Nowadays, human resource management is the key point of any enterprise. It is not only for cost saving, but also to enhance the efficiency and regulation of enterprise. The exact requirements for data collection may be as following:

1. Records should be true, which means the unauthorized employees inputting time and attendance records, no buddy punch;
2. Identification should be automatically, which could enhance the efficiency of data collection;
3. Process of collection should be fast and convenient, which especially required by enterprise with larger quantity of employees;
4. Identification should be hygienic, virus like SARS and H1N1 have affected human life toughly;
5. Medium for data collection should be nature, could not be lost and forged;
6. Environmentally friendly should be considered as people are looking for green life.

Paper card clocks, Stamp clocks, RFID clocks, Fingerprint clocks…… are the most used terminals for data collection. Based on above exact requirements for data collection, we could found that Paper card clocks and Stamp clocks are on the way to be eliminated for their limitation. RFID clocks could meet the requirements of item 2, 3 and 4, but it hard to avoid buddy punch. In this case, more and more fingerprint clocks were deployed for data collection to avoid the buddy punch. People also believe that fingerprint cannot be forged.

Then, fingerprint clock is perceived as the most popular medium for data collection. Does it really solve the buddy punch? Does it meet the requirements of item 3 and 4?

Recently, fake finger is another hot topic. People could search a lot of cases for fake finger. The principle is use the material of silicon to make a fake finger, which could fake the fingerprint clock with easy.

The main problem for data collection with fingerprint clock may not regarding the fake finger, but with the process of collection. There are around 2-3 percent of people could not get enrolled as their fingerprint image are poor, these poor fingerprint image come with their birth. Besides, the fingerprint images will be affected by a lot of nature factors like weather, daily attrition. In some cases with factory base, around 10-20 percent of workers have problem with their fingerprint to get verified.

Another concern has been raised for virus spreading. Contactless authentication is highlighted. There is a conclusion that fingerprint clock could not meet the exact requirements of item 1, 3, 4, and 5.

Are there any other solution could meet the exact requirements of data collection? Facial technology is the ultimate solution, its unique features of contactless, high usability, incident trackable could meet all items that required.

Face ID, the industry first embedded facial recognition system with leading “Dual Sensor™” Facial Recognition Algorithm, which designed for application like physical access control and time attendance, identity management. Face ID has gained very good reputation from end users, system integrators, and partners.

Hanvon Technology (SZSE: 002362), a world leader of developing Handwriting Recognition, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and Biometric Recognition related technology and products, released its unique and innovative Face ID in late 2008, over 18,000 units been installed worldwide.