Biometrics Technology

The days are gone when managers kept manual journals of employee time and attendance to calculate hours worked. These antiquated ways of measuring employee time and attendance do not have the ability to effectively  prevent buddy punching  or time theft. Therefore, more companies are looking for a better solution to measure employee working hours and discovering that a biometric time clock offers a more secure alternative to manual timesheets. Biometric time and attendance system is the automated method of recognizing an employee based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. The most  common biometric features  used for employee identification are faces, fingerprints, finger veins, palm veins, irises, and voice patterns. When an employee attempts identification by their biological traits, a biometric hardware device compares the new scan to all available templates in order to find an exact match. Read the full post from here.

The Nursery Rhyme and its Application to Biometrics Most of us are probably familiar with the popular nursery rhyme “ The Itsy Bitsy Spider .”  It goes like this: The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout. Down came the rain, and washed the spider out. Up came the sun, and dried up all the rain, and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again. Wow.  That is one resilient spider and it got us thinking…this spider reminds us a lot of biometric technology. As biometrics for identification has evolved from forensics into government and enterprise applications, there have been growing pains along the way.   Fingerprint technology  was the first “spider” modality to hit the mainstream and as it climbed the biometric “water (aka market) spout” end users realized that it had certain limitations.  For example, environmental conditions and fingerprint integrity limited its ability to identify a certain percentage of the population and as a resu...