Biometric Scanners: You Are the Key

biometric scannersIn a few words, biometric scanners work by scanning your finger, hand, and/or face and matching it against authorized users and then either allows or denies you entry.  This is not the wave of the future, this is part of the here and now!  Biometric scanners improve security exponentially when combined with other security measures like security cameras.  This relatively new technology surpasses old-fashioned lock-and-key doors because the key is actually you.

While keys can be stolen, copied, and then used for nefarious purposes, that cannot be done with your finger.  The sensitive equipment in a scanner can reliably recognize each person's unique physical signature.  Another thing to note about traditional doors, their locking mechanisms can be picked by a determined thief.  By manipulating the tumblers in normal lock with the right tools, the door is as good as open.  Fingerprint scanners remove these two weaknesses from your security system.
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Integration

What is the proper word to describe the revolution of Information Technology?

A lot of people might find “digital” or “digitalization” well suited to explain the trend. I do agree, but “digitalization” is hard to be comprehended by the layman on how the 0 and 1 or bits and bytes did wonders for changing the world. I choose “integration” as the single word that clearly shows the changes.
Integration

When PCs invaded offices in the late 80s, some different types of works used to handle by different people, later consolidated to be managed by a lesser few. For example, typist is a bygone job. Why need a typist when you can write on your own PC? For the newspaper industry in the pro-PC era, typesetters used to typeset titles in different typefaces and font size, and contents in smaller point size, and later pass their work to designers to cut and paste with the related photos to construct full pages - but now things have changed as sub-editors took over the task of paginating a whole page.

When PCs were introduced, some workflows were fast to become redundant. The multi-tasking of PCs and transferable of data destroyed plenty of old rules and joined many related professions together. It made the used-to-be natural workflow become unnatural, and started a reformation based on the integration of jobs.

Later when the Internet connected every PC in the world to become one giant web network, the norm of integration was more apparent. A lot of small merchants saw the opportunity and forayed online; but to succeed, they have to show how good their integration ability is. Because to open a brick and mortar store you’ll need money and some intelligence, but to open an online store, you need money with much more intelligence. The complexity to integrate the sales of tangible products in an intangible system sometimes is beyond comprehension.


When cloud-computing started becoming the megatrend, the complexity of the integration level is at all heights - customers, billing, payment, sales & marketing, technical support, products & applications, admin & control, etc., are all intertwined. The biggest challenge for the vendor is keeping the complexity behind doors, and displaying the simplicity up front.

And finally, our TimeTec Cloud is making a debut for customers to try after we opened for resellers to register in July. I use this single word, “integration” to conclude our three months of hardwork, and brain-straining labors. And yet we can’t expect any congratulatory flower basket delivered to our storefront; to hope for the glitches to be reduced to a very minimum is good enough.

While all integration efforts go to TimeTec Cloud, another integration task is turned on: consolidating the FingerTec USA website into FingerTec main portal, as a move to promote the effective share of online resources.

I expect further collaboration with our partners to integrate websites around the world of theirs into ours by next year.


by Teh Hon Seng, CEO, FingerTec HQ
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Are Smart Phones Taking Over The World?


The outside view at one of the flagship stores in London during the launch of the iPhone 5

iPhone 5 was launched in the USA, London, Japan and many other advanced countries sometime last week, driving enthusiasts to line up a week before to get their hands on the latest Apple product post-Steve-Jobs. It doesn’t matter how many iPhones you own; what matters is, you drool for the new one even though the differences are not that apparent. What is it about iPhones and smart phones that make people go ga-ga over them? Endless possibilities; so to speak. (Although it does end when you have no memory left on your phone, oh wait, they offer iCloud, so yes.. endless possibilities is the correct term)

My husband was in London when the iPhone 5 launched, the queue was very long and some had queued for 7 days.  

Not much difference, yet they are worlds apart 
Smart phones reinvented phones to not just be about calls and SMS anymore. Smart phones open up possibilities for people to reconnect with other people in the planet, to discharge time, to do work, to enjoy creative products, to learn new things, to snap photos of your food at all times, and the list goes on. The latest trend, which has been happening in much-advanced countries, is to turn your smart phones into your new wallet. Scan your phone and voila! You can pay for coffee, groceries, electrical items; you name it. Smartphones are not accessories anymore; they have become a part of us, attached to us at all times. We check on our children less than we check on our smartphones.

The trend is here to stay. While some claim they could live without their smartphones, majority of owners would be in a state of panic if their smartphones were not in sight.

Banking on the trend, FingerTec introduces TimeTec Mobile, an application that knows where you are, enables you to report attendance while online or offline, without you having to convince anybody of your whereabouts. The data then is processed in TimeTec Web at the main office for the human resource department as well as for payroll. How cool is that? All you need to do is to configure your phone and check-in through your phone whenever you are stationed to work outside of the office. The GPS coordinate and your time will be recorded accurately in the system.
Find out more about TimeTec Mobile, click here  
See, smartphones are about possibilities and TimeTec Mobile is just one of the apps that could better our lifestyle and businesses without having to invest much in it.

Now, I’m looking at my iPhone 4s and trying to convince myself that it’s enough that I have iOS 6 installed. The fact of the matter is, it is still not iPhone 5. Damn you, Apple!
  
by Norana Johar, COO, FingerTec HQ
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The outside view at one of the flagship stores in London during the launch of the iPhone 5 iPhone 5 was launched in the USA, London, J...

Proper Accountability With Time Clock Software

biometric scanners

Having your employees clock in is somewhat tricky.  But having a reliable way to do so is just as tricky.  Traditionally, this meant employees taking a piece of paper and using a hole puncher to clock in and out of work.  But this method is too unreliable and cumbersome for not only the employees that have to do it but also the accounting departments that make sure the payroll gets done properly and everyone gets their fair share of the wages.  But what can make it easier?  Time clock software that works in conjunction with a biometric scanner will do the trick.

Old systems employees use to clock in and out of work are archaic and are easily manipulated.  Anyone can take any other punch card and use it, either by accident or as a "favor" for fellow employee.  At the end of the day, there is no real guarantee that the employee whose name is on that punch card is the one that has been clocking in and out every day and at the appropriate times.  A biometric scanner removes all doubts because it requires the unique fingerprint of each person to clock in and out of work.  There is no way to get around it.



by FingerTec USA
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Having your employees clock in is somewhat tricky.  But having a reliable way to do so is just as tricky.  Traditionally, this meant emp...

Improving Security Through Fingerprint Scanners

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Whether you are a company on the up-and-up or large and well-established, security is of vital importance to your organization.  While heavy wood or steel doors and a closed-circuit security system are the industry standard for protecting the important people and assets contained within the walls of your office, you should also consider incorporating fingerprint scanners into your already existing security system.

Fingerprint scanners offer a number of advantages over the traditional lock-and-key doors.  For one thing, a person's fingerprints cannot be duplicated reliably and thus cannot be used to open a door protected by a scanner.  Typical keys can be copied and there are any number of ways to gain access to the key itself, either by stealing it or making a copy and then returning it.

As already mentioned keys can be lifted off a person or found and then copied by any thief; your finger cannot just fall off.  Also, there is no need to worry about someone removing your finger and using that because scanner technology is so advanced and sensitive that it can tell the difference between a "living" finger that is still attached and one that is not.

As you can see, the innate safety features in a fingerprint scanner puts it well above normal doors.


 by FingerTec USA
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Whether you are a company on the up-and-up or large and well-established, security is of vital importance to your organization.  While h...

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