Here is a linear barcode representing the value 036000291452. They were invented in the 1960’s, popularized in the 1970’s and still the most commonly used today. There are multiple flavors of barcodes, which we can organize into two categories: linear and 2D (matrix) barcodes. Many thanks to Gary Bowles, GIS Database Administrator at Seneca Resources Corporation for the photo. The barcodes include information about the unique ID of the asset, ensuring data integrity and simplifying the completion of the Survey. If you look close enough, you will be able to see that the pole and the sign have both a sticker with a barcode. In this photo, you can see a field user leveraging Survey123 barcode scanning capabilities to support sign inspections. The Survey123 field app can interpret barcodes though your device’s camera, so you do not need external barcode hardware to work with them. In this way, room for error when capturing the unique identifier of the asset is removed, not to mention that capturing the data is very quick. Barcodes are designed to encode data in a way that can quickly be scanned using either a barcode scanner, or through the camera of your smartphone.Ī typical use of barcodes with Survey123 is that where an asset, like a pole, meter, pipe etc has a barcode in it Field users with Survey123 scan this barcode to quickly bring the unique identifier and other asset information into the form. You can put any data you may want in a barcode, but generally they are used to unequivocally identify the item. Typically, barcodes are attached to things using a sticker, or simply printed on them. You will find them in virtually any packaged item you buy, in the back cover of books and most likely somewhere in the laptop, its power adapter, or the PC/Mac you may be using right now. A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data.

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