonomics:

You can use commercially-available ruggedized smartphones (we also sell them) or non-rugged smartphones, but with this barcode comparison software, the speed of camera reading, which has been fine-tuned by our own drivers, will be slightly slower than the speed of reading with a laser/imager terminal, but the budget will be more attractive.

Our terminals or your terminals (see approved list on this site) with integrated barcode reader head increase barcode comparison speed, and therefore quality control productivity.

Works on “GMS” (Google Mobile Service) or “non-GMS” terminals.

This barcode comparison application is designed for close reading distance (<50cm).

Reading distances of 2 or 3m for one code and <50cm for the other, depending on the size of your barcodes, can be studied with our special imager terminals with enhanced read heads.

Tablet or smartphone in armband with hands-free kit

Our new application is designed for landscape ergonomics, and can receive scanned values from a barcode scanner linked via Bluetooth.

Other ideas and requests?

For example: compare an RFID tag reference with a barcode?

You’ve got other ideas and needs: our company develops custom mobile applications of this kind for you: ask for a custom mobile scanning application design quote: call better than formal.

Other versions of custom concordance tests (on request):

1. tailored to your labels (e.g. Galia adaptation to barcodes that are not quite identical but contain a common root, (prefix /suffix) with several barcodes to read and compare) barcode comparison for Galia
2. adapted to your needs and quality processes: keep track of who scanned it and when for customer proof, read and display product photo on screen etc… with our custom-made authenticity infrastructure
3. check for identical symbology,
4. with OCR: character recognition, read alphanumeric references that only appear in text.

Versions:

• 08/02/24: V1 PRX range - new design and development system: more options and scanning possibilities
• 09/29/22: V3 - KX range - revised design with track history and registration key options, English-French version
• 02/03/21:V3.0.3: tested on Windows 10 PC with DS4801 handheld scanner: PC version available: How to install application on Win 10 (no longer available)
• 08/31/20:V3.0.1: added “n by n” cycle mode
• 07/01/20:V2: continuous mode added = chain mode
• 04/03/20:V1.1.5: ergonomic improvements, compatible with smartphone terminals from 3” screen size.

Usages

• in automotive supplier companies
• fuel delivery and storage companies (ATEX version)
• watchmaking and screw-cutting companies

Ask us for the test app loading link.

You already have an Android smartphone and would like to try out this mobile application module ?

Android app (Apk) provided on Productivix private repository, on request - link and loading QRcode provided To install it, read here

Quantitative test limit displayed according to modules, over 30 days. Qualification customer call before shipment.

Do you have a similar need? Don’t hesitate to tell us what you need: a copy of a pencil drawing of an interface, examples of interface files, a video of an obsolete software program in action will be enough.