I suspect that FIRPA requirements will make it quite difficult to use an 
outside hosting service.  However, since many institutions already have 
students swipe at various locations on campus, infrastructure for your 
needs probably exists on your campus already.  In fact, it appears that 
a faculty member on your campus has been doing research with such data:

https://executive.eller.arizona.edu/2018/04/03/how-a-ua-professor-uses-student-id-card-data-to-help-predict-dropouts/

--Kevin

On 5/15/18 6:34 PM, Han, Yan - (yhan) wrote:
> Hi, I am looking for an app or a program which can count how many time a patron use an information center.  The purpose of the app/prog is to find out a person's usage on the information center. We do not want to record what he/she uses, but would like to know the head count.  I could write my own, but if there is one hosted with reasonable cost, it will be better.
> 
> The requirements are:
> 1. When a user come to the center, a staff will scan his/her card (with QR or other barcode)
> 2. The app/program record the person's info with current timestamp.
> 3. The app can do some statistic calculation on the data (e.g. how many times does a user come to the center? How many users use the center in a day, a month, a quote  )
> 4. It is probably easier to have this app/program hosted by a company with minimal cost.
> 
> Any recommendations?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Yan
>