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Iris time and attendance

Biometrics simplifies and streamlines T&A operations.

Biometric-based time and attendance solutions have provided accurate and reliable labour data for more than a decade to thousands of organisations worldwide. In fact, biometrics has been more widely deployed for time and attendance than any other identification application.

Biometrics consistently reduces both direct and indirect labour costs and provides a foundation for integrated workforce management, a critical factor in optimising operational efficiency for organisations. Typically, hand recognition and finger scan biometrics have been deployed for time and attendance applications. However, a growing number of companies are taking advantage of the unique capabilities of iris recognition to integrate highly accurate, high throughput, environmentally tolerant, hands-free iris-based time and attendance solutions to simplify and streamline business operations.

Iris recognition has been one of the most effectively deployed biometrics to ensure secure, efficient, and expedited processing for a broad range of identification applications. However, for many applications, cost and usability concerns limited iris’ attractiveness. Recent advancements in capture technology, matching algorithms, and usability along with associated reductions in product and deployment costs have made iris-enabled time and attendance a practical investment for companies of every size. In fact, most organisations implementing iris-based time and attendance achieve significant, quantifiable, cost justifying benefits in the first few months of operations.

Iris recognition’s hands-free and environmentally tolerant features are uniquely suited to the demands of time and attendance applications that must achieve high accuracy, throughput speed, ease of use, and user satisfaction in the most biometrically unfriendly workplaces – manufacturing floors, construction sites, processing plants. And, while iris recognition achieves unparalleled performance in harsh and unpredictable environments where other biometrics typically fail or prove unreliable, the flexibility, usability, and reliability of this unique technology – combined with competitive pricing – make it a practical solution for less environmentally challenging time and attendance solutions as well.

Biometric benefits

Accurate and reliable: More accurate than other security alternatives – biometric or otherwise. A distinctive iris pattern is not susceptible to theft, loss or compromise.

Fast and stable: Unique iris pattern is formed by 10 months of age, and remains stable throughout one’s life. Full enrolment with instruction can take less than 2 minutes. Authentication takes less than 2 seconds.

Non-invasive/no contact: No bright lights or lasers are used in the imaging process. No physical contact is required for authentication.

Expandable, scalable, and flexible: Data templates require only 512 bytes of storage per iris and even very large databases do not compromise search speed or degrade performance accuracy. Operates in standalone mode and easily integrates into existing item and attendance systems.

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