One of the most common needs in a company is to know activities and locations of staff members. It has become increasingly common in businesses, not only to monitor attendance and best practices but especially to guarantee security.

Want to implement an IoT solution to monitor staff?

Let us present you three smart devices that, in combination, will help you deploy the perfect ecosystem to monitor your staff with minimal cost and impact on the employee. Trust me, it has never been so easy!

Introducing the Smart Devices

iBKS CARD

It’s the thinnest beacon that combines Bluetooth Low Energy and NFC, offering super-long battery capacity. It also has a movement sensor and an alarm button.

GATEWAY HUB

It’s a locator with one omni-directional antenna that detects beacons and connects them to the cloud in real-time.

GATEWAY RADAR

It’s a locator with 7 directional antennas that detects beacons with high-precision sectorization, using range and angle.

How can I use these devices for employee monitoring?

There are as many possibilities as use cases exist. Here are some basic examples of how these three devices create the perfect ecosystem for employee monitoring. All the following solutions can be perfectly combined to achieve the best performance.

Use Cases for Employee Monitoring

Track Attendance

Knowing when employees come in and out of the facilities to count work hours is important for companies. There are multiple applications in the market to manage this issue, but most require active action from workers: fingerprint, password, facial recognition, card detector. We propose an IoT solution based on beacon technology using the Gateway Hub to connect them to the cloud.

Let’s see this concrete use case:

1. An iBKS Card is assigned to each employee.
2. Our Gateway Hub is installed in the lobby of the company facilities.
3. Every time employees come in and out of the building, the Gateway Hub will read the beacon’s signal and send this information to the cloud.
4. This data is recorded in a platform to get analytic reports.

Access Control in Delimited Areas

Access control is another common need in big companies. For example, in hospitals where only some employees have access to certain rooms: laboratories, sterile and medicine rooms, surgeries. This need extends to many sectors requiring access control, like refineries.

Imagine you want to delimit concrete areas in a hospital:

1. An iBKS Card is assigned to each employee and configured to open specific areas.
2. The iBKS Card can open the delimited areas through NFC (it acts as a lock).
3. Several Gateway Radars are installed around the hospital.
4. When the Gateway Radar detects an iBKS Card, it sends the data to the cloud with the real-time location of the person.

Employees Count in Emergency Situations

With the same deployment as the previous case (iBKS Card + Gateway Radar), it is possible to implement a security system to count employees in emergency cases. Let’s imagine, for example, a gas leak in a refinery.

1. If every employee has an iBKS Card…
2. And you’ve deployed Gateway Radars that cover all the facilities…
3. When a gas leak occurs, you’ll know in real-time if all the workers are out of risk or not. And if not, you’ll know their exact location.

Want to know more possibilities and create your own employee monitoring ecosystem? Contact us and we’ll help you!

Accent Systems is a global provider of innovative enterprise IoT solutions that offers a variety of standard products and develops tailored IoT solutions for third parties.