Re: employee tracking system?

[J. Sloud <jsloud@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:56:19 GMT, "Nick Markowitz Jr."
<nick-markowitz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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 2
>floors  any one use have experince with such a system
>

The technology to do this is available with RFID.  Google "RFID
employee tracking" and you'll get an idea.  Basically, you can setup
portals that employees pass through or you can deploy antennas
throughout the facility.  RFID tags can be attached to the current
access control/ ID badges and software allows management to track
employees in real time even displaying the information on a facility
map if desired.  It's expensive and there are all kinds of big brother
issues to consider, but the technology is out there.  The real trick
is integrating this into a secure access control system to be able to
determine who can go where and when.  We looked into doing this about
a year ago, but all of our access control systems still use a very
slow reader to panel communication format that makes it impossible to
integrate RFID readers.  There was a company that developed a RFID to
weigand converter, but it would only work for small groups before the
data crashed.