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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 >