SAFE ATTENDANCE IS ALL YOU NEED

Generating 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 5^th, 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?

Contactless biometrics, you heard that right. Face recognition biometrics has come forward as a substantial opportunity which is assisting the offices and workplaes in creating a safe and sound attandance and access control experience with immediate response on any employee’s state of well-being, hence alerting the authorities over it.

 

SELECTING A PERFECT ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM

Drawing an outlook on how to select an appropriate access security system for your workplace considering different eminent factors.

What’s peculiar is identifying the need for the type of access control in your organization by discovering goals and duties to be fulfilled. Here are some points to be considered while opting for it:

• Outlining the Structure – firstly, we need to design the overall structural chart for the access policies and how it will be followed in the office which will lay the foundation in getting the idea of the system requirements.

• Levels of Security – Second is the type of equipment you will install in your company which will decide the level of security it will provide. Fingerprint/smart card systems can be the initial one followed by face reading machines and the combination of other options like a pin with a password, face with a password, and many others. 

• System configurations – while some access control can be window-based and some can be web-based which will demand different configuration, capacity, system, and network upgrades which will plan the additional costs. 

• Business Expansion – this point should be kept under consideration if your organization will plan for expansion in the future which will give rise to access control upgrades. One should opt for such systems which will provide after-sales services and should be an indigenous manufacturer.

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Happy Deepawali, Vishwakarma Puja, and Bhaiya Dooj !!!

 

May millions of lamps dissolve all your worries and disorders into the ashes, may the enchanting echo of the bells bring a positive inclination in your lives, and may Lord Ram bless us all with finest health, wealth, prosperity and triumphing accomplishments.

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May lord Vishwakarma outlines a healthier world and the boundless affection of brothers and sisters bid adieu this festive season on a delighted note.

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Why access control cannot be ignored

 Depicting why access control has turned out to be an integral security system in the offices which safeguards us in various other ways

Web Security Formation – biometric access control system initiates a security web inside the office which is further divided into departments, sections, stores, rooms, and warehouses. Entry through access control in every section makes sure only limited access is granted and that too only to the authorized personnel which eliminates any threat to security.

Active alarm notification – in case any attempt to security breach happens, the central alarming system can block all the access control systems at the entry and exit passages creating a lockdown situation and once the investigation will get over, the doors will be released. All of this can happen with Real-Time Data Synchronization with the support of the Internet of Things which will help the security agencies to check the location with minimum time.

Multiple Access Zones – this feature enables access permissions which can be restricted through various factors like:

• Area wise

• Time-wise

• Location wise

• Designation wise

• Department wise

• Employee wise

Anti Pass Back & Feedback Locks – anti-pass back makes sure a single ID card can be used by a single employee to enter or exit any department. The same card passed to any other employee won’t let the door open again whereas feedback lock is a method by which alarm notification gets opened if any restriction is applied to an access control door to let it be open for everyone.

Single Controller-Multiple Doors – a door controller holds the power to control 4 to 8 doors while recording all the in and out throughout all the doors along with slave readers which reads the ID cards for access. This combination simplifies memory storage, storing, and aligning data of particular access areas.

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Since from the inception, the biometrics is bringing satisfaction and suitableness every day in our lives, transferring optimistic techniques with the solutions. 

Whether pandemic or regular world, the biometric attendance and access control machines with its vivid approach to authentication has been a good fortune with the Corporate, helping them move forward with no breathing space left for the interruptions.

Starlink and its best-in-class touchless solutions are providing a new definition to attendance and access control with the cutting edge technology and after-sales participation.

I HAVE A RIGHT TO BE SECURED

Going one-on-one on the rights of an employee to work in a safer environment as workplaces now practice to become a safe social place for all the workers 

The fight against COVID-19 takes a new turn every single day in different states. As the cases and recovery rate are increasing, so is the probability of the unaffected to get infected with it.

