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Infrastructure component that interfaces with equipment availability databases to determine which physical activity equipment is accessible to the user, influencing activity suggestion relevance.
The Equipment Availability Service is an essential infrastructure component that ensures activity suggestions are feasible by verifying the availability of physical activity equipment. By integrating with equipment databases, it enhances the practicality and inclusivity of recommendations, supporting BUA's mission to provide accessible and actionable activity ideas. This component increases user satisfaction by aligning suggestions with actual resource availability.
This medium-complexity service requires integration with existing equipment inventory systems and synchronization mechanisms. It must ensure data accuracy and timely updates to reflect real-world availability. Development involves error handling and data normalization to support the suggestion engine. Coordination with equipment database owners and backend teams is critical.
Testing should validate data consistency, latency, and error recovery.
The Equipment Availability Service interfaces with equipment inventory databases via APIs or direct database connections. It normalizes equipment data into a format consumable by the context aggregator and suggestion engine. The component includes synchronization logic to keep data current and error handling for connectivity issues. It exposes APIs for querying available equipment per user or location.
Security and privacy are maintained by limiting data access to necessary scopes.
getAvailableEquipment(userId)refreshEquipmentData(userId)No component dependencies or relationships have been identified yet. This may be because: