Bioemtric Fingerprint Indentification Technology - Eliminate Buddy Clocking
With biometric terminals, your employee does not require a card or key fob and instead uses their fingerprint to identify themselves at the terminal. Biometric terminals are a foolproof solution for companies with a possible “buddy clocking” issue, where employees could be clocking in their colleagues to cover for lateness, etc. Clocking with biometrics proves without doubt that the employee using the terminal is indeed who they say they are.
The process of clocking in and out using our biometric terminals is incredibly straightforward. To clock in the employee presents their card or key fob to the terminal, or enters their own unique ‘ID number’. They then place their finger on the biometric reader. CaptureIT then ‘verifies’ that the presented finger is that of the employee (by reference to their card/fob or ID number). The reading and verification of a finger takes less than a second.
There are around one billion possible combinations on each fingerprint, making them a unique feature to every individual. It stays with a person forever, regenerates after damage and is amongst the most reliable kind of personal identification we have. It cannot be forgotten, misplaced, or stolen and even identical twins have different fingerprints. This adds up to fingerprint authorisation being the most affordable and convenient method of verifying a person's identity.
''Verification' is the fastest method of recognition because the terminal 'knows' which finger template is to be expected (by reference to the card/fob or ID number). It can, therefore, quickly confirm or reject the presented finger, thereby ensuring swift throughput of employees at clocking in and out times. This is superior to the alternative 'identification' method, which is much more processor and database intensive and can be unreliable.
In most cases employees register more than one finger to cover situations such as wearing a plaster on their usual finger.
It is important to note that there are no ‘human rights’ issues in respect of employee ‘fingerprints’. This is because there is no image of the fingerprint either read or stored. Instead, the reader measures the changes in electrical conductivity at a number of places across the reader surface and translates these into a unique number. It is this unique number, alone, that is stored in the database. It is not possible to ‘reverse engineer’ the number into any form of finger pattern or fingerprint.