Asset tagging with QR codes

[Kumagoro]

Has anyone looked into using QR codes for simple asset management?

I imagined using something along the lines of use an android phone to scan and collate the mapping data and then output into excel. Hopefully with the app allowing you to create custom menus.

eg scan room, scan desk scan computer scan monitor etc

Anyone have any recommendations for a free or open source asset inventory program or one for
creating QR codes (I dont want to use an online QR generator)

[Funkstar]

How much information do the codes actually need to store?

A database ID will happily fin in a regular bar code, and these can be put together with just a barcode font, you don't need to encode them like you do with QR codes.

On the other hand, QR codes can store quite a lot of data, up to 7,089 numeric characters, or 4,296 alphanumeric characters. I didn't realise it was that much!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Storage

OK, wow, Version 40 is pretty massive to get you to those numbers

I guess Version 4 is the highest normal version you would find in the wild. (50-100 alphanumeric characters)

[Zak33]

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[Zak33]

Has anyone looked into using QR codes for simple asset management?

I imagined using something along the lines of use an android phone to scan and collate the mapping data and then output into excel. Hopefully with the app allowing you to create custom menus.

eg scan room, scan desk scan computer scan monitor etc

Anyone have any recommendations for a free or open source asset inventory program or one for
creating QR codes (I dont want to use an online QR generator)

something you need to be careful of, and I've used QR codes for loads of expermiments, is the QR code READER and PHONE combo.

Example.. in my opinion the BEST QR code reader, by miles, is i-nigma. Bar none.

However, it works MASSIVELY better on an iPhone than on some smart phones. It can read smaller QR codes, quicker, on an iPhone than on any smart phone I've tried it with (Sammy, HTC)

Making the resolution of the QR code too fine, ie by putting loads of info into it, will totally hamper the ability to get the QR code to a size that's useable. It'll need printing quite large.
Example: make a QR code for just a URL, succh as a bbc link. It can be quite small as the blocks it's made of are large and easily focused on.

Make one with several lines of text, say a business card with email, phone, postal address, name etc. and if it's too small, the phone cant see the detail unless up close.. and then it can't focus.

[blueball]

I did some digging and came across a small prog called Zint (GNU open Licence)

http://zint.github.com/

Seems to support just about any form of code you would need to create to tag the rooms, desks, etc.

[bigsnow]

Has anyone looked into using QR codes for simple asset management?

I imagined using something along the lines of use an android phone to scan and collate the mapping data and then output into excel. Hopefully with the app allowing you to create custom menus.

eg scan room, scan desk scan computer scan monitor etc

Anyone have any recommendations for a free or open source asset inventory program or one for
creating QR codes (I dont want to use an online QR generator)

You can take a good look at this website:http://www.keepautomation.com/produc...es/qrcode.html Last month, I used the barcode generator for my products from this website and I think it's good. You may have a try. Good luck.