Just install the callback with your singularity.

On 13-08-15 05:36 PM, Terrell, Trey wrote:
> It's funny you mention this - we had some ECE students build this exact thing for us for one of their projects. They ended up being $100/piece and required a plugin. They used wifi (definitely some room for improvement there) to notify a web interface and an infrared sensor to detect if people were there. It was a really neat project, the cost and implementation requirements just pushed it out of range to deploy it on a library-wide scale right now.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andreas Orphanides
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 5:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Way to record usage of tables/rooms/chairs in Library
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> If I were feeling really ambitious -- and fair warning, I'm a big believer that any solution worth engineering is worth over-engineering -- I'd come up with something involving light sensors (a la a gate counter) mounted on the table legs, just above seat height. Throw in some something something Arduino or Raspberry Pi, and Bob's your uncle.
>
> I find myself more intimidated by the practicality of maintaining such a system (batteries, cord management etc) than about the practicality of this implementation, actually.
>
> -dre.
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Misilo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has been asked before to come up with a way
>> to record usage of tables.
>>
>> The ideal solution would be a web app, that we can create floor plans
>> with where all the tables/chairs are and select the "reporting time",
>> say 9PM at night. Go around the library and select all the
>> seats/tables/rooms that are currently being used/occupied for statistical data.
>>
>> We would be wanting to go around probably multiple times a day.
>>
>> The current solution I have seen is a pen and paper task, and then
>> someone will have to manually put the data into a spreadsheet for analysis.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Tom
>>