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Time And Attendance Management System

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With thousands and thousands of employees working in many companies around the world, the need for an efficient organizational system or programs is vital.

There are many companies offering time management solutions that replace paper-based calculations. The monitoring of employee work hours for the entire organization and the control of various important statistics, such as accrued benefits, can now be electronically calculated.

However, many employees resent the introduction of these systems – replacing old habits is even harder than replacing software or paper-based timekeeping methods!

Benefits of using a Time-and-Attendance Management System

Think of a time sheet or an employee card-based attendance system found in most organizations… the objective is to determine the attendance and time spent at work for each employee.

By harnessing the speed of computers, hours worked by the staff are quickly and accurately calculated and time sheets effortlessly generated. Anomaly reports such as days absent, late coming and abuse of paid breaks can be easily programmed into the calculations.

Reliable and Easy to Use

Our in-house time-and-attendance software – *Clockwatch* – has evolved over more than ten years. On-going feedback from some of the hundreds of users is incorporated and applied to refine and constantly improve our software – giving you the best value for your money.

Easy to Upload into most Payroll Systems

After time sheets have been generated, the hours worked are ready to be imported into your Payroll program. *Clockwatch* seamlessly integrate with “Brilliant”, “Softline Pastel”, “VIP”, “Paymaster”, “Payslip”, “Q-Data”, “Easipay”, “Accsys”, “Paywise”, and many others that are continually being offered in the market place.

No Irregularities

Clocking data is stored on your computer. All changes are highlighted on the time sheets for you and your employees to check. Any irregularity is matched exactly to the employee or software administrator through unique identifying methods (e.g. fingerprint or bar-coded cards).

Accurate Calculation

*Clockwatch* software accurately calculates every addition or change to an employee’s time sheet – for every day, week or month – whenever your company rules and work parameters are changed or compromised.
Time-sheets are easily comprehended by employees and administrative staff. Salary payments are accurately imported into your payroll package and can be compared to the employees’ time sheets should there be a query.
Employees are happy that they are being paid for the actual hours worked and companies are happy that hours worked are accurately calculated and no employee will be short- or over-paid.

The Sagem Biometrics Fingerprint Reader

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The Sagem biometric fingerprint reader has amazing features. Getting it will definitely be a worthy investment.

These readers are available at Itatec. View our products or contact us for more information regarding Sagem and our products.

Here Are Its Features

It has a 500 DPI optical fingerprint sensors, MI fare card reader built into recommended model allowing a secondary entry method if desired. This reader is able to operate independently of the Biometric server software. There are individually adjustable false-acceptance rates for each Sagem Biometric reader and there are also outdoor and false finger detection models available.

Biometrics consist of automated methods of recognizing a person based on unique physical characteristic. Each type of biometric system, while different in application, contains at least one similarity: the biometric ID must be based upon a distinguishable human attribute such as a person’s fingerprint, iris, voice pattern or even facial pattern. Today Biometric fingerprint readers are by far the most popular form of biometric access security used, with a variety of access control systems on the market intended for general and mass market usage. Long gone are the huge bulky Biometric fingerprint scanners; now a Biometric fingerprint reader can be small enough to be incorporated into a laptop for security.

A fingerprint is made of a series of ridges and grooves. Once a Biometric fingerprint is captured the system locates the minutia points. These minutia points occur where the lines of the ridges begin, end, branch off and merge with other ridge lines. These points are then mapped and a line is drawn between each point. This creates a map of how each point relates to the other points. The map is then stored as a data stream called a minutia template in a database for future comparison with other presented fingerprints. It is important to note that during the entire process no fingerprint images are stored on the system and a fingerprint image cannot be recreated from the minutia template.

Facial Recognition

Traditionally, identity verification has relied on something you know, such as a password, or something you have, such as a card or pin access device. Biometrics is unique in that it is based on the physical characteristics of an individual. Biometric facial recognition is just one type of biometrics identification. Other types include iris scanning, fingerprint, and voice recognition. Given that portrait photos are already part of the current identification system for photo cards, it is simple to merge this with a biometric access system.

