Colbeggie Farm has an on site farm shop (The Barrie Box) selling locally grown and homemade farm foods and goods. Colbeggie approached us with a view to automating the farm shop to enable it to operate without staff on site and outwith sociable working hours.
The farm shop itself required a secure automated locking door. We built a bespoke locking device comprising a lock box connected to a Raspberry Pi. This lock can be unlocked by a signal received via a mobile app.
We designed and produced the mobile app to allow customers to access, view and purchase goods from the farm shop online. The products are paid for online via the app before products are collected from the farm shop using the app to gain access to the security door.
A stock management system was also designed and built for Colbeggie Farm to allow staff to administer the system and to ensure stocks are maintained, by allowing staff to:
More about our friends at the Barrie Box, Colbeggie Farm, can be found here: