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& Attendance Units |
Aurora Technologies has developed a
simple, cheap and easy to use time and
attendance unit (TAU). The TAU implements
state-of-the-art smart card technology.
This project was carried out with the
cooperation and support of Manpower
International. The technology
enables us to write data to the card:
employee parameters such as name and
entry and exit priveleges. The card can
also store daily transactions for later
reading by appropriate software.
Aurora
Technologies has also prepared ready-to-use
management software for managing
communications with the unit or with the
card and processing the employee and
transaction data bases. The software
manages a simple database of employees
and transactions. The user can modify
transactions by adding entry or exit
records in case they are missing.
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Wall-Mounted
Configuration
The unit can
be mounted on a wall by means of a
special device. The site administrator
user can remove and replace the unit at
any time. Portable Configuration
The unit in
its basic form is a portable device. It
can be hand held by a supervisor.
In Idle conditions, the unit can be
placed on a special desk stand.
The
portable unit is especially applicable
for time and attendance monitoring of a
mobile workforce. In this situation, the
employee carries the TAU unit with him
from one work location to another.
The local employer or supervisor inserts
his card to create the transaction.
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Portable
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Wall Mounted
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Main Software Features
1) Card
creation and personalization: employee,
supervisor and accumulator cards.
2) Reading
and Writing Unit Parameters by means of
serial communications.
3) Reading
transactions from the TAU unit or the
card.
4) Unit date
and time update
5) Managing
all of the personal data of the employees.
6) Printing
attendance reports
7) The
software can work with an external smart
card reader
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Using An External
Smart Card Reader
The software
package can use the unit (TAU) itself for
reading and writing to the employee card.
If, on theother hand, the TAU unit is
mounted onto a wall, it is possible to
access the cards by means of an
external smart card reader. We recommend
the Towitoko smart card reader. For
other readers, a dedicated driver needs
to be devleoped.
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Towitoko
ChipDrive
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Cards in the system
Employee Card
Every
employee has his personal Employee Card.
The card can store up to 120 records (entries
or exits). The card also contains
personal data of the employee, such as
his personal ID number and name. Entry
and exit privileges of the employee are
also retained on the card. The card can
be configured as a backup card (in which
case the TAU unit is the main data
retaining media), or as the main media
for retaining transactions.
Supervisor Card
A card that
is given to the person that supervises
the system and the employees. With this
card, date and time of the unit can be
modified manually . The card also
functions as an authorization card for
employee entry or exit registration,
depending on the system configuration.
Accumulator Card
A card with a
large memory, that can store almost 500
records of entry and exit transactions.
The card allows the user to download
transactions from the unit memory to
several accumulator cards,loaded one
after the other. This card is then
delivered to the back office for reading
those cards and transfering the stored
records to the main database.
Delivery can be by hand or mail.
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Manpower
cards
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Main
TAU Advantages
Portable
or Installed Configurations
State
of the art smart card technology
Power
and Communications Infrastructure are unnecessary
Flexible
usage
Low
Cost
Innovative
Product
Low
cost and weight
Battery
powered
Easy
to use.
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