The Convergence of Physical and Digital Commerce: The Past
Today we’re going to kick off our examination of the merger of physical and digital commerce by taking a look at the evolution of point-of-sale technology, beginning with the creation of the barcode and the cash register, progressing through to the adoption of modern e-commerce solutions. The first research into automatically interacting with products was …
5 Reasons why NFC will never replace the barcode
Today we’re excited to release a brand new blog series that will take an in-depth look at why NFC will never replace the barcode on product packaging. NFC has been the talk of the mobile payment world for the past two years now, ever since companies like Google and Isis—the joint venture between AT&T, …
Coop@Home creates Tesco-like shopping experience using the Scandit SDK
Coop@home, the highly popular app of the Swiss national retail chain Coop, is disrupting the world of grocery shopping by combining mobile shopping with home delivery. In extending the traditional supermarket experience with virtual shelves, the experience of grocery shopping is completely transformed and waiting in line is no longer necessary. The grocery store is …
The Convergence of Physical and Digital Commerce: Past, Present, and Future
Today we’re excited to announce a brand new blog series that takes a look at how the marketplace is transforming as the digital and physical worlds converge. The series will start in past with the evolution of point-of-sale technology, and major transitions such as the creation of the barcode and the advent of the internet. …
Checking In and Checking Out with Location-based Service Apps
Ever since GPS-enabled smartphones hit the scene, developers have created a variety of location-based service apps that interact with the things around them. Despite similar intentions and technology, location-based service apps have taken many different routes, ironically leaving them in all different positions across the app landscape. Given the recent success of Instagram and some …
StripeSpotter Scanning System helps Scientists identify Animals in the Wild
Researchers at Princeton and the University of Illinois have recently released a fascinating research paper that details a scanning system for recognizing animals through their unique markings. The GNU licensed Stripespotter system is an open source project designed to automate animal recognition for professionals studying them in the wild by recognizing patterns of pixels in …
Amazon’s new Kiva Robots use QR Codes to sense their Location
We stumbled upon a fascinating new use case for barcodes in the news recently—robots that use QR codes to track their location! Kiva Systems is a manufacturer of robots that specialize in managing inventories at shipping centers and warehouses. The robots travel around the shipping center picking up, organizing and delivering products to workers. In …
Our Top 5 Weird and Wacky QR Codes
QR Codes seem to be popping up everywhere these days, compelling passerby’s to whip out their phones and scan. As the QR code becomes more commonplace, we’ve also been seeing them pop up in some not so common places. We wanted to share our top picks for the wackiest QR codes we’ve came across. …
Unleash your inner Scanimal with Scandit’s new “Natural” Barcode Scanning feature
Today we’re excited to release a brand-new feature that will allow our users to scan “natural” barcodes. “What’s a natural barcode?”, you might ask? As some of you might have noted already, barcodes appear all over nature, on animals such as on zebras, tigers, clownfish or caterpillars, and also in a variety of trees and …
