This is something I was thinking about too! Because I manage equipment through Koha (not just books) it would be amazing to place a camera kit on top of an RFID reader and let Koha scan all the contents in the kit making sure everything was there: camera, charger, USB cord, etc. If it comes up empty on an item, we look inside and double check if its actually there or missing.
I noticed a few youtube videos of RFID and a Koha terminal interface a while back . . . But I feel it would be as simple as expanding the checkin/checkout field to bulk update. ex input all at once: barcode1 barcode1 barcode1 Walker On Friday, May 13, 2011 at 9:17 AM, aj...@maxenna.com wrote: Hi, > > I have recently installed Koha3.4 on Ubuntu. > > I would like to interface an RFID reader with Koha. > > More specifically when the user goes to > Circulation -> check out -> and enter the patron details, > there will be a place to "Enter item barcode". The usual procedure is that > the barcode scanner will fill in this value. > > But what we want to implement is an RFID reader instead of the barcode > scanner. Each book will have a RFID tag. The patron will pick the books > from the shelf and bring it and place some books on top of RFID reader > which will read all the books at once, say for example 4-5 books at once. > > My doubt is how can I read this information into koha. Any suggestion > please. > > On further thought, I was thinking on developing an application which > would read the data from the RFID reader and update the MySQL database in > the same way/format Koha would do. Would someone recommend doing it this > way. > > If so how do I develop this application. Because I know C#.net and > VB.net. But these can be used only for developing application on windows. > How do I develop an application that will run on Ubuntu and suffice as an > interface for Koha. > > Regards > Ajesh
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