Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Cafeteria System
Contents
* Status
* Whole System
* Benefits
* Expenses
* Software Cost
* Team
* Schedule
Status
30% done. minimum set working already.
Whole System
* *Caf Counters Terminals (4) and Program
* *DSF Reloading Station (1) and Program
* *Network Extension and setup
* *High Availability Server Cluster setup
* *Preventive Security, Logging, and Automated Backups
* *AOLIS Personal Module for viewing caf credits, consumption, and food hisotry
* SMS Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* WAP Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* Telephone Interactive Voice Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* Supervisor Module (override, cancel transaction, operator management)
* *Statistics and Data Analysis Module (like showing a graph of the amount rice consumption in relation to ice-cream consumption, etc)
* *Caf Admin Module (changing prices, changing shortcut keys, adding operator login names, etc)
* Cash Transaction Capability
* Faculty & Staff Transaction Capability
* Inventory (new requirement March 29, 2005)
* working already
Benefits
* elimination of 120,000 yearly costs of printing meal tickets
* remove meal ticket fraud (using wax to recover credits, using someone else's ticket - hard to check because no picture)
* no more lost meal tickets
* picture of student is seen in the computer. non-transferability of credits is easier to enforce
* added value to wearing/bringing IDs
* raises counter throughput (people served per unit time)
Expenses
Hardware: ~200,000. original estimate 120,000 increased due to the added requirement "should not hang" or High Availability.
Software Cost
* free operating system (linux), database engine (postgreSQL)
* Custom Software Development and Maintenance: Free food while program runs (royalty)? or 70,000 (professional fee)?
Team
* Winelfred G. Pasamba, technology research and acquisition, design, implementation, network architecture, server-cluster setup, security architecture, programming, carpentry
with the help of Work Education enrollees in setting up the physical netowrk; computer science students in concept analysis, DSF and Caf people in requirements analysis and testing, and many other friends
Schedule
Request to develop ~2002. Research, learning new technology, finished Summer 2004. Completion October 2004 (moved to March 2005). ¶ 5:08 AM
Contents
* Status
* Whole System
* Benefits
* Expenses
* Software Cost
* Team
* Schedule
Status
30% done. minimum set working already.
Whole System
* *Caf Counters Terminals (4) and Program
* *DSF Reloading Station (1) and Program
* *Network Extension and setup
* *High Availability Server Cluster setup
* *Preventive Security, Logging, and Automated Backups
* *AOLIS Personal Module for viewing caf credits, consumption, and food hisotry
* SMS Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* WAP Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* Telephone Interactive Voice Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* Supervisor Module (override, cancel transaction, operator management)
* *Statistics and Data Analysis Module (like showing a graph of the amount rice consumption in relation to ice-cream consumption, etc)
* *Caf Admin Module (changing prices, changing shortcut keys, adding operator login names, etc)
* Cash Transaction Capability
* Faculty & Staff Transaction Capability
* Inventory (new requirement March 29, 2005)
* working already
Benefits
* elimination of 120,000 yearly costs of printing meal tickets
* remove meal ticket fraud (using wax to recover credits, using someone else's ticket - hard to check because no picture)
* no more lost meal tickets
* picture of student is seen in the computer. non-transferability of credits is easier to enforce
* added value to wearing/bringing IDs
* raises counter throughput (people served per unit time)
Expenses
Hardware: ~200,000. original estimate 120,000 increased due to the added requirement "should not hang" or High Availability.
Software Cost
* free operating system (linux), database engine (postgreSQL)
* Custom Software Development and Maintenance: Free food while program runs (royalty)? or 70,000 (professional fee)?
Team
* Winelfred G. Pasamba, technology research and acquisition, design, implementation, network architecture, server-cluster setup, security architecture, programming, carpentry
with the help of Work Education enrollees in setting up the physical netowrk; computer science students in concept analysis, DSF and Caf people in requirements analysis and testing, and many other friends
Schedule
Request to develop ~2002. Research, learning new technology, finished Summer 2004. Completion October 2004 (moved to March 2005). ¶ 5:08 AM