IfeOlulesi / Biometric-Access-Control-System

An access control system built for Anchor University, Lagos using her faculty buildings as a case-study😉

Biometric-Access-Control-System

An access control system built with Django. It makes use of fingerprints to grant/deny access

Hardware Requirements

Secugen Hampster Pro Fingerprint scanner (recommended)

Software Requirements

Secugen Web API. Here are the download links:

• For Windows 64 bit machines: https://webapi.secugen.com/download/SGI_BWAPI_Win_64bit.exe
• For Windows 32 bit machines: https://webapi.secugen.com/download/SGI_BWAPI_Win_32bit.exe

Setup

STEP 1: Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/IfeOlulesi/ToDo-App-Django.git
$ cd ToDo-App-Django

STEP 2: (Optional but Recommended) Create a virtual environment to install dependencies in and activate it:

$ virtualenv2 --no-site-packages env
$ source env/bin/activate

STEP 3: Install the dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

If you followed STEP 2, you should see an (env) in front of the prompt. This indicates that this terminal session operates in a virtual environment set up by virtualenv2.

STEP 4: Once pip has finished downloading the dependencies, run the following in your terminal:

$ python manage.py runserver

And navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/

To play around with the API, run

(env)$ python manage.py shell