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).