The patch of irregular vertical lines that revolutionised checking out at the supermarket and facilitated the globalisation of retail is turning 50. 块不规则的竖线,彻底改变了检查在超市和促进零售业的全球化是50。
But as the barcode celebrates its birthday on Monday, its days might be numbered as it faces competition from the younger QR code, the information-filled squares used in smartphones.
The trademark beep as a product is scanned is heard about six billion times per day across the world as around 70,000 items are sold each second.
It has become so integrated in the shopping experience that it is easy to forget how much the technology revolutionised retail by speeding up the checkout process and giving retailers the ability to trace products and better manage inventory.
The barcode not only identifies a product, but \"gives professionals in stores access to other functionalities\", said Laurence Vallana, head of France de SES-Imagotag, a company that specialises in electronic tagging.
Chewing gum to fruit<\/strong>
Barcodes<\/a> were initially patented by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver in the United States in 1952.
But it wasn't until nearly two decades later, in 1971, that US engineer George Laurer perfected the technology and moves towards its commercialisation began.
On April 3, 1973 the standard to identify products was agreed by a number of large retailers and food companies. It later became known as EAN-13, which stands for European Article Number and the number of digits in the barcode.
The following year, on June 26 in the US state of Ohio, the first product was scanned: a pack of chewing gum that is now in the National Museum of American History in Washington.
Today, the non-governmental organisation Global Standard 1 manages the barcode system and counts about two million firms as members.
It provides companies with a unique \"global trade item number\" for each product, which is then translated into the barcode. Each firm must pay an annual fee based on their sales, up to nearly $5,000 per year.
From bars to QRs<\/strong>
But the humble barcode will soon give way to another standard developed by the organisation, said Renaud de Barbuat and Didier Veloso, the respective heads of GS1 Global and GS1 France.
The new standard, based on QR, or Quick Response code, will be introduced around 2027.
If barcodes have been compared to prison bars by critics of the over-commercialisation of society, the Chinese game Go with its white and black pieces on a square board was the inspiration for the QR code's Japanese creator, Masahiro Hara.
Developed in 1994, QR codes<\/a> can hold much more information as they are read both horizontally, like barcodes, and vertically.
Instead of having to search a database for information to go along with a product, the QR code can integrate information directly, such as the composition of the product and recycling instructions.
GS1 believes moving to the QR code format allows the sharing of far more information about products as well as content, enabling new uses that will be accessible to consumers as well as retailers.
As smartphones can read QR codes, they are an easy way to send people to websites to get additional information, leading to their widespread adoption by companies, artists and even museums. They are even used by payment systems.
But barcodes are likely to remain in place for years to come as the world gradually transitions to QR codes.
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但随着条形码周一庆祝生日,日子可能是可数的年轻的二维码,它面临着激烈的竞争,布满广场中使用智能手机。
商标beep扫描作为一个产品是全世界每天听到六十亿次每秒大约有70000件出售。
它变得如此综合的购物体验,很容易忘记多少技术革新加快结帐过程,给零售商的零售能力跟踪产品和更好地管理库存。
口香糖的水果
条形码最初的专利由诺曼·约瑟夫林地和伯纳德银在1952年在美国。
但直到近二十年后,1971年,美国工程师乔治劳氏管完善了技术和走向商业化开始。
1973年4月3日达成的标准来确定产品是许多大型零售商和食品公司。它后来被称为EAN-13,代表欧洲货号和条码数字的位数。
第二年,6月26日在美国的俄亥俄州,第一个产品是扫描:一包口香糖,现在在华盛顿的美国国家历史博物馆。
今天,非政府组织全球标准1管理条码系统,已有大约二百万家公司成员。
它为企业提供了一个独特的“全球贸易项目编号”对于每一个产品,然后翻译成条形码。每个公司都必须缴纳年费根据他们的销售,每年近5000美元。
从酒吧到QRs
但卑微的条形码很快就会被另一个标准开发的组织,Renaud de Barbuat和迪迪埃维罗索说各自的GS1全球首脑和GS1法国。
新标准,基于QR,或快速响应代码,将2027左右。
如果条形码已经被批评者相比监狱酒吧over-commercialisation的社会,白人和黑人的中国游戏作品的灵感是一个正方形板上二维码的创造者——日本Masahiro Hara。
1994年,开发QR码可以容纳更多的信息,因为他们都读水平,如条形码,和垂直。
而搜索数据库的信息除了产品,二维码可以直接集成信息,如产品的成分和回收指令。
GS1认为移动二维码格式允许共享更多的信息关于产品和内容,使新用途,将访问的消费者以及零售商。
随着智能手机可以读取QR码,他们是一个简单的方法来派人网站获得更多信息,导致公司广泛采用,甚至艺术家和博物馆。他们甚至使用的支付系统。
但是条形码可能在未来几年保持作为世界逐渐过渡到QR码。
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The patch of irregular vertical lines that revolutionised checking out at the supermarket and facilitated the globalisation of retail is turning 50.
But as the barcode celebrates its birthday on Monday, its days might be numbered as it faces competition from the younger QR code, the information-filled squares used in smartphones.
The trademark beep as a product is scanned is heard about six billion times per day across the world as around 70,000 items are sold each second.
It has become so integrated in the shopping experience that it is easy to forget how much the technology revolutionised retail by speeding up the checkout process and giving retailers the ability to trace products and better manage inventory.
The barcode not only identifies a product, but \"gives professionals in stores access to other functionalities\", said Laurence Vallana, head of France de SES-Imagotag, a company that specialises in electronic tagging.
Chewing gum to fruit<\/strong>
Barcodes<\/a> were initially patented by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver in the United States in 1952.
But it wasn't until nearly two decades later, in 1971, that US engineer George Laurer perfected the technology and moves towards its commercialisation began.
On April 3, 1973 the standard to identify products was agreed by a number of large retailers and food companies. It later became known as EAN-13, which stands for European Article Number and the number of digits in the barcode.
The following year, on June 26 in the US state of Ohio, the first product was scanned: a pack of chewing gum that is now in the National Museum of American History in Washington.
Today, the non-governmental organisation Global Standard 1 manages the barcode system and counts about two million firms as members.
It provides companies with a unique \"global trade item number\" for each product, which is then translated into the barcode. Each firm must pay an annual fee based on their sales, up to nearly $5,000 per year.
From bars to QRs<\/strong>
But the humble barcode will soon give way to another standard developed by the organisation, said Renaud de Barbuat and Didier Veloso, the respective heads of GS1 Global and GS1 France.
The new standard, based on QR, or Quick Response code, will be introduced around 2027.
If barcodes have been compared to prison bars by critics of the over-commercialisation of society, the Chinese game Go with its white and black pieces on a square board was the inspiration for the QR code's Japanese creator, Masahiro Hara.
Developed in 1994, QR codes<\/a> can hold much more information as they are read both horizontally, like barcodes, and vertically.
Instead of having to search a database for information to go along with a product, the QR code can integrate information directly, such as the composition of the product and recycling instructions.
GS1 believes moving to the QR code format allows the sharing of far more information about products as well as content, enabling new uses that will be accessible to consumers as well as retailers.
As smartphones can read QR codes, they are an easy way to send people to websites to get additional information, leading to their widespread adoption by companies, artists and even museums. They are even used by payment systems.
But barcodes are likely to remain in place for years to come as the world gradually transitions to QR codes.
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