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Florida Golf Club Tees Off on Buddy Punching, Slices Overtime with IR Recognition Systems HandReaders

By Anonymous

CAMPBELL, CA February 19, 2004-–IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that all employees at the Bay Colony Golf Club, located on approximately 300 acres bordering the Cocohatchee Strand Nature Preserve just within the gated entrance of the Pelican Marsh community in Naples, Fla., use biometric HandPunch terminals to clock in and out. As a result, the exclusive club is better controlling payroll costs.

The HandPunch terminals eliminate expenses associated with employee badges and fraud caused by buddy punching. Instead of filling out or punching timecards, employees simply place their hands on the HandPunch. It automatically takes a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of the employee’s hand and verifies the user’s identity in less than one second. Hand geometry technology is the most commonly used technology for time and attendance and access control, according to Frost and Sullivan’s “World Biometrics Report.”

“By employing hand geometry biometrics with our Gatekeeper software, we are utilizing new technology to control our payroll costs, eliminating buddy punching and watching the clock for rounding punches,” reports Martha Drescher, Bay Colony Golf Club controller. “As a result of using the HandPunch terminals for all of our hourly employees, we can better manage our staff. We have eliminated FTE’s (full time equivalents) with better management of staff and less overtime.”

Employee response to the HandPunch terminals at Bay Colony Golf Club has been telling: “You mean my buddy can't punch me out?”

Bay Colony employs 85 people during their season, which runs November 1 through May 31. That number is reduced to 50 during the off-season.

“Managers can better manage their departments because the software is connected to their desktops and they deal with it on a daily basis. The system makes department managers more accountable,” Drescher adds.

Bay Colony's two HandPunch terminals are used daily at the golf course and in the clubhouse. They are connected to a Microsoft Exchange Network. The terminals also interface with the club's Gatekeeper Business Solutions back-office software. Gatekeeper Business Solutions provides a high tech hardware and software solution for reducing labor expense and automating time and attendance and payroll processes.

HandReaders handle any population volume with ease while providing impeccable reliability. With dramatically lower false reject and failure to enroll rates than fingerprint technology, the value of HandReaders grows as the number of users and/or transactions increases.

About Bay Colony Golf Club
Bay Colony Golf Club is located on approximately 300 acres bordering the Cocohatchee Strand Nature Preserve just within the gated entrance of the Pelican Marsh community in Naples, Florida. Pelican Marsh is approximately one mile north of Vanderbilt Beach Road on U.S. 41 North. Designed by Robert von Hagge, the 18-hole championship golf course has related practice facilities for driving, putting and chipping. The course was designed with a traditional, Southern theme.

About IR Recognition Systems
With over 75,000 hand geometry units throughout the world reading millions of hands each day, IR Recognition Systems, founded in 1986, is the pioneer of hand recognition technology used in access control, time and attendance and identification applications. The company is the world sales leader of biometric verification devices and serves an international clientele from its headquarters in Campbell, Calif. The hand geometry website is www.handreader.com. Phone is 408-341-4100. Recognition Systems is the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand Corporation’s Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control Division. The Ingersoll-Rand website is www.irco.com.

Note to Editors: A downloadable, high-resolution photograph of a HandPunch terminal is available at www.brighamscully.com. Click Photographs/IR Recognition Systems.

For more information…
Bill Spence
IR RECOGNITION SYSTEMS
408-341-4100
bill_spence@irco.com

Tom Brigham
BRIGHAM SCULLY
818-716-9021
tbrigham@brighamscully.com

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