Edit

Share via


SENSOR_CATEGORY_SCANNER

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