Project Details
Uninanny - an electronic attendance monitoring system
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'To use an Americanism; you guys are Awesome! ... Thanks for the quick work. Mark Russell, Dublin Institute of Technology
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Client Name
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Uninanny
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Sector
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Education
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Completion Date
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07/09/2008
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Service
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Bespoke Software Development
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Technologies
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.NET 2.0, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2005, Web Services, Winforms
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Project Description
UniNanny is an electronic attendance monitoring system and student support tool primarily designed for the higher education (HE) sector - it works like an "electronic register" in which students attending lectures, tutorials or lab classes scan in using electronic key fobs with a recording baton held by the course leader.
The company behind UniNanny is Network75 Ltd, a spin-out company of the University of Glamorgan formed in 2002.
The project therefore represented a number of technical challenges and an interesting architecture. Propona created a Windows application that was installed and ran on local servers within the Higher Education organisation. This software communicated directly with the different types of batons and read the data into a local database for limited local reporting of student attendance. A suite of tools was also provided to configure student records, the modules and courses they attend and the lecturers to which batons were assigned.
All of this data also needed to be centralised on a UniNanny server and then available by a website which offered more advanced reporting and attendance tracking. This was achieved by the implementation of a Web Service with which the client Windows Application could communicate directly with the central database in a secure manner.
The project was delivered on time and to budget and has since been rolled out to several dozen Higher Education organisations around the United Kingdom.
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