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employee tracking system?

  • Thread starter Nick Markowitz Jr.
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Nick Markowitz Jr.

Jan 1, 1970
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Got a customer intrested in being able to track where employees are with in
his manufacturing plant using id badge etc. aprox 50.000 sf per floor on 2
floors any one use have experince with such a system
 
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ABLE_1

Jan 1, 1970
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Nick,

First question would be: What accuracy is required??? By this I mean, to
with in 3sqft, 20sqft, 100sqft, in given quadrant of the building, or just a
general area on either floor????

And the next question would be to see real-time on a monitor, a report of
daily activities or something different??

The answers will determine feasibility and maybe a price range.

Les
 
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Nick Markowitz Jr.

Jan 1, 1970
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Will get hold of customer and get specifics thanks for the help
 
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Crash Gordon

Jan 1, 1970
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There was a phone system that did something like that a while back, it would
track where you where and any calls for you would be routed to the nearest
extension...business system not res.


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| | > Got a customer intrested in being able to track where employees are with
| in
| > his manufacturing plant using id badge etc. aprox 50.000 sf per floor
on
| 2
| > floors any one use have experince with such a system
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| Try contacting Olivetti. They had an "Active Badge" system in their
research
| lab in Cambridge UK in the 90's. No idea if they ever commercialised the
| system. It was IR based and worked very well. I went to a lecture on the
| system. Any member of staff could interrogate it over the web/lan and find
| out where someone was, if they were in a meeting, nearest phone extension
| number etc
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J. Sloud

Jan 1, 1970
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Got a customer intrested in being able to track where employees are with in
his manufacturing plant using id badge etc. aprox 50.000 sf per floor on 2
floors any one use have experince with such a system

The technology to do this is available with RFID. Google "RFID
employee tracking" and you'll get an idea. Basically, you can setup
portals that employees pass through or you can deploy antennas
throughout the facility. RFID tags can be attached to the current
access control/ ID badges and software allows management to track
employees in real time even displaying the information on a facility
map if desired. It's expensive and there are all kinds of big brother
issues to consider, but the technology is out there. The real trick
is integrating this into a secure access control system to be able to
determine who can go where and when. We looked into doing this about
a year ago, but all of our access control systems still use a very
slow reader to panel communication format that makes it impossible to
integrate RFID readers. There was a company that developed a RFID to
weigand converter, but it would only work for small groups before the
data crashed.
 
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