A unique remote time and attendance solution, whereby remote personnel can be monitored centrally, was launched recently in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town.
The greatest item of expenditure within a security guarding company is the cost of wages and the first key factor to success is effective planning. To ensure the correct number of guards of the correct grades is scheduled for the correct number of hours at the correct sites, and that the hours scheduled at an overtime rate is kept at the minimum, is key to the effectiveness of the security. The second step is to control the deployment of guards during shift changes.
The Deployment Manager supported by ID Anyware is a robust management system based on fingerprint biometrics. The operations manager can manage and monitor the deployment of guards in real-time from his office while the system records time and attendance details. Under- or over-postings will be identified immediately and corrective actions can be implemented. The fingerprint biometrics ensures that a guard can only clock himself in and not his colleague.
"The IDAnyware solution is finding strong favour in the industry and a number of pilot projects ran with great success over the last few months. The unit identifies the guard, records time and date and sends the information in real-time to the operations room," says DexSecurity Solutions MD, Ernest Cockcroft.
"This enables security companies to manage thousands of guards at numerous sites very effectively. It provides the perfect access control and time and attendance solution for security companies to provide to their clients and is integrated with Easyroster, the application most widely used for the management of guards by the guarding industry."
The biometrics system was developed by DexSecurity Solutions, a subsidiary of the Dex Group.
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