Re: employee tracking system?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There was a phone system that did something like that a while back, it would
track where you where and any calls for you would be routed to the nearest
extension...business system not res.


"CWatters" <colin.watters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| "Nick Markowitz Jr." <nick-markowitz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > Got a customer intrested in being able to track where employees are with
| in
| > his manufacturing plant using id badge etc.  aprox 50.000 sf per floor
on
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| > floors  any one use have experince with such a system
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| Try contacting Olivetti. They had an "Active Badge" system in their
research
| lab in Cambridge UK in the 90's. No idea if they ever commercialised the
| system. It was IR based and worked very well. I went to a lecture on the
| system. Any member of staff could interrogate it over the web/lan and find
| out where someone was, if they were in a meeting, nearest phone extension
| number etc
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