Benefits & Popular Auto ID Technologies
Benefits & Popular Auto ID Technologies Automatic Identification and Data Capture or Automatic Identification (Auto ID) is the terms used to describe the direct entry of data into a computer system. These technologies are very useful and beneficial. Some important benefits of Automatic Identification Technologies are: 1. Accuracy: Manual entry through the keyboard has its drawbacks. Studies have revealed that a human operator will commit one undetected error for every three hundred character input. Adopting the bar code technology will improve input by a factor of 10,000 times, i.e. one error for every three million characters entered. With more recent developments in the bar code technology and with the sophisticated error correction techniques, the error rate has reduced still further. This results in saving considerable time and costs of tracking down and rectifying the errors from the manual data entry system. 2. Economics: Because of the speed and reduction of...