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enerating thoughts on how much eminent is to adopt the habit of a safe attendance and access control measure as the world walk towards UNLOCK State by state, different T&C, various offices, and public services have now started to open as the government proceeds ahead towards the unlock. While the B2C industries have geared up themselves to welcome the customers with attentiveness, the B2B industry on the other hand is welcoming their employees and teams while following all the safety measures for them. But there is something common in every industry, and which can ruin the outlines. Do you know what is it? The Attendance, anywhere, and everywhere, the attendance is being marked by any means. So what is the problem in it? The employees will come in direct contact with the machines, registers, or any other medium and the situation can be in vain. In the view to break this social contact chain, the Indian government on March 5th, 2020 has released a circular suspending the fingerprint biometric attendance in the offices. But manual ways of attendance and access control still holds the danger signboards. What we can do about it? This is what this article will tell you about. Your’s, mine and everyone’s right, a right for a safe attendance.
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The most common authentication technique people are aware of is fingerprint & face recognition and all the other techniques are still not common in the attendance world. Today, face recognition technology is widely accepted and has proved to be one of the most secure forms of no-contact attendance and access control. Face reader machines not only authenticates the employees with a contactless approach but senses the temperature alongside, is one factor which the masses are understanding. Various other factors which are being provided and hold a top status amongst what the Techies are searching for. Examples to it can be: ➔ Multiple Machine Installation – whether inter-city, inter-state or global branches, the attendance and access control data from all the machines along with various other details like, shift attended, in & out-time, hours worked, OT duration, in, out-temperature, and its details should be obtained at a particular place. Moreover, the attendance being marked at any other machine by an employee won’t act as a drawback and should come in the report.
SAFE ATTENDANCE AND THE UPDATES: Coming directly to the modes of biometric attendance and access control the industry offers are: •
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➔ Temperature Reports Generation – the temperature reports generated should be obtained person/date wise which can be on a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly basis letting you know about the state of well-being of the employees. Along with it, a combination of VOLUME - 09, ISSUE - 03, 2020
