The 4JET SCANNECT solution – short for “scan & connect” - enables a long standing wish of the tire and automotive industry: being able to trace tires throughout their life cycle and to get in closer touch to the end customer. Unlike machine readable paper barcodes, which have a limited life span, moulded DOT codes, that are not unique, RFID tags, that are expensive and lack maturity, or engraved plain text serial codes, that require to type in numbers offline, the SCANNECT solution enables to individually laser mark every tire with a unique and permanent machine readable 2D matric code. SCANNECT Codes can be read with every smartphone, contain information required during tire processing or may be directly linked to a web based database with such information. 2020 SCANNECT 2D matrix codes account for more than 90% of all connected passenger car tires.

Based on existing most reliable 2D matrix code technology SCANNECT Codes enable enormous data capacity while providing data redundancy to prevent misinterpretation of data and data redundancy to recover data in case of code damage or contamination. Coding protocols are widely used industry standards and are supported by all professional 2D code reading devices. A patented surface structure captures light to generate “SCANNECT super black” in the dark portions of the 2D codes, providing sufficient contrast to enable high reading rates with automatic readers.