Hooray - the draught beer system is up and running again
A prototype with a little too much success. That was the headline of an article in the latest issue of Omnibus, in which Associate Professor Christian Dannesboe and student Aik Petersen talked about a high-tech draught beer system that had been developed at Aarhus University School of Engineering during the early summer months.
The system worked like this:
You download an app, use your finger to choose a glass which you can see on the screen, and choose what size beer you want poured. Then you press OK for the price that you see on the screen, the amount is deducted from your account and hey presto, the draught beer system begins pouring the beer you’re thirsting after.
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Journalists were quick to see a good story and it was soon published in both foreign and Danish media. Unfortunately, Christian Dannesboe and Aik Petersen told us that the by late summer the system no longer worked as intended.
The key to the whole problem
So what do engineers and engineers in the making do in such a situation? They rummage around and run tests. And then they run more tests and rummage around some more. And, as it turned out, the key to the whole problem lay in a little technical subtlety.
"Since we corrected this the system has functioned flawlessly," says Christian Dannesboe, who recently demonstrated the draught beer system at an event on brewing beer.
The next step
The next step is to get some creative ideas from the students at the Aarhus School of Architecture.
"The architecture students have a project on interactive spaces and must come up with proposals on how to create an alternative bar experience. They must come up with a total of eight proposals, and we intend to test one of them at a local bar," says Christian Dannesboe.
This could for example be an app, where you can see what the others in the bar are drinking, and what they think of their beer.
Translated by Peter Lambourne