Information is all around us. It is in the form of sight (pictures), sound (music), and hand written or printed (paper media). People absorb or interface with information through communications such as television, radio, telephone, books (published media), and now more commonly through the internet. The process of taking information from its pure form into electronic format is called data collection.
Over the years, many technologies have been invented for the capture, processing and dissemination of information. Our most dominant tool today is the Internet. But how did all that data get into a data base, how and where was it collected, what are the computations and formatting performed ? In these series of posts, I will address the various technologies used to capture information in a fixed and mobile environments. My discussions on data collection will focus on industries such manufacturing, health care, oil exploration, transportation, mobile services, logistics and supply chain.
Topics of discussion will be:
- Barcode, barcoding, or bar code (many ways of saying the same thing)
- RFID (radio frequency identification) and RFID applications
- Wireless mobile computing
- Portable data collection (batch mode)
- Shop floor data collection
- Various industrial devices for data capture such as mobile data terminals, forklift computers, small industrial PCs, and vehicle computers
Read more about each data collection method and its associated industries in my posts.
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