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April 1, 2008 -- Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that the City of Tahlequah in Oklahoma uses eleven Schlage HandPunch 3000 terminals to track and manage the city’s 129 employees. Eight of the hand geometry terminals reside on the city’s network while three remote locations use dial-up mode to transfer time and attendance data from the HandPunch time clocks directly to the HR Department. Read more...

January 8, 2008 -- Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that Health Management of Kansas, Inc., with over 1,000 people providing a full range of long-term care services, is using eight Schlage HandPunch 3000 biometric terminals in conjunction with the Legiant Timecard System to provide time and attendance reporting. The system saves the long-term care provider 30 hours each payroll period just in totaling timecards. Additional time is saved by having the system integrate directly with their payroll application and by empowering employees to answer their own time and attendance questions via the HandPunch. Read more...

July 17, 2007 -- Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that it is using an advanced antimicrobial technology to reduce the spread of micro-organisms on its HandKey and HandPunch platens. All recently-ordered Schlage HandKey terminals for security applications and Ingersoll Rand HandPunch terminals for time and attendance will incorporate this technology. A special silver-based agent, using BioCote® technology, is embedded into the materials used to produce the platen of the biometric hand geometry units, providing a hygienic finish that resists bacterial degradation. Read more...

April 12, 2007 -- Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that Complejo Agroindustrial Beta, a Peruvian grower of fruits and vegetables for export to the USA and Europe, is using 29 Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems HandPunch 3000 terminals in a 2000 acre field to record time and attendance, job functions and other data from its 3,000 workers. HandPunch readers automatically take a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of a hand and verify the user’s identity in less than one second. Read more...

March 7, 2007 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – March 7, 2007 – – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that Martin’s Fantasy Island, a family theme park in the hub of Northern New York’s Niagara Region and less than 10 minutes from downtown Buffalo, is using its HandPunch hand geometry readers to provide 100 percent verification of season pass holders. The biometric readers also prevent pass-backs, in which several people use the same pass to enter the park. HandPunch readers automatically take a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of a hand and verify the user’s identity in less than one second. Read more...

February 16, 2007 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – February 16, 2007 – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that 350 employees at Montgomery General Hospital in West Virginia are using its biometric HandPunch readers to clock in and out for their shifts, enabling the hospital to control overtime costs and eliminate the practice of buddy punching, in which one employee clocks in or out for another. Read more...

January 30, 2007 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – January 30, 2007 – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that the 90-room La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, one of only two beachfront properties in the exclusive La Jolla Shores section of La Jolla, Calif., is using three of its biometric HandPunch readers to track time and attendance for up to 600 employees at the luxurious seaside resort. The biometric units replaced a card system that frequently fell victim to lost cards or “phantom-punch timekeeping.” Read more...

December 12, 2006 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – December 12, 2006 – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that 85 McDonald's restaurants are cutting payroll costs by up to 22 percent annually after incorporating the company’s Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems' biometric HandPunch biometric terminals to record time and attendance. The HandPunch terminal eliminates expenses associated with employee badges and fraud caused by buddy punching. Over 3,400 employees at 85 McDonald's restaurants in Venezuela have been enrolled with the HandPunch over the past four years. On average, the system generates over 7,500 transactions each day resulting in over 2.5 million “punches” annually. Read more...

December 12, 2006 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – December 12, 2006 – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that DBtell tel Aviv, an Israeli-based telemarketing/call center, is using biometric HandPunch terminals to control access and input time and attendance for more than 250 employees. Read more...

December 7, 2006 -- Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that the Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort, a AAA four-diamond rated Hilton waterfront beach resort that offers 290 rooms with luxurious accommodations situated in Huntington Beach, Calif., is using its biometric HandPunch reader to input time and attendance for tracking more than 330 employees. As a result, the Hilton has better controlled payroll costs by eliminating all buddy punching, in which one employee clocks in or out for another. Read more...

