{"id":41,"date":"2019-04-08T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8081\/?p=41"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:38:16","slug":"a-server-connected-to-coin-counting-machines-to-track-daily-turnover-and-machine-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"A server connected to coin counting machines to track daily turnover and machine failures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We met an entrepreneur at a business course who was establishing a business operating coin counting machines. The customer poured coins into a slot and receive a receipt for that amount redeemable at the local shopping centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had a solution for the hardware, but needed a way to monitor the machines and track income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We wrote a server based solution which received commands from each machine through the GPS network and stored transaction and status information in a database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An admin system written in Django presented the information for monthly reconciliations and error reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met an entrepreneur at a business course who was establishing a business operating coin counting machines. The customer poured coins into a slot and receive a receipt for that amount redeemable at the local shopping centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}