Proof Of Concept for Web-Based Scouting System

[danielc192]

Hi All,

Here is a scouting system I have been working on for a while now. It is nowhere near as full-featured as some more developed scouting systems I've seen, but I think it has a few benefits over the traditional excel-based system:

- It is served from one central laptop, to which all the ancillary devices connect.
- It can be accessed from any-web enabled device with bluetooth capability (smartphones, iPods, other laptops)
- It can sync with a central server after the competition to back up data if teams wish.
- A future version will allow devices to store data locally and send it later in the event that the central laptop cannot be reached. It will also allow a redundant database copy on a USB Flash or External HD.
- The aforementioned backup can be easily shared (if a team desires) with the rest of the FIRST community to improve team data quality.

However, because of FIRST rules prohibiting Wi-Fi use at competitions, devices must connect either via Ethernet or Internet over Bluetooth to the central laptop.

Here is the short link:
http://bit.ly/177scout

The interface hasn't been polished at all, so to get to the scouting (front-end) interface, you click "Scouting Interface"
To get to the back-end, you click "Graph", select the column of data you want to plot, and then type in a comma-separated list of the teams you wish to graph.

Please feel free to play around with the test implementation, and give me your comments. Again, keep in mind this is not fully developed. If the community thinks this concept is worth pursuing, I will continue to develop it so it has similar capabilities to Excel scouting systems.

Thanks,

Daniel