Nowadays, some inventive manufacturers and vendors have introduced barcode rentals as part of their sales offerings.  Under this arrangement, you can rent barcoding business solutions at a fraction of their sale price.  With the introduction of this economical option, many people have discarded their ancient data collection tactics for the more efficient and effective barcoding options.  As the barcoding industry continues to grow, adventurous innovators and savvy business owners have started to extend the application boundaries of this technology.  Today, you will find barcoding technology being used in some of the following amazing activities.

 

Advertising

 

Although not very popular in the U.S. yet, the use of 2D barcodes for advertisement has really picked in some foreign countries like Japan.  Instead of posting a conventional advert in a print or online feature and then stopping at that, companies are including 2D barcodes that can be scanned with smartphones to access more information.  Incidentally, 2D barcodes are capable of storing more data and languages.  For instance, these barcodes usually contain uniform resource locators (URLs).  Therefore, you can scan the barcode for redirection onto the product or service website.  You can also access business location, direction and contact information from these 2D barcodes.

 

Nutrition And Health

 

 

Since the prevalence of the smartphone, there has been an outpouring of barcode applications or programs in almost any imaginable niche.  In the health and nutrition industry, mobile barcode apps are being used to track healthy food intake.  By simply scanning the barcode on the food you are taking, you can track your nutrition intake and even create a detailed food diary using these apps.  In other words, barcodes are helping people to stay healthy.

 

Games

 

Although these ones have been around for a much longer time — since the 1990s — barcode games are still pretty amazing.  Barcode games used special dedicated barcode consoles as part of the premise.  In some cases, players had to scan monsters in order to capture them, while in others the consoles were used to battle other players.  Nowadays there are smartphone barcode games that provide all sorts of fun.  Some cookies even feature passive barcode monsters that come to life after being scanned.

 

Event Admission

 

This is one of the most common uses of barcodes today.  Barcodes are being used to manage attendance in all sorts of events.  From offices to business seminars to movies, barcodes are literally controlling, tracking and managing all sorts of events today.  First of all, they are used to check and verify that the customer’s admission ticket is valid.  Secondly, they are used to collect and analyze attendance data; thereby providing a fast, accurate and convenient way to track event revenue.  Some clever event organizers are even avoiding ticket printing expenses.  Customers are expected to purchase and print their own barcode tickets and then present them before admission.  Likewise, barcodes are popular in a variety of online travel booking systems including flights, trains, trams and buses.  Travelers book and print their own boarding passes and then check in with either the pass or the scanned smartphone barcode — talk about the beauty of technology.