there appear to be no other linux based handheld wifi barcode scanners besides the ones we wont get. there are 3-4kE expensive MSDOS 7.0 based ones from italy, which i am not sure i would want. they are also the size of a small suitcase and might require special training to hold longer then 5min. aparently the bluetooth based scanners are both smaller and have more companies producing them. but - which ones work well with linux? - would we use a stationary notebook (which we will not get from intel this year-> ask other companies!) as a bluetooth basestation? - is that encrypted, can we regard the trafic to the notebook as private? One usecase i envision is to scan people when they enter the restaurant to see who is entidled for dinner/lunch/whatnot, or scan them when they order in the restaurant, so that the hotel knows how many meals they can bill us? What other usecases are there? - quick-registration at the reception (this would not need a wireless scanner). - ...? Local team: have you guys talked with the hotel and are they fine with this method of counting/accounting?
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