Cyber cafes to be monitored in India

Indian police places biometric systems and CCTV in more than 150 cyber cafes in order to catch cyber criminals in the act

The growing threat from criminals and fraudsters who use cyber cafes has been getting out of control in many parts of the world, but authorities in India have come up with a unique system [...]

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Biometrics to keep tabs on lazy cops

AHMEDABAD: The days of traffic policemen playing truant while on duty are now numbered. Ahmedabad traffic police will soon install 50 biometric devices to check the ‘lazy’ policemen from dodging duty.
The biometric attendance recording gadgets would be installed at traffic pickets to ensure the punctuality of the staff. The move comes at a time [...]

Biometric Fingerprint Time Clocks

Buddy punching—not the violent connotation, but equally malicious and punishable under most corporate guidelines on proper employee behavior—is the practice of cheating time clocks by punching in the attendance card or swiping the ID of a co-worker in his absence.
Attendance monitoring used to mean endless paperwork, sifting though documents and manual computation. That has changed [...]

UK Requires Compulsory Fingerprints from Visa Applicants

BANGALORE: Every person seeking to enter the UK from countries outside the European Union, including India, will be fingerprinted prior to being issued a visa, if a proposed law that aims to tighten UK’s borders is passed by British MPs.
A Bill stipulating this and other immigration reforms — the UK Border Bill — is [...]

UK to outsource biometric visa checks to Mumbai

The UK is to outsource visa application checks “wherever there is an outsource partner”, following trials in its largest visa posts in Mumbai, Delhi and Islamabad. This process, which will be implemented alongside the introduction of biometrics for all visa applications, is intended to cover at least 60 per cent of an annual total of [...]

Lift a Finger(print) to Track Employee Time

Automate hourly paid employee timekeeping with eSSL Biometric Time and Attendance System.
“Eliminate Buddy Punching” 
RFID based time and attendance systems have a big loophole: buddy punching. For example: Ram Come Lately, delayed on his way to work, can ask fellow employee Sunil Buddy to swipe Lately’s RFID employee badge through the time clock. The time clock will faithfully record Lately’s attendance [...]

Municipal employees use the fingerprint machine for attendance

A NEW METHOD: Alandur municipal employees use the machine installed by the civic body on Wednesday. TAMBARAM: A Bio Metric Finger Print Attendance Machines each for five locations in Alandur Municipality were installed on Wednesday.
This is the first of its kind in any local body in the southern suburb of Chennai.
The move is aimed at [...]

India – Sixth Central Pay Commission: Suggestions – should biometric entry/exit be introduced?

source: http://www.india.gov.in/govt/questionreport_printentire.php?qid=16&cat=0&group=G&grptype=G&rpttype=Q
Sixth Central Pay Commission:Suggestions

 
 

 

New concepts

For improving punctuality/introducing new concepts like flexi time, should biometric entry/exit be introduced?We are given to understand that the system of Biometric entry/exit has already been introduced in certain organisations. On the Basis of the experience drwan from such practice it may be decided whether this system may be general. [...]

Automated Time & Attendance Systems – A better approach

Companies of all sizes use time and attendance processes to gather information about the amount of time employees spend on the job. The most common tracking is the capture of an accurate time each employee reports to work and the actual hours they spend on the job. Other companies track detailed information on each work [...]

Biometrics and “Return On Investment”

 
At this time of tight budgets, the mantra of business is “Return On Investment!” With few exceptions, expenditures are measured against the bottom line. Outlays for capital expenses are strictly evaluated in terms of profitability and the total cost of ownership. The era of purchasing new gadgets due to their “whiz-bang” factor is long gone. [...]

Andhra Bank gives thumbs up to biometric ATMs

Source: http://infotech.indiatimes.com/Enterprise/Security/Andhra_Bank_gives_thumbs_up_to_biometric_ATMs_/articleshow/1642747.cms
Capitalising on one of the most fool-proof identification marks (the thumb impression), Hyderabad-based Andhra Bank is looking at rolling out more biometric-based ATMs.
“A thumb impression can’t be copied or stolen and is highly individualistic. It thus forms a good basis for us to launch ATMs using biometrics,” said Andhra Bank CMD K Ramakrishnan.
Mr Ramakrishnan [...]

Biometrics India – E-passports

The Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, Shri E. Ahamed informed the Lok Sabha today in a written reply to a question that the Government have decided to introduce e-passports, also known as bio-metric passports, initially for diplomats and officials as a pilot project by the end of 2007. Based on the [...]

Biometric cash machines bring joy

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6478627.stm

Mahendra Sahni can now collect his money without wasting time [Pics: Prashant Ravi]

These days Mahendra Sahni, a daily wage worker in India’s most backward state of Bihar, struts up to a gleaming new cash machine in his village to withdraw his hard earned money.
The middle-aged, illiterate fish farmer from Vaishali district makes about 2,000 [...]

Biometric IDs for Slum Dwellers – Biometrics Fingerprint solution in Maharastra Mumbai Pune India

 Source: http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Biometric_IDs_for_Slum_Dwellers/551-81605-547.html

Land sharks in this city don’t spare even slum dwellers it seems…
Which explains why the Maharashtra government has decided to bring in a biometric ID system specially for slum dwellers, to protect them from the greedy bunch.

Reportedly, the identification system is meant for only those slum dwellers in Mumbai, who come under the [...]

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Biometrics in 40,000 Schools of India

Project Titled : “Fingerprint Biometric Attendance System for Primary Schools in Narmada District (Gujarat)”.
Brief Description:
Supply, installation and commissioning of 600 numbers of standalone Fingerprint Biometric Machines in various primary schools in Narmada District (Gujarat)
Tender Ref.: DPN/FBAS/01/2006
District Panchayat – Narmada
Jilla Panchayat Bhawan-Narmada,
Near Karjan Irrigation Project Office,
Rajpipla, Dist. Narmada (Gujarat) 393 145
Background:

To ensure full enrolment of [...]

Card-Based Systems and Biometric Applications to Drive Security Markets

Source: http://www.networkcomputing.in/InfSecurityAug10-07CardBasedSystemsandBiometricApplicationstoDriveSecurityMarkets.aspx 
Heightened concerns over security along with liberalization and strong economic growth have driven the Asia Pacific region toward high-end electronic access control systems in recent years.
The sheer size of the market combined with low penetration levels make for huge market potential, and the advent of IP-based surveillance systems, the development of property sector in [...]

A fingerprint for the future

Source: http://www.businessworldindia.com/feb2304/invogue.asp 

Never underestimate the importance of a one-millimeter piece of flesh. It matters if you are going to jail, receiving rations, or late to work. It matters while going to the temple, trading in the market or flying to the US. The minute ridges of skin that make up your fingerprint are set to be [...]

Thumb-Print Banking Takes India

source: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/01/72284

CHENNAI, India — Banks and ATM machines are an unfamiliar sight in the rural countryside here, but the government hopes to change that with new technology that could ease the transition from cash to computers.
A pilot program will put 15 biometric ATMs at village kiosks in five districts across southern India. The machines are [...]