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Manufacturing
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Serial Number Scanner

Point a phone at a serial number and know immediately whether that unit is due an upgrade.

Client
a commercial lighting manufacturer
Type
OCR web application

The problem

Upgrading installed hardware meant an engineer reading serial numbers off units by hand and checking them against a list later — slow, and wrong often enough to matter.

The outcome

An engineer photographs the serial number on site. OCR reads it, the application matches it against the database of known units, and the answer comes back while they are still standing in front of it.

Built with

  • Django
  • Python
  • OCR
  • Google Cloud
  • Ubuntu
  • DigitalOcean
  • JavaScript