Point the scanner at a barcode on the item you're interested in. If your camera is not enabled, you'll need to approve the Power BI app to use the camera. On the navigation bar, tap More options (.) and then tap Scanner. When engineers are out on the floor checking machine status, they can easily scan a machine's barcode and get to a KPI report about its performance and status.
You can just open the Power BI scanner on your mobile device and scan an item's barcode. Imagine you're checking inventory in a large supermarket and while your out in the aisles you need to get information about particular products, such as how many the store has in stock, what departments the items are stocked in, etc.Here are examples of two scenarios where barcode scanning is useful: You can open the report you're looking for, automatically filtered to the information you need. When you scan a product barcode using the Power BI mobile app's camera, you'll get a list of the reports that have barcode data. Say your organization has reports containing data that has been tagged as barcode data in Power BI Desktop.
Scan barcodes in the real world to get directly to filtered BI information in the Power BI mobile app.