Controlling a Java enabled Pepsi(R) vending machine over the World Wide Web

Author

Webster, Roger W. ; Ross, P.W. ; Bailey, Timothy M. ; Conrad, Stacey M. ; Fiorill, Michael J. ; Flinchbaugh, John M. ; Velkly, Eric A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Millersville Univ., PA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

86

Abstract

This paper describes an experimental Java client-server system and a special purpose hardware interface to control a Pepsi(R) vending machine over the World Wide Web. This system allows users with pre-paid accounts to vend a soda from the Pepsi(R) machine (without any coins or bills) using a web browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. Anyone with a web browser may find out if any of his or her favorite sodas are left in the machine. The server software can also notify the vending corporation, via Internet e-mail, when each brand of soda needs to be restocked. The software includes a Java applet (the client) and a multi-threaded Java server. The computer system, an Intel based Linux machine, runs its own web server and is physically located inside the Pepsi(R) machine

Keywords

Java; client-server systems; information resources; online front-ends; retail data processing; Intel based Linux machine; Internet Explorer; Internet e-mail; Java applet; Java client-server system; Netscape; Pepsi vending machine control; World Wide Web; computer system; hardware interface; multi-threaded Java server; pre-paid accounts; vending corporation; web browser; Client-server systems; Control systems; Electronic mail; Hardware; Internet; Java; Linux; Physics computing; Web server; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, 1999. IECON '99 Proceedings. The 25th Annual Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5735-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.1999.822176

Filename

822176