DigitalPersona has announced that wireless retailer Prime Communications has implemented DigitalPersona’s U.are.U fingerprint solution in an effort to reduce payroll fraud. The solution from DigitalPersona is combined with retail management software called RQ4 developed by iQmetrix and is expected by Prime officials to help reduce labor costs through more reliable punch times and eliminating buddy-punching.  […]

The Medical Council of India recently approved a proposal that will require all medical colleges and institutes in India to have faculty identification, tracking and monitoring systems, according to a PHARMABIZ.com report. The Medical Council of India notes that this initiative comes as a means to ensure the regular attendance of faculty at each of […]

FedExField in Andover, Md. plays host to the Washington Redskins, college football games, soccer and a variety of other events through the course of a typical year. Because of the huge influx of seasonal, contract and temporary employees, stadium operators wanted a better way to identify staff and control their access to the facility. During […]

Biometric technology is seeing an increase in demand among Gulf-based companies for identification solutions, according to an article from The National. Biometric developers and providers such as Hong Kong-based biometric employee attendance tracking system developer RCG Holdings have said that their number of clients in the region has climbed from 50 to nearly 300 over […]

TrigPoint Solutions announced that Drilling Contractor, a North American oil and natural gas drilling contractor, will utilize the company’s PROMPTT System to automate rig and field-based employee time and attendance, behavioral observations and job safety analysis. The mobile asset and workforce management system combines RFID technology, portable hand-held terminals, interactive end-user applications and mobile integrations […]

The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) in Hyderabad, India has created a program requiring the professors at their 300 affiliated engineering colleges to check in biometrically when they begin class in an effort to correctly track the numbers of faculty operating at each college, according to a LazyBuzz News article. The university employed the new […]

Students at Columbus State University will soon be able to swipe their smart phones like their student ID cards with the use of a new app developed by university programmers and Google. The new app, which uses bar code technology, will enable students to check out books from the library, pay for on-campus dining and […]

Software supplier Vizual Management Solutions, announced the release of a new biometric time and attendance tracking software. The software, called CaptureIT, tracks hourly employees’ clock-in and out times by requiring biometric data, such as a fingerprint, to ensure that the employee using the clock is who they claim to be. In addition to the basic […]

Day care centers in the UK are already known for being early adopters of biometric technology used for physical access control keeping unwanted people away from customers’ children, according to an Industry Today article. Recently, however, many of those nurseries have found a new use for the same technology that helps them maximize operational efforts […]

In Hyderabad, a city in Andreh Pradesh (AP), India, the State Department of Higher Education is moving to roll-out a biometric attendance system for its professional and non-professional college students starting next academic year, according to a PTI News article. The hope from school and government officials is that the new system will help drive […]