Wednesday, September 14, 2011

[WSO2Con] Building a Mobile POS Solution with WSO2 Carbon and Apple iPod Touch

Written by Kathiravelu Pradeeban

"Building a Mobile POS Solution with WSO2 Carbon and Apple iPod Touch" was presented by Thilanka Kiriporuwa, Head of Human Resources and Operations, Odel in the WSO2Con 2011, day-2. Kasun Indrasiri from WSO2 joined Thilanka in this session. This session speaks something about ODEL which is a key player in Sri Lankan market. Hence it naturally grabbed most of our interests (as Sri Lankans).


In this session Thilanka explained how the MobilePOS application will be used in ODEL outlets, specifically the one in Alexandra Place, Colombo-07. The next time we go to ODEL, we will see this in action, providing improved user experience, eliminating those long queues during the busy Sundays.


On the other hand, Kasun was explaining the architecture of the Mobile POS solution, the technology behind it, and how WSO2 helped to achieve that. ODEL MobilePOS is exposed to the backend using JSON. The MobilePOS application was developed using Objective C. It talks to barcode scanner and credit card readers using APIs by LineaPro.



"Even if you want to change the app to run on Android, nothing to change in code level for ODEL MobilePOS app, thanks to JSON," said Kasun, when answering one of the questions from the audience regarding why Apple iPhone was chosen over other mobile platforms such as Android. He also explained how the reporting component from WSO2 is used to generate various reports at ODEL.




For the interested readers, a white paper on this ODEL case study can be downloaded from the ODEL Case Study page in OxygenTank.



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