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What is a QR code?
It’s a type of barcode invented by the Japanese motor industry to keep track of spare parts.
Main characteristicsCharacteristics of QR Codes: Faster readability (compared to other
barcodes) Greater storage capacity than traditional UPC
barcodes: up to 1,837 characters instead of 12 numerical digits.
Main applications
Today is widely used for product identification, exchange of vCards,time tracking, document management, and it has also become a form of art.
Other applications:Mobile phones: quickly browse to a website by scanning from the phone’s camera the QR code
EXAMPLE OF USE WITH MOBILE PHONE
Scanning QR codes can be done with all new smartphones: Android, iOS, Windows Phone using the in built camera as a scanner.
Creating QR codes on a desktop/Excel and then printing them out on paper sticker is even easier!
OTHER USEFUL PHONE TECHNOLOGY
Most smartphones also have databases that can be synchronized with a server on a desktop (through usb cable).
Geolocation: get coordinates of product, equipment location, distribution site…
Send email with details of survey done Connect to a webservice to access data (i.e.
weather service) or insert data in a remote database
What are the potential uses for the humanitarian community?
There are several areas where it could be used in conjunction with a phone: Beneficiary identification using QR Codes
which can be later scanned and registered in a database
More secure FSL/WASH vouchers using QR codes and encryption, and so finance scans and then gets automatically a total of the vouchers to be paid to suppliers.
What are the potential uses for the humanitarian community? Staff ID cards with QR codes Catalogue references for future Log IS? Product referencing in ACF stores using
barcodes Equipment tracking using QR codes as labels
for equipment example next
Field level
Capital
EXAMPLE OF EQUIPMENT TRACKING
BENEFITS ON EQUIPMENT
Faster inventory: only scanning of QR codes needed
Inventory would record: date last seen , current user, current project assigned to, exact location of equipment through GPS
coordinates (with map) photo of equipment
ADDITIONAL NEEDS AND COSTS
- Smartphone: < 200 USD- Tamper-proof labelprinter: = 300 USD
- With a bit more money, use mobile printers (WI-FI or Bluetooth to mobile).
- Desktop (already exists or Log IS or Excel) - Programmer: on free time- Time needed: a few evenings and week-ends