Nkrs Today at work we set up a link to a camera so people will be able to see from home if there's a long line at the reception desk. Technically it is sort of impressive (we have a server that streams the RealTime feed from the camera and transcodes it as MPEG, and a WebSocket streams that MPEG into a canvas element), but I wonder if it is really needed or useful (line could grow during the 15-20 minutes that someone would use to get there).

Eric It's a nice idea but your concern about it changing by the time the client arrives is very valid. Maybe a "queue forecast" or estimated wait time for next X hours could work better in simple plain text?

Martijn That would be an interesting forecast to work on, I wonder if their are any documented algorithms for it. Hmmmmm...