On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Sebastian Hierl <[email protected]> wrote: > We are about to implement RFID with 3M. So far, in test mode, everything is > working well, though we experienced some very long checkout times (Koha > taking a long time to record the checkout of materials). > > If anyone implemented RFID with 3M, I would be grateful for any comments or > advice on any issues to watch out for.
We did implementation of 3M selfchecks in our library 6 years ago without much problem. Back in those days, we needed to patch a SIP server little bit, but this is no longer the case. We are not seeing long checkout times on selfchecks, but checkout times do vary in our library depending on amount of circulation that borrower has prior to this checkout. I haven't had time to take a look with profiler to see why this is happening. Having said all this, we are no longer using 3M selfcheck software, mostly because we needed integration with new patron cards which are mifare compatible and 3M software didn't had support for it. So we migrated to web-based selfcheck solution which adds additional REST query to Koha so we can get borrower number from one of unique identifiers stored in extended attributes in Koha. While this solution is not generally applicable to other libraries, it might serve as starting point for somebody else who has similar requirements and want to have free (as in beer and speech) solution for selfchecks: https://github.com/dpavlin/Biblio-RFID Selfcheck software itself is web-based application which we run in Chrome using it's kiosk mode (it's in examples folder). It does depend on 3M RFID readers since it also have implementation of RFID driver as REST server which web-based selfcheck mentioned above users. It also communicate with Koha using SIP using same protocol as 3M selfchecks, but it supports same hardware as 3M selfcheck uses, including touch screen and 3M RFID reader and Omnikey. We are not using barcode reader or slip printers. Back in 2011 I had presentation about our RFID implementation at KohaCon11, so you might find some useful info there also: http://www.slideshare.net/dpavlin/kohacon11-integrating-koha-with-rfid-system -- ...2share!2flame... http://blog.rot13.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
