SENSOR_CATEGORY_SCANNER

Important

Use the UWP Sensor API instead.

The COM-based Sensor API is deprecated and should not be used in new applications. No additional features or enhancements are planned, and support will be limited.

The SENSOR_CATEGORY_SCANNER category contains sensors that provide information that is obtained by scanning.

Platform-Defined Sensor Types

This category includes the following platform-defined sensor types.

Sensor type	Description
SENSOR_TYPE_BARCODE_SCANNER {990B3D8F-85BB-45FF-914D-998C04F372DF}	Sensors that use optical scanning to read bar codes.
SENSOR_TYPE_RFID_SCANNER {44328EF5-02DD-4E8D-AD5D-9249832B2ECA}	Radio-frequency ID scanning sensors.

Platform-Defined Data Fields

Platform-defined property keys for this category are based on SENSOR_DATA_TYPE_SCANNER_GUID:

{D7A59A3C-3421-44AB-8D3A-9DE8AB6C4CAE}

This category includes the following platform-defined data fields.

Data field name and PID	Description
SENSOR_DATA_TYPE_RFID_TAG_40_BIT (PID = 2)	VT_UI8 40-bit radio frequency ID tag value.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 7 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	None supported
Header	Sensors.h