Re: [Help-smalltalk] A funny problem

[Stefan Schmiedl]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 05:48:20 +0200
Bèrto ëd Sèra <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a request from a customer about a software that would "know
> where it is in a building". It's a sort of hospital, so when personnel
> walks from a room to another, their palmtop should "sync" to the
> people who are hosted in the room. I could think of putting a bar code
> on the door, but this means that if the operator forgets to read the
> barcode on entering the room he'll be out of sync. And the more the
> call is urgent, the more he is likely to forget about the code,
> especially in the beginning.

cheap RFIDs attached to the doorframe?

s.