With people avoiding mass gatherings and the government keeping a strict eye on all the social activities, the COVID-19 epidemic is still high on the infection and mortality graph. The offices with all the precautionary measures are welcoming the employees but being an employee, we all have a question in our mind, 

Are these measures strong enough to protect us daily?

Apart from all the other rights an office provides to their employees, a new right has now been added to their list,

A RIGHT TO BE SECURED against COVID-19 which straight away put the attendance and access control procedures under the question mark.

On asking the employees that what makes them bothered the most while working in the office, most of them complained about the frightful presence of attendance phenomenon which includes physical contact, hence putting the employee lives at topmost risk.

Further investigating it with the administration department of the offices, it was revealed that the management too looks for the contactless solutions but worry about installing an imported machine which can unbrace their complexly defined and altered attendance routine as the attendance hierarchy is not that simple how it sounds like.

Corporates too have expressed their interest in indigenous products which can provide reliable and value-added services and the biggest reclining moment can be the after-sales services and customer support.

Moreover, different time, shift, and manpower movements make attendance, leaves, overtime, and payroll issues even complex and hard to be solved manually. The companies have shown an urgent need for these queries to be solved as soon and that too by a Made in India power through which they too can be Vocal for Local.

ACCESS CONTROL AND VALUE-ADDED SERVICES

 Comparing access barriers on different aspects and other value - added services it can provide with biometric access control units

Idealizing Complete Surveillance:

Not only flap barriers and tripod turnstiles but boom barriers and main gate turnstiles can also check the entry of vehicles giving complete information about any movement inside out. To understand it better, a comparison chart will be more beneficial:

	TURNSTILE TRIPOD	BOOM BARRIER	FLAP BARRIER	FACTORY MAIN GATE
Area of application	Office entry area	Parking /outside office area	Office or department entry area	Main gate entry of the factory
Safety grade	High	Moderate	High	Very high
Usability	High	Moderate	High	Moderate
Operational mode (finger/card/face)	Finger/card/face	Finger/card/face	Finger/card/face	Finger/card/face
Maintenance	Frequent	Periodic	Frequent	Periodic
Visitor entry per minute	40-45	10-15	30-35	08-10

Comparison chart

Value Added Services:

This data can further be used for many other value-added services like:

• Roaster preparation

• Data synchronization on daily basis

• Leaves, late punch ins and early punch outs

• Manpower allocation

• Notifications to the departments in regards to employee's attendance

Access control barriers with biometric access control machines have turned the safety parameters to a professional level which results in zero security breach and theft at offices and workplaces, also making the administration and the management completely aware about the employee's in and outs along with the day's first punch in and last punch out which will constitute their attendance. Biometric access control systems with barriers promise firm security and maintained attendance records giving the administration and the Human resource department a pleasant experience in salary processing and security management.

Is your old attendance method bothering you or scaring you?

 

Bio - Face Reader

Is your old attendance method bothering you or scaring you?

Surely it can, by looking at the current conditions as it is one of the tasks which need contact.

But face recognition is an emerging star amidst the situation and Bio-Face Reader is an absolute example for this. Not just contactless attendance and access control but varied set of features which are:

✅Contactless face temperature screening during attendance punch

✅Temperature measurement range: 32~42 degree celsius

✅Access denied in case of over-temperature with audio/visual alert

✅Recording capacity of 5 lac records

✅High-resolution night vision infrared camera

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HAPPY TEACHER’S DAY

 

Teachers – who scribble golden futures with white chalks.

Teacher's day in India is located on September 5th, at the birthdate of India's first vice-president, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who was a reputable philosopher and teacher.

The day recognizes and appreciates teachers. In schools across the country, there are numerous activities conducted to rejoice and thank the teachers. A totally common birthday party style is in which the senior students take over the responsibility of teaching for the day.

Team Starlink sends heartfelt gratitude to all the progress shapers and wish them a Happy Teacher's Day.

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Do you know!!!

