D. Installing FS88 API and USB libraries in RPI to read
USB device
Futronic FS80 and FS88 have been verified to work well
with the RPi model B. To make it work the Futronic
libScanAPI needs to be installed on the Raspberry Pi node.
LibScanAPI is the API library for applications to work with
Futronic’s FS80 USB fingerprint Scanner. Kernel mode
driver for FS80 scanner driver is not available, but the
‘libScanAPI.so’ works with a well-known multiplatform
library ‘libusb’. libusb is a library which allows user space
applications access to USB devices. [19]. This will interface
the FS88 fingerprint scanner with Raspberry Pi as shown in
Fig.2 and the fingerprints can be scanned. This part is
implemented in C language.