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Kiosk Devices and Web Interface Framework

UnifiedPOS committee of ARTS gets open specification for web apps accessing scanners and mag stripe readers (which can be located on kiosks).

Noteworthy: IBM Grants Royalty-Free Terms on Patent (WAMPOS)

New Specification Standard Connects POS Devices to Web Apps

By John Connor, IBM, Retail Store Solutions

IBM's John Connor explains how a specification for allowing Web applications to access retail Point of Service (POS) devices such as scanners or magnetic stripe readers could break through a technology barrier in retail. Connor is with IBM's Systems and Technology Group in the Retail Store Systems (RSS) Division.

Have you ever gone to the wine store and wanted to know more about a certain bottle of wine, but the merchant was busy with another customer? What if there were a kiosk right on the shelf that could take you to the producing vineyard�s Website and provide you with information about the wine as well as recommend an excellent dinner recipe to accompany it -- all by scanning the barcode on the wine bottle? It seems like an easy service to provide using a browser-based application implementation on a kiosk. But as easy as it sounds, there is no standard way today for a Web application like the one described above to talk to or �access� the scanner that reads the barcode.

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Posted by keefner at August 4, 2005 02:16 AM