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Time & 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.



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.



Portable



Wall Mounted


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



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.



Towitoko ChipDrive


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.






Manpower cards

 

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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Aurora Technologies Ltd.

P.O.Box 388 Tirat Carmel 30200, Israel
Voice: +972 4 8576982 Fax: +972 4 8576983
[email protected]

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