# Wireless barcode scanner **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition80, vision, perspective\ **Created:** [September 22, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wireless-barcode-scanner/38947 "2020-09-22T18:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wireless-barcode-scanner/38947/1 "2020-09-22T18:04:52Z")
Does anyone have any experience with wireless barcode scanners connecting back to Ignition? At this point, I don’t have many details, like distance, but the desire is to scan a barcode and then do something like SQL inserts/updates, etc. ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wireless-barcode-scanner/38947/2 "2020-09-23T17:56:41Z")
Anyone? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ea5d25/32.png) [@zacht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacht)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wireless-barcode-scanner/38947/3 "2020-09-23T20:33:10Z")
I have to imagine that any specific implementation would by highly dependent on the device you’re using. Do you have a particular one in mind? ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wireless-barcode-scanner/38947/4 "2020-09-23T20:48:27Z")
No, that was kind of my point for posting… asking for recommendations. Sorry, should have been more specific. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wireless-barcode-scanner/38947/5 "2020-09-23T20:56:52Z")
If it’s short range, IE line of sight inside a building, then I would just use a standard USB-cradle \<-\> bluetooth scanner, i.e. something like this: [https://www.zebra.com/us/en/support-downloads/scanners/general-purpose-scanners/ds6878-sr.html](https://www.zebra.com/us/en/support-downloads/scanners/general-purpose-scanners/ds6878-sr.html) (there’s a million options from a million vendors, this just happens to be the model I remember from a past life working in a warehouse). In open air I remember testing the range on that exact model out to a good 100-150 feet. If you need to scan from anywhere inside a multi-acre factory, though, you’ll probably need to jump to a ‘real’ protocol like wifi - at which point you might be able to get away with the TCP driver in Ignition, or you might need to implement your own socket listening code (see @pturmel’s various points of advice on the subject around the forum). There are also ‘mobile computers’ that run Android that _might_ be capable of running Perspective directly, which abstracts the comms problem a fair bit, _and_ gives you a lot of control…but those are also usually a lot pricier, and can be harder to train operators on. ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wireless-barcode-scanner/38947/6 "2020-09-24T13:32:17Z")
Thanks Paul