The laptops in the lending machine has a basic x86 Win8.1u1 installed, with additional unneeded features disabled. The install is made with Wioski.

Wioski makes it possible for the laptops to automatically reset after every reboot/usage cycle, thus lessening the administrative needs.

The basic Windows Shell is replaced by a VBS script on the laptops. The script only launches Vmware View client which is used to connect to Metropolias VDI environment. When the user closes the client, he is automatically logged out. The laptops are domain joined, so we have a working SSO with Vmware Client.  The laptops also have a bundled Task Scheduler task, wich shuts them down automatically when the laptop is plugged into apower cable. This also initiates a full laptop reset.

The laptops report their battery usage percent to the lending machine every couple of minutes, thus we constantly have up to date information on the charge level of the laptops. This information is used to calculate how long the laptop needs to charge to reach the required minimum charge percentage for lending.

The lending machine shows the currently available laptops in two rows. The laptops are color coded as follows:

Gray - In use

Yellow - Charging / In maintenance

Green - Available