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Clark Van Oyen edited this page Feb 9, 2016
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ScanThis is an open source seafood processing facility tally software project. It's designed as follows:
- A processing facility is divided into any number of "stations". A station is a set of hardware such as scanners, scales, printers and other sensors, at which data is collected (or "tallied").
- In some cases, manual data entry is required, or a we require a way to view data as it's collected. In both of these cases, a "terminal" is installed. A terminal is a laptop, tablet, industrial PC or even a smartphone. Typically, there will be a single terminal for each station.
- Each terminal displays an interface served by an application server installed locally at the facility.
- Decide which data are to be collected in the plant, and divide this data up into "stations", based on physical and temporal proximity (anything that's collected in the same place and time is a station).
- Decide what labels must be printed, and when. These are assigned to the applicable stations.
The following hardware is supported at present.
- Zebra printers, via serial port.
- 2D Barcode scanner, usb.
- Digital scales with serial ports.
- Rasbberry PI for print servers, scale servers. Setup instructions here.
- Any terminals running Google Chrome.
ScanThis requires a Linux server as an application server. You can install the ScanThis software stack manually or using Docker.
See the README file for a new software installation.