December 7, 2006 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – December 7, 2006 – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that the Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort, a AAA four-diamond rated Hilton waterfront beach resort that offers 290 rooms with luxurious accommodations situated in Huntington Beach, Calif., is using its biometric HandPunch reader to input time and attendance for tracking more than 330 employees. Read more...

November 29, 2006 -- Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that O’Neal Steel, a full-line metal service center headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., is using 46 of its biometric HandPunch terminals in 35 locations across the United States to input time and attendance. O’Neal Steel is the largest family-owned metals service center in the United States, employing 2500 workers and operating multiple locations across the nation. Read more...

November 8, 2006 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – November 8, 2006 – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that Hetzi Henam, a privately-owned Israeli supermarket chain, is using 14 biometric HandPunch terminals to control access and input time and attendance for more than 1,300 employees at its six store locations in Israel. The HandPunch automatically takes a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of a hand and verifies the user's identity in less than one second. Biometric readers eliminate the need for employees to carry a badge, thus eliminating the problem of lost or forgotten badges. Read more...

April 27, 2006 -- Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base is using its Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems biometric hand geometry technology to track the time and attendance for its civilian employees at two mess halls on the base. Since being installed, the HandPunch units have saved about $2,000 per month in payroll costs by limiting overtime and eliminating "buddy punching." Read more...

September 1, 2005 -- Retail Solutions Manufacturer Sees Yearly Savings Add Up After Installing Biometric Time and Attendance Solution Read more...

May 25, 2005 -- Birmingham City Schools will be using 159 of its biometric HandReaders to track time and attendance for employees at 61 school district sites, making it one of the largest deployments of biometrics in a school district. Read more...

March 16, 2005 -- New HandPunch 50E, which provides the convenience of biometric hand geometry, eliminating cards or codes, to positively identify up to 50 people. Read more...

September 14, 2004 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – September 14, 2004 – Schlage Recognition Systems, the biometric Access Control component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems, announced today that Covenant Aviation Security, a private company that was awarded a Transportation Security Administration contract to protect San Francisco Airport, the nation’s fifth busiest, from terrorism, is using biometric HandReaders to verify employee identities before granting them access to their work areas. Read more...

June 1, 2004 -- Palo Alto, Calif. — June 1, 2004 — Frost & Sullivan recently recognized Recognition Systems, Inc. with awards in two independent studies. Read more...

April 29, 2004 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – April 29, 2004 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll Rand’s (IR) Security Technologies' Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that select employees of the David Lawrence Center and Foundation (DLC), a non-profit mental health and substance abuse services center in Collier County, Fla., are using its HandPunch terminals to clock in and out. Read more...

February 24, 2004 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – February 24, 2004 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric Time & Attendance component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems, today announced that Simkins Industries, a pioneer in multi-purpose packing materials, is cutting timecard fraud by using 14 HandPunch terminals to accurately record time and attendance information at its facilities. Read more...

February 18, 2004 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – February 18, 2004 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security Technologies' Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that all employees at the Bay Colony Golf Club, located on approximately 300 acres bordering the Cocohatchee Strand Nature Preserve just within the gated entrance of the Pelican Marsh community in Naples, Fla., use biometric HandPunch terminals to clock in and out. As a result, the exclusive club is better controlling payroll costs. Read more...

January 28, 2004 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – January 28, 2004 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric time & attendance component of Ingersoll Rand’s (IR) Security Technologies' Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that Caribbean-based FirstBank Puerto Rico is currently using 108 HandPunch terminals in 100 FirstBank locations, including bank branches, corporate headquarters and affiliated businesses in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Tortola to eliminate timecard fraud and limit unauthorized overtime for its 1,700-plus hourly employees, recording over 10,000 transactions per workday. Read more...

October 21, 2003 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – October 21, 2003 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies' Electronic Control Systems, today announced that 85 McDonald's restaurants are cutting payroll costs by up to 22 percent annually after incorporating Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems' biometric HandPunch biometric terminals to record time and attendance. Read more...

September 23, 2003 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – September 23, 2003 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security Technologies' Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that Ohio-based Graeter's Ice Cream is using its HandPunch biometric terminal to track the time and attendance of 60 employees at its Cincinnati manufacturing plant. Read more...

