Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems Biometric HandPunch Gives Timekeeping Advantage to La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club
Seaside Beach Resort Uses Biometrics to Track and Manage Employee Time & Attendance
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.”
The HandPunch terminals 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.
“Before purchasing the HandPunch units, we had numerous problems with lost cards,” reports Ellen Gaines, HR Director for the resort. “We had to archive the numbers of the cards and particles inside the card reader would make the barcodes unreadable.”
Since implementing the biometric timekeeping solution, however, the resort has not had to deal with “phantom-punches,” cards that do not take, or lost cards, which are especially problematic during the summer season when an additional 150 employees join the staff.
“We are very satisfied with the readers,” Gaines notes. “Our HandPunch units are located in employee access areas such as the kitchen, hallways, or the breezeway of the employee entrance areas. Even though we are right on the ocean, we have had no need for special enclosures.”
“We use the hand readers for positive identification. They are definitely more secure than cards,” adds Rob Walsh, information technology manager for La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club.
Employee Management Solutions in Laguna Niguel, Calif. implemented the resort’s time and attendance solution. The HandPunch units interface with NOVAtime time and attendance software.
Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems was named a recent recipient of the Application Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and attendance applications in Frost & Sullivan’s study, World Biometrics Market. Website is www.recognitionsystems.ingersollrand.com.
About Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Sector is a leading global provider of products and services that make environments safe, secure and productive. The sector’s market-leading products include electronic and biometric access control systems; time-and-attendance and personnel scheduling systems; mechanical locks; portable security; door closers, exit devices, architectural hardware, and steel doors and frames; and other technologies and services for global security markets. Website is www.securitytechologies.ingersollrand.com.
Ingersoll Rand is a leading diversified industrial company providing products, services and integrated solutions to industries ranging from transportation and manufacturing to food retailing, construction, and agriculture. With a 135-year-old heritage of technological innovation, we help companies worldwide to be more productive, efficient and innovative. In every line of our business, Ingersoll Rand enables companies and their customers to create progress.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: For a downloadable, high-resolution photograph of a HandPunch unit at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, go to www.brighamscully.com. Click Photographs/Schlage Recognition Systems.
For more information…
Bashar Masad Tom Brigham
INGERSOLL RAND RECOGNITION SYSTEMS BRIGHAM SCULLY
408-341-4133 818-716-9021
bashar_masad@irco.com tbrigham@brighamscully.com
271-121906
The HandPunch terminals 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.
“Before purchasing the HandPunch units, we had numerous problems with lost cards,” reports Ellen Gaines, HR Director for the resort. “We had to archive the numbers of the cards and particles inside the card reader would make the barcodes unreadable.”
Since implementing the biometric timekeeping solution, however, the resort has not had to deal with “phantom-punches,” cards that do not take, or lost cards, which are especially problematic during the summer season when an additional 150 employees join the staff.
“We are very satisfied with the readers,” Gaines notes. “Our HandPunch units are located in employee access areas such as the kitchen, hallways, or the breezeway of the employee entrance areas. Even though we are right on the ocean, we have had no need for special enclosures.”
“We use the hand readers for positive identification. They are definitely more secure than cards,” adds Rob Walsh, information technology manager for La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club.
Employee Management Solutions in Laguna Niguel, Calif. implemented the resort’s time and attendance solution. The HandPunch units interface with NOVAtime time and attendance software.
Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems was named a recent recipient of the Application Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and attendance applications in Frost & Sullivan’s study, World Biometrics Market. Website is www.recognitionsystems.ingersollrand.com.
About Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Sector is a leading global provider of products and services that make environments safe, secure and productive. The sector’s market-leading products include electronic and biometric access control systems; time-and-attendance and personnel scheduling systems; mechanical locks; portable security; door closers, exit devices, architectural hardware, and steel doors and frames; and other technologies and services for global security markets. Website is www.securitytechologies.ingersollrand.com.
Ingersoll Rand is a leading diversified industrial company providing products, services and integrated solutions to industries ranging from transportation and manufacturing to food retailing, construction, and agriculture. With a 135-year-old heritage of technological innovation, we help companies worldwide to be more productive, efficient and innovative. In every line of our business, Ingersoll Rand enables companies and their customers to create progress.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: For a downloadable, high-resolution photograph of a HandPunch unit at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, go to www.brighamscully.com. Click Photographs/Schlage Recognition Systems.
For more information…
Bashar Masad Tom Brigham
INGERSOLL RAND RECOGNITION SYSTEMS BRIGHAM SCULLY
408-341-4133 818-716-9021
bashar_masad@irco.com tbrigham@brighamscully.com
271-121906