Scanners, screens, sound and control
Scanners and handheld computers
Zebra Technologieswith engineers in Bengaluru and Pune, makes barcode scanners, rugged handheld computers and label printers. They are used in warehouses, shops and hospitals. Zebra also makes the software that manages them, and its Indian centres build much of that software. Zebra has the most job postings of any company covered mainly in this Industry Vertical. (More on warehouses in Market Segment 30.2, Warehouse management systems (WMS) and warehouse robotics, in Industry Vertical 30, Supply chain and logistics.)
Printers
Lexmarknow part of Xerox, with engineers in Kolkata, makes printers for businesses. (More on Xerox in Market Segment 36.2, PCs, laptops and printers.)
Screens and projectors
Barcothe Belgian company, with engineers in Delhi, makes video walls, cinema and laser projectors, and meeting-room systems. It also makes the medical displays on which radiologists read scans. A radiologist is a doctor who reads X-rays and other scans. (More on Barco in Market Segment 24.3, Medical imaging and radiology AI, in Industry Vertical 24, Hospitals, diagnostics and medical devices.)
Sound and control for rooms
QSCwith engineers in Bengaluru, makes professional audio equipment. It also makes Q-SYS, a software platform that runs the sound, video and controls of conference rooms and venues.
Crestron Electronicswith engineers in Bengaluru, makes the controls that run a room's lights, screens and sound from one panel.
Equipment for one trade
HMEwith engineers in Bengaluru, makes the headsets and timers used at drive-through restaurants.
Wohler Technologieswith engineers in Pune, makes the screens and speakers on which broadcast control rooms check their sound and pictures.
Xiphias Software Technologies, in Bengaluru, is another company in this area.
One company covered mainly in another Market Segment also works here:
Beckman Coulter Life Scienceswith engineers in Bengaluru, makes laboratory instruments. (More on it in Market Segment 25.2, Life science instruments and lab software, in Industry Vertical 25, Pharma and life sciences.)
The scanner that sees.
The barcode scanner is becoming a camera with an AI model behind it. It can read a damaged label, count the stock on a shelf, and check that a parcel matches its order. Zebra and its rivals are putting AI models on handheld devices for the workers who carry them. The device becomes an assistant as much as a tool.
That is professional equipment: scanners, screens and sound systems, sold to businesses, built to last, and managed in fleets by software. Several of its makers build that software in India.