September 4, 2003 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – Sept. 4, 2003 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric Time & Attendance component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems, today announced that famed Miami Beach restaurant Joe's Stone Crab is saving money and time by using its HandPunch biometric terminals, and labor management software installed by Gatekeeper Business Solutions (GBS) for tracking its 280 employees’ attendance. The GBS software then exports a time file directly to CompuPay, a local payroll service, so no manual entry is required for payroll. Read more...

August 6, 2003 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – August 06, 2003 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric Time & Attendance component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems, today announced that all nine locales of Don Carter All Star Lanes in three different states use biometric HandPunch terminals to clock its 700 employees in and out, saving the corporation between 400 to 500 hours of payroll preparation time per year. Read more...

May 12, 2003 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – May 12, 2003 – Schlage Recognition Systems, the biometric Access Control component of Ingersoll-Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems, today announced that its HandKey II access control readers and HandPunch time and attendance terminals support BioAPI, the widely available and accepted Application Program Interface (API) that serves as a “plug-and-play” standard for biometric technologies. Read more...

November 22, 2002 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – November 22, 2002 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric Time & Attendance component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems, today announced that it has entered into a partnership in which Kaba-Benzing, a world leading provider of time and attendance systems, will offer the Company’s HandPunch biometric readers to its customers. Read more...

September 10, 2002 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – September 10, 2002 – IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control (EACD) and the world’s largest supplier of biometric readers for access control and time and attendance applications, announced that it is showcasing its hand geometry readers integrated with HID’s new iCLASS contactless smartcard technology at the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) Show in Philadelphia today. Read more...

September 9, 2002 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – September 9, 2002 – IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control (EACD), was once again confirmed as the world’s largest supplier of biometric readers for access control and time and attendance applications by Frost & Sullivan’s World Biometric Report 2002. Read more...

July 31, 2002 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. – July 31, 2002 – IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that Aramark, a leading provider of a broad range of outsourced services to all types of facilities is using the IR Recognition Systems HandPunch 4000 Time & Attendance Terminal at multiple sites throughout the United States. Read more...

March 15, 2002 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. - March 15, 2002 - Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric Time & Attendance component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems, today announced that the convenience of biometric hand geometry, which positively identifies people, eliminating keys, cards or codes, is now affordable and cost effective for all time and attendance applications. Read more...

March 13, 2002 -- CAMPBELL, CALIF. - March 13, 2002 - IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand's (IR) Security & Safety Group's Electronic Access Control Division, today announced that it's biometric hand geometry Hand Readers, which positively identify a user by the shape and size of one's hand, are now available with Chinese language display. Customers may order the graphical display option for Chinese applications at no additional cost. All standard Hand Reader menus are supported. Read more...

September 7, 2001 -- (Campbell, CA) – September 7, 2001 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems introduces the new HandPunch 4000-S, a biometric time and attendance terminal with an integrated handheld barcode scanner. Read more...

July 26, 2001 -- (CAMPBELL, CA) -- (July 26, 2001) – Schlage Recognition Systems, a pioneer of biometric technology, is expanding its presence in the Middle East through a project with the Lebanese government. Read more...

May 15, 2001 -- CAMPBELL, CA -- May 15, 2001 -- In response to market demand for the product, Recognition Systems, Inc., a division of IR Security & Safety Solutions, has developed a SmartCard reader to use with its hand reader for access control and time and attendance. Read more...

May 3, 2001 -- Biometric devices measure and analyze human characteristics for identification or verification purposes. Hand geometry is one of many forms of biometric identification. Hand geometry is used most often in two applications: Access Control and Time and Attendance (time clocks). Read more...

-- 90 Schlage Recognitions Systems Biometric HandKey Readers Control Access to Venetian Macau Construction Site. HandReaders provide ultimate biometric solution for quickly letting over 12,000 workers in, keeping others out, and preventing timecard fraud at massive resort/gaming Macau site. Read more...