* Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-22 12:41:57]: > Now, why do we need a wireless barcode scanner? If we will depend on > having a laptop nearby, we can go for a regular, cheap one (we are > looking towards buying some in my institute, I have seen some as cheap > as US$70, $100 is a realistic price.
if we have a notebook with us, only one of us could operate them, i guess. i would expect the waiters to use them (for their own convenience) to determine who is allowed to eat and how many meals were consumed by the conference attendees. the alternative way would be to collect paper food tickets which have some drawbacks: they are not meaningfully bound to a day or person (and if they are, that would be additional efford on our side to produce and handle), they are slower to collect and to count afterwards, they are not centrally administerable and they are less flexible. Of course they are more robust and well known technology and understood by the hotel, on the plus side. all the "easy to handle" reasons go away when you carry a notebook in one hand and the scanner in the other and strangle people sitting at the table or walking through the restaurant entrance with the barcode reader cord between the two when using them. our challange would be to make this barcode scanner work reliably on a bit (up to 300ppl/meal, 24 meals?) scale right away. > We have talked with the hotel, they gave a preliminary OK. > > All in all, I see only use for this at the restaurant - It can be a > good point, but I don't think it's absolutely ultimately needed. yes, it is an attempt to make things as easy as possible for us or the hotel, depending who operates them.
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