Need suggestions for touch-screen data collection system

[Steve Wiltsie]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:27:01PM -0500, Steve Wiltsie wrote:
>> My question to this group is to see if any of you have any
>> experience with a hardware/software combination that may apply to
>> this need.  The current plan would be to get one for testing at
>> first and then additional units as needed.  As you might imagine,
>> the hardware would have to stand up to heat up to 100 degrees and
>> cold down to around freezing.  If needed, we could put the equipment
>> in enclosures that could be kept above a minimum temperature but
>> cooling them would be out of the question.
>
> My snap answer, if it's practical, would be to give everyone a
> barcoded badge, and print job number barcodes on the traveler tickets
> (if you have such), and have them scan their badge and the traveler.
> You could, I suppose, put a chart with department barcodes on the
> wall by the scanner (or chained to it, if it was portable.
>
> Would an approach like that collect enough data for your situation?
> You can get completely untethered RF scanners cheap these days.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra

Jay,

Thanks but we've already tried a similar approach with barcoded plant
paperwork and individual readers.  It didn't work in this setting.  It was a
combination of using the cheapest hardware and employees who didn't want it
to work.  The management thinks this will be a better approach because there
will be a card for each employee and a card for each item.  The rest will be
entered on the touch screen.

Thanks,
Steve