Techniques In Biometric Facial Recognition

The first one is the facial geometry which uses geometrical characteristics of the face. It sometimes uses several cameras, like 3D or 2D, in order to get better accuracy. There is also skin pattern recognition which is the visual skin print and facial thermo gram that uses an infrared camera to map the face temperatures. To prevent a fake face or mole from faking out the system, many systems now require the user to smile, blink, or otherwise move in a way that is human before verifying. The system can be used to compare the photograph taken when a person enters the premises, against the images stored in the centralised security system.

Network Management Solution

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Network management involves :

  • configuring
  • maintaining
  • monitoring and
  • troubleshooting.

It is important to identify :

  • which parts of your network are dependent on one another
  • the performance graphs on the network
  •  which devices are more prone to failure than others
  • when devices should be replaced to prevent hardware failure

With industrial networks, many of these complicated tasks are done manually. Wouldn’t it be ideal to automate these management tasks with software? This will improve the efficiency of the network management process, and that’s exactly what network management software does.

Network Management Software

With NMS, it is possible to quickly assess the status of your most valuable asset – the network. Many networks today are so complex that if anything is amiss, it takes a long time to locate the problem. In this kind of situation, attempting to fix the problem without an accurate picture of what is wrong leads to *troubleshooting* in the dark. With proactive network monitoring, it is possible to locate problems before they become emergencies, and locate emergencies before they become catastrophes.

Administrators in most sectors have long enjoyed the benefits of network management software on enterprise networks. IT administrators can identify which services are most heavily used; when or where to add more resources; and how to maximise uptime. The problem is that most NMS software packages are not actually network management software in the true sense of the term, but are actually *enterprise network management software*. NMS is an excellent solution when used in the situations for which it has been designed.

NMS software must monitor the full scope of the network, including services, servers and routers. This includes high-level information such as whether or not the web server is up, or if the office has a connection to the outside world.
Industrial automation networks are on a different level, ‘closer to the ground’ of operations, with many switches and edge devices. Industrial engineers need accurate and prompt low-level information. NMS provides extraneous information about higher-level information that simply confuses the picture. As software originally created for a completely different field, NMS demands a skill set that will be unfamiliar and perplexing to automation engineers

Morpho Readers

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Over the last decade, biometrics has become the preferred technology for many identity management implementations in the Southern African region. One of the major players is the Morpho brand from Safran. Morpho has been available since 1979. The design of Morpho fingerprint terminals evolved through extensive experience in biometric solutions.

Morpho Technology

Fingerprint-based identity management solutions can run in tandem with numerous other systems used where identity-based fraud is rampant. Innovative IDM solutions can minimize criminal activities in many areas of business, inter alia, workforce management, canteen access, or account management. Reliable identification is of fundamental importance in industries where environmental hazards will be encountered. In harsh working environments, it is essential to be able to locate all staff at all times.

Testing and benchmarking surveys by the US National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) and NIST Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) consistently rank Morpho algorithms among the world’s top performers. Morpho algorithms are able to manage more than 2 billion fingerprints worldwide.

A fingerprint is captured as a template. The unique pattern formed by true minutiae points distinguishes one fingerprint from all others. Typically, a fingerprint has around 80 minutiae points. These minutia points are the positions on a fingerprint where ridges split or end. A damaged fingerprint could have 150 minutia points, of which some 50% may be false. If these false points are misinterpreted there is a strong probability of mismatching. Morpho algorithms recognise and exclude these false minutiae and are able to store accurate templates. This capability has been clearly proven in environments that typically exhibit the worst quality fingerprints – mining, construction, agriculture, manufacturing and pension payments.

Scanners’ Surface Area Size

The size of a scanner’s surface area determines the size of the fingerprint read and minutiae data that can be captured – the larger the surface area, the larger the amount of data. Morpho scanners can capture a lareger fingerprint area and data, so an authorised user can place his / her finger differently at each clocking event and a positive match will result.

Morpho terminals operate in identification mode, verification mode or a combination of both.

  • Identification* compares a person’s fingerprint to all records in the database, returning an exact match and positively identifying that person. This process is called one-to-many or 1:N.
  • Verification* matches a user’s fingerprint data with additional information, for example, a password, ID number, PIN or card. This process is called one-to-one or 1:1.

Morpho’s superior scanners and algorithms’ analytical and predictive abilities deliver faster and more accurate identification than any other fingerprint technology.