Technical Symbology Committee
Members of the Technical Symbology Committee actively work to ensure that complete technical specifications, standards, guidelines and technical reports are available to the market. Many of these symbologies, originally designed and published as AIM specifications, provide a basis for future international standardization of the technology.
Recent Highlights
Published, in collaboration with GS1, AI (8009) Optically Readable Sensor Indicator; a specification that identifies indicators for all types of sensors used together with GS1 barcodes. This publication is often (but not exclusively) used in safety monitoring of fresh foods, frozen foods, and healthcare items.
Developed comments to the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG1 JAB Code project team for review. JAB Code (Just-Another-Bar-Code) is a potential high-capacity 2D color bar code, which can encode more data than traditional black/white (QR) codes.
Updated version of the AIM Technical Specification on Extended Channel Interpretations (ECI) to reflect new character sets and code pages. The ECI standard specifies the protocol for extending the interpretative capabilities of basic 7-bit, 8-bit, multi-byte and 16-bit codes when the data is encoded in data carriers.
Continued the update of the DotCode International Symbology Standard. DotCode is a public domain optical data carrier designed to be reliably readable when printed by high-speed inkjet or laser dot technologies. With this standard, real time data like expiration date, lot number or serial number can be applied to products in a machine-readable form at production line speeds.
Initiated development of uniform symbol descriptions (USD) for postal codes. The goal of this project is for users to know, in a consistent manner, which products support which postal symbologies and that those products that support the USDs will be interoperable. The TSC released its first USD for this project which is KIX, derived from the Dutch “Klant IndeX”.
Developed comments to the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG1 JAB Code project team for review. JAB Code (Just-Another-Bar-Code) is a potential high-capacity 2D color bar code, which can encode more data than traditional black/white (QR) codes.
Updated version of the AIM Technical Specification on Extended Channel Interpretations (ECI) to reflect new character sets and code pages. The ECI standard specifies the protocol for extending the interpretative capabilities of basic 7-bit, 8-bit, multi-byte and 16-bit codes when the data is encoded in data carriers.
Continued the update of the DotCode International Symbology Standard. DotCode is a public domain optical data carrier designed to be reliably readable when printed by high-speed inkjet or laser dot technologies. With this standard, real time data like expiration date, lot number or serial number can be applied to products in a machine-readable form at production line speeds.
Initiated development of uniform symbol descriptions (USD) for postal codes. The goal of this project is for users to know, in a consistent manner, which products support which postal symbologies and that those products that support the USDs will be interoperable. The TSC released its first USD for this project which is KIX, derived from the Dutch “Klant IndeX”.
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