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My university replaced some room reservation tablets with pieces of paper on a clipboard.
by ForHackernews 7y ago
My university replaced some room reservation tablets with pieces of paper on a clipboard.
- ek750 7y agowhat were the reasons for doing so? maintenance, theft/vandalism, or worse, bad software?
- ForHackernews 7y agoI assume there was some maintenance cost, but the biggest problem I saw with the tablets was there was nothing preventing anyone from deleting somebody else's meeting and replacing it with their own. There was authentication on the web interface, but nothing if you just directly edited the schedule on the tablet. At least with the paper-on-clipboard, it's obvious if an existing meeting was crossed out.
- tannerbrockwell 7y agoThe enterprise systems tie in to your Exchange / Outlook messaging for shared calendars. We saw excessive equipment failures with the Steelcase line. This was a few years ago. But like I said, they had the option of using iPads, but went with the proprietary solution instead -- which was NOT reliable for deployment.