The answer is yes, with Time&Space, a comprehensive and flexible solution for Access Control and Time&Attendance management, which relies on the latest identification, communication and software technologies. Depen Time&Space brings together top quality readers by the world's leading producers with Spica's own data collection hardware and application software. The result is a proven, wellbalanced and mature system that can be easily matched to a variety of technical and functional requirements. A wide range of identification and communication technologies in combination with software modularity and parameter-driven functionality provide a high degree of adaptability to a variety of idiosyncratic and constantly changing business needs.
Whether used in large, medium-sized, or small companies, in one or several locations, Time&Space is manageable, robust and cost-effective. Thanks to a variety of installation and interoperability options, Time&Space grows along with your company, easily accommodating physical and functional expansion. i O Time&Space supports mainstream hardware and software platforms and technologies from the world's leading manufacturers, all in compliance with major international industry standards. This long-term strategy offers the best protection for your past as well as future investments, allowing cost-effective expansions, functional extensions, upgrades, and even migrations.
Card Technologies Time&Space is a unique system with an open reader policy, offering support for almost all major card technologies. Four RFID (proximity) types are recommended: A leading American brand for classic and smart RFID identification. Classic 125kHz RFID technology from either HID or Indala, and more recent HID iClass proximity smartcards (13.56MHz). Spica is HID's authorised reseller and solution partner. Advanced smartcard technology from a leading European source for the most demanding security and multi-application requirements. Spica is Legic's licensed partner. Easy to implement and affordable smartcard technology, originally from Philips, available from various sources. Popular and affordable technology for basic read-only identification, originally from EM MARIN, available from various sources.
Fingerprint recognition is the most affordable and widely used biometric method. Best suited for office access and cardfree time recording.
Legacy card technologies like magstripe and barcode are also supported. Vehicle identification is covered by special purpose long-range RFID readers and tags. Mobile access control and time tracking are covered by a cost-effective solution: a GSM phone with unanswered call identification and SMS notification.
Iris recognition offers the ultimate level of accuracy for the most demanding applications. Suitable for military applications, bank vaults, access to highly sensitive information and similar.
New and upcoming 3D face recognition shows huge potential for handsfree access control. Best suited for high-flow entrances with automatic doors.
Any of these three can be used as a sole means of identification or as verification combined with other ID technologies. All major methods for managing biometric templates are supported, such as Template-On-Card and Template-On-Board. This flexibility allows biometric identification to be applied locally, system-wide or in any combination, according to needs.
Communications Communication throughout the system is based on Ethernet networking and Internet protocol, with the additional possibility of using a cost-effective RS485 subnetwork for data collection. Remote identification points can be connected using WiFi, GPRS or dialup modems (ISDN, GSM or analog). Given all these possibilities, adding a new access point, time recording terminal or administrator workstation is never a challenge.
DOG20 - Classic time recording terminal.
Zone Button – New generation time recording terminal.
Zone Touch – Touchscreen module for time recording with DOX access controller.
DOX- Multichannel access controller.
Time&Space software is a proven and reliable product running a nearly two thousand five hundred plus installations, managing hundreds of thousands of users, and recording millions of events every day. Access Control: Time&Space has access control as a basis for all other application layers. Access rights are managed using individual and group access profiles in combination with areas and access schedules. Alarm management features alarm levels, groups and event stack. Realtime graphical monitoring with animated icons against floor plans ensures easy and efficient system supervision.
Visualisation An important feature of Time&Space software is strong visualisation. Time management in particular is greatly enhanced by visually representing and handling data coupled with realtime response to all changes. The result is greatly improved speed and accuracy of managing information. This strong and interactive visualisation boosts Time&Space productivity to a new level compared to conventional software packages, which are based on traditional form and table views, and where charts are usually available only in final reports. Database Native support for both Microsoft and Oracle database servers keeps you safe from raging "database wars". There is virtually no difference in user experience and both versions are highly optimised, capable of handling thousands of users in realtime. Smaller systems can be scaled down to single PC machine running license free desktop versions; Oracle Express or Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine (MSDE). Web access A large number of browser based clients can be easily deployed and maintained by using the WebTS server module. WebTS allows a more open approach to time management by allowing a larger number of department administrators or even personal web access to the most frequent time management functions.
V isitor Management: Unmanaged visits can represent an unacceptable security loophole. Only highly integrated visitor management can ensure seamless access management. Visitor management module handles usual receptionist tasks like entering visitor information, issuing badges, tracking visits until expiration and handling exceptions like badge not returned. Video Surveillance: Both access control and time management can be greatly enhanced by employing video surveillance of reader events. Video recording is carried out using IP cameras eliminating the need for any other traditional hardware like CCTV cabling, video grabbing or video recording equipment. Video clips are indexed and stored by the user, time, place and type of event, allowing easy and fast navigation. Reader event surveillance has proven as highly efficient measure against tailgating and "buddy punching". Time&Attendance Calculation: Time&Space system is perhaps best known for its powerful time recording and attendance calculation. Its generic feature set can compete easily with most tailor made applications. Yet, it can handle a wide range of requirements, business practices, employment legislations in diverse, international environments. Time&Space has been used with equal success in most industry sectors from banking, government, retail, hospitality, energy, to construction and healthcare.
Continuous improvement and evolution through versions and generations is what Time&Space is all about. The entire product development cycle is customer driven. Each user request is carefully recorded, classified and considered for implementation. Many of them are already built into our system today. Time&Attendance modules offer a number of tools and features allowing easy customisation and integration. Detailed data export usually contains everything needed for linking to most payroll packages. On the next level, Payroll Integration Framework (PIF) is available for more advanced integration requests involving plugins built to specification. Finally, the ultimate level of interoperability and programmability is offered through the Time&Space Software Development Kit (SDK).
Our highly skilled support staff with comprehensive technical and business management knowledge is fully available to Time&Space partners, from partner training to system configuration, from installation and setup to troubleshooting. They will assist you with integration efforts and help increase the overall value of the solution. Professional services for end-users, such as training, workshops, online technical support and remote maintenance, can be arranged. Time&Space is available through a network of selected international partners and integrators which are responsible for end-user relations offering localization, integration, installation, training and local technical support. All Time&Space resellers are provided with free training and backed by the full technical support of Spica International.