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Providing Advanced Time and Attendance Terminals

	Industry Time & Attendance Company Hardware TR610 Programmable Time Recorder

Organization

Giga-TMS is a Taiwanese OEM/ODM making time and attendance systems, access control, mobile data collection and security systems. The company started manufacturing magnetic cards in 1987, and moved into RFID technology long before it become popular. Giga-TMS was one of the first companies in Taiwan to move into RFID research. Now, two decades later, it owns RFID know-how and provides high-standard reliable products.

Challenges

Giga-TMS wanted to create a simple, yet feature-rich, time and attendance terminal. The terminal envisioned would have a graphic LCD display and built-in network connectivity, and had to allow for multiple management options (on-screen menus, web interface, and PC software).

One of the primary objectives was full integration of new terminal with a powerful time & attendance software for uploading attendance data, creating reports, and exporting data to payroll systems.

Solution

Giga-TMS called on Tibbo Technology to assist with product design, and Tibbo came up with the TR610, built around the EM1000 BASIC-programmable module. The TR610 was built to work with AggreGate from the ground up.

AggreGate has a specialized Time and Attendance module which goes hand-in-glove with the TR610. The TR610 can enroll itself automatically with LinkServer (AggreGate’s server component) and begin streaming attendance data in near-real-time over the network. While the terminal can be configured via AggreGate, its web connectivity and on-screen menu work even when it’s enrolled with AggreGate.

Benefits

Combination of time recorders with open-source firmware and attencance control software based on an enterprise device management platform provides a lot of benefits:

• Extreme flexibility, easy adaptation to different countries' standards.
• Centralized configuration of time recorders.
• Automatic uploading of attendance events to the central storage.
• Real-time attendance monitoring.
• Organization structure and working shift management.
• Out-of-the-box reports.
• Data export and import.

About Tibbo

Located in Taipei, Taiwan, Tibbo Technology Inc. brings simplicity to the embedded world defined by enormous complexity of operating systems, programming languages, and design tools. Tibbo's hardware, Tibbo-BASIC programming language with its Tibbo IDE software, and now the AggreGate system offer a complete solution for delivering robust, distributed automation and monitoring systems.