MetaGo was a MetaSwitch Networks "Vacathon" (3-day-long hackathon) project
with the aim of automating canteen transactions.
First, it identified people by comparing them against a database of company
directory pictures. Then, it captured the barcodes of the items they took and
charged them the approptiate amount.
The backend used
the Django framework
with WhiteNoise
for serving static files and gunicorn
as a WSGI. The code was deployed on Heroku with an AWS server hosting the
PostgreSQL database.
The libraries we utilised were;