Automatic data identification is the process of recognizing objects using special digital devices. The peculiarity of these devices lies primarily in their ability to identify an object and then transmit all the necessary information about it electronically. The main task of Auto ID is to increase the reliability of information about objects in the information system. These things are easily solved with label printers, barcode scanners, a data collection terminal, and a label or RFID tag.

The advantages of Auto ID include:

• minimizing the influence of the “human factor” and, as a result, reducing the likelihood of errors;
• optimization of the processes of interaction between the organization’s departments and external agents;
• reducing overall costs.

Automatic data identification implies the use of a large number of modern technologies, including barcoding, radio frequency identification, smart technologies, wi-fi, etc.

The main areas of application of Auto ID:

Inventory. With Auto ID (barcode label + data collection terminal), you can move and keep track of the organization’s assets, link material assets to an employee or a specific location, reduce the cost of operations related to fixed assets accounting, and generate reporting documentation.

Medicine and pharmaceuticals. Thanks to automatic data identification, it is possible to collect, process, and store medical records of each individual patient. This guarantees prompt access to any information base for the purpose of prescribing treatment, diagnosing, transferring a person to another hospital, etc. Auto ID allows you to keep track of data on newborns. It becomes possible to accompany a person from the moment of birth until death.

Postal service and courier service. Accounting and sending or receiving parcels, storing information in a convenient form with constant and uninterrupted access to it, printing receipts, labeling parcels, printing address labels, labeling correspondence, etc. Label printers, barcode scanners, data collection terminals, and thermal labels are used for this purpose.

Durable labeling for industrial enterprises. It is almost impossible for industrial enterprises to operate normally without automatic data identification. It allows you to control quality, organize the labeling of products, boxes, pallets, labeling at the time of receipt or shipment of goods, labeling of documentation, etc. For these purposes, industrial printers are used to print labels of Zebra, Toshiba, Godex brands, using Ribbon, for long-term storage of information.

Retail trade. Making purchases at the checkout, perfect sales (with the release of goods to customers from the warehouse), organizing customer assistance, price verification, revaluation of goods, price checking, inventory – all these and many other problems are solved with Auto-ID, namely receipt printers, barcode scanners, information kiosks, data collection terminals.

Transportation logistics. Now it will be much easier to track the location of shipments. With Auto ID, the movement of goods between several points of transportation will be subject to a clear and error-free algorithm. All systems are being optimized, including those at the marshaling yard.

Warehouse logistics. Quick accounting of goods when they arrive at the warehouse, elimination of the “human factor”, as mentioned above, and tracking any movements of storage objects inside the premises. In addition, Auto ID allows you to predict demand by tracking the quantity of a particular product in the warehouse.

Services of libraries and archives. Archiving of data on books in the library in digital form with permanent access to them, optimization of the issuance of books and data from the archive, speeding up the process and eliminating errors.

Identification of people. Unmistakable recognition of people at the enterprise for security purposes, control of attendance at the facility.