 

The face biometric authentication is different from iris & retina but most people are not aware of it and counts it as a single identification.

The face recognition feature maps the facial characteristics like the distance of eyes, nose, lips & cheeks from each other. On the other hand, only the iris or retinal structure is mapped in the iris or retina scanners.

All the 3 types of authentication are foolproof and counted under the category of high-caliber security algorithm.

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CANTEEN MANAGEMENT- THE WORKING

Explaining how the biometric machine with printer works and helps in organizing meals during the meal time with various other features

How it works:

A biometric machine with a built-in thermal printer installed at the canteen area prints the food slips. The employee submits the food slip at the counter and receives the food. All the employee data which is saved in the biometric attendance machine is copied in the canteen machine through which it identifies the employees at the time of the meals.  

There are many offices who prefer different meal formats or provide all the 3-time meals, a single machine solves the purpose with the feature known as:

Finger/card punch in accordance with meal timings: The selected food menu is saved in the machine but is valid according to the meal timings. for example; if slip for breakfast will be printed by pressing 1 no. button on the machine from 8 AM to 10 AM, slip for lunch thali can be opted by pressing the same no. in the lunch timings. The generated food slip bears the date and time which acts as physical proof.

To reduce the confusion and equal food distribution among st the employees, the software holds another useful feature which is:

Set daily/monthly food limit: the software helps in setting the daily/monthly food limit by capping it for every employee, which means the employees can use the food limit given by the office management on a daily or monthly basis. However the limit can be changed as per the user and can be increased or decreased.

Per Day Count of total food slips generated: To counter the problem of food slip count mismatch, the machine can also display the total number of food slips generated per day.

Check on meal re-consumption: Meals can be managed by applying meal re-consumption filters which will restrict the meal slip to be re-generated again if the slip for the same time meal has already been generated which will make sure the meals are equally distributed within the employees.

Prepaid/postpaid plans: in terms of meal amount addition/deduction, prepaid or postpaid plans can be opted by which food credits can either be uploaded in the month’s starting or can be calculated at the month’s end.

WHY TO WASTE FOOD!!

Biometrics is proving its worth in the world of attendance and access control industry but there are so many unexplored areas where the biometrics is proving its iron and one such field is organized meals in office canteens, cafeterias and other public eating areas. Canteen Management System, a set of biometric fingerprint/smart card machine and software to deal with the meal management activities.

Offices that provide meals to their employees prefer to obtain a system that would offer them the synchronized meal distribution with accurate calculation and minimized monetary losses. Some offices still practice manual measures of meal entries which give a tough time and lengthy algorithms to calculate the amount and also include errors and irregular transactions.

The canteen management system is a systematic approach to eliminate the manual calculations and give the synchronized and coordinated results. What the benefit comes out of it is the biometric authentication which is already been done of an employee in the office’s biometric attendance machine, the same data can be used at the time of distributing meals on the canteen management system which will sweep out the dis orientations from the canteens.

Automated biometric arrangements in canteens and other eating areas is a proof that biometrics is proving its worth in every industry with its wide approach of serving almost all verticals of corporate. 

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WHO MEETS THE DATA FIRST?

Biometric attendance and access control machines, a name which is much common amongst the masses and needs no introduction in the corporate world is indeed a need for today and tomorrow.
Talking about how the machine actually works, many of us have a general idea about punching the fingerprint attendance on the machine and it delivers the data into the computer system.  But what actual happens behind the machine is much more than that.
After when we authenticate the fingerprint on a machine, it identifies and accepts the punch. All the data is then sent to the softwares:

*Data Capture
*Time Office

Data Capture – this software acts as a first point of contact for all the biometric data or we can say that all the data gets stored in this software first. Although this software is solely for capturing the data from the machine and what it is designed for is, to interpret machine printed text into system which can be printed as well.

