Founder James Sweeney is a serial health care entrepreneur who pioneered medication barcode scanning.

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The CS40 provides the ultimate solution for mobile professionals that require high performance barcode scanning and mobile line of business applications.

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And it will also take integration of technologies such as NFC, localization, barcode scanning and QR codes to drive personalized offers in real-time.

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As you can see from the slide above, the slate will sport both a 1.3MP front-facing camera and an 8MP rear-facing camera "with illumination and aiming" for barcode scanning.

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Additional competitions to generate ideas for barcode scanning and face-object recognition, and to develop wireframes, a screen design, a system architecture, and more for the ISS FIT app will wrap up by late May.

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