Carrefour selects Suprema biometrics

October 2014 Access Control & Identity Management

Suprema recently announced it provided its fingerprint recognition terminal, BioEntry Plus, to Carrefour Supermarkets in Istanbul, Turkey, for a new system of access control and time & attendance.

A total of 500 units were provided by Meyer Inc, a local partner of Suprema in Turkey. BioEntry Plus is a distributed IP system terminal providing high level security through biometrics, which enables increased flexibility and multiple installation options for different environments.

Carrefour Supermarkets in Istanbul previously made use of an RF (MIFARE) card based terminal and system for access control and time & attendance management. The system, however, was not fully supportive of the efficient management of access control and time & attendance for the more than 5000 employees working at stores located across the country.

As stores are scattered in various regions of the nation, the HR division of the company could not accurately check and confirm employees’ time & attendance as well as access control for security. Above all, the company had difficulty in controlling the behaviour of employees such as ‘buddy punching’, which employees frequently practiced by card sharing. Card duplication was not only a matter of time & attendance but also a serious issue for security as RF cards can be easily duplicated and used by unauthorised persons. Additionally, the company needed to improve management and administration efficiency and productivity because of the frequent issuance of cards due to employee loss.

The company decided to change from a system based on RF card to a fingerprint based system in order to meet the challenges and improve efficiency and productivity in administration. Therefore, it undertook a system integration project to build up a new environment/system for access control and time & attendance management. A key to the project was the selection of an optimal product for fingerprint terminals, and so an evaluation comparison of various products available in the market was conducted. As a result of this evaluation, Carrefour decided to select BioEntry Plus, however, it was evaluated to be superior in performance based on Carrefour’s criterion. “We concluded that Suprema products guaranteed the most powerful performance with matching algorithms featuring high verification rates and verification speeds,” explained Carrefour.

For more information contact Suprema, +27 (0)11 784 3952, [email protected], www.suprema.co.za



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