Time Office - the data then gets transferred to the time office software where all this data gets aligned time wise and date wise on daily/monthly/quarterly/yearly basis. This data is then used for other softwares like payroll, overtime, performance, HR management, etc. Time office software can be easily interfaced with any of the softwares. Time office software holds all those features which can be useful for any other domain in terms of processing like:

-Employee-wise policy setting
-In-built leave module
-Overtime round-off policy & setup
-Employee late arrival plan
-Shift management plan
-Leave policies
-Statutory reports

And various other features with which time office software has become the foremost choice for an intermediate biometric data processing software. Time office software comes in 2 versions:

Window Based – which get installed in a computer system and cannot be accessed from anywhere but only from a single computer. Organizations, for which data is the topmost priority and never wants it to get breached, go for the window version. The software demands for basic computer system configuration.

Web Based – this version can be accessed from anywhere round the globe, as it works on a static URL and all the data is preserved into the cloud storage. The software remains protected with id password.

So this is how the journey of the raw data comes to an end by getting into sheets, all aligned and ready to be used at different platforms.

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Technical Assistant - Advantage in Business

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE- ADVANTAGE IN BUSINESS

An alyzing the information on what can be the role of technical assistance w.r.t automated attendance and access control with the organizations who follow 24x7 shift format  A feature loaded product with a satisfactory technical support leaves an intense impression on the customers. There comes another category of B2B clients where the grade and options for customer service & support are defined on a professional level. Not only call support but engineer's visit, after maintenance cost, post installation follow up and many other forms of support can be provided. Imagine an organization which works on the basis of shifts, employees comes in different shifts, some gets overtime working hours, some are going early, some have restricted access, some are in process to be provided and various other related problems. And between all of this the complete attendance server suffers a breakdown, company's work process won't stop but all the access controls and attendance related areas will be worst affected bringing the whole official activities to an unwanted break. Instant Support not provided on time can kill all the day long saved activities which can cause data discrepancy during salary calculations. Organizations cannot afford any mismanagement or dis-functionality in the services as it will affect the complete hierarchy and will lead to major obstacle at work.

 Companies who follow 24x7 shift formats cannot afford any mismanagement or dis-functionality in the services as it will affect the whole organization and will lead to major obstacle at work . 

Technical support works in other vectors as well, as when technology is evolving at such a swift pace, an advanced level of support is demanded.

Examples which proves the importance of technical support with biometric attendance system and access control with our clients:

1. On call support helped one of our clients to detect the port connectivity problem due to which data was not getting transferred from their manufacturing plant at Sonipat to Dehradun office

2. An inquiry received from Kiwi Foods was resolved within a couple of minutes with the help of remote sharing of the computer systems ruining no time on call.
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STAR LINK : TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

A description on what is Technical Assistance and its practices in various forms in different offices for client's service and query resolution

Present day world is filled with Hi-tech gadgets, machines, softwares and hardwares. In a wish to use all the latest additions we rarely imagine about what could be done if the device go UN-functional or encounter any defects. The reason behind this sense of satisfaction lie in one phrase which is “Technical Support or Technical Assistance”. Enterprises are equally dedicated for technical support and assistance as manufacturing alone lets us win half of the game and providing sound and admirable technical support ensures a complete win-win situation.

So what is a Technical Support?

Technical support is defined as the extra services or support provided by the service provider to there end user for products or services purchased.

Support can be of varies types like:

• Inbound Support: where customers reach the customer care executive through phone calls, emails, letters or messages.
• Outbound Support: where customer care executive reach their the customers within scheduled time frame by possible communication method to solve their problems.
• Crowd Sourced Technical Support: companies nowadays provide online discussions through online messages or posts for end users and revert them back there for the query being asked. This helps them to reduce their support cost.
• Outsourced Technical Support: many companies outsource their customer support to third party company which is referred as Managed Service Providers(MSP).
• Multi-Tiered Technical Support: this type of support includes different levels or tiers of support starting from executive to managerial level.

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