Inventory Tracking Using Handhelds?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday November 14, 2001 @09:32AM from the keeping-on-top-of-it-all dept.

DJ Decepticon asks: "I've recently been given the task to determine the feasibility of tracking several hundred workstations spread out across North America using a handheld device. Requirements include having a barcode and GPS reading and inputing that information into a spreadsheet. Would a handheld device such as Palm or Handspring be able to take on such a task?" Aparently there are PalmPilot's with integrated barcode readers at Symbol.Com, however I don't know about ones that also include GPS. If anyone has used these units before, how difficult would it be to add GPS functionality? Are there other solutions?

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did it w/o GPS by bearbones · 2001-11-14 11:13 · Score: 2, Interesting

I've worked and programmed the symbol ones, to do this very thing (w/o the GPS). They work great. You should be able to do it with a GPS that attaches to the serial port with no problem.