The HandPunch Station

We can now offer the HandPunch biometric terminal as a portable solution. Everything required is on one board - all pre-wired and configured to just plug into a mains socket and start working and communicating via GPRS.

The board consists of:

• HandPunch1000 with 50, 100 or 512 employee capacity
• 2A PSU with 7Ah rechargable battery
• Low Voltage battery isolator - this prevents the battery from being fully discharged - maintaining its life expectancy. It also means the unit could be removed for storage / re-location without needing to open the PSU and remove the battery leads.
• Electric Key-switch to power off/on the HandPunch and GPRS modem
• GPRS Modem, preconfigured to work with the customers data sim card
  
• GPRS Antenna

Egress at FM Expo 2009

From May 24th to 26th we will be exhibiting at FM Expo 2009 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, United Arab Emirates where many UK companies will be promoting themselves in Dubai.

Please follow the link for further details of this exciting event.

http://www.fm-expo.com/

HRX Hosting HandPunch

A new adaptation has been developed which combines the extended features of the HRX5000 with the biometric HandPunch terminal. The HandPunch is connected to the HRX terminal via an RS232 serial cable. All of the enrolment and clocking in/out is conducted at the HandPunch in the normal way. However, it is the HRX that actually records the clockings and also sends a verification message to the display on the HandPunch.

The Focus software collects the clocking transactions from the HRX terminal. Because employee details and transactions are stored on the HRX, the following features are therefore available:

*Automated Fire Alarm evacuation reporting to up two dedicated hardwired printers.

*Access Control of up to two doors.

*Factory Bell triggering.

Indeed, rather than using an HRX5000, an HRX Access Controller would provide the same functionality and would be more cost effective.

If multiple HandPunch terminals are required, each HandPunch would connect to its HRX host terminal. The HRX master/slave method could be used if preferred.

We are looking forward to our first implementation of this kind. Any comments are very welcome.