Attendance System based on Biometrics
If you are still
using paper and calculator to prepare the salary of the employees then you are
wasting your valuable time and missing the benefits of biometric attendance
systems. In this era of modern technology, monitoring attendance of each
employee to payroll activity has become seamless.
What is Biometrics Technology?
The Biometrics
technologies used to measure and analyze personal characteristics, both
physiological and behavioral. These characteristics include fingerprints, voice
patterns, hand measurements, irises and others, all used to identify human
characteristics and to verify identity. These biometrics or characteristics are
tightly connected to an individual and cannot be forgotten, shared, stolen or
easily hacked. These characteristics can uniquely identify a person, replacing
or supplementing traditional security methods by providing two major
improvements: personal biometrics cannot be easily stolen and an individual
does not need to memorize passwords or codes. Since biometrics can better solve
the problems of access control, fraud and theft, more and more organizations
are considering biometrics a solution to their security problems. Biometrics
gives you an alternative and higher security compared to passwords or pin
identification due to the fact that passwords and pin #s can easily be
compromised.
Authentication by
biometric verification is becoming increasingly common in corporate and public
security systems, consumer electronics and point of sale (POS) applications. In
addition to security, the driving force behind biometric verification has been
convenience. Biometric devices, such as fingerscanners, consist of:
Ø A reader or
scanning device
Ø Software that
converts the scanned information into digital form and compares match points
Ø A database that
stores the biometric data for comparison
To prevent identity
theft, biometric data is usually encrypted when it's gathered. Here's how
biometric verification works on the back end: To convert the biometric input, a
software application is used to identify specific points of data as match
points. The match points in the database are processed using an algorithm that
translates that information into a numeric value. The database value is
compared with the biometric input the end user has entered into the scanner and
authentication is either approved or denied.
What is Biometric Attendance System?
Biometric time
attendance system used to track each and every person coming to your place is
actually who he claims to be or not with its time and other details. It uses
finger and face recognition system to verify person's identity and record its
time-in and time-out with all required details.
Benefits of Biometric System
Ø It has many
advantages over conventional time tracking used at organizations. Typically
such organizations maintain a register book, where people entry their name,
time-in, time-out and other required details but the problem with this manual
system is inaccuracy, time consuming, unreliable and most important is less
secure.
Ø Biometric time
attendance is very user friendly and easy to use; any person can use it very
easily. It is very fast also, user has to see once in front of system and all
details including its time will be recorded automatically. In this way it saves
lot of time and still record details very accurately. One can avoid early
punching, late punching and buddy punching very easily.
Ø Many schools,
college used Biometric Time Attendance to track their student's attendance. The
Biggest advantage of Biometric Time Attendance over manual tracking is better
security. Many shops and shopping mall use biometric time attendance for
security purpose and it really works a lot.
Ø If someone wants to
use it for business or organization, then they can easily integrate it to
payroll systems, account systems and billing systems. So in that way it is very
flexible also and it also shows that time attendance system can be used for all
type of business and organizations with great flexibility.
Ø In a nutshell
biometric time attendance solution permits you to focus on your core business
by giving quickest and easiest way to overcome your time tracking issues.
Return on Investment in Biometric System Installations..
Biometric time
clocks, which are used to record employee start and end times, are popular in
organizations where security is an issue, or where employees may falsely record
their time worked. Because biometric technology is more expensive than other
forms of time clock identification, such as magnetic badges or personal
identification numbers, it is important to evaluate the potential return on
investment should biometric devices be installed. In service environments where
employees punch in and out to work, return on investment can be considerable
because biometric devices virtually eliminate the ability of employees to
“buddy punch.”
In buddy punching, an employee either types a tardy employee’s PIN or swipes
the tardy employee’s badge earlier than he arrives to work or after he leaves
work. The organizational costs of this kind of time theft can be enormous. The
company loses money a few minutes at a time compounded across departments and
locations. Biometrics makes it almost impossible for employees to defraud a
time and attendance system.
Other returns on investment can be gained through the use of the biometric
system as a security access monitor, as well. In this case, the biometric
system is used to grant or deny access to restricted areas. The cost of
purchasing and maintaining magnetic or proximity identification cards, which do
not prevent fraudulent access, can be eliminated.