Time Clock with biometrics - Finger print / facial recognition

Thanks ​@R Lum Wai  for the quick response. Do you know what will be required in order to do it as a Mod / Integration. I was thinking all we need is a correlation between finger print and employee id (directly or via card number)?

​@malik.sally I don’t know off the top of my head I am afraid.  You would need to speak to a technical consultant - I would think that the terminal uses the finger print to collate the clock in data - then you would need something in the middleware tool like boomi /azure that associates that collated data from the terminal with the IFS employee. As you said the finger print ID at the terminal with a card detail held in the employee file but I am not sure how you would go about that with time clock software - the alternative maybe that you use the terminal with biometrics and create a file to load into IFS without time clock ?

If you have access to IFS support portal it may be worth asking the question if it is possible to start with as they would know if other clients have done this before

Ok, so from what you are saying I understand that IFS Time Clock Terminal cannot be used and we would have to develop a custom software to push directly to IFS or to a .csv file and suck it in to IFS.
I was assuming standard IFS Time Clock can run on a finger print / face recognizing clocking device running on windows.

Hi,

There are third party products for this just as you can have a third party product to handle your access cards. 

You use the software for that product to map employee number to finger print and this handles the conversion of fingerprint to employee number.

If it is a capable third party product I’d say you don’t need much on the IFS side.

We investigated this for a customer some years ago - they didn’t go forward with it though…

Regards,

Maria

Thanks ​@ADDMARIAE , Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Probably what I was thinking is how to make IFS Time Clock usable with biometric enabled Clocking scanners.

Hi again, just to be sure you don’t misunderstand me… I absolutely mean you should use TIme Clock. You can plug in and use any data catcher device you like - card reader, rfid reader, scanner, biometric… It all just depends on the hardware / software of that device.

Regards,

Maria

I think I didn’t miss your point. So what I gathered is, we use a data catcher (with biometrics)  and the 3rd party software to translate biometric ID to the corresponding Card No / Employee no. Meaning, IFS Time Clock Interface can still be run on a data catching device, but a third party software sitting in between will translate the unique bio-metric ID’s. Do you recall the 3rd party software by any chance?
Thanks! Malik